No way to exit house with broken vault

HardKor · 2014-03-17 12:45:55

I've died numerous times after reaching the vault successfully, because a simple electric electric floor commit gate keeps me from leaving the house. This frustrates me to no end because I had no way to know the vault was broken until I reached it, and there is never a way to reach the door after hitting up a vault. There should be something to let me know the vault is broken.
Side note: A house messed up after someone kills a family member can become unsolvable.

Suedeo · 2014-03-17 13:28:59

Damaged fixtures and family or pet corpses are the telltale of a broken house. Under the current system, if your house is broken your actions are extremely limited until you self-test to reset it.

Broken houses are a very interesting part of the game and also the most commonly exploited mechanic. In my opinion, they need a small adjustment to prevent abuse.

I'll never forget you, Mr. Knight and Mr. Loos!

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Kimenzar · 2014-03-17 14:33:07

And to add to Suedeo... if you don't want to die to such surprises, make everytime a secure path for escape. Most times there are signs and most times you shouldn't hope for a lucky vault, because if you do then the death is simply your fault.

BoxDrunken · 2014-03-17 15:19:02

Suedeo

Pat Connel Is the new Broken Farm house. I haven't bothered with getting to the vault but he gets a large number of guests! and most of them die.

Lord0fHam · 2014-03-17 15:58:07

does anyone have a map of connel's house?

EDIT: Never mind, i just mapped it myself

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MazeHunter · 2014-03-17 23:33:58

Lord0fHam wrote:

does anyone have a map of connel's house?
EDIT: Never mind, i just mapped it myself

.... then you would not mind sharing with us right?

shlam16 · 2014-03-18 00:16:18

Don't tell, Lord0fHam . That is the best farm house I've ever seen. It is still highly deadly and intricate, so you can often find it with 5k above its base value. Don't want it becoming like Mr Davis's house.

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HardKor · 2014-03-18 00:39:57

The 1-step death houses also have a way of killing me when I'm not giving the game my full attention. I know it's my fault, but since any completed house lets you step through the door, I'm never worried about that. Back to the base $2000 with no idea how to rob someone since everyone has bit locks and magic dog dances. (Both of which unavoidable with 2k).
#Rantover

shlam16 · 2014-03-18 04:04:47

HardKor wrote:

The 1-step death houses also have a way of killing me when I'm not giving the game my full attention. I know it's my fault, but since any completed house lets you step through the door, I'm never worried about that. Back to the base $2000 with no idea how to rob someone since everyone has bit locks and magic dog dances. (Both of which unavoidable with 2k).
#Rantover

That is why I take both of my hands clear off the keyboard whenever I enter *any* house. It's because I 1-step killed myself in some crappy broken house and gave him a 90k bounty.

PsyBlade · 2014-03-18 05:28:15

To get back on topic: while broken stuff/dead things are a useful indicator they are not reliable

There are only two reliable indicators: wife and tries

No/dead wife -> safe ok
wife with less money -> safe ok
wife with full money -> safe probably broken (but 0$ if not broken. so not worth it anyway)

house with 0 tries -> safe ok

Lord0fHam · 2014-03-18 13:43:27

shlam16 wrote:

Don't tell, Lord0fHam . That is the best farm house I've ever seen. It is still highly deadly and intricate, so you can often find it with 5k above its base value. Don't want it becoming like Mr Davis's house.

i mapped it anyway so it looks like we'll have to share the money It's actually pretty easy to solve, if you dont kill yourself right at the beginning

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