Nails and Electrical Repair Kits

[Albatross]

Please increase Nail spawn rate to match Bolts.
And increase Electrical Repair Kits some.
It's hard to find nails and impossible to find electric repair kits.

[Chef_uk]

I think that's the point. I don't mind it being harder tbh. Anything that get's players out of their bases, the better.

[Albatross]

I understand adding some challenge to the game but at some point it becomes too grindy and boring.

[Jhixz]

I can find a lot of nail boxes, it's just a bit difficult to drive a screwdriver

[Ebb]

Nails, I got plenty, Now I'd give my eye teeth for a balisa bow, but maybe one day, and for now I'm enjoying the challenge of working with a crafted 35#.
vanilla loot should be scarce, it can always be increased in settings if desired.

[hitnec]

Originally posted by Jhin Nguyen:

I can find a lot of nail boxes, it's just a bit difficult to drive a screwdriver

I can reflect on that, lots of nails but few screwdriver, but its ok

[\\,[†],//]

ngl i just spent 2 hours looking for nails to only get 4 which i needed for a gate then spent 1 and a half looking for bolts and now i need more to upgrade to wood.....

[Trip]

Originally posted by Ebb:

Nails, I got plenty, Now I'd give my eye teeth for a balisa bow, but maybe one day, and for now I'm enjoying the challenge of working with a crafted 35#.
vanilla loot should be scarce, it can always be increased in settings if desired.

I found 3 of those bows in 1 armory room, go figure.

[[p][u][n] ☕]

There seems to be two camps - those who aren't able to find nails in garages/workshops/whatever.. and those who allegedly are swimming in boxes of nails. (So help me god don't say you're a PVE player because its easy to gather anything when nothing poses a threat)

I personally am gathering stacks of bolts before I'll encounter a single nail. Eventually, after enough time not being able to gather resources beyond what I can carry, I'll find a box of nails. Stupid game play.

Can we be adults and just admit that RNG is not a difficulty? Getting a smooth start being so heavily dependent on RNG is NOT an expression of skill.

I'm not keeping close tabs on the game's development but I must have missed the memo as to what the point of this game is because from my point of view, there is nothing in this game that requires any element to survive. Nothing. I played the other week on a 0.5x loot server. I never came close to starving. It was just tedious.

Other players are supposed to be that threat, but each patch I cannot help feel like its harder and harder to a) find them, and b) land in and gear up without sinking an entire evening before I get to shoot a gun

[Madly]

I came to to discussions to make a thread about the electrical repair (belts/boxes) and how, after looting approximately 2000 plus objects (solely in areas you'd figure to find them) and not finding ONE. I think the spawn for electrical toolkits overall is broken.

On the other hand, I've had decent luck with the nails, even playing on an Official Hardcore server.

[serilium]

before the loot rework i could have named 6 places with a very good chance of spawning an electrical kit, but since the rework i`ve only seen one and that was probably by luck, and for nails even on low loot servers i can usually find them almost in every town so i don`t know what to recommend,

[Muut]

Originally posted by Ebb:

Nails, I got plenty, Now I'd give my eye teeth for a balisa bow.

Check the castle in B3, good loot for archers up there now.

[Danka]

I've not had a problem finding nails, bolts, or screwdrivers. I have only found one electrical repair kit at the junkyard and it didn't have enough to craft anything. Used to find so many there.

[Ebb]

Originally posted by Muut:

Originally posted by Ebb:

Nails, I got plenty, Now I'd give my eye teeth for a balisa bow.

Check the castle in B3, good loot for archers up there now.

Good call on the castle, was heading that way and it paid dividends. Picked up a 50# bow and a set of metal broadheads, ty :)

[Beltway]

Originally posted by Albatross:

Please increase Nail spawn rate to match Bolts.
And increase Electrical Repair Kits some.
It's hard to find nails and impossible to find electric repair kits.

I haven't had an issue with nails at all. They are all over the ship yard, junk yard, and small house garages (although they are loose nails not boxes). I really find this new system more intuitive, so it will need to make sense where you find em.