Hm, I got the Drunk Third Eye encounter on the first turn I spent in the Happy Hour this run. I did kill several poseurs on the quad though and dispersed the protest by depressing them.
EDIT: killed 6 poseurs, which is consistent with giving +3 points per kill, 15 needed.
Data:
No change to "start chopping" with axe equipped.
You lay into the vines, but they twist and writhe away from your blows. As you reconsider your strategy, they lash back at you with a counterattack.
You chop at the cubicles with your axe for 20 melee damage.
Planting in the call center seems the same. No option to plant a sprouted vine. No change with sprouted vine equipped.
You bury a sprouting seed beneath the ghostly lights. It takes root easily, spreading vines across the cave.
No change to planting seed in Exec pumpkin garden.
Same result from pleading favour of apparition with vine equipped:
One of the vines around her reaches forward, coiling around you and depositing some seeds in your outstretched hand.
You found: 2 sprouting seeds
Parking garage, check the seed:
Where you planted the seed, vines are now twined around the mushrooms' hyphae and the chunks of broken concrete. Although their rate of growth is exceptional, the vines themselves seem thin and fragile.
Well, they can't possibly be getting enough sun down here and if there was any nutrition in the concrete, it probably went into those giant mushrooms.
Still, it's growing and that's pretty cool.
You've earned 2 XP in Will
EDIT: No change planting 12 seeds in the call center cavern / explore the cave / etc.
No obvious change to Implant Seed with vine whip equipped.
Is anyone able to test empty injector + sprouting seed?
Sure do!
I will admit I was tempted to add the ones from the Slags and so forth too, but thought better of it once I saw the list.
Cheers!
Kinak
Thanks Kinak! We sure have a lot of ID badges!
The elevators should be a little less aggressive about scanning the first thing they see now. Tested them bunches, but let me know if they have any fun new bugs.
Not really related — it feels like there should be some way to hack the facial recognition scanner on exec floor, but the server we need to hack is locked behind the facial recognition scanner… hmmm.
Hmmm. Feels like it might be worth another shot since I was in there tinkering with stuff anyway. No promises, though.
Cheers!
Kinak
Yeah, now that the building is done, it's probably a good time to revisit the elevator. It might require some changes to the guard responses as well, but we'll see where that ends up.
Cheers!
Kinak
No change with scopes or rangefinder.
Despite their mechanical similarities with the speargun, they have no special interactions with the Speargun or Spear Throw techniques.
No difference while underwater. No interaction with the gnarled bow (and crossbows have no interaction with Gnarled Arrow).
Found 'em! Punks were in the back of my mind as a possibility, but I'm always hesitant to rile them up when I'm not preparing to reset soon. The news update pushed me to take the plunge, though. Started seeing the punk crossbow drop once I got the two punk combat on the quad. I think I've tried crafting with all the armory ingredients except for the achromatic ingot, interlocking survivors' sheet, and cured shark hide.
If somebody doesn't get to it sooner I can work on getting recipes and item details put out tomorrow, it's getting a bit late to do it now. Not too hard to figure out most of the recipes from the names, I think.
Oh, and the Crossbow Bolt technique may just be for using ranged techs with a crossbow. I had Single Shot, Explosive Shot, Precise Shot, and Clustered Shot in my deck. Got it in a combat where I only used Precise Shot and Clustered Shot, though. Looks like a pretty hard hitting technique, but either the next technique in your chain following it (or the next time you use Crossbow Bolt later on in the fight, if it was originally a closer) gets replaced by reloading.
I like the flavour of an elevator with no buttons that just takes you to the floor you need based on your badge, but in practice, it can be fiddly. In practice, there's a lot of ID badge switching.
It would be nice to swipe any ID badge at the elevator encounters. It feels okay to have to wear a badge to get in the front door. There would still be consequences for wandering around the offices without appropriate ID badge.
Not really related — it feels like there should be some way to hack the facial recognition scanner on exec floor, but the server we need to hack is locked behind the facial recognition scanner… hmmm.
1 View + 1 Attack seemed to "carefully cut a slit in the filter".
2 View + 2 Attack works as well.
Nothing:
Trying some hacking as well.
Kinak says: "Yeah, they're definitely on the sneaky side, but I'm confident you'll start finding them :)"
Didn't see any new options from the Eurasian arms dealer or Sato, tried opening a number of stolen crates and nothing there.
Smuggled in a basic weapon with equal ranged and stealth power, just got a roomsweeper.
Tried intercepting some Silver Courier drone shipments. Got the antique results for the needler, fragile blade, watch, coat, and pants. No sign of an antique crossbow so far.
Raised a ruckus on the Executive Floor, no signs of any new opponents or crossbows up there. Wasn't really expecting it, since it doesn't seem quite a Midgard security thing, but thought I'd give it a try.
Tried looking through news updates for any clues, but nothing new there.
Searched through both normal and prototype crates in the Midgard Warehouse for a while.
Stirred the hornet's nest in the Records Vault in case maybe crossbows were a less damaging alternative before bringing out the miniguns, but doesn't seem to be the case.
No new stuff added to the wares of the Bum Selling Stuff, even with a watch equipped.
Looks like 7 Reactive Defense? and 10 FD
base+FP -> dam
10+0 -> 1
10+4 -> 4
10+5 -> 5
10+6 -> 5* hypothetical
10+7 -> 5* hypothetical
10+8 -> 5
10+9 -> 5* hypothetical
10+10 -> 5* hypothetical
10+11 -> 5* hypothetical
10+12 -> 5
10+13 -> 6
Ah, looks like I didn't add what I got from my last Hel run. It's possible to get the info for Hel when asking the execs after they've been adequately intimidating, but I don't have the message saved.
Hm, have you planted a lot of seeds previously? I didn't run into it at all, even on a Hel run where I got a ton of executive and HQ alarm.
I was also digging into this a week ago, and I got "You hear whispers on the wind. They're plotting against you, all plotting against you." over 50 times without any Gravediggers showing up. I couldn't quite tell if there's some conversation option with the contact I'm messing up.