New forum goer with questions about GH2

[Onisuzume]

And then there's the matter of Cyber-Psycho and Extropian...

[Yuu Inohara]

Quoting: Joseph Hewitt

1. The map of the L5 region in GH2 is far bigger than the world map in GH1. I need to add something so the PC will automatically eat food while traveling.

This would help, but it doesn't change the fact that one will need a MASSIVE quantity of food just to get halfway to a destination, because I took only three steps from Maquise Spinner and got nine 'Akira is hungry' messages... (Akira being my character for this play through) and I had made sure to get him as full as he could get before taking off. Though, perhaps I should invest in more than just two levels of Survival...

[Frumple]

Eh... food's pretty cheap though, even for the expensive stuff (deluxe ration, etc), and you can stick a pretty much unlimited amount into your mecha. I think I stuffed around 20-30 deluxe rations into my mecha and was able to get from spinner to spinner on the world map without much trouble.

EDIT: If the transit is causing a lot of trouble, though, you can always find yourself a light mecha frame, strip it down, and slap on as many arc jets/(s)flight jets/overchargers as you can. A speedy mecha cuts down travel time a fair bit. Just make sure to remember to 'R'un, heh. 'Course, that does mean you'd have to have your combat-mecha delivered to your new place, but I've fairly sure that's a bit cheaper than just taking the bus-thingy, so it might help.

[Yuu Inohara]

Quoting: Frumple

Eh... food's pretty cheap though, even for the expensive stuff (deluxe ration, etc), and you can stick a pretty much unlimited amount into your mecha. I think I stuffed around 20-30 deluxe rations into my mecha and was able to get from spinner to spinner on the world map without much trouble.

EDIT: If the transit is causing a lot of trouble, though, you can always find yourself a light mecha frame, strip it down, and slap on as many arc jets/(s)flight jets/overchargers as you can. A speedy mecha cuts down travel time a fair bit. Just make sure to remember to 'R'un, heh. 'Course, that does mean you'd have to have your combat-mecha delivered to your new place, but I've fairly sure that's a bit cheaper than just taking the bus-thingy, so it might help.

True... Eh, since I'll be eating most of it on the way anyway, Reflex and Speed reductions shouldn't hurt me too much... Too bad I can't just bring my Neko from the Arena mode, since it's proven fairly fast, even with all it's weapons (course, I think the heaviest it has right now is a torso mounted HPC and it's incendiary missiles, though I can't be sure right off, I'd have to check) ah well, thanks for the help you guys. I'm off to figure out the arena mission thing so I can try to make a drag race mission or something *shrug*

[Frumple]

Quoting: Yuu Inohara

Eh, since I'll be eating most of it on the way anyway, Reflex and Speed reductions shouldn't hurt me too much...

Ah, no, no, you can transfer the excess rations straight into your mecha's inventory -- as near as I can tell, you can stick as many scale zero (kg-weighted items) into a mecha as you want without risking any penalties to the mecha's performance. When I find someone selling deluxe rations, I'll buy... a lot. 80+, sometimes, and then stuff the majority of it into my mecha. Other than keeping a few on person for dungeon crawling, it lets you more or less not worry about food -- after all, your mecha is almost always accessable, one way or another. It's a load off the mind... and the back, heh.

EDIT: It's SF:0, not SF:1. Oops.

[Yuu Inohara]

Quoting: Frumple

Ah, no, no, you can transfer the excess rations straight into your mecha's inventory -- as near as I can tell, you can stick as many scale one (kg-weighted items) into a mecha as you want without risking any penalties to the mecha's performance. When I find someone selling deluxe rations, I'll buy... a lot. 80+, sometimes, and then stuff the majority of it into my mecha. Other than keeping a few on person for dungeon crawling, it lets you more or less not worry about food -- after all, your mecha is almost always accessable, one way or another. It's a load off the mind... and the back, heh.

Ah, I did not know that, and all this time I've been carrying around those extra/variant clips and food when I could have stored the ones I didn't need.