Bandits against paper weapons

[Mac]

you have 3 weapons in the whole game which became single use.the bandit raid every 2 days after they take the area,there's a chance they will take the family members.Pancake will protect us once.So at max you survive 2 weeks(if they take the kids before adults) before the game ends with the final raid.

is there a chance of bandits arriving at your shelter before they take the area?

[hollow]

With the DLC came some more options to defend yourself against the bandits. As it stands now, you could have at least 6 of them (and that's just against the raiders that tend to camp outside your shelter later in the game). Different kind of bandits can arrive before the raiders, but for these you even have an additional mean of defense - bugspray (so 7 ways to defend yourself against bandits and 6 against raiders).
If we're counting taking family members as means of defense against raiderrs (it actually is, since it prevents you from losing), you would have 6+3 = 9 different ways to defend yourself as long as your whole family is in shelter and they kidnap only 1 person every time they attack (and the last man standing is a parent). Raiders tend to come every 3 days. So that makes 27 days and all that not considering that you might find another weapon or reach the ending before that.
Generally the DLC has tweaked the gameplay in a way that the beginning is a bit easier and more manageable and the ending tends to be a bit more harsh. You do have 2 ways to win now, so the chance of coming out of all this alive is slightly bigger, even with aggressive raider presence.

[Mac]

Originally posted by beren:

With the DLC came some more options to defend yourself against the bandits. As it stands now, you could have at least 6 of them (and that's just against the raiders that tend to camp outside your shelter later in the game). Different kind of bandits can arrive before the raiders, but for these you even have an additional mean of defense - bugspray (so 7 ways to defend yourself against bandits and 6 against raiders).
If we're counting taking family members as means of defense against raiderrs (it actually is, since it prevents you from losing), you would have 6+3 = 9 different ways to defend yourself as long as your whole family is in shelter and they kidnap only 1 person every time they attack (and the last man standing is a parent). Raiders tend to come every 3 days. So that makes 27 days and all that not considering that you might find another weapon or reach the ending before that.
Generally the DLC has tweaked the gameplay in a way that the beginning is a bit easier and more manageable and the ending tends to be a bit more harsh. You do have 2 ways to win now, so the chance of coming out of all this alive is slightly bigger, even with aggressive raider presence.

6 ways?

[Mac]

gun axe lockpad,pancake and whats the rest sir?

[hollow]

Not a sir ;) And I wasn't talking about weapons only. Gun, axe, padlock, Pancake, mutated Mary Jane and... one more event that I won't spoil, if you had it already then you probably know what I'm talking about. When it comes to regular bandits and not raiders, bugspray can also be used.

[Mac]

1 more huh lets find out

[Protektor]

mutant with 4 hands . . . if you helped him, he can save you one time from attack

[Mac]

Originally posted by Protektor:

mutant with 4 hands . . . if you helped him, he can save you one time from attack

well thats for an expidition not a bandit attack

[Protektor]

no. . . . that mutant will help you also during attack
and i am 100 % sure

[Mac]

Originally posted by Protektor:

no. . . . that mutant will help you also during attack
and i am 100 % sure

yep just experienced that today thanks