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Swaggaccino 28 FEB 2024 a las 9:34 a. m.
Is there a meta build yet?
I'm midgame so I don't have everything unlock but is there a meta build yet? Or at least a very balanced all around build. I'm still experimenting with that could possibly be.

Storage: Augmented trunk
Backseat: High capacity battery, expanded backseat tank
Motor: LIM chipped
Side rack: Hydro Generator, lightning rod, solar panel, mini turbine
Roof: Gas reservoir, auto tracking spotlight
Bumpers: LIMPulse emitter, nitro boost
Armor: Lead

I might ditch the solar panel and put extra storage since it's almost never sunny and I'd rather have a bunch of backup fuel tanks and spare tires in there.

1. For the motor, go with LIM gasoline or AMP electric? If I go with electric would it be self sustaining with enough upgrades or do I gotta worry about driving with the headlights off?
2. Not even sure what armor is best, there's so many and it sounds mission specific. Olympian vs anti corrosive vs armored vs lead.
3. For abilities, since 2 of them go on the bumper, is it a good idea to remove the lead bumper and go with the LIMPulse up front?

Thanks.
Última edición por Swaggaccino; 28 FEB 2024 a las 9:36 a. m.
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Abyssal Crow 3 MAR 2024 a las 6:47 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Sinta:
So many nancies in this thread. I'm actually also interested in this OP, moreso on the damage resistance distribution with panels and doors. I would love to see what "research" people have done
Your parts directly share with the parts next to them, though it can be weird jank. Headlights for instance only share with the bumper, bumper however shares with the headlights, hood and side panels. Wheels can jank out and not receive their resistance sharing, forcing you to uninstall the panel and door closest to htem and reinstall them. rack stuff can also have this.

You can tell what stats are being shared to a part by tapping the scan key and it'll show you a list of stats of that part type and what they get. So if you tap the scan on the panels you'll get info on all 5 panel spots including what resistances they're getting.
DocBrown 3 MAR 2024 a las 6:50 a. m. 
Jesus Christ on a motorbike. Is that what defines a game nowadays? An effin Meta? Being the best of the best of the best SIR!? In a SP game? Oof, gamingculture really is spiraling downwards...

So far focused on getting to steel panels at the beginning of the game (outer zone).
Abyssal Crow 3 MAR 2024 a las 6:58 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por DocBrown:
Jesus Christ on a motorbike. Is that what defines a game nowadays? An effin Meta? Being the best of the best of the best SIR!? In a SP game? Oof, gamingculture really is spiraling downwards...

So far focused on getting to steel panels at the beginning of the game (outer zone).
Some people want to know what the best stuff is, doesn't matter if its singleplayer or not, game doesn't have to be online and/or competitive to have a setup be the strongest.
DragynDance 3 MAR 2024 a las 7:41 a. m. 
The game is pretty forgiving, and the majority of upgrades provide such a minor increase, you'll barely notice. There's a few QoL items like limpulse emitter which saves a lot of time by knocking off bunnys, abductors, and bubblegums without having to get out of the car, but none of it really feels necessary. Even extra fuel and battery just means you have to get out less. If you really want to build resistances, just go for impact/explosive resistance, for two reasons.

1. Most of the damage you take will be impact. Random bumps in the road, car physics wonkiness, taking shortcuts down or up steep cliffs, or just a mistake while driving all lead to impact damage. All of the hazards in the game are extremely easy to dodge, save for the radiation ones, which don't do a lot of damage and can be negated entirely with an ion shield. Out of pure laziness, I beat most of the game using just regular steel parts and offroad tires with no extra tanks or batteries because I didn't want to bother farming materials for upgrades, and I've not died a single time nor even come close. I've not even ever lost a car part.

2. Every hazard in the deep zone does impact or explosive damage as well, so just going full armored/olympian to cover for mistakes or laziness works just fine to be immune to just about everything.

Generally, just being well prepared with supplies is more important then a particular "build". Taking extra tools, a stack or two of medkits, and repair kits, jumpers, and putty/blowtorch covers you. Since the game is mostly a matter of making use of what little time you have to loot an area, resource radar is very good to find specific materials quickly.

The tl;dr is... upgrades make such an significant difference it's hard to tell what the best is, because the differences are so negligible and most of them are just "do I want to cover for this kind of mistake, or this kind of mistake." I do have one specific outlier though:
Offroad tires + turbolite engine ASAP, and you can go up and down any cliff in the game, which is a huge time saver. Everything after that is just upgrading for the sake of upgrading, and most of them are sidegrades rather then upgrades.

My personal preferred loadout is:
All olympian (or armored) parts, except the back bumper which is limpulse.
Backseat gas tank, backseat battery.
Two side storages and two wind turbines.
Ion shield and resource radar.
Limpulse engine + offroad tires.

I keep repair, healing, and spare tools in the side storages so I can access them without opening doors. The upgraded trunk has never not been enough for loot, I just only grab what I know I need. Turbines are the most consistent and reliable power generator. They always work while the car is driving, providing a steady power income as long as you're moving. The weather is very often windy, providing power even when the car is not moving. Solar is useless, the night is longer then the day. Hydro is too rng dependant.
Última edición por DragynDance; 3 MAR 2024 a las 7:49 a. m.
CiaphasCain 3 MAR 2024 a las 7:51 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Abyssal Crow:
Publicado originalmente por DocBrown:
Jesus Christ on a motorbike. Is that what defines a game nowadays? An effin Meta? Being the best of the best of the best SIR!? In a SP game? Oof, gamingculture really is spiraling downwards...

So far focused on getting to steel panels at the beginning of the game (outer zone).
Some people want to know what the best stuff is, doesn't matter if its singleplayer or not, game doesn't have to be online and/or competitive to have a setup be the strongest.

This. I give the best (my precious time) and I expect the best (game meta).
Abyssal Crow 4 MAR 2024 a las 11:43 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Sinta:
Publicado originalmente por Abyssal Crow:
Your parts directly share with the parts next to them, though it can be weird jank. Headlights for instance only share with the bumper, bumper however shares with the headlights, hood and side panels. Wheels can jank out and not receive their resistance sharing, forcing you to uninstall the panel and door closest to htem and reinstall them. rack stuff can also have this.

You can tell what stats are being shared to a part by tapping the scan key and it'll show you a list of stats of that part type and what they get. So if you tap the scan on the panels you'll get info on all 5 panel spots including what resistances they're getting.

Yeah, I knew this beforehand, haha :Comfortable: I was referring to what combination of which types of panels/doors would be the the best overall— if this is even possible, of course. We all know there's a ton of stuff that can go wrong at any moment in this game :O

I've been using this setup (im in the mid-game) and have mostly been getting back to the garage with only 4 or 5 parts that are yellow-damaged (no on-road repairs, as well)
- armored front bumper
- armored hood
- insulated headlights
- armored front panels
- anti-corrosive doors
- insulated rear panels
- armored trunk door
the rear bumper is of course the limpulse, and the ion shield is equipped for radiation + the lightning rod for shocks

Unless you're afraid of slamming into shock sources, you actually don't need insulation. Get a lightning rod and it tanks all arcing lightning, so as long as you don't directly hit the shock source you don't have to worry about electricity damage. Since it's not hard to avoid those sources and you're more likely to hit the arcs to begin with, swapping your insulated parts with others is a good change and you can store an alternative side-rack if the junction you're about to go in stops having electrical anomalies.

This goes the same if you have the Ionshield, you don't need radiation protection. Since rad damage only affects the car at 5k+ and all 5k+ sources are painfully obvious, you can reliably only ever activate it when you need to enter those zones and a small-time activation ain't nothing to the battery charge especially if you have rechargers on your side-rack like double turbines.

Corrosive resistance is very situational imo, most sources of corrosive damage can be avoided by simply keeping your car behind cover, even a tree, as then any eggs aimed at them get blocked. Only exceptions are corrosive water condition and if the corrosive bunnies are roaming, but even then the bunnies can be handled with the limshield or at least limpulse and the water can be avoided or at least minimized in damage, still if you plan to do long mid-zone runs it helps to have em so they're not entirely pointless.

Pure physical res is really good, despite how dangerous elemental sources can be if you get swamped with them, the biggest damage dealer in the game is physical as you're regularly bashing into things in this game and there's actually quite a few anomalies that cause physical damage. All elemental anomalies can be normally avoided or tanked with simple methods as well, but you're always going to be taking physical damage. I'd say always have a physical res bumper, so armored or olympium when you reach it, and hte hood too. Those 2 parts are usually the main ones getting swamped with damage from bashing around, side panels at the front also still get a bit damaged but not as much, they still do share phys res with the bumper and hood though so it's still worth it if you want to stack.
DragynDance 4 MAR 2024 a las 11:49 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Abyssal Crow:
Publicado originalmente por Sinta:

Yeah, I knew this beforehand, haha :Comfortable: I was referring to what combination of which types of panels/doors would be the the best overall— if this is even possible, of course. We all know there's a ton of stuff that can go wrong at any moment in this game :O

I've been using this setup (im in the mid-game) and have mostly been getting back to the garage with only 4 or 5 parts that are yellow-damaged (no on-road repairs, as well)
- armored front bumper
- armored hood
- insulated headlights
- armored front panels
- anti-corrosive doors
- insulated rear panels
- armored trunk door
the rear bumper is of course the limpulse, and the ion shield is equipped for radiation + the lightning rod for shocks

Unless you're afraid of slamming into shock sources, you actually don't need insulation. Get a lightning rod and it tanks all arcing lightning, so as long as you don't directly hit the shock source you don't have to worry about electricity damage. Since it's not hard to avoid those sources and you're more likely to hit the arcs to begin with, swapping your insulated parts with others is a good change and you can store an alternative side-rack if the junction you're about to go in stops having electrical anomalies.

This goes the same if you have the Ionshield, you don't need radiation protection. Since rad damage only affects the car at 5k+ and all 5k+ sources are painfully obvious, you can reliably only ever activate it when you need to enter those zones and a small-time activation ain't nothing to the battery charge especially if you have rechargers on your side-rack like double turbines.

Corrosive resistance is very situational imo, most sources of corrosive damage can be avoided by simply keeping your car behind cover, even a tree, as then any eggs aimed at them get blocked. Only exceptions are corrosive water condition and if the corrosive bunnies are roaming, but even then the bunnies can be handled with the limshield or at least limpulse and the water can be avoided or at least minimized in damage, still if you plan to do long mid-zone runs it helps to have em so they're not entirely pointless.

Pure physical res is really good, despite how dangerous elemental sources can be if you get swamped with them, the biggest damage dealer in the game is physical as you're regularly bashing into things in this game and there's actually quite a few anomalies that cause physical damage. All elemental anomalies can be normally avoided or tanked with simple methods as well, but you're always going to be taking physical damage. I'd say always have a physical res bumper, so armored or olympium when you reach it, and hte hood too. Those 2 parts are usually the main ones getting swamped with damage from bashing around, side panels at the front also still get a bit damaged but not as much, they still do share phys res with the bumper and hood though so it's still worth it if you want to stack.
This has basically been my experience and preferred stuff as well. Though I don't usually take a lightning rod because you only mostly see lightning anomalies in outer zone, which I usually am speeding through because there's no resources unique to outer zone.
Alkirin 4 MAR 2024 a las 12:11 p. m. 
Sad to see that more people aren't enjoying the marvel of jumping over obstacles.
Abyssal Crow 4 MAR 2024 a las 12:14 p. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Alkirin:
Sad to see that more people aren't enjoying the marvel of jumping over obstacles.
It can be fun to take those ramps or use the jacks to make your own thrills but the reality is that's alot of damage your car doesn't need so most people play it safe.

I will say I saw a ramp with the airstrip and booster on it and boi that LAUNCHED me, I said "screw it I don't care if the car falls apart, I HAVE TO DO IT." and I went.
DragynDance 4 MAR 2024 a las 12:26 p. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Alkirin:
Sad to see that more people aren't enjoying the marvel of jumping over obstacles.
The only obstacles I'd want to go over are ones that damage you even if you're in midair anyway, so I find the jump pointless, especially considering it takes a valuable slot.
Speedy 5 MAR 2024 a las 2:17 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Swaggaccino:
Publicado originalmente por xethier:
i use armored fore-bumper, anticorrosive forward panels, lead-lined hood. olympium front doors, anticorrosive rear doors, armored rear quarterpanels and a lead-lined rear door. rear-bumper is limpulse. it's a freakin' tank. no idea if it's optimum or not, but it just kinda ignores everything.

Is it like that for cosmetic reasons or does the variety bring up your overall resistance to each of those things? Like if I add a lead panel, does the entire car get that effect or just that one area? IRL speaking, you'd probably want lead lined doors if you were driving through Chernobyl since that would protect you and say armored hood if it was a warzone and radiation doesn't matter for the motor?? Does that make any sense lol.


Yeah this is what i've been wondering about myself. I tend to use the electric resist doors since I tend to get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ zapped a lot but am not entirely sure if the entire car is protected or not.
Speedy 5 MAR 2024 a las 2:19 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por D35tr0y3r:
i use lim shield bumper armoured front panels (for impacts) anticorosive hood (for rotten eggs) all lead shielded doors insulated rear panels (for minuiteman and also they look cool) armoured trunk lid (for general damage) lim emitter rear bumper and all terrain tyres
it looks like something out of ghostbusters but i havent ever had a panel destroyed or died https://imgur.com/loa5Ojr

That car looks cool as hell
Abyssal Crow 5 MAR 2024 a las 2:44 a. m. 
Publicado originalmente por Speedy:
Publicado originalmente por Swaggaccino:

Is it like that for cosmetic reasons or does the variety bring up your overall resistance to each of those things? Like if I add a lead panel, does the entire car get that effect or just that one area? IRL speaking, you'd probably want lead lined doors if you were driving through Chernobyl since that would protect you and say armored hood if it was a warzone and radiation doesn't matter for the motor?? Does that make any sense lol.


Yeah this is what i've been wondering about myself. I tend to use the electric resist doors since I tend to get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ zapped a lot but am not entirely sure if the entire car is protected or not.
Your parts share stats with the parts next to them, immunities don't seem to get shared though just the dmg resist. The bumper shares stats with the headlights, hood and front side panels. Headlights are weird and only get/share stats with the bumper. Wheels share stats with the closest door and panel, rack stuff shares with either doors or panels based off proximity and so on so forth.

Also as a big tip, get a lightning rod for a side rack. Most of your electrical damage is from lightning arcing to the car, unless you're crashing into that many electrical sources lol, lightning rod diverts all arcing electricity to it and tanks it.
Abyssal Crow 5 MAR 2024 a las 3:54 a. m. 
So far a very effective build setup for end-game stuff I've found is :

[ All doors - Olympium
[ All panels - Olympium
[ Both Headlights - Reinforced
[ Front Bumper - Olympium
[ Back Bumper - Lim Shield
[ Wheels - Offroad or All-terrain.
[ Engine - personal preference, I use LIM-chipped but it depends on how much you want to car about fuel use vs speed.
[ Front roof rack - Ion shield or Resource radar.
[ Back roof rack - XL storage.
[ Side racks - Two wind turbines, Hydro gen or Lightning rod, Fuel synth for bigger engines.
[ Left seat rack - High capacity battery.
[ Right seat rack - Expanded gas tank.

To explain some decisions :
Lim shield is literally an upgraded form of Lim-pulse and its more energy efficient as you can tap to activate it and get bunnies/abductors off. The ability to keep it on as well with no cooldown means you can go into a horde of abductors or bunnies with no worry unlike Limpulse. It being put on the back protects it from most damage sources as you're usually driving forward, not backwards.

Front bumper is olympium rather than something like nitro because high speed isn't really needed in this game ever, its better to have full defense up front as that area is taking the most damage to begin with.

Wheels are off-road or all-terrain as powered wheels are too much of a hassle to use, they drain quite a bit of energy for their effect and all the effect does is make all the wheels around AA rating. Its better to save your battery and just do off-road or all-terrain, they both work great regardless of terrain and don't slip that much.

Due to the presence of the Ion shield and Lightning rod, we don't have to worry about Radiation or Lightning arcs, Ion shield gives you a field of complete radiation immunity on and around the car and the Lightning rod tanks all arc damage to it meaning the only electricity damage that can affect your car is directly touching the source which you can avoid. Without the ion shield you can still see where high-rad zones are and avoid them.

^ This is why all the armor is olympium, I'd say if you do have very bad corrosive conditions in the mid zone area you could consider swapping for anti-corrosive, but for most runs this isn't necessary.

Resource radar is only considered if I'm hunting for a particular resource I need en-mass, mainly the mid or late zone stuff like balloons/olympium or sap, corral, etc.

XL storage on the roof contains all my equipment which includes repair and recharging items, spare tools, spare wheels and fuel. If you aren't going for a high resource run this can actually be swapped out for a different roof rack item, probably resource radar or more fuel/battery, but if you're going for a BUNCH of resources, keep this as it lets your trunk have all the storage it needs for all the things you'll be picking up.

Seat racks are in particular spots because the fuel on the right means you can open the right door and refuel from there, its a minor QOL choice but its there. Otherwise if you don't care it doesn't matter which rack it goes on.

Side racks stuff is setup for battery recharging, to maximize survival you'll be activating abilities like the lim shield to counter particularly dangerous crashes or hill slides you take and the Ion shield for rad zones or the resource radar to constantly ping and look around. Solar panel is pointless, half the game will be played in the dark and the eerie dark condition exists. It's better to have Hydro gen and double wind turbines as you're more likely to get high winds or storms and the wind turbines kick in if you drive, with 2 kicking in recharging while driving at less speed required.
Lionheartwolf 5 MAR 2024 a las 5:30 a. m. 
I'm surprised people care so much about storage space in the late game. The augmented trunk and large backpack are so large I don't think I've ever filled them. You also have so many resources at that point that most stuff like scrap metal, duct tape, plastics, rubber, etc... you just don't need and even if you did you have so much space for it. I had to stop picking up paint and decals because that rack is completely filled. (Im not entirely sure its even possibly to have one of each paint and decal because there certainly isnt enough room for even 2 of each.)

I have so much space in my trunk I carry 2 tires, 2 full stacks of large HP packs, and 2 small stacks. I also have room for all the car repair kits, anchor radar, flashlight and 2 full stacks of road flares, AND i still haven't filled it.

Save the roof for the resource radar, and some other better utility than storage. Maybe a battery or shield.

Also, you can always put things like your solar panel in your trunk and put it on the car when it's sunny, I tend to swap it with the lightning rod, or hydro generator (because sometimes its still sunny and rainy) whennI start a map and realize the sun is out. The battery is almost always topped off before I leave.
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