What are "extensive repairs"?

[Reiker]

I just finished the first mission and I'm a bit confused.

All of the parts on my car are a bit damaged, but nothing seems to require a maintenance item (sealing kit etc).

The description of the repair putty makes it seem like I'm not supposed to be using it:

"When you don't have the time or the resources to perform extensive repairs, this is the spit-and-tape solution that will carry you through and fix up the worst of things."

So how do I make these "extensive repairs"?

[Abyssal Crow]

Opprinnelig skrevet av jR78:

Opprinnelig skrevet av DragynDance:

A lot of the info here is incorrect. This game has a lot of ambiguous flavor text for item descriptions. Including putty, most of that nonsense doesn't matter. You just use it to repair. You can use it as the only repair item at all if you really want. The only downside to the putty is it's inefficient, IE if your door is only 20% damage, you still have to use an entire use of putty.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think all (!) Items suffer fatigue. The more you repair them with putty or the likes (blowtorch), the more the item becomes fatigued leading to a tiny X on it, so you have to replace the part.

If that happens, not even the "refresher-thingy" can repair the part.

I don't know if the repair station later on can refresh fatigue, but I guess not. So you will always have to replace your parts at some point.

Even tools, like the water-energy converter or wind-energy converter will become "unreliable" and stop working eventually.

So yeah, you can fix things, but the "extensive" repair, or replacing a part is inevitable.

That's my understanding at least after 30+ hours.

It's not based off you repairing, its just time spent while out on a run with it. All items experience overtime wear that eventually gives them one of those status effects, for plating n doors its usually fragile but certain other things get unique ones. Like batteries get "swollen" and can randomly shock the car, A lot of power generators or certain ability-parts get "unreliable" which reduces their effects and soonsoforth. Only determining factors if something gets this is mainly time, I've had something never take any damage and still get the effects.

Also you can always repair the part, its just the unique effect will reduce the effectiveness of it, for wheels this is an immediate repair as they can get bald which lets them start high-rolling for the blown out which also can't be fixed, and a blown out or bald wheel should be replaced ASAP, other stuff isn't as mandatory but still nice to replace as you don't want to risk anything usually. Anything that gets fragile isn't that bad either, so the platings and doors, since all it seems to do is just make that part take more damage but if its an armored or olympium part they still are quite durable so you don't have to worry unless you're playing crazy taxi in the game.