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Tarquin Markel
The Synenose Accord
Celestial Imperative
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Posted - 2013.02.10 00:55:00 -
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Alli Ritva wrote:This is my first day on Dust and I'm completely frightened out of my mind.
Heya, Alli! Don't worry about the rough start-- even those of us who knew what to expect have had a lot of getting-used-to to do. CCP is good at depth; they're not fantastic at clarity. You're in the right place to find your feet, at least.
The two bars you are seeing are shield (self-repairs, repels explosives well, wilts under lasers) and armor (does not ordinarily self-repair, repels lasers well, wilts under explosives). They look like they're equal, but what you're seeing is a total value of whatever they've got, and whatever fraction of it remains.
It's the second bar, armor, that I believe you're repairing, assuming you've got the right module-- a service your teammates, especially heavies, will bless you for. In fact, if you see a fat guy waddle by with a huge gun, you might consider following along: nobody has more armor, or needs it more.
On that glitch: you might have run out of syringes, or ... well, yeah, there's also a bug that causes things to fail to appear. Try using them anyway; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, at least lately, you probably lost connection to the server.
Welcome to Dust. Be patient, die a lot, learn well.  |
Tarquin Markel
The Synenose Accord
Celestial Imperative
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Posted - 2013.02.10 22:55:00 -
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Alli Ritva wrote:I assumed that all militia items were permanent... but I just used one of those militia supply ammo drop boxes and now I don't have it anymore... :(
Ah, that. Far as I can tell, militia items are permanent if and only if they are part of one of your starting sets (and even then, they don't seem to reappear if you modify the set).
Very odd, but you can think of those as "training wheels."
The other militia stuff is just very cheap. Happily, it's cheap enough that you can buy in bulk and come out ahead-- so give it a go!
In general, items are "permanent" (blueprints) if they've got a blue mesh behind the picture-- not on the fitting screen, but in the item description, the market, or your "assets" menu. Otherwise, they're expendable, and your supplies will diminish each time you die.
Happily, they're not consumed by getting "reloaded" at supply depots and such. As long as you don't die, you can resupply to your heart's content (though you should check what the max number of any droppables that you can have active at once). |
Tarquin Markel
The Synenose Accord
Celestial Imperative
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Posted - 2013.03.03 03:04:00 -
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Deep-Fried Roadkill wrote:I noticed certain items are consumed as well as weapons and dropsuits. Why are weapons and dropsuits made to be consumed and will I always need to restock them?
They're consumed because the body wearing/carrying them is dead-- and more or less disintegrated, if the graphics tell true. Every time you die, that's a set of equipment gone. The only thing that survives is the mind.
You need to restock unless you own blueprints-- and probably that blueprint will eventually be what the name suggests (a schematic for building your own), so you'll need to restock that item, too, just by other means. |
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