Repairs
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Repairs
Damage Types
Before you start repairing anything, you need to assess the repair job at hand. When you mouseover a repair job, selection brackets and at least one status bar will appear. The status bars represent:
- Mechanical Damage (Blue bar, cog icon)
- Structural Damage (Purple bar, pillar icon)
- Electronic Damage (Green bar, interconnected spheres icon)
- Electrical Damage (Red bar, lightning bolt icon)
- Contamination (Orange bar, biohazard symbol)
Targeting
In order to repair something, you must first move close to it, and highlight the repair job withe your mouse. It should display selection brackets, and a few status bars. Left click to bring up the pie menu, and click Target (three converging arrows).
In order to gain an AP reward, you must fully repair all damage types of a repairjob.
Basic Tools
Starting out in the tower, you will have a BasicStrucTool, BasicMechTool and BasicContTool, to repair Structural, Mechanical and Contamination damage respectively.
To equip the tools, open up the Assets menu (second from the top) and then left click the appropriate tool to bring up a pie menu. Select Equip (hand holding a blue object) and you should see the Equipped Items menu pop up. If not, you can open it by clicking the topmost icon on the left.
Alternately, you can simply open the Equipped Items menu, and drag a tool from the Assets window.
For tools beyond the starting gear, check the List of Tools
Repairing
With your Equipped Items menu open, you should see four slots, each of which represents a sub-tool (Screwdriver for BasicMechTools, Crowbar for BasicStrucTools and BioSponge for BasicContTools.) Click the tool, and watch as the repair timer (light blue status bar behing the tool name) move from right to left. If you have the right tool for the job, you should see the appropriate damage type diminish slightly.
Repeat, until the damage type has been cleared (the object you're repairing should visually change). Then move on to the next damage type by equipping the appropriate tool and doing the same.
Hint: Two Hands for beginners
The best way to approach repairs is to equip an appropriate tool in each hand, by manually opening Equipped Items, and dragging the tools from the Assets window. Then, you can alternately click each tool, and the repair process is twice as fast.
Stress
Stress is indicated by a rising red bar on the left side of the Equipped Items window. Completely maxing out the stress bar will cause damage to your tool. (This is hard with the default tools, and requires some very well-timed clicking). Damage is represented in the same box as stress. If the damage bar gets full too, the tool will be broken, and must be repaired at a Sharepoint before it can be used again.
Charges
If you're using an item that has a limited number of charges, then the green bar on the right side of the Equipped Items window indicates the remaining charges. For example, the BasicContTool has 150 charges, and use 1 everytime you use its Biosponge function.
The Equipment Bug
Items are staying equipped in the equipped items window, but still not useable! (mostly after a crash)
Workaround: You have to manually re-requip them, by dragging a new item into the slot with the already equipped item!
The equip issue is not fixed in the current patch, but it's high on the list of "To Do's"
