How did you last die?

[Vanilla_Cupcake]

I was chilling in my evac shelter learning how to cook when a centipede (and about 10 other swamp mobs) broke through the window and mauled me and some infected dude. Welp.

[Zaweri_Runewright]

I last died by sleeping in the back of my Semi truck and woke up seeing 4 bears in my cockpit. I had planted backup controls to the back of the Semi for these scenarios, and “ran over” them. But then, my truck was surrounded by all sorts of spiders, cougars, wolves, and I only had 5% gas left… Needless to say, I ran out of fuel, and got gangbanged by the creatures outside. NOTE TO SELF: Public Works buildings are deathtraps.

[Mate]

Once I found a bear in my semi too, but I could kill it with a few shots without me getting hit. It must have been bugged or just really slow.

[Nopkar]

in the pursuit of science.

2300kg with 2 layers of plates on the front and ~30kph(ish) not only weaponizes the abandoned cars but also separates your player from your vehicle at astounding speeds.

[DerpMcgee]

Detonated a mini nuke inside a barn while being besieged by Fungle creatures.

[ComputerWarrior]

My “escape plan” killed me. In an attempt to clear out a town for the first time since 0.3, I barricaded myself in a house with a 1x1 window, killing the never-ending horde of zombies until I accidentally moved away from the window, which was enough time for the latest victim of mine (read: zombie brute) to “step in”. I grabbed the shotgun I stashed in the room for these situations and promptly killed it.

Did I mention the zombies were never-ending and that there were far too many zombie dogs following me to count as I ran?

Did I also mention I love the many, many new features in Cata DDA 0.5?

[halberdsturgeon]

Very frustrating death. Cracked open a missile silo, descended the stairs - got the bug where no stairs up is generated on sublevel one. Plummeted all the way down to the bottom; survived with only slight wounds thanks to high dodging, but being trapped in the silo, my only option was to try to randomly tunnel into a sewer/cavern/ant warren or something using sonic blasts and explosives. Unfortunately I ran out of bionic energy sources and bombs before I found an escape route, so I just gave up and shift-Q’d.

I knew this bug existed, should’ve saved before descending into the silo. Ah well.

[DWC]

My survivors, if they make it past the first 3 days always die by mundane accidents.

Last memorable one, I had a successful survivor with a pile of loot in an armored flatbed truck and in my wanderlust wound up at a sewage treatment plant and it was getting dark. I smashed open a nearby wolf and decided to cook dinner. I wrongly assumed the floor in the sewage plant was fire proof concrete and set a fire the first room with wood from the counters. Having quickly proved my initial assumption to be false, I thought ‘no problem, there is a fire extinguisher in the next room I’ll fight my way out’. But it was too late and the fire was spreading faster then I could put it out. ‘No problem, I can escape through the underground and wait it out.’ I opened the door to the stairs and went down and waited 6 hours, came back up, fire was right where I left it. 'Must be a bug" I didn’t want to wander the underworld forever with all my stuff still in the trunk of my car, so I crossed the river of poo into the far south east corner to wait it out. The flames never crossed the sewage river but the heat still reached me, I took off all my clothes but I was still roasted alive anyways. An ignoble end to one of my most successful survivors, all naked and hungry and blistery and covered in sewage. Dinner doesn’t always come cheap in the apocalypse.

[Pthalocy]

Deploying a Molotov cocktail at night, and neglecting to remember what part of the map I was on.

It was a gas station.

[ComputerWarrior]

During a mostly-successful but ultimately failed attempt at cleansing a small town, I was overwhelmed by the zombie horde and was forced to retreat to a house with a 1x1 window, to thin out the zombies a bit and create a route back to my base.

Of course, a smoker zombie JUST had to come near the window I used as a choke-point and flushed me out, where I got torn to pieces by Mr Zombie and his best pal Zombie Dog.

So I have to ask, how can one kill those annoying smoker Zs? Rock-throwing didn’t really work against them and gun-shots go straight through them… and melee also doesn’t seem like a plausible option, mostly because of the the massive amount of smoke they shield themselves with.

[halberdsturgeon]

Filter/gas mask, melee/shotgun.

[Nopkar]

[quote=“ComputerWarrior, post:270, topic:339”]During a mostly-successful but ultimately failed attempt at cleansing a small town, I was overwhelmed by the zombie horde and was forced to retreat to a house with a 1x1 window, to thin out the zombies a bit and create a route back to my base.

Of course, a smoker zombie JUST had to come near the window I used as a choke-point and flushed me out, where I got torn to pieces by Mr Zombie and his best pal Zombie Dog.

So I have to ask, how can one kill those annoying smoker Zs? Rock-throwing didn’t really work against them and gun-shots go straight through them… and melee also doesn’t seem like a plausible option, mostly because of the the massive amount of smoke they shield themselves with.[/quote]

gas mask…walk right up the smoke cloud and let HIM find YOU…then just introduce him to whatever weapon you’re carrying once or twice and they drop easily. the mask is the secret, no coughing. (Note: Filter mask may also work.)

[ComputerWarrior]

@Nopkar & Halberds:

Thanks gents! I didn’t even think of getting a mask. Now to loot everywhere having the slightest chance of spawning a gas mask or filter mask…

[Snow_Cat]

(0.5) I crashed into a car I’d stashed things in a truck at low speed and stopped. While waiting for the car to stop moving it bumped into a building and exploded. This prompted me to get out of my truck to try and put out the fire (and save my stuff), but my truck then exploded in an apparent sympathetic detonation. (No wonder these vehicles were abandoned.)

This reminded me of this commercial for obsidian: (youtube link)

[Mate]

Seriously, fuck vehicle physics. Once I bumped into a car, that hit a traffic jam of abandoned cars, and they demolished at least 6 buildings, including a gas station (which thankfully didn’t blow up). Even a minute later I saw a car wreck bursting out of a house.

[Netosco]

Well, it is a quite scary death: I went to sleep, woke up because I forgot to wear my sleeping gear and in the corner of my safehouse was a blank body dude, staring at me while I was sleeping…I was like “SHIT ITS SLENDER”, it was genuine and freaky, I JUMPED so hard and paniked, proceeding to hitting hin in the head with an axe and burning his body. My only mistake: The evac shelter is made out of matches XD. Unfortunally, that was my best char so far T_T.

[iceball3]

[quote=“Máté, post:275, topic:339”]Seriously, fuck vehicle physics. Once I bumped into a car, that hit a traffic jam of abandoned cars, and they demolished at least 6 buildings, including a gas station (which thankfully didn’t blow up). Even a minute later I saw a car wreck bursting out of a house.[/quote]You know, the physics engine reminds me sort of about that Carmageddon thing~

[Accursed91]

Found some warm beads in a crater that had sporadic bursts of flames coming out of it. Now i knew that the smart thing to do was to turn around and leave but i thought “meeh why not?” since nothing could really challenge me at that point* and took it.

Fast forward a little, i went to sleep in my fortified evac shelter and wakes up when i (apparently) gets blasted through the south wall by an flaming eye. In near panic i kill it with my longbow and thinks that its over…

Turns out it isn’t, right when i had cleaned up the rubble there was an “blinding flash of light!” and a Mi-go shows up that procedes to kill me. In my last, valiant act of defiance i threw the warm beads in it’s face… Seconds before it smashed my head in.

But yeah, it was my most succesful character yet survived for over two weeks (into the fifth day of summer).

[Mate]

[quote=“Máté, post:275, topic:339”]Seriously, fuck vehicle physics. Once I bumped into a car, that hit a traffic jam of abandoned cars, and they demolished at least 6 buildings, including a gas station (which thankfully didn’t blow up). Even a minute later I saw a car wreck bursting out of a house.[/quote]You know, the physics engine reminds me sort of about that Carmageddon thing~

That’s quite accurate actually.

[TonicEngine]

I had a really good character going, even having combined a few trucks into a rolling behemoth I called Killdozer.

One day, he started hallucinating. Then he got sick and started vomiting forth gray goop. A few days later he was still vomiting, except he was puking up fungaloids, which then proceeded to attack him! To top if off, his hands split and fungus growths shot out from the wounds!

Afraid to eat because what was growing inside him would be nourished too, afraid to sleep because of the things he puked up in the night, he drove Killdozer to the nearest science lab and ransacked it until he found a bottle of Purifier. He drank it down, glad to be cured. Then he finally ate something and lay down in the back of the truck for a nap. He awoke to a freshly-puked-up batch of fungaloids pounding on his head. It didn’t take them long to batter him to death.

And there Killdozer sits, draped in skeins of fungus, a treasure inside it for the next guy dumb enough to mess around with incurable fungus diseases.

What a great game!