Robusting Tips

[babayetu83]

Saline-glucose and salicylic acid last a long time and can heal a lot of brute and burn, even while you're unconscious. The aspirin will keep you moving quickly even as you get beaten up, and the saline will take care of burn damage and all that blood you lose, even letting you survive shallow crit.

Meth is also fairly cheap and easy to get, whether from Robust-eeze, the shady bathroom attendant, or an on-the-ball chemist. If you didn't already know, shooting up meth through a hypospray wont roll addiction, as is the case with sleepypens, syringe guns, and, from what I can tell, patches, though the last one isn't nearly as effective. A hypo full of meth can keep you up and robust against anyone throwing around stuns, and if combined with the above half-assed regen-mix, you'll be pretty tricky to take down if you know what you're doing.

Want some melee practice? Roll a medborg and try to slap people with patches! The crew tends to forget that medborgs can heal them, so you'll end up needing to chase people down in order to put their skin back on. Use those situations to your advantage, practice your clicking and you'll find out just how far BYOND will stretch the definition of "melee range".

Speaking of borgs, a standard body with treads is pretty darn robust. It combines nearly-human speed with superhuman hitpoints and immunity to fire. Heavier borgs are tougher, but those extra hitpoints are very situational to be needed and you'll be too slow to hurt anyone! The botanyborg kit comes with a chainsaw that'll never break, as well as a watering can you can fill with phlogiston and ants.

As a borg, you only really need to fear lasers and, to an extent, tazers and flashes. Lasers will destroy you in just a few shots, and tazers will stun you like any old human. Flashes will also stun you, though if they're close enough to flash you, you're close enough to set them on fire. If you or the person who turned you on the crew has gotten rid of all those, congratulations!

another good borg tip is to make sure you don't have anything valuable in your 1st or 3rd inventory slot as those are your arms and i'm not sure if you can withdraw them back into your inventory if they're broken off. 2nd inventory slot is your chest and you should have your most important stuff (rcd, chainsaw, etc) there since if your chest breaking is less likely than getting an arm getting destroyed