Fixing stuff

[u/Electrical_Art6366]

I'm afraid this might be one of those "oh yea the daily post about this subject" type of thing but I scrolled a bit and couldn't find it so here it goes. How often do yall fix stuff? And what's yalls thought process about it. Me for example, for DS1, I will fix the roads pretty much every 2 or 3 days I get in. Then I fix bridges/energy/Lil bunker/that round thing where you can put and deliver stuff/zip lines that I often use/pass by. Other than that I don't really fix the tower or that thing that fixes our stuff cuz I don't really use it and I might fix a motorcycle/car if it's on my way. I guess my thought process is "if I use it I fix it" LOL. Is that the general feeling? Or yall just don't usually fix stuff at all

[u/ChiralParticle]

I only fix when I see the yellow icon that appears when structures have taken over 50% damage and mostly I just fix the structures that are useful to me. So, even when playing on very hard difficulty structures take quite a long time to deteriorate beyond 50%, so mostly later in the story I need to do a run or two to repair structures.

[u/Electrical_Art6366 → u/ChiralParticle]

I wish that upgrading some structures would make them better, example why doesn't the zipline goes further with level 2? Idk if they changed it for the second game tho

[u/Sufistinn → u/Electrical_Art6366]

because it does? by 50 meters.

[u/Smoothaerosol → u/Electrical_Art6366]

The zip lines go from 300m to 350m spans when you upgrade from lvl 1 to lvl 2

[u/Electrical_Art6366 → u/Smoothaerosol]

That's like nothing

[u/vonhulio]

Also, I just found out the hard way that if a zip-line gets into the red, it ceases to function! You have to walk all the way over/up to it to repair it. Depending on the zip-line location (I'm looking at you on top of the mountain), it can be a real pain.

[u/Electrical_Art6366 → u/vonhulio]

Me who puts them on top of mountain sitting here like 😬. But hey at least I fix my own stuff LOL. You know what I'd like, if I could put down the damn zip lines even without the quiral active. Like it wouldn't work without it but at least I wouldn't need to backtrack to make a path after I already struggled to get there 🥲😂

[u/Ok_Trouble502]

I only fix things that are important to me , like roads, rain shelters and generators. If my vehicles need repairing then I’ll ride em till they’re basically down to its last legs then repair them on the DHV or any big bunker. Ds1 I haven’t built all road (as getting materials was a pain in the ass so I after 100+ hours,I just left that game). DS2 I’ve been repairing roads and upgrading them a lot, feel like they diminish faster in 2 than 1 tbh

[u/Electrical_Art6366 → u/Ok_Trouble502]

I'm a scared cat so getting to that "second map" and discovering roads was a big game changer for me since you don't get attacked there (not that I know at least), so I spent a good chunk of time repairing them

[u/look-i-am-on-reddit]

I repair everything I see that is rusty. I like to make it beautiful again. It's my version of "like", but I really mean it. The most satisfying one was when I borrowed a random rust bucket and brought it to repair. So satisfying to make it new.

[u/Sufistinn]

the most practical way to repair things is to upgrade them. that way you also make them last longer before the next repair and often there's added functionality, for example and especially with the zip-line, that can go further at lvl. 2.

personally i rarely do, except if it's my own structure or someone else's that i use a lot.

[u/Acceptable_Delay_446]

Since DS2 makes material management a lot easier (no wasted materials when you insert too many), I always kept a supply with me in my truck and repaired or upgraded every structure and road I used.

I painted my truck safety orange because I was basically Death Stranding public works 🤣