So while I was testing stuff at turnipseed farm the other day I found something strange.
So I've been doing a run of the game where I'm trying to keep the human kills at zero (Just for context.) and after I threw the farmer into the lake I went to the fishing hunt to get a woman to be alerted for the cutscene to start. Anyway that's usually what I did so on a normal game I went over to the same woman that activated the cutscene for me and extracted her.
Oddly enough when I did I got a 50 DNA instead of the normal 10-15 so I was just wondering if anybody else knows about this. Along with if it could help a speedrun in anyway. For anyone who would like to replicate it to see I'll put what I did It was during the mission at the point where Extract becomes available for use, at that point I went to the fishing hut and extracted a living woman in yellow who was standing by a another farmer with a gun (I'm not quiet sure if it was the farmer's wife or not if so than that would explain the 50 DNA) I'm again not sure if this known about or not or if it's used
The farmer's wife from what I can tell doesn't spawn until after the few after the first are killed so maybe just a random NPC given a weird DNA value.
Could help lessen 100% grinding or for a boost in any% or nothing at all in the way of help but I'm not sure as I haven't run a full game yet.
Is was all on Xbox one I just had no place to put it. If you can't replicate or what more proof I'll see if I can record it but for me it's unlikely.
If I'm understanding you correctly, I presume you're talking about the blonde female civilians in Turnipseed Farm? Because there's something like 6 of them that always drop 50 DNA, just like Santa Modesta crazies and the Union Town doomsayers. Some humans in the game have surprisingly high-DNA brainstems.
The inconsistent DNA you're talking about sounds like the RNG on the drop amounts. I've had a civilian drop 100 DNA once (only once), but these higher DNA amounts are pretty rare, although I never went and mapped out the odds I just know they're low.
Yeah, it's strange. Even happened in the video for the game that I did a week ago when I got a 100 from, APing a farmer. That seems to be oddly constant for me most times. Also I didn't know about the 50 thing for some reason being a normal thing in the game, strange. Maybe we can control it somehow.
I wouldn't expect to be able to control the drop rates, then again I'm not the kind of person to find those sorts of things, but if there ever is a way to max out all brain stem drops that would pretty much remove all ~10min of grinding and a lot of random pick ups in 100%.
