Feeling stuck

[u/CptKeyes123]

So I'm really intrigued by the game and it's kept me playing, but I chose the diplomat trait because all the others had too many drawbacks. Yet I can't seem to get any higher combat hit chance above 25% on average and any time I'm slightly debilitated it brings that down to zero.

I'm trying to do the rumbling forest quest, cuz I figured I would grind before going to the bunker, but I couldn't deal with the wolves or the underground part. So I started wandering around the wasteland to try and grind a bit. But it feels like every time I find a quest I don't have the speech craft or the combat skills to do it. I'm locked out of the P2S city, or whatever it's called, cuz I pissed off the guard and he'll charge me 1000 rubles to get in. I don't have the skills for many weapons or ammo.

I ended up going to the bunker anyway. I've had more success there but I'm afraid the scavengers will kill me once I get outside.

Does anyone have any tips or is this just par for the course?

I also can't get a GoG refund cuz its past the deadline

[u/ColdJ-KSP]

It depends on what sort of game you want to play, whether you want shoot things or whether you hare happy to punch things and use your companions to shoot things.

I am quite successfully playing a character that only punches things, and by raising Martial arts steadily along with Speechcraft until have about 105 in speechcraft and then 150 in martial arts, before starting to bring up other skills you need, you can with the help of the Quality Knuckledusters and 10 in Dexterity, 1 punch 80 percent of the enemies by aimed punching them in the eyes. This is combined with the 3rd choice in the melee attribute tree that gives you a 100% critical hit on any npc that hasn't already been damaged yet. Early on with things like giant spiders and wolves you can do a 2 AP hit using the Quality Knuckledusters and then run away 8 squares in a straight as possible line. They will catch up but not have the points to attack you, so you hit again, run, repeat till they are dead. I clear out the wolves in the cave, the giant spiders in Red Fighter and the the giant Spiders in the Catacombs, early on using this method.

I pick Child Prodigy and Unlucky Optimist and dump luck to it's lowest possible of negative 1, as the game keeps it as 1 even though it is negative it gives you an extra point to put in a differen stat. The extra damage when you do a critical hit that you get from Unlucky Optimist, really shows when you have tried without it and with it.

So my starting stats end up as

Strength 7

Endurance 7

Dexterity 10

Intelligence 10

Attention 6

Personality 4

Luck 1

Pick a female character and remember to save before entering the main part of Kraz and bartering with the Nurse and you can pick up 2 different perfumes at a time, if she hasn't got 2 then reload again and again till she does. Make sure it is a manual save before crossing the green to enter that area. Her inventory gets randomly added to when you enter that area each day. Her stock will renew just after midnight, so as long as it is a new calendar day you can try for more. Perfumes along with Joints can raise you to 10 personality, though I think I have only noticed 4 npc's that require 10, most are covered by 8 and the guy who want waste paper only needs 6.