[quote=“Wanderer, post:1059, topic:339”]After having many survivors dying during city foraging, decided to start my new character with a different objective, the forest. So, i get my backpack and go north, grabbing what i can find at the underbrushes. Strings, rocks… in the way, two cougars start trying to get a piece of my legs, but a few sticks and stones threw at them keep both at bay. All looked well.
And then, a jabberwock appears.
I ran hard through most of the forest, hoping to outrun it. Thanks to a small horde of common zombies, lots of trees and Parkour Expert, i suceeded… to die in the hands of a zombie dog.
Today’s lesson: don’t matter what you find in the forest, STAY IN IT.[/quote]
You know, I have only found a wild* jabberwock once back in 0.9…
*Means that without the NPC quest spawning one directly on you. (Shortest two minutes out of the shelter yet…)
Was raiding a small village-sized town and noticed that lag was getting bad. As I approached an abandoned house, I realized that the entire building was filled, as in, every single space inside completely packed wall to wall, with blobs. They had smashed out a wall and started to bounce out into the street. The lag got progressively worse – 5 to 10 seconds each turn – so I decided the best way to handle this was to kill all the blobs. I mean, they’re blobs, how hard could it be?
Several hundred turns later lag has gotten even worse, I am completely surrounded on all sides 20-deep by blobs of varying sizes, have a focus of 0, and am starving to death from blasting them with chain lightning. My melee weapons are dull and half-broken, I’m out of ammo for my pistol, and all I have left is my finger laser. I manage to fight my way into a corner of the house where I only had to face four at a time and started pewpewpewing them… and start a fire. The entire building burned inside of ten turns and collapsed on top of me, killing me.
Death by lag. I would never have tried it if I hadn’t been facing an hour+ slog trying to get far enough away from the lag to put it outside my reality bubble.
I was doing very well, I was essentially surviving and then some, and there wasn’t a zombie that could stop me.
I went on a gasoline run, and I emptied out a pump. I put the gas cans back into the wheelbarrow.
Then it struck me, maybe I can dissassemble the pump and get some useful items from it… No, that’s not possible.
Well it’s empty right, so maybe I can just smash it to pieces and get some loot that way?
[quote=“deknegt, post:1065, topic:339”]It actually did the clank and shudder thing to indicate it was completely dry
Apparently the pumps itself are made of nitroglycerin.[/quote]
They’re most dangerous when they’re empty. It’s why mechanics actually fill gas tanks full before working on them. Fumes will ignite and explode. A full tank of gas might burn, but it won’t explode.
Driving down the road at the military truck’s maximum speed of 80km/h during the day, I encountered one of these guys at a roadblock. Out of all the bad options available, I chose to veer off the road and drive away across the field. A volley of about a dozen grenades slamming into the side of the truck put an end to that escape attempt.
[quote=“Marza, post:1068, topic:339”]Death by tank drone, again.
Driving down the road at the military truck’s maximum speed of 80km/h during the day, I encountered one of these guys at a roadblock. Out of all the bad options available, I chose to veer off the road and drive away across the field. A volley of about a dozen grenades slamming into the side of the truck put an end to that escape attempt.[/quote]
Yeah, next time just ram the thing. Used to do decisive damage before the drones got upmassed, probably still better than trying to dodge in something that large/slow.
My 3 season old char with a bunch of skills and a LOAD of stuff was innocently standing by a electric car, stripping it from solarpanels, when a random NPC walked up and put him on fire. My char died on the spot.
40 days of survival. 9 in archery. Was going really fast on my bike in the twilight. Saw a car wreckage too late. Pressed s for handbrake. Slided into the wreck. BOOOOM! 664 pain, raging fire everywhere torso and head at 0 hp.
Basically anything I can’t outrun. When I see one of these 3 fuckers, I go all “to hell with stealth, I want it dead more than I’m afraid of the hordes” and blast them from both barrels.
[quote=“AvatarJTC, post:1073, topic:339”]My last survivor got fairly powerful, and decided to take on a town’s worth of undead with his katana.
While I made short worn of the undead, the resident tank bot had other plans.[/quote]
You would think the character would jump out of the way, or at least have the tankbots carpet grenades have 3 or 4 turn delay.
My National Guard build ( closest to active duty I could find ) was all decked out but only had a combat knife to fight and a while proceeded to tear me apart in a matter of 20 turns. Never liked wolves, I perfer bears.
Decided to stop lurking, and post something :).
My most recent character died from being gunned down by a mil-spec turret. He was infected, with no antibiotics, on 20-ish pain, so with like 30 or so Molotov cocktails, I ran through a town, closest to me, that had no pharmacies. I then proceeded down a road with some forests on either side, until I came close to a military outpost, where I met my fate of being killed to one burst of a mil-spec turret.
[quote=“Meow, post:1077, topic:339”]Decided to stop lurking, and post something :).
My most recent character died from being gunned down by a mil-spec turret. He was infected, with no antibiotics, on 20-ish pain, so with like 30 or so Molotov cocktails, I ran through a town, closest to me, that had no pharmacies. I then proceeded down a road with some forests on either side, until I came close to a military outpost, where I met my fate of being killed to one burst of a mil-spec turret.[/quote]
Welcome to the forums then (as active member i mean).
[quote=“Valpo, post:1079, topic:339”][quote=“Meow, post:1077, topic:339”]Decided to stop lurking, and post something :).
My most recent character died from being gunned down by a mil-spec turret. He was infected, with no antibiotics, on 20-ish pain, so with like 30 or so Molotov cocktails, I ran through a town, closest to me, that had no pharmacies. I then proceeded down a road with some forests on either side, until I came close to a military outpost, where I met my fate of being killed to one burst of a mil-spec turret.[/quote]
Welcome to the forums then (as active member i mean).[/quote]
Thanks :).
Ya I know, I just forgot that I was infected, and didn’t treat it fast enough. I’ve started to carry first-aid kits, and generally checking if I got bitten after battling with some zombies.
