Trading resources in multiplayer?

[Vash]

Is there a way for me to trade resources while in another player's game? or am I limited to hauling 1 sack at a time between our worlds?

[October Valentine]

just drop items in his hq and he can take them, well, also remember each of your survivors can take 1 rucksack, and you can change between your survivors on the friend map, so, its 1 rucksack for each survivor you have in your hq, the storage in your friend base also will bring your items not those from your friend, just drop what to share in his hq

good gaming and see you in the frontier

[Vash]

Thanks for the idea! I load up survivors and swap between them.

[Spankus]

I've discovered a bit of a trick based on how the game decides where resources go, so bare with me while I try to explain clearly...

Let's say two friends are playing a game, HOST and FREN.

First, you need to know about the great trick for quickly emptying a car at the base. When you have a car parked in a spot (and sometimes even between spots), you can use right trigger (RT) to send the inventory directly to the storage without running it into the base directly. When is less obvious is that you can also do this with the inventory on the player, as well as rucksacks both on the player and in the vehicle.

For non rucksack items, it seems the inventory items go directly to the inventory of the person who is delivering the goods.

So if HOST does this, HOST gets the items.

If FREN does this, then FREN gets the items on their home account (which is still accessible through the normal place in HOSTS base.)

The trick, however, is subtle. For a rucksack, if you are the FREN, and you move the rucksack to the car, and then use RT on it, you will see on the top of the screen

"FRENNAME donated 6 ammo to HOSTNAME. Gained 5 influence."

That is the same as just walking the rucksack into their dropoff point and just submitting it.

HOWEVER!

If you, the FREN, keep the rucksack on your rucksack slot and RT it, YOU get the resources AT YOUR HOME BASE. It's awesome.

Hope that helps!

[Vash]

Originally posted by Spankus:

I've discovered a bit of a trick based on how the game decides where resources go, so bare with me while I try to explain clearly...

I'm aware of the car-to-base storage mechanic, but rarely use it as a friend since the base resource levels are not visible to the friend and overfill happens. As for sending resources off the map, I ask the host first since it deprives them of resources and I don't think they receive any notification.

Thank you for the detailed explanation! It'll be great for people who are starting out in multiplayer.