The Umbrella and Furniture Shops: What's the Point of them?

[DSammy]

Having played quite a bit of the game, I feel I've gotten the hang of the positives of most looting locations and events, but... then there's the umbrella and furniture shop. I've tried these spots a few times, but I end up regretting it. Umbrellas aren't very useful as weapons, and the furniture shop... just has furniture to throw I guess. I just don't bother picking those locations anymore unless I don't have any other choice.

So I'm just wondering, is there any point to these locations?

[Hashishin]

I read having an umbrella changes the text for some events relating to weather, who knows if it actually helps at all though. I doubt the furniture shop is good at all.

The only other thing is that both of these spawn in a city with other lootable houses. I dunno if that could make them better than one of the single building spots. Maybe if you really needed X resource and the single building spot holds little to none?

Maybe if the alternative is a siege?

[Talithmara]

Personally, I never see these late in a run, and early on, the crappy breakable weapons (Umbrellas and wood pieces from broken furniture) are better than nothing and can be worth stocking up on. Other than that, I have no icea.

[Cupcake]

Umbrellas can help bad weather events. The one time I saw it pay off, "it helped a little, but not enough" (something like that). My team lost morale, but not as much as usual, because the bad weather event I got was a walking event that normally hits for 2-3 morale. The thing is, I had less umbrellas than I had people.

Ever since, I've been hoarding umbrellas, just in case. I'm really curious if no one loses morale if you have enough umbrellas for everyone.

[Hashishin]

Maybe it secretly rolls out some weather events too?

[Cupcake]

Originally posted by Hashishin:

Maybe it secretly rolls out some weather events too?

I've never heard of anything in DR2C like that. I frequently run into events that are just like "but everything was okay" because I met certain parameters. Part of the fun and satisfaction is witnessing the events that you bested. It would be really weird if something just passed in the background without telling you.

[Dr. Pinch]

At least umbrellas have a practical use, for a while I thought the furniture store might give a higher chance spawningToilet Heaven, but recently I saw one spawn independently of the advertised building so now I'm unsure.

[DSammy]

Thanks for the answers guys :D Now I know umbrellas have other uses besides being weapons. As for the furniture.... still nothing.. : X

[SnailMale2203]

To buy umbrellas and futniture obviously

[SnailMale2203]

*furniture I'm dumb

[Pnz]

The furniture in store is far more durable than "normal" furniture.Other than that...

[Dr. Pinch]

The toilets in the furniture store are also not bolted to the ground and can be thrown, but yeah...

[DSammy]

Yeah, it seems like it's there to supply more items to throw, though I'd rather pick a location with weapons or supplies over throwable furniture...

[Rocketcat Games]

They're both mostly in as jokes. The futniture store may provide throwing toilets, I'm not sure if those can even break.

Umbrellas help with a couple of weather events, but it only checks to see if you have an umbrella. Doesn't check vs your team size.

[Cupcake]

Originally posted by Rocketcat Games:

Umbrellas help with a couple of weather events, but it only checks to see if you have an umbrella. Doesn't check vs your team size.

Good to know! Thanks!

[House, J.D]

Originally posted by Rocketcat Games:

They're both mostly in as jokes. The futniture store may provide throwing toilets, I'm not sure if those can even break.

Umbrellas help with a couple of weather events, but it only checks to see if you have an umbrella. Doesn't check vs your team size.

So if you had 20 umbrellas, it would still say it wasn't enough?