# How do I avoid getting blown away by NPCs?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [October 9, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539 "2014-10-09T20:46:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Kodiologist](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Kodiologist)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/1 "2014-10-09T20:46:42Z")
I’ve been playing Git master with both static and dynamic NPCs enabled. Most NPCs are harmless enough, or don’t go any further than robbing me (so long as I don’t resist), but occasionally one shoots me without warning, even while I’m unarmed. So far, these ill-tempered NPCs have always killed me in one turn with a shot to the head or torso. Apart from avoiding all NPCs, what can I do?
Of the two NPC types (static and dynamic), is one more likely to be violent?
Perhaps this is just a balance issue yet to be addressed, since the occasional segfaults evince that NPCs are still a work in progress.
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/2 "2014-10-09T21:07:04Z")
Turn them off.
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### Author:  [@ChristopherWalken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ChristopherWalken)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/3 "2014-10-09T21:16:34Z")
Static NPCs are fine actually, as far as I can tell. Just look out for bandit camps and avoid them unless you’re well equipped.
Dynamic NPCs turns this game into an ASCII DayZ.
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/4 "2014-10-09T21:17:09Z")
> [@ChristopherWalken](#):
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> Dynamic NPCs turns this game into an ASCII DayZ.
BEST THING EVER HOLYSHEIT SIGGED
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### Author:  [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/5 "2014-10-10T02:51:33Z")
[quote=“ChristopherWalken, post:3, topic:7539”]Static NPCs are fine actually, as far as I can tell. Just look out for bandit camps and avoid them unless you’re well equipped.
Dynamic NPCs turns this game into an ASCII DayZ.[/quote]FUCK YEAH!!! CDDA with dynamic NPCs on IS just like DayZ!
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### Author:  [@Jarlaxle](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Jarlaxle)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/6 "2014-10-10T03:35:08Z")
[quote=“HunterAlpha1, post:5, topic:7539”][quote=“ChristopherWalken, post:3, topic:7539”]Static NPCs are fine actually, as far as I can tell. Just look out for bandit camps and avoid them unless you’re well equipped.
Dynamic NPCs turns this game into an ASCII DayZ.[/quote]FUCK YEAH!!! CDDA with dynamic NPCs on IS just like DayZ![/quote]
Whelp, this thread has finally convinced me to download the latest experimental and be the best hardened scavenger who is a psychopathic cannibal that I can be.
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/7 "2014-10-10T08:25:30Z")
Yeah, the psychotic cannibal for few days, then a psychotic cannibalistic corpse after some random dude wakes you up with a point-blank shotgun headshot. In your favorite “safe” basement.
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### Author:  [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/8 "2014-10-10T09:16:13Z")
> [@Coolthulhu](#):
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> Yeah, the psychotic cannibal for few days, then a psychotic cannibalistic corpse after some random dude wakes you up with a point-blank shotgun headshot. In your favorite “safe” basement.
I find the secret is to leave traps everywhere (Especially land mines, assuming you wear powered armor or have 8+ trap skill, otherwise just lots of less explosive traps) around your safe house; randomly around the building, doors, windows, hallways, stairs, your workshop, your bed, I’ve woken up to random wandering murderhobos/moose/zombears exploding so many times I started wearing earplugs to sleep.
NOTE: Use ONLY bear/crossbow/shotgun traps around your workshop/bed, or you will probably follow my example and wake up to a face full of explosions and shrapnel (Which is similar to a shotgun blast to the face) as it kills everything in the room.
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### Author:  [@NoobKid](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/NoobKid)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/9 "2014-10-10T09:56:39Z")
I keep seeing people posting about what’s wrong with NPCs but making friends with one if you’re a born politician seems to work fine for me. In fact, the only problem I’ve run into is crashing the game after spawning lots of them with debug.
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### Author:  [@Kodiologist](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Kodiologist)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/10 "2014-10-10T12:33:25Z")
NPCs who let them talk to you and thereby leverage your speaking skill are not as dangerous as the ones who shoot before you get a chance to talk.
I assume that having high speaking doesn’t make NPCs less likely to shoot first. That wouldn’t make much sense.
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### Author:  [@Tineen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tineen)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/11 "2014-10-10T13:56:38Z")
Nowdays I always play with Static NPC’s off Dynamic on, they add a splice of fun and chaos to the game.
Always be careful entering buildings with NPC’s in them in fact better then being careful just don’t go in. Always carry a shotgun, always carry a rifle. If you see an NPC with a flamethrower, avoid. I got into a good habit of checking every NPC’s armament before approaching them.
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### Author:  [@NoobKid](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/NoobKid)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/12 "2014-10-10T14:58:30Z")
Off-subject, but are there randomly-generated “NPC buildings” like the “bustling trade centers” in the faction menu now?
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### Author:  [@Jarlaxle](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Jarlaxle)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-do-i-avoid-getting-blown-away-by-npcs/7539/13 "2014-10-10T17:34:33Z")
> [@Coolthulhu](#):
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> Yeah, the psychotic cannibal for few days, then a psychotic cannibalistic corpse after some random dude wakes you up with a point-blank shotgun headshot. In your favorite “safe” basement.
What, you wanna live forever? 😉
Honestly I like the random danger that it brings to the game.