Magazines

[nordmeyerx]

Can someone explain magazines to me? Do they apply the effect when you pick them up? They are still in my inventory after I have picked them up so I am confused as to if the bonus has been applied or if I need to do something else.

[HeyYou]

You get the bonus when you "read" them. (pick up) The bonus is permanent. But, you get the bonus only once per magazine. You will find the same magazine in EVERY POI of that type (that you found it in), but, if you already have that bonus, you won't get it a second time. The clue here is, if it tells you what the bonus is, you just got it. If the description is empty though, you already have it. They are zero weight, and only worth like 12 credits to sell..... You don't need to keep them to keep the bonus though. You can read 'em, and immediately drop them if you want. Or, sell them off... Up to you. :D

[Krash Megiddo]

And the mag bonuses carry over into NG.

[ListenFat]

There are magazine categories - each time you pick up one for that category; it accounts as the next magazine in line. If you don't pick up every magazine in a given playthrough, the next playthrough will pick up from there. Essentially you wont have to discover every magazine location; if you do multiple ng+'s

[nordmeyerx]

Thanks!

[simonhobnob]

Use them as decoration in your outrposts once you get the bonus?

[LeBurns]

Originally posted by simonhobnob:

Use them as decoration in your outrposts once you get the bonus?

How? Toss them on the floor? We didn't get a magazine rack in this game.

[nordmeyerx]

Originally posted by LeBurns:

How? Toss them on the floor? We didn't get a magazine rack in this game.

If you hold down E when focused on an object, you can "pick it up". You can then spin it on its axis and place it on, say, a table or counter.

[LeBurns]

Originally posted by nordmeyerx:

Originally posted by LeBurns:

How? Toss them on the floor? We didn't get a magazine rack in this game.

If you hold down E when focused on an object, you can "pick it up". You can then spin it on its axis and place it on, say, a table or counter.

And you think they actually stay there? Believe me, they'll end up on the floor (or fall through the table/floor and into nowhere) sooner or later. This engine has never been great at item placement and permanency.

[Lemiarty]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

You get the bonus when you "read" them. (pick up) The bonus is permanent. But, you get the bonus only once per magazine.

That is factually incorrect. I don't know how many times you can get the same bonus (I've already maxed most of them out) but I do *know for a fact* that it is more than once and even more than twice.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Lemiarty:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

You get the bonus when you "read" them. (pick up) The bonus is permanent. But, you get the bonus only once per magazine.

That is factually incorrect. I don't know how many times you can get the same bonus (I've already maxed most of them out) but I do *know for a fact* that it is more than once and even more than twice.

What does it mean when a book has no text, just a blank line?

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Lemiarty:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

You get the bonus when you "read" them. (pick up) The bonus is permanent. But, you get the bonus only once per magazine.

That is factually incorrect. I don't know how many times you can get the same bonus (I've already maxed most of them out) but I do *know for a fact* that it is more than once and even more than twice.

No. It is factually correct. You get a bonus from a magazine ONCE. That's it. There are multiple 'volumes' of each magazine though... so, For Grunt 01, you get a bonus. It doesn't matter how many Grunt 01's you collect, you only get the bonus once.

[alanc9]

Some skill magazines do give identical bonuses, however. All Gunslinger's Guides do the same thing, don't they?

[aandaie]

If it makes the "law and order" sound then you are getting the bonus. If it doesn't, then you picked up the same one before.

At least that is the way it seems to me.