Brad, you are correct that there is a way to rapidly unload a vehicle's inventory while parked at a base. When you have the vehicle in a parking spot and you have the trunk open, highlight an inventory item and press RT to unload items directly into the base inventory. This will save you a lot of running back and forth after you bring a vehicle back that's loaded with loot.
Vehicles are pretty crucial to success in my experience, and if you have the right people in your community you can eventually upgrade them with crazy Mad Max shit. My tip would be to get yourself an outpost that provides daily fuel supplies, such as a gas station, so you can stockpile gas cans and keep your vehicles running. Remember that you can convert a fuel resource into a gas can at the base's main storage station.
Some other unsolicited info: build a workshop so you can craft vehicle repair kits, crossbow bolts, repair your weapons, and dismantle weapons you don't need for extra parts. Stay on the lookout for a workshop add-on--the ammo press, often sold by visiting traders--that will let you consume ammo supplies to craft specific ammo such as shells, 9mm rounds, and even 40mm grenades. Don't feel that you need to be quite so precious with your ammo. While it is a scarce resource early on, it's not too hard to get yourself into the position of having thousands of rounds stockpiled by claiming one or more outposts that provide daily supplies of ammo. There are some dope as hell guns with silencers out there that you will want to keep fed.
Those detailed morale and resource breakdown screens in the community+base menus are really handy for optimizing your community, or for locating exactly why you may be losing some resources seemingly at random.
Oh, and you should absolutely take some of the bounties that Cash offers. Progress you make on bounties will carry over from one character to another, from session to session, and even from community to community. There's no downside to having some bounties running all the time, you never lose progress on them and there are some pretty easy ones to attain that reward you with good weapons. Like, some of the goals are as simple as looting 10 rucksacks. Just take some of the basic ones and let them passively progress as you play.
I love SoD2, super happy to see you guys enjoying it!
RING A DING! Style Savvy has always been a tremendously positive game with a super-duper satisfying gameplay loop. Here's hoping Syn Sophia announces its continuation on Switch.
As a few others have mentioned, definitely speak with Mordin re: your romantic partner choice, before you go through with it. He has some professional advice--optional but funny--for inter-species encounters. It can be easy to miss out on this.
Love this list. Tokyo Mirage Sessions and Fashion Forward were two of my favorites this year, and it's nice to see others recognizing how blissful they were.
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