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Old August 24th, 2015, 06:19 PM

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Default Re: Arming the Away Team

I found in the early game you have to be extremely cautious, especially until you get better suits and weapons. Mobs like kudzu and gnashers are deadly even in the later game. Even blobs can swarm you. Avoid shooting them as long as they remain docile or harmless, as much as possible until you get range and adjacency, as they will try to swarm between you and your shuttle in retaliation. You are just as dead from lack of oxygen. Retreat to the shuttle as soon as you get injured, even with First Aid, unless you have a large enough crew to get lots of HP. Without First Aid, you need to have the Medic Bay and lift off-planet while you still have a reasonable chance to avoid anyone dying (75+%). Similar applies to shipwrecks.

It's that pushing for "just that last tile/item before returning to the shuttle" that gets you.

Decent gear usually depends upon your crafting ability. Get that up ASAP. Salvaging new items helps with that. Suits and sidearms are the easiest to craft. When crafting it tends to cycle through the available "models", so be prepared to make multiple attempts and salvage the poor results. Remember that the first Tenaculon Quest gives a lot of free crafting sub-components.

Until then, trade is a boring but safe way to slowly build up a stake. Nothing says you have to explore every planet or cave.

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