@TonicEngine Wow umm… That’s one helluva way to die! O.o
[quote=“TonicEngine, post:280, topic:339”]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![/quote]
It’s worth noting that an environmental protection of over 3 or 4 over the mouth will protect you from contracting it.
Also shoulda tried eating Royal Jelly. That stuff saves lives.
Well … at last, my char is asleep.
Was driving my in the meantime 15 tons heavy “Rolling Home of Thunder” with 3 V8 6.x litre engines ‘stolen’ from abandoned semi trucks. Safe speed was around 223km/h and with this speed I rolled into a field of Giant Worms. Most died but some made my truck skid around, and not even driving skill of 8 could help anymore. So, finally, with a high speed I skidded into the nearby forest which was 2 or 3 maptiles away when I bumped into those worms … and, well, the tanks blew up.
I should have pulled the hand brake when I suddenly saw all those red questionmarks due to infra red vision. But I didn’t.
Time for a new life!
[quote=“Jarpasmannen”]Mode: Classic
Version: 0.5
After surviving for 28 days, reinforcing my Farm with spiked pits, bear traps, barbed wire. Filling it with everything needed to let another character survive if my current one die. I had even collected every damn casing from the rounds I fired and I had all skill-books in the game in a drawer next to the bed, all in all, I felt rather safe.
Then all hell broke loose. After raiding the huge town two kilometers from my Farm for more ammo, I encountered a huge mob of zombies. After wasting all 200 .22 rounds and spending my 50 .00 rounds on the growing horde, I realized I had to run. I wielded my trusty crowbar [Crowbars are the best] and started running. I had lightly damaged legs so the horde caught up. Thanks to my Melee skills being quite high after 28 days alive, I managed to make it out of there. Right now I was down to half a bar on all bodyparts except my Right Arm. I desperately longed after safety of my Farm. Thanks to the penalties to my speed, I decided to drop most everything in my inventory.
The way back to my Farm was not easy, I saw enemies everywhere. I got so paranoid I decided to kill a cat by throwing my only food item left, a raw potato, at it until it died. About 500 meters away from safety, I saw my biggest enemy so far, a hostile coyote. I panicked, one hit to anything but my Right Arm and I’d be screwed. So I did the only thing I could do… I snorted 10 units of cocaine and ate all of my weed.
HAVE AT ME!
And he did… and he failed. I killed him in one shot from my crowbar. At this point I nearly cried from happiness. Now there was nothing to stop me from safety. I reached the planks going over the spiked pits at the Farm, I was safe… or was I. There was a hostile bear at the top of my screen. The only ranged weapon I had left was a molotov, so I threw it. The bear walked into the fire, was set on fire and started to panic, running in circles. I chuckled and went inside, not closing the door after me. I went into the bathroom to get my First Aid kits and heal up.
Something odd happened though, I saw noise marks… in my house?
I opened the backdoor of the bathroom to the bedroom, and what do I see. A dead, burning bear laying on my bed, setting my entire house on fire.
AWWWW FUUUUUUUUCK!
Next thing I know, my house, my supplies and myself were set on fire. That was the end of 28 days of glorious looting.[/quote]
Karma for killing the kitty ;).
That… that was priceless though. And here I thought Smokey prevented forest fires.
If Z’s were capable of speech.
Z no.1: MaaAn ta… That pearson was gooooood.
Z no.3: Amen tu taht.
Z no.2 I smhell CRACK
(I am aware that any atom of respect I have or had on this forum has vanished. I don’t care.)
[quote=“iceball3, post:282, topic:339”][/quote]
It’s worth noting that an environmental protection of over 3 or 4 over the mouth will protect you from contracting it.
Also shoulda tried eating Royal Jelly. That stuff saves lives.
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Thanks for the tip. I was avoiding wikis and whatnot, having fun figuring stuff out, but Mr. Fungus is a sign that I’ve reached the point of diminishing returns on that.
What causes you to contact it? Breathing? I don’t think I’d encountered any fungi with that character before.
Usually you’ll never acquire fungal parasites unless you go toe-to-toe with fungaloids, but I believe there is one rare exception which I won’t spoil.
That cat must have been a relative of the cat you killed.
I was clearing out a fema camp and I ran out of ammo but there was only a brute left, after throwing a grenade at it after that we had a fist fight, I won somehow, after feeling like a badass I put all the bodies in a pile and lit them on fire because I was going to make it my base but a zombie soldier had a grenade or something on him so after I lit the fire I blew up and died
I owe my last eventful death due to vehicle physics.
A bit of lead up on this, so, not knowing how buggy the NPC’s could be in .5, I decide to strike up the quest from the Guy I spawned with, and proceeded to venture out into the city, skirting any of the areas I knew would be infested, and complete it, I then leave his company( I find out wisely after reading the posts here ^^) and after a couple of rough days, come across a garage with a fully functional motorbike, and even better, 4 decently good condition wrecks right outside ripe for the pickings, along with all the tools I needed to rip them apart and use for my own purposes.
So about 2 months of in game time later, this tiny little motorbike has been so transformed that the only vehicle I’ve seen larger in the game is a semi truck. So I have this thing built right next to the door, and figure, “I have no driving skill, what’s the worst that could happen?” attempting to pull out, I lose control, clip the middle pillar between the 2 doors, and all of a sudden there’s fire EVERYWHERE, the whole building came down and toasted 2 of the 4 gas tanks I installed, not helping the matter at all. Amazingly all the steel plating I invested in kept me alive and able to pull it out of there. So, after taking a couple more days to fix everything up, and promptly renaming my new death-mobile ‘Casket,’ I start tearing up the streets, wracking up the kills, building skills, have something like a dozen different guns stowed in a floor trunk, and exploring around, I managed to ram this thing into something like 5 buildings with barely a scratch to it.
After my most recent crash, I went looking for a safe place to hunker in and do some repairs and see a garage not far off, I pull around and there’s a wrecked motorbike in the way, being lazy, I decide to give it a nudge, at something like 10 mph, and promptly watch my speed jump to something like 14000,then back to zero. being too scared to bail the car considering the numbers I was seeing I futilely attempted to regain control. I was treated to the very first explosion I’ve ever seen in game. The sad part? I was almost a full year in, my mechanic skill was over 20.
tl dr; Do NOT ram any vehicles intentionally, it will not ever end well.
I used this to push vehicles out of the way and enter locked police station rooms:
My last death was when i (finally) seemed to be in a good condition with my nomad character. Had a car, lots of food, ammo and guns. Then while running in a town at 80 km/H i crashed at a wall (i’m a horrible driver) and had to run away from 3 feral, hungry, badasses zombie dogs and at least 20 zeds.
Guess what happened?
No wonder 50 is the legal speed in towns.
This seems to be quite random though. I bumped in a car at over 100 and it just moved out of the way and stopped, I went on without problem or notable damage.
[quote=“Máté, post:293, topic:339”]No wonder 50 is the legal speed in towns.
This seems to be quite random though. I bumped in a car at over 100 and it just moved out of the way and stopped, I went on without problem or notable damage.[/quote]
Well, walls don’t seem to like me much. I think i crashed in 10 wall spaces and then i lost both my front tires, that’s what happened.
[quote=“Jarpasmannen”]Then I see it… a C. "Wait, a Cougar? Where?"
But it wasn’t a Cougar. It was a Cat. A Cat right in front of my bike.
Next thing I know, I hit the Cat while on my bike that was currently going faster than Sanic Hegehog.
I fly of my bike and crash land straight into a window. Dying in the process.
Why animals… WHY DO YOU HATE ME?[/quote]
I bet the cat was like “Mission Accomplished” got revenge on the bastard who killed my friend!
I installed a pedal and controls on a car chassis, was driving around that, than a wolf spider killed me.
I was looting a gas station when a jabberwock appeared from behind a wall. I freaked out so much , grabbed my 4 bottles of gasoline and ran to my car and it turns out , that you cannot refil electric motor cars with gasoline (am i retarded?). The car had recharged with its solar panels while i was away and it had 2% fuel (or energy or whatever) so i hopped in the car and went full speed in the jabberwocks face. It took 5 hits with a car going 48km/h to kill it. After it was killed i decided to butcher its corpse and forgot that the car was still running with 16km/h so i hopped out of the car , all excited and happy about my triumph over the forces of evil and broke fucking everything. I survived for 1 more hour , after i found C4 in a metal wreckage and tried to blow a hole in the locked room in the police station. I armed the C4 for 9 turns and carelesly threw it in the direction of the police station. And suddenly a wild Giant wasp appeared and i barely got in my car when the wasp started stinging all over my ass. I ran over the wasp and killed it but my torso was down to half bar so i decided to get the loot and return home. And then i crashed in a random car on the road with speed over 100km/h and died.
Weird, because last time I crashed into an other car over 120, it politely flew the fuck away and not a scratch was done to me, or my vehicle. You forgot putting your seat belt on?
It was my 2nd time playing and i dint know nothing about no seat belts.
My woodsman character was armed with a bow and a pointy stick. I was running on the road and managed to die by a bear that was standing on the road. Bows vs Bears against someone right next to you with giant claws is not the best fight.