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[x31stOverlord]

Do non-combat characters have problems wielding weapons in two hands? I've tried using a shotgun as an MP and a rifle as a RO and whenever I tried holding them in two hands I ended up unloading ammo instead.

What are riot shields good for? What weapon should they be combo'd with, if any?

Hit Z when you have something in your active hand like a weapon to wield it. Don't click on the gun with your empty hand it unloads ammo from weapons.

Riot shields are for melee situations, they have a chance to block hits etc. Use with a stunbaton for dealing with rioters or a pistol/shotgun if necessary

[ghost120]

Do non-combat characters have problems wielding weapons in two hands? I've tried using a shotgun as an MP and a rifle as a RO and whenever I tried holding them in two hands I ended up unloading ammo instead.

What are riot shields good for? What weapon should they be combo'd with, if any?

Well, non-combat characters shouldn't have problem with using a lethal weapon like shotgun or rifle as i've seen a bunch of MP's using tactical shotties after ayyliens boarded the ship. As Overlord mentioned, don't click on a weapon with empty hand, but im pretty sure you know that as you written "Non-combat characters" and who plays them on their first game, that's my guess, so take that as a note.

Riot Shields are good for, as the name says obviously, handling mutinies, riots etc. You should use it with MP's weapons/equipment such as tazers, stun batons, pepper sprays, flashbangs and other things. Riot shield makes disarming/pushing you harder. However i don't know how it works with xenos, im pretty sure they wouldn't work, as well as fact that one-handed weapons are shitty/inacurrate/shake your screen too badly is a disadvantage for using that as well.

[Crab_Spider]

What are riot shields good for? What weapon should they be combo'd with, if any?

It blocks melee attacks, and I don't know, maybe you should find out ICly.

[ThePiachu]

Where do you get phoron from? It seems to be used in a few chem recipies and apparently you're supposed to grind it up, but I don't see anywhere I can get that from...

[Sulaboy]

Where do you get phoron from? It seems to be used in a few chem recipies and apparently you're supposed to grind it up, but I don't see anywhere I can get that from...

There is solid phoron in the chemistry room in medbay. There is also a grinder to grind it there. If you want to find another way to get phoron, you could ask engineering for the phoron they have stored with the backup engines, or you could get req to waste points on a phoron assembly crate.

[Willofol]

What would happen if, somehow, you had a primed grenade in hand when a xeno devoured you?

[x31stOverlord]

Where do you get phoron from? It seems to be used in a few chem recipies and apparently you're supposed to grind it up, but I don't see anywhere I can get that from...

The Chemistry area starts with a stack. Don't put it all in the grinder at once because it will waste it! Split off a piece at a time to grind!

More can be found in engineering so ask the MTs for it, it isn't really useful for them so shouldn't be a problem.

Most of the maps have some sort of storage area for engineering stuff, these tend to have phoron, so if you really need more try nagging command to get some retrieved or bribe a marine with hyperzine or something to get it for you.

[x31stOverlord]

What would happen if, somehow, you had a primed grenade in hand when a xeno devoured you?

Interesting question that I honestly don't know the answer to.

The situition is nigh improbable in any case. Given that the xeno would have to let you remain standing and continue to devour even after hearing the grenade priming sound.

Might have to do some testing

[Crab_Spider]

There is solid phoron in the chemistry room in medbay. There is also a grinder to grind it there. If you want to find another way to get phoron, you could ask engineering for the phoron they have stored with the backup engines, or you could get req to waste points on a phoron assembly crate.

The phoron assembly crate is for toxins (bomb making). You don't get solid phoron from there.

[TheDonkified]

The phoron assembly crate is for toxins (bomb making). You don't get solid phoron from there.

You do get solid phoron. I got the crate maybe a month or two ago and it had solid phoron. Given the measures to prevent people from making megabombs, I doubt the phoron crate would be overlooked.

[Crab_Spider]

You do get solid phoron. I got the crate maybe a month or two ago and it had solid phoron. Given the measures to prevent people from making megabombs, I doubt the phoron crate would be overlooked.

[ThePiachu]

Okay, so I found the phoron and tried doing some chemistry, but it wasn't as graceful as I'd expect because I had a solid blue beaker chock full of phoron that I was trying to manoeuvre without accidentally dumping it.

So, can you walk me through the steps of how to handle the early chemistry and making the basic drugs? What is the trick of dealing with that large chunk of phoron - how do you portion it our usually?

[x31stOverlord]

Okay, so I found the phoron and tried doing some chemistry, but it wasn't as graceful as I'd expect because I had a solid blue beaker chock full of phoron that I was trying to manoeuvre without accidentally dumping it.

So, can you walk me through the steps of how to handle the early chemistry and making the basic drugs? What is the trick of dealing with that large chunk of phoron - how do you portion it our usually?

Grab a large beaker, put the phoron in that. If you have excess levels of chems you dont want to waste like phoron, stick the beaker into the chemmaster, put the material you want to split from the rest into the section that creates pills then create a bottle of it. You can then pour the bottle into another beaker and dont lose any reagents

Most of the time, medics are quite happy with what they start with in their vendors so for Chemistry your most requested pills are:

Dex+ - To make these, don't bother going through the steps to make Dexaline, just open the weyland medvendor in the room with you and take the bottles of Dexaline out. Pour one bottle into the bluespace and add 60U Carbon and 60U Iron for 180U of dexaline plus, make these into pills, I usually make 6U pills because its the quickest roundest number and you can make 30 pills from each dexaline bottle for a total of 120 Dex+ pills which will last the entire round for medics. They will love you.

Another quite quick and easy pill to make is the Iron and Sugar pill, though be careful, this one is technically against marine law to distribute as it is a mixed medication. But medics will love you for making it for them. Handy to restore blood.

[JSXsnake]

How do you gib an aliens that eats you with a knife?

[x31stOverlord]

What would happen if, somehow, you had a primed grenade in hand when a xeno devoured you?

Well, we tested it, to start devouring someone a xeno needs to tackle you down, so if you managed to get back up during the devour process and the xeno didnt keep you down, primed a grenade before he completed devouring you, it would go off inside their stomach.

The situation is unlikely to occur naturally, due to how Xeno players tacklespam whilst devouring to prevent escapes.

[Willofol]

Well, we tested it, to start devouring someone a xeno needs to tackle you down, so if you managed to get back up during the devour process and the xeno didnt keep you down, primed a grenade before he completed devouring you, it would go off inside their stomach.

The situation is unlikely to occur naturally, due to how Xeno players tacklespam whilst devouring to prevent escapes.

Thanks for looking into it!

[ThePiachu]

How do you get sulphuric acid? I see a few chem recopies referencing it, but no I don't see how to make or obtain it.

[ThePiachu]

Is the Researcher limited in whether or not they can go down to the surface by either the Marine Law or general rules? I know doctors need permission from the CMO, but Researcher seems to be a role more parallel to that hierarchy.

[x31stOverlord]

Is the Researcher limited in whether or not they can go down to the surface by either the Marine Law or general rules? I know doctors need permission from the CMO, but Researcher seems to be a role more parallel to that hierarchy.

Any shipside role needs to have permission from the aCO and their department head before they are allowed planetside. You are not allowed to leave the FOB at all whilst on the planet and may be bwoinked if you do. (Exception being the CL)

[ThePiachu]

If you have a mixed medicine in a bottle, do syringes draw proportionally from all ingredients in the bottle, or do they take only one ingredient at a time?

[Lukey111]

If you have a mixed medicine in a bottle, do syringes draw proportionally from all ingredients in the bottle, or do they take only one ingredient at a time?

I'm pretty sure it takes a little bit of each, but I could be mistaken.

[Weaselburg]

If you have a mixed medicine in a bottle, do syringes draw proportionally from all ingredients in the bottle, or do they take only one ingredient at a time?

Proportionally.

[Bronimin]

If you have a mixed medicine in a bottle, do syringes draw proportionally from all ingredients in the bottle, or do they take only one ingredient at a time?

The former, and that's correct for all means of moving reagents around except the chemmaster interface. Smoking, drinking, pouring, eating, put into a cryo tube, put into an IV, etc.

[Weaselburg]

How do you draw a knife while inside a xeno? I am really confused with this.

[Lukey111]

How do you draw a knife while inside a xeno? I am really confused with this.

I don't think you can