Character Builds + First Moves

xLemor · 2013-06-13T06:00:08.000Z

yeah you should go for higher perception instead, it boosts firearms skills by a LOT, dexterity doesnt do much beside +to hit which firearm skills boosts it much higher.
you could drop inconspicious (wich is next to useless i think) and raise your perception and lower dexterity.
10 str, 12-13 int, and 12+ perc. Necessary skills would be first aid and driving to start off with altho you can do without driving but first aid is really good to have, other skills are easy to train early from books and basic actions (like survival and butchering corpses). I usually go for First aid, cooking, survival and archery if i play archery just for the beginning until i find a good gun and some ammo. When you get good at the game just go for driving skill (driving is hard to train to level 4 to stop fumbling the wheel) and first aid. Also pick the robust genetic trait, its one of the most valuable trait you can have once you start playing with mutations

Raital · 2013-06-13T07:54:21.000Z

Strong, perceptive practical-learner. (0.6)

Stats

Str 14
Dex 8
Int 7
Per 14

Traits

Quick
Fast Learner
Robust Genetics

Heavy Sleeper
Poor Hearing
Insomniac
Lightweight
Trigger Happy
Wool Allergy
Truth Teller
Ugly
(usually prefer to be alone in these games so Ugly and Truth Teller wouldn’t bother me even if NPCs worked)

Profession: Chain Smoker
Skills: None

First Moves

Break Locker, grab pipe.
Go to town.
Break fridge in house, grab rubber hose. Kill anything that aggros in the process.
Get heavy stick (window or nearby forest), make slingshot, break stones for pebbles.
Level archery to 1 on rabbits/crows/squirrels/zombies.
Use String and heavy stick to make longbow, make 90 arrows from heavy sticks.
Loot and pillage.

Ferodaktyl · 2013-06-13T16:38:46.000Z

Step 1 : create random char.
Step 2 : check basement for anything remotely useful
Step 3 : Check char stats and deciding how to play
…
Step xxx : collecting anything remotely useful from the map and spending ridiculous amounts of time sorting and organizing loot i’ll probably never use

Killa_Croc · 2013-06-13T19:57:23.000Z

[quote=“Ferodaktyl, post:12, topic:1704”]Step 1 : create random char.
Step 2 : check basement for anything remotely useful
Step 3 : Check char stats and deciding how to play
…
Step xxx : collecting anything remotely useful from the map and spending ridiculous amounts of time sorting and organizing loot i’ll probably never use [/quote]

This pretty much sums out what I do up until I decide to rush a town and see how much damage do to a city’s zombie population before keeling over. Toss in a few personal rules like vehicles are for transportation only no crafting (yes I gather material, organize them into neat piles specifically to make crafting simpler and somewhat efficient, suicide in the nearest town, then delete my world and repeat.)

Skates · 2013-06-13T20:16:14.000Z

All purpose crafter

Stats

Str 10
Dex 10
Int 9
Per 9

Positive Traits

Quick
Light Step

Negative Traits

Ugly
Addictive Personality
Truth Teller
Trigger Happy
Smelly
Heavy Sleeper
Weak Stomach
Lightweight

Profession

Scoundrel

Skills

Dodge
Melee
Firearms
Archery
Mechanics
Survival

Plan

Break one of the lockers and grab a pipe.
Run outside and find a rock, craft a crowbar.
Head back into the evacuation shelter and break two windows, grab two pieces of string and a heavy stick. Craft a longbow.
Smash some benches and make arrows.
Head to the nearest collection of outer homes and kill zombies one at a time with a bow and break into the homes finding supplies.
Once enough supplies have been collected garrison a gas station.
Fill it full of supplies and fortify it by creating spike pits and traps around the outside and board up the windows.
Survive.

DWC · 2013-06-13T20:40:33.000Z

I’ve taken to making series of survivors.

The first guy, is mediocre but well rounded, with a point in every useful skill. I use him to scavenge up books and useful items and set up a base of operations.

Next guy has a lot of unbalanced traits, no skills, high attributes and I walk him over to the first guy’s safehouse to sit around and eat all his food and read books and craft stuff, work on the cars until he is a beastly renaissance man, equip him with the fine weapons and equipment gathered by the first guy then then send him forth in search of monsters to destroy.

Considering a combat oriented version of the first guy to make a sort of semi- disposable soldier that can go to the stockpile, grab up a pile of guns and stuff and go do dangerous assaults and explore hostile places without it being too much of a lost investment of time of he bites the dust in the process.

Moral_Grey_Area · 2013-06-15T10:20:31.000Z

NO ONE KNOCK MY SETUP UNTIL YOU TRY IT.

STR: 7
DEX: 4
INT: 7
PER: 4

Martial Arts

Addictive Personality
Jittery
Savant
Truth Teller

No Job

Unarmed: **********

EXTREME MARTIAL ARTS__

Rookrune · 2013-06-17T04:22:12.000Z

I call this the "Lucky 7’s build, its for when your looking for more of a challenge.
Stats

Str 7
Dex 7
Int 7
Per 7

Pick any perk’s you feel at the time.

Its harder, but at l east you have luck on your side (WARNING: Luck may not be on your side.)

system · 2013-06-18T23:27:34.000Z

Has anyone attempted to make Joel from the “LAST OF US”?

fishy1234555 · 2013-07-03T05:27:01.000Z

Hillbilly

Str: 7
Dex: 12
Int: 4
Per: 9

Traits

Positive

-Tough
-Thick Skinned
-Terrifying
-Skilled Liar

Negative

-Heavy Sleeper
-Illiterate
-Trigger Happy
-Smelly
-Chemical Imbalance
-Ugly

Profession
-Wannabe Mechanic

Skills

Bashing Weapons **
Shotguns ****
Cooking **
Survival **

Zireael · 2013-07-03T09:54:16.000Z

My setup:
All traits to 14
Grab some negatives and slap Fast Learner/Fast Healer on top of it

woflsipder · 2013-07-03T14:51:16.000Z

Regular post apocalyptic potential mutant ninja.

Str:10
Dex:11
Int:10
Per:9

Traits

Positive

-Quick
-Night Vision
-Fast Reader
-Light Step
-Robust Genetics
-Self Defense Classes (Always chose Ninjutsu , ALWAYS)

Negative

-Poor Hearing
-Insomniac
-Addictive Personality
-Trigger Happy
-Truth Teller
-Ugly

Proffesion

-Chain Somoker

prytoclasm · 2013-07-03T15:32:21.000Z

My setting for every char so far:

Str:12
Dex:10
Int:13
Per:11

Traits

Positive (3)

• Night Vision
• Robust Genetics

Negative (12)

• Heavy Sleeper
• Lightweight
• Addictive Personality
• Trigger Happy
• Weak Stomach
• Wool Allergy
• Truth Teller
• Ugly

No matter if going melee (a Katana rocks, If you happen to find one) or ranged (G36 is nice …) or whatever … with flavoured mutagens and a bit of luck + planning -> yeah!

I think I’ll make a martial arts char next, if the current one dies. (Which is only possible if I act totally stupid.)

Spielman · 2013-07-03T15:50:22.000Z

You know, I’m seeing a theme here. Min maxing. I’m guilty of it too though.

Mcrone · 2013-07-03T15:54:53.000Z

Well I don’t use skills but… this can be a very powerful archer in the recent builds

Name: A very smart archer

Strength: 12
Dexterity: 8
Intelligence:14
Perception: 8

Positive traits:

Quick
Fast Reader
Fast Learner
Robust Genetics

Negative traits:
Heavy Sleeper
Glass Jaw
Lightweight
Addictive personality(I don’t use drugs)
Trigger Happy
Truth Teller

Profession:
Chain Smoker

Skills:
No skills

And that’s it

youtoo · 2013-07-03T16:11:39.000Z

you dont need survival. its a waste. you can throw rocks at rabbits and very quickly butcher your way to level 2.

darth_servo · 2013-07-03T19:22:23.000Z

My favorite build is modelled after Vincent Price’s character in The Last Man on Earth, which is itself a film adaptation of I Am Legend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)).

Chain smoker or Lab Assistant (Vincent Price’s character is a scientist, but in the original story, he was a mill worker). Average strength (8), higher Deterity (10), Intelligence and Perception very high (12)

Disease Resistant
Robust Genetics
Sometimes Poison Resistant

Usually I also take Fleet-Footed, Quick, and Night Vision

Negative traits to balance that out (usually Insomniac, Heavy Sleeper, perhaps Truth Teller, Lightweight, etc. – nothing too crippling for an “Average Joe” kind of guy)

I usuallly drop a point in Mechanics for convenience.

I have my game set to allow max points, but I usually don’t spend them all.

Raital · 2013-07-04T03:20:06.000Z

The Most Inappropriately Elated Son-of-a-Gun in the Apocalypse [0.6 git with optimist and morale changes]

Stats

Str: 4
Dex: 4
Int: 20
Per: 11

Traits

Quick
Optimist
Fast Reader

Heavy Sleeper
Poor Hearing
Insomniac
Lightweight
Trigger Happy
Wool Allergy
Truth Teller
Ugly

Profession: Chain Smoker
Skills: none

First Moves: Break Locker, get pipe, craft crowbar, pray for an easily reachable rubber hose and craft slingshot and ammo. Find books, preferably books with +4 fun. Read books one after another until 75 in 3 to 5 books, getting 230 to 327 morale with related speed and stat bonuses. Juggle books to keep values relatively high (>+50), enjoy fast focus regen and speed boost while alive.
Edit: Seems like there are only three books which give +4 fun (drama, fantasy, mystery). Changed numbers.

woflsipder · 2013-07-04T11:29:39.000Z

[quote=“Raital, post:27, topic:1704”][i]Skills: none

First Moves: Break Locker, get pipe, craft crowbar[/i][/quote]

Aren’t you supposed to have 1 mecha skill before crafting those?

Zireael · 2013-07-04T12:59:12.000Z

[quote=“woflsipder, post:28, topic:1704”][quote=“Raital, post:27, topic:1704”][i]Skills: none

First Moves: Break Locker, get pipe, craft crowbar[/i][/quote]

Aren’t you supposed to have 1 mecha skill before crafting those?[/quote]

Not in experimental.