How did you last die?

[Random_dragon]

Why the rope?

Because there’s a high chance that you’ll land in a lava bath with no stairs back up. So if you didn’t bring a rope to deploy you’re legit fucked, for the same reason that led to sinkholes no longer dropping you a z-level.

[Tawarochir]

After the guy who crashed in my helicopter with me refused to come along and instead stood there for the remainder of the game, I just hiked until I found a good spot to set up camp.

Found a farm, lived there pretty happily and managed to get myself to a self-sustaining state. I figured that after a while I could get the stuff I needed to take on the outskirts of the town, maybe eventually exterminate the zombies from the general vicinity and fortify the place against wandering spawns.

The wandering spawns came before I even finished setting up a fire pit. I could only hold them off so long. I died in a glorious last stand, cigarette in mouth and makeshift crowbar in hand.

Screw wandering spawns, I’m turning those off until they’re balanced.

[TheWumpus]

[quote=“woofinator, post:1860, topic:339”]Why the rope?

Because there’s a high chance that you’ll land in a lava bath with no stairs back up. So if you didn’t bring a rope to deploy you’re legit fucked, for the same reason that led to sinkholes no longer dropping you a z-level.[/quote]

Which is exactly why it’s best to just drag something heavy over the stairwell and forget it exists. That and backup your save files…

[Random_dragon]

When in doubt, there’s always debug menu to port back up. :V

[Fishchip]

As a newb, this one is probably boring, but every death is a learning experience!

In a previous char I’d found an evac shelter close to my starting one, on the edge of town, so I went looking for supplies in it. Smoker zombie living there. Ran away and died later on (though I guess I probably could have taken the smoker out, but I panicked). New char, started in -that- smoked-out shelter so having no weapons (I like Backpackers =P) I ran out the door and down the street, outrunning some lingering zombies. Thinking I was safe and clear but desperately needing somewhere to start supplying myself, I found a quiet residential street with no zeds. Trying to maneuver to the forest side of a house to try to break in with minimal repercussions, I turned the last corner… and walked right into a pack of zombie dogs. Whoops.

Shift-Q. =)

[danlett]

Bad habit of eating while driving. Spam-scoffed a pile of candies not realizing it takes time and car was still moving. Drove straight into an anthill and got swarmed.

[TheWumpus]

Bad habit of eating while driving. Spam-scoffed a pile of candies not realizing it takes time and car was still moving. Drove straight into an anthill and got swarmed.

Yeah ants are kinda dangerous now. Back when they were blind they were punching bags/meat pinatas.

[deknegt]

Went into town with my Trike, parked it… Looked around and started to loot some buildings and fill up the trunks of said Trike.

I walk around the corner, and two Shocker Brutes are seemingly doing the sausage salsa together and they decide my intrusion is reason enough to give me an electric paddling…

I somehow run off whilst managing to kite them into a few alleys… So even though i’m hurting (~50 pain), I feel I should go back and get my trike before I headed home.

… It didn’t matter how long of an arch I used to get back to the trike, those Shockers showed up at every turn and they just whittled down my health long enough till I was no more… At the end I decided to fight them, and I took one down, almost killed the second but with half a bar remaining the bastard ended me.

sigh

Back to the drawing board, >_>

Lesson learned, Hubris is the most dangerous enemy in the game.

[Graphical]

Hordes. Main battle tank. Schoolgirl. 250 body count.
Hell of a japanese action movie trailer.
Need I say more?

[pisskop]

[quote=“woofinator, post:1860, topic:339”]Why the rope?

Because there’s a high chance that you’ll land in a lava bath with no stairs back up. So if you didn’t bring a rope to deploy you’re legit fucked, for the same reason that led to sinkholes no longer dropping you a z-level.[/quote]
I remember this. Back when I had it happen I wouldn’t melt, instead my pain soared to over 2000.

[Random_dragon]

A death where you’d hitting quadruple-digit pain is always a hilarious one.

[danlett]

Forgot plasma rifle was equipped and shot adjacent zombie. That is all.

[Frostwood]

Turn on hordes after the commit from CIB, said the overpopulation is fixed. Created a character by the school, cleared it out, went out saw the horde, but only one or two were spawning, and said, this isn’t so bad.

One day, after clearing some buildings, I found a redhawk ruger, used it against a shocker…

It was like those days where swamps were death traps, and giant mosquitoes teleported in around me, except instead of mosquitoes, it was zombies. Even inside buildings they teleported in.

[kimesik]

Skeleton killed me in barricaded ‘emepty’ house

[alonzo77]

I was on my way home from a mansion raid at night and i decide to shortcut through an open field, halfway through i see some blueberry bushes and decide ill wait till dawn so i can get all the blueberries. Dawn comes and to my surprise there are ants on all sides, i do the stupidest thing possible and fire out a shot at the closest one, they all swarm me, still feeling confident as i have around 6 loaded guns, i manage to take out all but 5 and die trying to reload.

[woofinator]

It’s not technically me that died, but I had 6 NPC followers and not enough speech skill to get them to guard the safehouse (any tips on NPC management btw? Should I just wait till I read speech books), so me and my six closest friends piled into my solar powered car to raid a mega-store about 20-30 squares south of our safehouse. Parked a few squares away, approached from the back, and the place is littered with dead…but there was an intact hippy van out front! I sprint to the van while my friends just sort of follow me at a walking pace and barely make it to the car before being swarmed. Zombie manages to take out a wheel though, so when I gun it and try to turn away from the mega-store I clip the front of the building at 29mph, expelling two passengers and losing my other front wheel. I sprint away, only to see the van erupt in flames, probably setting the mega-store on fire as well but I didn’t hang around to find out. Really about the most hilariously awful outcome after spending a grand total of like 3 minutes at the place

[ZoneWizard]

New built truck, 2 npc companions…driving down a city road they both see a herd on each side…instead of shooting in their respective directions they decide it is a good idea to shoot through my truck and through me…and then each other in order to get rid of those pesky zombies to our left and right side…I’m thinking the npc’s need a little polish >_>

…ya know…just a little -_-

[woofinator]

[quote=“ZoneWizard, post:1877, topic:339”]New built truck, 2 npc companions…driving down a city road they both see a herd on each side…instead of shooting in their respective directions they decide it is a good idea to shoot through my truck and through me…and then each other in order to get rid of those pesky zombies to our left and right side…I’m thinking the npc’s need a little polish >_>

…ya know…just a little -_-[/quote]

Oh man you’re gonna hate to hear this but you can tell them to not use guns

[ZoneWizard]

I know this. Thanks in case I did not.

But the reason I had them using them was because I had to haul ass outa the city area before a few hundred came down my street for a gas run. No truck and hoof it or risk it. Little did I know they would kill all three of us in such a wacky way. I was kinda pissed at first but I then got to see my truck careen into a dozen zombs and det the unstable crap in the trunk as it crashed into a rear gas tank on another vehicle lol

took out a bunch of the zombies and went to my grave stone XD

[pisskop]

are zombies in the latest experiemtnal doing more damage, both to your flesh and to your clothing? I swear I was stripped naked from the legs down by a succession of 3 1v1s for my new character.