really, no, dont. winter already shuts them down so you can make paths through them, maybe build some fortifications while you stock up. … they are the only freaky scary thing we have right now, please don’t nerf them - or if you must, please make it optional; i don’t want to play the sims, fetch collectibles or build a wardrobe. i want a game that bites. right now, swamps do that.
sorry you got bit. but its the rule of cataclysm that you die the moment your optimism overcomes your caution.
First, have in mind that I wrote that post immediately after dying. Imagine reloading the game, stepping outside, and have half your screen buried in swamp creature names. I’m talking like five critters in each direction. I was doomed. So, yes, I was a bit heated.
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And, for the record, I also don’t like this game to become the sims (which, coincidentally is how I use to describe this game to others: “the sims with zombies”, not particularly flattering, I know, but that’s how I feel most of the time). That’s why I usually only enjoy the start of the game, where there’s a clear goal and challenge (survive long enough to settle for good).
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EDIT: I’ve moved most to the text of this rantsuggestion to its own thread in in the suggestions forum. I was getting way too OT for this thread.
Hallucinating it up, and then running into the shelter at night only to find a fungaloid, and not the nice NPC woman.
After finding my first car, I had no idea how to drive it, and ended up smashing my reinforced safehouse to bits, killed 10 squirrels, 4 rabbits, 1 deer, 1 wolf, 52 zombies, and 1 zombie cop all before I crashed into a pawn shop and died to literally a screen filled with a zombie hoard
Oh I can top that.
Find my first LMOE shelter running east into the woods just because I can (static spawn is bugged…with dynamic spawn) and I was very happy about it. I drop my books and a few other supplies off and go south with my USP .45, MAC-10, and supply of wooden spears I hurl at zombies, coyotes, bears, & wolves alike as I take a huge trek south down a clearing, create a forest fire, go south more and find a mine in a the forest with a motorcyle. I’m around 50-75 map tiles south from the LMOE shelter (my now base) and even farther from town.
So what do I do? I explore the mine; pressing random buttons with the elevator computer sounding of alarm after alarm until it works, find out you can’t breathe in the mine, throw on a filter mask, explore some more, find a flamethrower CMB, explore more, run into The Thing (for the first time) butcher it, and find some nice boots that give me intelligence and insanity and leave. Now I decide I want to go East since the major city I started in is north and the best way to go is by motorcycle. Except I can’t get the motorcycle out of the area because of the trees unless I maneuver it out and with 0 driving, “ain’t nobody got time for that”. So I find a path that has the least trees and do what I do best…burn it all down, run into another patch, burn it down again while killing some cougars and spiders. Was only about five map tiles until out in the field ago so it was worth it, then I hop on my motorcycle and ride East in the middle of the night.
I never filled it up so it was on E the entire time but the gods love me as my journey east has my run into a gas station, it makes sense too since my journey from start made what would honestly be a big bracket [, an ugly out of shape bracket but still one. I started by a major road so going West, South, and East meant I’d run back into civilization. I hop off the back a good distance from the gas station and give it a check, all is clear besides the giant wasp that have made home in a house across the street and north two tiles, I also see a playground to the north east just on the edge of the map so I’m not going up that way on foot.
No matter though, I stock up on water, do whatever I was doing and eventually night comes. I explore out going south right below the wasp house and find out the place I thought was a hardware store is actually a clothing store. Cool because I accidentally cut up my torn hoodie a few hours ago anyways. Get a few clothes, go to get my motorcycle, get ambushed by wolves and murder them. Left arm takes a beating but no matter, drive the motorcycle around to the pump, fill it up and get attacked by a spider, can’t out run it so fight it in the door way of the station. …My left arm is now broken. Oh well time to rest.
Morning comes, hop the cycle just as a wolf spider tries to attack me from behind and do some scouting doing a big upside down U. First see many buildings, only child zombies, and then the pack of spiiters, etc. etc. Who cares, I’m on a motorcycle baby with a full tank. Turn and do more scouting, quite a few zombies but mainly just bugs and spiders (lots of spiders). Hit another corner, turn, lose control somehow, hit a house’s picket fence…
…land right next to a bear.
And that’s how my adventure ended, wouldn’t be the same without the full story.
Cant remember what they were called ,but two gaint burrowing worms on both sides of the road had me trapped and i couldnt out run them. So i gave it my all and tried to kill one…I failed
I last died screaming:
[size=24pt]OH GOD THE BEES, WHY THE BEES![/size]
DIAF.
Died In A Fire
Last time I died…I was carrying a whole bunch of parts to build a car, plus 2 metal jerrycans of gasoline from a town nearby (all totaling about 350volume and about 500weight) to my base…My movement speed was very low +too much encumberment from wearing 3 backpacks and other clothing for storage. While holding down the arrow key to walk a Spiderwolf appeared from nowhere. I didnt even notice that it was hitting me until I was dead :o. A Spiderwolf…what a shameful death…
Not my death, but a let’s player I watch, just because of how comical it was: Trying to get into town to grab a motorcycle he found, chased by a zombie horde, runs into a parking lot with a flatbed in it, rejoices, accidentally jumps in passenger seat, murders a zombie in driver’s seat, gets in driver’s seat, drives a few feet splattering tons of zombies, oh god building, oh god hard to turn, oh god splat
I had just finished walking from one side of the map to my safe house on the exact opposite side outrunning 2 hoards and a fungaloid grove. I finish putting my stuff away cleaning up the mess my last character left (killed in the middle of the night by invasion of sewer rats after killing rat king) and i just picked up his body when a bear appears in the doorway of my safe house which sadly was the only way in and out.
I accidentally got out of a car that I forgot to park, and in my stupidity running after it, I got run over. I attracted a hoard of graboids and giant worms by standing in a house for too long. I stepped on a land mine that I didn’t see because I was holding the right arrow key. my list drags on.
I think my last death had to do with me trying to clear out a small section of a town by running everything over in a car. Its not until you look at the screen, wounder why the zed are getting closer, then seeing at the left of the scree 0 speed and E gas. After all that you try to run then explode on a land mine…
My personal favorite is probably a well known one. I tried to use C4 to blow open some lab doors because I didn’t have any keycards, so I walked up to the doors, activated the timer, and walked away.
5 turns later my pockets exploded.
Another one was a last-ditch epic way to die kinda thing where I set fire to half a city block, was almost dead, and some fast zombie was nearly on top of me, so I beat it over the head with a lit molotov and killed myself and probably most of the horde following me.
I was killed by a zombie brute, on the street, while badly infected and desperately searching house after house for antibiotics because the only pharmacy I knew didn’t carry any.
day 12 of a VERY successful character, I was having some fun raising my survival/throwing by harvesting the local druids and it was getting late.
I decided to go back inside the evac shelter (never had to move, plenty of map tiles away and in a central location, roads everywhere i needed to go, lovely spawn really) when I notice some ??? roaming inside. I’ve left my doors open a few times and had to vanquish the druidic foes multiple times, easy business…I thought nothing of it, oh how wrong I was.
6…count them 6 grizzly bears were hanging out, playing nintendo, waiting to eat my face. I had NOTHING on me save a few wooden spears. I took down one and fist fought the other for 10+ turns before the others managed to maul me.
running was not an option see as how the first one hit me the second i opened the door and the others would have chased me down like a frolicking hamburger.
You die when you become arrogant…ALWAYS
(Read Druid=Squirrel)
[quote=“Nopkar, post:136, topic:339”]day 12 of a VERY successful character, I was having some fun raising my survival/throwing by harvesting the local druids and it was getting late.
I decided to go back inside the evac shelter (never had to move, plenty of map tiles away and in a central location, roads everywhere i needed to go, lovely spawn really) when I notice some ??? roaming inside. I’ve left my doors open a few times and had to vanquish the druidic foes multiple times, easy business…I thought nothing of it, oh how wrong I was.
6…count them 6 grizzly bears were hanging out, playing nintendo, waiting to eat my face. I had NOTHING on me save a few wooden spears. I took down one and fist fought the other for 10+ turns before the others managed to maul me.
running was not an option see as how the first one hit me the second i opened the door and the others would have chased me down like a frolicking hamburger.
You die when you become arrogant…ALWAYS
(Read Druid=Squirrel)[/quote]
I kill bears with my axe. I normally dodge most of the attacks…and use bushes. Don’t judge.
I was running from hulks, and had the great idea to light a fire in an alley, jump into a house and then go out the other side. But apparently something in the pile of debris was explosive, since it caused an explosion that insta-killed me.
A silly bicycle escape, followed by a train of spitters and shockers.
I should have Adderalled my way back instead.
It was fun, tho.
Worms oh god the worms!
on which note we need thumpers and hooks. (I wonder if radios work?)