Sounds awefully similar to an approach I’ve taken to dealing with spitters. Just hurl tainted meat at them till they die, god knows I have plenty of it laying about.
Last character died in a bit of an anti-climax. Dropped into a pool of lava after walking down the stairs in the starting evac shelter(was the good type, with a gas mask in one of the lockers). Well, at least the game made clear that scumsaving isn’t always scummy.[/quote]
I added a warning for those a few days ago. Consider updating.
My last death was my first ever encounter with a Tankbot, I’d heard tell of them through posts on this forum but never actually seen one spawn. The result was pretty inevitable since it was a new character wielding a baseball bat with one stick of dynamite by way of ranged combat capability. I like to think he took a good shot at it though as I died in the drivers seat of a steamroller that’d been desperately hotwired in the time it took for the hail of bullets to rip through the back of the cabin. Still I did get it moving, backwards, towards the tankbot before I actually died so hey I call that a win… though the character probably didn’t.
Decided I wanted to do the whole “Go Faster than 1000 MPH” thing. Got up to 900 MPH with my V12 Bicycle when I hit a wreck from off-screen and was propelled headlong into a horde. Got eaten while my poor fellow was busy recovering from the freezing wind and leaving most of his skull on the road behind him.
So I started a new game, got ahold of a few things and ran out of town. On the way out, I found a mansion, grabbed a proper broadsword off an armor display and cleared the mansion. All was going well when I decided I’d grab some rocks to make a fireplace in my little safe room in the mansion. I had gathered 37 rocks when the sun set, before the sun was down there was nothing nearby. The sun sets, I take ten steps towards my mansion when suddenly.
[size=12pt]Moose.[/size]
Two hits. It hit me twice and I was done. Not even a fucking antlered horror, just a regular psychopathic moose.
I don’t know if we track the monster that kills the most players like they do in some of the online roguelikes but my money is on moose and mi-go having the highest overall body counts.
Zombie dogs and mi-go’s for thirty-seconds-into-the-game, Moose and cougars for about 3 minutes in, something weird like disarming a shotgun trap that triggers five landmines, and bad luck vomiting to death for lategame. I make many a bet.
I used Play Now. The character seemed solid enough, didn’t even have any negative traits. I spawned in evac shelter and because it was cold (like always, for some reason) I put on the emergency blanket. I went outside to get a branch to smash the locker to make a crowbar. The NPC in my evac shelter went outside and started shooting things, and because I had my emergency blanket on it took ages to walk somewhere. My stats were 3 0 0 0 when I got back inside and I started crafting a crowbar. I didn’t have a knife to cut up fabric to make clothing so I went outside to get two rocks. The NPC was still shooting away, and every step I took he reloaded like four times. I guess it was the emergency blanket. After a few steps outside I started noticing the severe metamphetamine withdrawal my Play Now character had. It took two steps to get to -200 morale and my speed was 25. Apparently I was freezing as well, and after picking up one rock my character started seeing things. I ran into the woods because this character was obviously doomed, and died fifty meters away from the evac shelter to a deer. Or a hallucination of a deer. I’m not sure anymore.
The whole run took two minutes. NEVER put on an emergency blanket.
The ol’ alley-oop[/quote]
Brute: “You go round der, shocky, an’ I knock 'im at you.”
Shocker: “OK!” UPPERCUT ZZZZZZZAAAAPPPPPPP
Brute: “Hmmm, dibs on da trenchcoat.”
Found my first chicken walker and was shot to death running for the car to grab my plasma rifle; guess that’s what I get for deciding a town would be safe enough to leave my heavy ordinance behind.
I made that motorcycle thing from Dead Rising 3, It was working well until I added flamethrowers to it… Moral of the story? Don’t fight fire with fire. Fire’s untrustworthy
A Rivtech short shotgun loaded with powerful ammo is a great “oh shit” weapon, but you have to actually remember it’s there when a hacking failure spawns a secubot next to you instead of panicking and trying to use a rifle whose recoil you can’t handle at point-blank range.
You can probably guess I just learned that the hard way.
