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I agree on the M249 being a liability for me. On the other hand, I would've had to reload twice had I been using any other 5.56 weapon, so it may have saved me (even though it's what got me into trouble in the first place...). I also agree on the crawler puppets. They should not be getting up and sprinting after dropping from 2 stories up. For that matter, they shouldn't be jumping over speeding cars, either. I hope the devs make the puppets a bit more realistic. I prefer watching videos that include the "less interesting" bits as well. I hate videos that are just full of jump-cuts. It ruins the immersion and "story-telling" of the video. I don't even like having to cut things like inventory management or long drives out of my videos, because I personally enjoy watching those things, so long as the person in the video is still talking or interacting somehow. If it's just silence while watching various items get dragged around on screen, then yeah, that should be cut. But the "down time" activities like driving or short inventory management is a good time to engage with the audience and let them get to know you outside of "I shoot zombies and yell things!"

I prefer the AK47 with the drum mag over the M249. Much faster to reload if the need arises, and 7.62x39 seems to hit a pinch harder than 5.56x45. I'm still trying to get my hands on that SCAR-L. Yeah, it's still 5.56, so it will probably be about the same as the MK18, but I still want to try it out.

I agree about the revolver's capacity. That and the slow reload time. But the trade off's are reliability (now that weapon malfunctions are back in the game) and (for me) the ability to not have to rely on magazines. With the semi-auto's, if you don't have more loaded mags, you're down to a single-shot weapon. The revolvers work with loose ammo, which also means you can just carry stacks of loose ammo (which are more than the capacity of any of the pistol magazines), so it works out well for inventory space. As for screwdrivers, I'm not risking losing a yellow screwdriver, because I absolutely would. I've left entire chests full of loot on the side of the road because I forgot to put them back in my car. There's no way I wouldn't forget to pick up the yellow screwdriver again, and those things are gold when it comes to lockpicking! I really should just carry tourniquets or hemostatic dressings, anything that's more efficient than a bundle of rags! The rag bundles are your med kit as a somewhat fresh spawn, yet here I am using them instead of the actual medical supplies I have in the car 🤦‍♂️ The big problem with using the Admin Helper to teleport around is that I can't bring my car with me. So yeah, I could get back to base, but then my car is still at the torpedo factory with all my loot in it. That's fine if I don't need anything out of the car, or don't need the car itself, but if I DO need any of my stuff, it doesn't work out so well. You also run the risk of the game teleporting you inside objects, or underneath solid ground (such as if you're teleporting to a pier or dock, where you then end up spawning underwater potentially trapped inside a concrete foundation...I've used the Admin Helper to explore the map a little bit just because I don't have time to spend 3 hours driving all over just to realize "this wasn't worth the trip at all" and often damaging my car along the way (because I'm such a good driver, as we all know 😁). You don't always get teleported onto solid ground...

⁠@@FlailyMcFlailersonDiddo on leaving a chest on the side of the road.🤦 Like you, I really wish the devs would give us some way of prioritizing which tool or arrow sets get used first. When I said teleport back to the base I ment back to the torpedo factory, poor choice of words on my part. And yes, I teleported back to the airport once and ended up ‘swimming’ in the concrete next to a hangar. But it is useful for those time you respawn all the way across the sector. It was really weird that you respawned standing on the ground rather than free falling.

The devs added the option to spawn in on the ground now. I noticed it in the server settings. Not sure if I like it or not, since you can cover some ground in the air when you spawn on the wrong end of the sector.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson I didn’t know that, good to know. I liked the free fall spawning but without your hands tied behind your back. You could cover a lot of ground before having to deploy your parachute.

I'd love to see them add a .44 magnum lever-action rifle. That would tame the recoil, increase the capacity a bit, allow for better accuracy at distance, and would allow (potentially) for a suppressor and possibly better optics.

@FlailyMcFlailerson that would be kewl. I got stuck on mp5sd with the m9.

I like the MP5SD and the M9. Both solid weapons with readily available ammo, plus I like the integral suppressor on the MP5SD. I really wish rifle ammo was more plentiful, but unless you buy it or craft it, you're not going to find enough, usually (or at least I don't). So going with something in a pistol caliber or a shotgun works out the best if you're primarily scavenging ammo.

@FlailyMcFlailerson I try n roll with a 38 just in. Case can't beat a revolver . Even if. It does kick like a mule

Got it! So we're going with: "What's up, Neighborino's! My name is Howdilly Doodilly and welcome to.......what game are we playing again...?" That's about how my brain actually works most of the time, so it would be me being me AND would keep everybody guessing (including me!) 😅

I didn't notice them flying like that in the moment, but now that I rewatch it, there were a couple that really got launched! I think one flew OVER the perimeter wall!

Hopefully so!

She's fine! The profile picture is something my wife designed for me as a Christmas gift. She had it made as a custom metal sign for me to hang up in my "office". I loved it so much that I thought it should be the new channel picture. I'd been wanting to make a proper profile pic for a long time now, but couldn't figure out what to do, until my wife had that sign made for me. The pupper was never intended to be the permanent picture. That was just the random picture I chose when I created the channel. But she's perfectly fine, I promise!

“Profile picture”, that’s the term I was trying to think of.🤷‍♂️ Good to hear your dog ok. I like your new Profile picture, looks good.

Thank you! I love it! Even more so because it was made by my wife 🥰

I hear ya, loud and clear!

Maybe I'll figure out all that stuff if I ever get a proper garden going. I guess I should start the garden so it can be growing while I'm working on the house. That might be a smart thing to do...Guess I'll be looking for seeds!

@@FlailyMcFlailerson You do know you can get seeds out of produce don't you? 3 seeds each. Even if the produce is in poor condition.

Yes. That's partly why I like doing 3 plants. It's the number of seeds you get from each plant, so it's convenient for replanting.

The one time I used it, I noted it would drop a normal puppet with 2 body shots or 1 headshot (at close range), which doesn't seem too bad, except it's bolt-action, so those 2 body shots will be slow and less than ideal against more than 1 puppet.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson it's also loud and used to draw an unruly crowd when I used it. I like the revolvers and some of the other pistols. i don't use them because I can't get a suppressor for them.

I still haven't noticed the suppressors making a huge difference, but I have hordes turned off in favor of maxing out puppet numbers, so I don't trigger a horde to spawn on top of me by not using a suppressor. But even with hordes on the multiplayer server, I still haven't noticed much difference between suppressed and unsuppressed.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson I've made a point of using a suppressor for so long I don't know if they help as much as they used to. I tried a .50 cal Desert Eagle at the hunting stand north of the town outside the fence on the north side of the B2 airport and puppets was coming from everywhere. I make sure to have a suppressor now and it doesn't seem to cause too much of a problem. I don't use the pistol a lot though. mostly shooting puppets from inside the vehicles. it's been quite a while since I've shot a rifle.

You're (somewhat) more likely to trigger a horde without a suppressor, according to the devs. Without hordes, though, it doesn't seem to make much difference most of the time. That's part of why I have hordes turned off. I hate that just a random noise (opening a door, for example) can cause a bunch of puppets that weren't there a second ago to spawn in all around you out of nowhere. That ruins the immersion for me a bit. It also makes for less puppets in the world, as the horde system (as described by the devs) is meant to keep server performance better by having fewer assets populated in the world 99% of the time, and only adding those assets in for very short periods of time (while a horde is spawned). I get it, but I don't like it. And for Single Player, it doesn't matter because I'm the only player on the map, so I can hoard all the assets I want by maxing out the number of puppets in the world without causing much issue to the server. It also means I can run a bayonet on some rifles instead of a suppressor, which gives me a nice little standoff weapon for close quarters, should the need arise.

3 wide doesn't get weeds??? Fascinating! I like 3 wide because I like having 3 of each plant, and it's normally the amount of seeds in 1 stack, so I may go that route.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson Someone on discord told me about it. I haven't had weeds since I've had a 3 wide garden. First was 3x6 and now 3x10.

@@flash1259 I have a 2x8 and a wonderful crop of weeds, no fertilizer needed. 😁

The zoom is why I prefer the recurve bows now. I used to hate them until I figured out how to aim well with them. If I need the zoom, I can still manually zoom, but if I don't need it, it's not forced on me. The compound bows just bug me now because of the forced zoom. Yeah, they have a proper sight, but if I can hit where I want with the recurve, the compound sight isn't of much benefit. That's what I figured on the shorts, chocolate, and batteries. I'm assuming a lot of stuff that I would grab for "just in case" is probably a quest item at some point, and I figured those shorts were wrong, but thank you for confirming. I'll just cut them into rags. I did a cave base a long time ago but the cave wasn't great and I was shite at base building at the time, so the whole thing was pretty mediocre.

I did a very basic one way back before I started doing videos, but the cave for it wasn't great. But now that I know where more caves are, perhaps we can find a good one, like this one, and try again!

Yeah, I found it. I'm sure I'll forget, though 😅 So you may have to remind me again in the future!

I’m sorry, I must have been distracted just before I wrote about the wheelbarrow. Upon rewatching that portion, I apparently missed you pointing it out and calling it by name. I just saw it before you closed the window. I’m normally more observant. 😅

Oh no, I didn't find it during the video. I found it afterwards. You didn't miss anything!

Thank you!

Drat! 😠

I hope that gets fixed soon! Also, I'd love it if the headlamp lasted longer. Maybe it's considerably better with the smartphone battery.

If only I could learn ventriloquism, then I could REALLY confuse people! "Why does that bush sound like a dying car...?" "Why are the rocks screaming?!?" "Did that pine tree just say "Howdilly Doodilly, Neighbor...?" 🙃

also the wheel barrow is in the base crafting section on the last tab. And the woodsheds now store any type of wood 😇😇

I think it'll be fun even if it's not my usual playstyle. I'm not bad at PVP in games like COD (I'm not great either, but I could be worse...😅), so I might do ok. Either way, it'll be a new experience and will hopefully bring in some new folks to the channel.

Yeah, I found the wheelbarrow this morning while recording Wednesday's episode 😅 And I'm glad to know the woodshed can now hold wood properly. I honestly wish you could just store anything in there. That's usually how woodsheds end up. They start out as woodsheds, but eventually end up also holding the chainsaw, the axe, some boxes for kindling, etc. And then sometimes they just end up no longer being woodsheds and become storage sheds for everything except wood, and the wood just gets left outside and gets a tarp put over it to kinda sorta keep it out of the weather. Then it snows and the tarp gets frozen to the ground and you can't get to the wood, but hey at least that empty bucket and an old, rusted tricycle are kept safe in what used to be the woodshed!

@@MmostlyRandom I agree with everything you said! I prefer a proper roof as opposed to flat, myself, and I think I'll likely end up doing the event even if it's not my style. Doesn't hurt to get out of your comfort zone a bit, right? Now I just gotta hope I get an invite...

Under realistic circumstances, I would agree wholeheartedly. Flat roofs are asking for trouble. But since SCUM doesn't seem to work like that, I always try to look at what designs will be most practical.

​@FlailyMcFlailerson Yeah of course, I was just joking 😁 The cabin is going to be cool either way.

Good to know. I swear I remember not being able to put sticks and branches in there at some point. Maybe it was a bug, because I know prior to that instance, I had no trouble putting them in the shed. Either way, if they are indeed able to be stored in the shed, then that's fantastic.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson I never found out if it was a bug. For quite a while I couldn't put things like tree tops in the wood storage either. One of the latest updates changed it.

Ok, so it wasn't just me. Glad to know I'm not crazy. Well, I AM, but at least I'm not even more crazy than I thought I was.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson yeah things are added then removed then added back. It's hard to keep up with it all.

I normally use the car for transporting logs, but they weren't that far from the build site and I needed most of them inside, so it didn't seem worth it at the time. I wonder, if you cut the trees so that the logs fall in the correct orientation to roll down the hill, will they actually roll down the hill or just drop onto the ground? I'm assuming they just fall on the ground, but if they'd roll, I'd just cut all of them uphill from my base and let them roll down to my front door.

@@FlailyMcFlailerson Even the steepest hill I've cut trees on I've never had the logs roll. I'm cutting trees beside the base now and it's a lot easier to drag a chest out to where I'm cutting and use it to carry the logs back in than carrying them 2 at a time. For the tree top if you turn the flared end to your left and tilt that end a little ways forward the sticks will spread out in front of you instead of a random place.

I knew there was a way to tell which way the sticks would spread, but I never remember what it is. Either that or I just don't remember to even try because my brain just says "The sticks will just be scattered around and are easy enough to pick up, so to heck with it!" Thank you for reminding me that there are more efficient ways of doing things.

I'm still waiting to hear more info on the event. All I know right now is it's a smaller PVP event. What that entails, I don't know. It could be just a private server where we all get to roam around the island for a set amount of time, or it could be a Deathmatch Event on a private server, Call Of Duty - style. I also don't know who's hosting the event. It could be the devs, it could just be a private server host that does SCUM community events, or it could even just be a friend of the guy who mentioned it to me and it's more of a friend-group event that I might be able to get invited to. Who knows? Either way, I'm anxious to learn more about it before making a decision.

Yeah, I figured a lot of that out after I stopped recording. I always forget you can walk on stuff like that.

Still waiting on more info. Right now, all I know is it's a small PVP event, so for all I know, it's just a Deathmatch Event on a private server, which could still be fun and get a bit more exposure for the channel, but it's also not really my style, so I'm not sure if I'd do it or not. We'll have to see what the event actually is before I make a decision.

Oh yeah! That battery location is a pain in the arse to get to! I wonder, though, is it any easier to access if you take the body off the quad first?

What kind of event? The last creator event was showcasing the new update before it launched, but as far as I know, there's nothing new coming out in the next few weeks, so I'm curious. I'm definitely interested, but I'd like to know more details first. Also, thank you for the consideration!

That's a pretty nice base! I see other people's bases and realize just how basic mine always are. But that suits me. I'm pretty basic! 😅

@@FlailyMcFlailerson Thanks you. I like building. I'm not very creative but, I do what I can. Last time I just stayed in a game asset house. This time I decided to build something and see what it turned into. I never really start with a plan I just start and see what the outcome is.

I suppose that's true. But I like the foliage quality! I just want to be able to clear brush better. I wish that when you build a foundation, that would clear the brush underneath it, especially if you upgrade it beyond twig or wood. Seeing a fern from the ground clipping through a solid concrete foundation or even just a solid wood floor breaks immersion just a wee bit.

@FlailyMcFlailerson I agree, it drives me potty. It would be nice to have an option to stop trees regrowing in your flag area also! Obviously they would regrow if your flag is removed.

That is true. We recently had that happen where somebody's truck got completely stripped. After that, we set it so that player locks can't be picked, as the server rules state that folks need to respect player locks. Clearly somebody didn't follow that rule, so we had to make it impossible to break the rule.

Only if you think about it too much. There's a difference for me recording it because it's harder to form the words I want, so I tend to garble things more when it's incoherent than when it's just rambling. Whether or not that actually comes through in the video is another matter entirely. Most people probably don't notice because "that's just Flaily being a goober" 🤪

I'll have to check that out. I wouldn't mind doing a cave base at some point. I still think there should be one behind that waterfall.

I'm hopefully on the mend. Doing a bit better than when I recorded this video. Hopefully that keeps up. Happy New Year to you and yours as well!

I've thought about that too. Rather than starting a new season after each wipe, just GodMode everything back in and continue as a much longer playthrough. I never get to anything advanced because I just start from scratch every time there's a wipe, but I think doing some more advanced building and upgrading, and actually building my character's stats and skills would be something folks would enjoy seeing, rather than the same old "fresh spawn, find vehicle, build basic base, server wipe, repeat". Thank for the suggestion and for the much appreciated support!!!

I'll give that a try. Technically, I could push any unwanted vehicles down the hill into the lake to get rid of them. On second thought, that one only needs 2 wheels. I could hit the scrapyard for those, then go sell the car at the trader and actually get paid for it.

@FlailyMcFlailerson that's the good plan. Flailys used cars . Get your craptastic car today

"Guaranteed to find trees and rocks like no other! Need a summer car? We've got cars with no doors! Want to teach your kids the valuable skill of roll starting a car? We've got cars with no alternators! At Flaily's Used Car Lot, we've got a pile of junk for everybody! So come on down and get your very own rust bucket today!"

@@FlailyMcFlailerson love it

Where do I sign​@@FlailyMcFlailerson

No, but we've got a bunch of other remedies and such here that are helping. Is that something you can get over the counter or do you need a prescription?

@@FlailyMcFlailerson at your local grocery store . I get mine at the Wal-Mart

Happy New Year!

What about the pitchfork and pickaxe? Are they used for anything other than being a smackerdoo (bludgeoning implement)?

@FlailyMcFlailerson nope

I certainly can. Been awhile since I've been up there.

Good to know! I'll horde those then! Thanks for the advice!

I could give it a try. I've run the M249 before with M16 mags, but never with the proper belts. I'll have to see about getting some.

I don't disagree. That's how I had it for a long time, but folks kept wanting me to turn those on. I personally don't think the puppets should be able to open doors, since they can't manipulate the doorknob. Bashing doors open could be easily remedied by barricading the door or even just leaning against it yourself, but we don't have those options. For windows, I think the puppets should be able to go through them if they're low enough to basically fall through, but anything over waist height or so shouldn't be doable for them. Also, when will the devs take away the puppets' ability to JUMP OVER CARS?!?!?

That's really unfortunate. But at least the devs give access to admin commands to kinda-sorta get around the problem. Would be nice if they just fixed the problem, but the SCUM devs aren't known for fixing bugs, unfortunately...

@FlailyMcFlailerson that's part of the reason I quit playing.

I still enjoy it enough to deal with the bugs (for now). The fact that the devs do at least give weekly updates about what they're doing and they ATTEMPT to engage with the players is a positive for me, even if they don't necessarily listen to the players as often as they should. I'm excited to see the game get more fleshed out and maybe eventually they'll let the modding community get ahold of it and then problems might actually get fixed.

@FlailyMcFlailerson that's why I watch you. I cab tell you still enjoy the game .

I'm sorry you spent Christmas alone 😟 But sometimes having a quiet holiday is better than having a busy holiday with a bunch of obnoxious people that you don't particularly like but you have to tolerate them because they're "family". That's how holidays used to be for me sometimes. I'm not really a very social person (hard to believe, given how much I talk, right?), and we used to have LARGE family gatherings and I would usually just find a quiet place to sit and read or something until dinner was ready, then I'd spend dinner trying to avoid having to make small talk, then go back to my quiet spot until my presence was requested again. I would've rather spent some of those holidays alone, honestly. My wife and daughter are both about like me. We don't like large groups, so we usually just have small celebrations, which is nice. If the tree is stored on your shoulder slot, you should be able to enter your vehicle, and it will stay in your inventory. But yes, the Christmas tree was the primary reason I built the cabin in the snowy biome. It just seems more Christmas-y. Not sure why you can't store the tree in the bed of the rager, or strap it to the roof, but oh well I guess... On the suppressor, it really bugs me how quickly they wear out. In reality, suppressors don't really wear out unless you're running full auto constantly and putting A LOT of rounds downrange, and even then, they just get REALLY hot and really dirty, but they don't really wear out unless you have a baffle strike. They may get a little bit less effective as they get carbon buildup on the baffles, just because there will be less space to contain the hot gasses from the rounds being fired, but they should last a LONG time. They work the same way the muffler works on cars, and how often do those wear out? Once every 10-20 years? As far as coal goes, we have a woodstove and also do a lot of grilling in the summer, so I'm well aware of how useful coal can be 😁 That said, I'm very happy with my AK!