Before you start your drive, here’s a guide on how to survive.
Planning to hit the road in first-person driving survival game Pacific Drive? Speeding through an exclusion zone filled with deadly anomalies is a gas, but it sure isn’t easy, and your trusty station wagon will face all sorts of hazards like electrical blasts, acid sprays, radiation damage, and no small amount of explosions. Even more dangerous: you have to get out of your car to loot and scavenge all the stuff needed to fix and upgrade your ride back at the garage.
Along with a good set of tires, a trunk full of tools, and at least one working headlight, you should head out into the zone armed with something extra: a bit of knowledge. Let me lend you the benefit of the 40-plus hours I’ve spent exploring and surviving in Pacific Drive with a few tips to keep in mind as you start your engine for the first time.Don’t forget you can kick
One of the first things you do at the start of the tutorial is kick a tree branch. Your foot is never mentioned again, and it may be quite a while before you find something else that requires a good swift boot. But don’t forget you can kick stuff: it’s a good way to free your car if it gets stuck on something (though you’ll damage the part of the car you’re kicking) and it can also dislodge dust bunnies, burp bunnies, and other nasty anomalies that attach themselves to your car.Your matter deconstructor won’t recycle everything
The matter deconstructor is an essential item in your garage: feed it something like a car door or a spare tire and it’ll chew it up and spit out raw components like steel and rubber that you can use for crafting. But it won’t recycle everything, and it can be a little confusing to feed it something and get nothing back. Items like tools or car parts belched up by the friendly dumpster outside, for example, will simply vanish when consumed by the deconstructor, and heavily degraded items may not refund any resources because they’re simply too far gone.An electrician’s kit is for more than repairs
As you explore the zone and return to your garage, you’ll discover the need for several kinds of repair kits: the mechanic’s kit for a busted engine or loose wheel, the sealing kit for fixing flat tires and mending cracked windshields, and an electrician’s kit for a disabled battery or malfunctioning headlight.
