Overview
An absolute abomination of a guide spurred from boredom and distant, omnipresent honks.Seriously though, its mostly about kinds of clowns you can be, and how to be them.
Introduction to Clowns
Clownery
Clownery, or being a clown, is a term i made up for this guide. Its when you don the clown suit and prepare to get to work. In this guide, i will go over all ways of the clown.
Lawful Good
Lawful Good
Lawful good clowns are hard to find and easy to be. You generally will find them making clown tasks force and running around gunning down no-gooders even if they are an engineer or assistant.
You, as a Lawful Good clown, do good with a full intent of being good. While sometimes people rather’d you be dead you will hold your ground for the good of clown/human kind. Being a Lawful Good clown is hard because you will always have the legacy of horrid, dangerous clowns following you like air (Who needs it?) You MUST remember to never slip up in your temptations, if you have the sudden urge to gun down the captain for taking your horn you have to fight it.
Neutral Good
Neutral Good
Neutral Good clowns are somewhat weird but also fun to the kind of people who are them. As a Neutral Good your here to do your job of entertaining the crew and you LOVE it. You love entertaining people so much its almost to a fault as you may annoy people.
Your best bet is to try to do what you do, but please dont annoy THAT one security guard too much. You’ve been warned, they are volatile.
Chaotic Good
Chaotic Good
As a Chaotic Good, a clown pattern is born here. You will likely steal at some point, for some reason. Whether it be stealing stun batons to give to the unfairly treated engineers aboard the submarine, or having to spend most of the round explaining that you had bombs to keep them safe. Stealing is your deal.
Your best bet is to play it right. Consult local guides to figure out others preferred ways of getting into armories. My personal style is either wiring a button to the armory door or to put on a full security disguise (Id, Sec Outfit, Etc). Knowing and owning a personal style will get you in and out of armories like grease on a kitchen floor, becoming a hero of the lower half of the rank chart.
Lawful Neutral
Lawful Neutral
As a Lawful Neutral, your practically a true neutral, with more ratting out done. You wont directly hunt down the baddies but you will do your part to help the crew as long as you ultimately stay out of it, in any way possible.
My personal favorite way i’ve played Lawful Neutral is when i was a clowngineer (You can figure it out) and i had a private chat with the captain in where i showed him my stolen goods and talked my way into being a undercover agent against stealing. I’d report whatever people stole to the security/captain and go on my merry way.
True Neutral
True Neutral
This ones similar to Neutral Good but without the enthusiasm, You do your job. You may not be happy about it but its what you have to do after all. You work like anyone else on the sub with an added flair and splash of color in your outfit.
Your best bet as True Neutral is to do your job, Clownery is fun but at the end of the day theres an entire game to do. Maybe you can learn some cool new clown tricks while you do your job.
Chaotic Neutral
Chaotic Neutral
As Chaotic Neutral, you came to this game to have fun and your damn well going to get the experience. This is where the stealing REALLY comes into play. You might find yourself stealing items just to flex on the other engineers or carry around sulphuric acid and call it forbidden ethanol.
Your best bet is to be you, this requires the most experience as you have to execute everything perfectly to have your whole fun. If you can get it right though, this can lead to some of the most fun gameplay i’ve had personally.
Lawful Evil
Lawful Evil
This one is hard to explain so ill seperate it into two different sections.
Option 1
You hate this damn sub, after seeing the captain execute one too many assistants and attempt to put the costs to repair the sub after a long mission on you to pay, you’ve just about snapped. You’ll likely start rebellions or kill most people on the upper side of the rank list.
Your best bet is to arm yourself. Knowing your sub and where the best weapons are is the information you need to complete your ultimate goal of taking over the sub for the good of the lower class.
Option 2
You dont really care about everyone else, you hold a different look on the cold depths of these waters. You might find yourself trying to make friends with your mudraptor child or befriending your way through the ships hierarchy. Its hard to not find yourself in some crazy situation.
You’d best prepare for your own shenanigans. Take your fair share of toolboxes with every item your storing and dont need immediately (mostly have stun weapons, job based tools, etc, on you and stuff like oxygen masks, wires, and more in toolboxes). Prepare to have your own escape from the situations you will find yourself in.
Neutral Evil
Neutral Evil
No one else on this ship matters, all you are looking for is ultimate wealth and power. this is where stealing REALLY comes into play. You will likely be quietly gathering grenades, shotguns, revolvers, etc throughout the entirety of the game incase a guard really insists on threatening your clown existance. Lives lost in your quest for true power dont matter.
Your best bet is to decide when you will strike down those you oppose and prepare to get out of it with everyone else none the wiser. You’ll want to keep the id card from that one guy who left at the beginning or just shoot it off that one mechanic.
Chaotic Evil
Chaotic Evil
This is it, the bottom of the alignment rung. You are the filth, you are the reason clowns have bad names and are sometimes hunted. You love it. You find yourself going onto submarines with full intent to completely destroy it. you likely have a long line of servers your banned on and groups of people begging the admins to ban you on every server you join.
Your best bet is to, well, destroy the sub. You wanted this, unwire the reactors the engines the pumps you will go wild on everything and everyone in your path. Cataclysmic events to the submarine dont kill everyone though. You’ll have to prepare to finish the rest off yourself. This is still ok as diving suits are good cover when you take off your id. Go wild, remember that this is your choice, you made it.
Stealing
Stealing
You’ve heard about stealing, but how do you do it, and how do you get away with it? For you, my good chum, i have what you need.
How you do it
Barotrauma is a big game, with big opportunities. We’ll use the armory that appears on most subs as an example of what you can do. Now, approaching the door/hatch you will have multiple options.
The Button Of Glory
For this way in you will need a screwdriver, wire, and a button. Everything else will be pretty easy to get but the button will likely need to be fabricated. What you’ll want to do is to go up to the door, place the button down, equip both the screwdriver and the wire in both hands, and press e on the button, you’ll have one option which is signal_out. attach the wire to that option and then press e on the door. there will be a couple of options but the one you want to attach the wire to is toggle_state.
By doing this, you bypass the sec/cap only button by making your own, everyone button. Feel free to waltz in and steal whatever you want fast. But dont forget to close the door behind you and leave no traces, or else people can figure it out and up security patrols.
Id Swiping
This one generally works best on big servers, you’ll usually have one or two people who leave and you can swipe their id cards, if they arent sec or higher still keep them, if they are feel free to keep them in your inventory as it will still allow you to use the sec doors. If they arent then we have a small problem.
Thankfully its not too hard to fix. take the id card and a oxygen mask. Then pick your target. You can now either kill or stun. Either way you’ll want to steal/talk your way into the items you want (Consult my guide on weapons if you want to know the best ones.) Then you’ll want to go in for the attack.
Before you go into your quick battle, you’ll want to take off your uniform and equip the other persons id, then put on the oxygen mask. Doing this insures
1: You cannot be tracked via clothing, feel free to steal clothes to add another level of chaos to figuring it out.
2: People wont be too suspicious, putting on the oxygen mask hides your identity, if you just took off your id card the security would immediately run up to you and start asking questions. putting on the stolen id makes you plenty less sus.
Using these you can get away with stealing the id of the unfortunate target. I highly recommend stunning as you need to get a sec/captain to get the right id card and they almost ALWAYS have guns on them. Stunning is unexpected and gives you time to do your work.
Dont forget, there is plenty more ways to do it but these are the main ways i use personally.
End
The end, for now.
Thank you for reading my stupid guide, this is my third one so feel free to check out the other ones, they’re the ones with lemons for thumbnails.
Please leave a like or comment, i had to stare at an The Office Alignment Chart to do this and that gave me damage in every single way.