Why play anything but Skeletons?

[Puff]

Curious of peoples opinions

[Puff]

Curious of peoples opinions of skeletons.

Personally I think skeletons are the only race that I can stand to play. No need for food so no stat penalties from not eating which also takes up way less inventory space for food.

Requires no sleeping bags to carry with you everywhere, and you also don't have to stop and heal after every fight or 2.

You take no environmental damage (which is a massive benefit), and have 200 hp across all body parts instead of 80 or 100 (Shek doesn't count because nobody plays them for their increased food req and hardly any stat bonuses that are useful) which adds up to a TON more hp for enemies to have to fight through.

Skeletons are just way stronger in every way... Just curious how anyone ever thought the other races are stronger...

[Puff]

Losing the shirt slot really doesn't outweigh the extra 100 health in chest and stomach. And half the time you will want to replace limbs with Skeleton prosthetics so you will lose your foot slot anyways.

[The Quiet Guy]

Because not everyone plays a game to Min/Max everything. Some people just play what they want to enjoy it, and don't care if some other choice has better stats, or is easier to play.

[Puff]

I mean... I do enjoy the very slow rolling more casual play you get with flesh bags. But it is so much easier to play and just run around killing stuff, training skills, selling tons of stuff, not worrying about environment and not waiting for like 5 minutes every couple minutes of fighting for your characters to slowly heal up on sleeping bags.

[Beliar]

There was some Health/armor calculation on reddit and because skeletons don't have any helmet they had one of the lowest effective health points and shek have the highest. Food is hardly a problem when you have an outpost. And in vanilla skeleton recruits are hard to come by. Outside of that , yes it is my favourite race due to fast healing and no need to micro manage food. Perma damage on skeleton means so little that i use skeleton beds maybe once in 6 hrs of playtime.

[Puff]

I can't recall if one of my mods gives the start with 5 characters or if it is default.. I usually like to make a squad of like 6 characters and just train and play them. Making a massive squad is very unnecessary imo. I usually get 5 skeletons and then start training them and within a few hours I can start to wipe most things off the map. Heal up in 5 seconds and then wipe the next thing out.

[Puff]

I don't recall when they removed "Red" from Black Desert City, but getting 5 Skeletons isn't too hard. Just rather have a start where I can customize the look of my skeletons and name them instead of going to gather them before training.

[bunny de fluff]

you should attack cities at night, so that your skeletons are safer in the dark not getting one shot in the head by harpoon too often.

[Puff]

I don't think I've ever had my skeletons get one shotted.

[Bedelguese]

The only skeleton I've ever been nervous about when it comes to their head is my P4 scientist, but he stays at my base and makes hash all day.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Keeping a hiver drone alive long enough to get somewhere is more amusing.

[PoeticShaman]

Because Shek are just generally better when it comes to killing stuff without getting knocked down? And not sure what you’re on about with the food thing. I’ve never even noticed the hunger difference between them and humans — food is so easy to obtain it’s just never an issue.

[Puff]

Another thing you have to worry about with flesh bags is playing on any setting higher than default damage multiplier. They just get one shotted or lose half their limbs in a single fight.

[biochimera]

While skeletons are strong gameplay wise in terms of "roleplaying" I guess for better lack of the term they are rather boring. It's heavily implied they know far more than they let on, but we the players never see that. The interactions between the meatbags is much more fleshed out.

Also skeletons can be a real pain in the neck early and early-mid game, given how much repair kits cost and the difficulty of finding a repair bed. Once you can negate either of those issues though they can level fast and don't stay out of action for long, unlike the fleshies that require quite a lot of beatings to get their toughness up before they can get back into the fray at a reasonable pace. Even then they can never match skellies.

[Puff]

Well, I don't know what areas you will have a hard time finding a skeleton bed in, other than the edges of the map. West hive has beds, Black Desert City has beds, Skin* Bandits have beds, theres beds in the swamp and south of the swamp, and fairly certain theres a bed in the tech hunter city. I guess the issue comes with where you decide to level or get your starting gear and how strong you get your characters before journeying to the edge of the map.