One thing I found with wagons, or I guess any vehicle that you have animals pulling - you can hitch a cow up as well. Though not quite as fast as a horse, you have the added bonus of a constant supply of milk travelling with you as well.
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Funny you should mention that but I literally just raided a dairy farm to get myself some back up “engines”, the milk is a nice bonus as it’s one of the better ways for elf to get vit b12 since she’s meat intolerant.
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The Battle of Dana Crossroads
New character, a broken cyborg fled from a laboratory again (this time she’s more of a biker as a style). Also, first time playing with dynamic spawn: looks like it makes things more interesting!
Passed through this big city (Dana) to try and reach the Refuge Center; on her way back, Eva thought that Humvee military grade armor would be nice to mount on her armored RV.
Zombies didn’t want loiterers around, though.
So… she had just mounted a turret on her ride and discovered that the laser rifle she found in the lab could be mounted on it, too!
Well, that escalated quickly.
Two days later, the count was some 400 zeds dead and pulped, with half a dozen Skeletal Juggernauts chopped to pieces by her new… shredder. Oh, three houses destroyed, too. And two vehicles. The Humvee it’s still fine, though. Yay!
Actually, I couldn’t fit the whole battlefield on the screen. It started a little bit more to the east, and dragged a bit further to the south.
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Are those three in danger of becoming zombie food? I probably should have tried to keep tabs on NPC improvement but I hate losing imaginary characters represented by pixels for some reason.
They died as i tried pushing further into the city, and i got overwelmed later as i tried leaving a store.
This is really well done. I found this in the middle of a city… simple, yet I’m totally creeped out!
“What have they been doing, here?!”
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Yesssss! It’s taken so long for me to find, months of ingame time. I’d found every single other mutagen book, I’d found the medical one close to a dozen times. Completely cleared 3 of the new style labs, scientist zombies are literally the highest number on my killcount but I’ve finally found it!
Edit: quick poll of opinions, do you guys think it’s in the sprirt of the challenge to use the gunsmith repair kit to accurize my elfs greatbow? I’d of thought it something that you should be able to do without needing electricity even if there is no way currently in the game to do so.
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So do animals need to be fed at all? Just curious.
Not yet. Apart from the initial food used to tame them of course.
I would say, go with it.
I mean, too bad there’s currently no way to do it without the gunsmith kit, even if it should definitely be possible to do with some basic tools.
Challenge complete I guess 
I’ll probably chug a few more elf-a mutagens to see if I can pick up a few more mutations, I’m kind of curious how bad bad back + hollowbones can get even with high strength and I wouldn’t mind seeing exactly how quick she’d be.
Overall thoughts: The composite greatbow is pretty rad if you can use it, some enemies like kevlar hulks take some killing but you can do it, armoured zombies are completely out of the question though. The no electric aspect had some unexpected knock on affects, it never occured to me that almost every bow mod required welding or soldering, lesson learned I guess.
95+% of enemies I killed with various bows, the rest were split pretty evenly between bashing with the bow, a taekwondo boot to the face, pulling her combat knife or early game poking with a pitchfork. Poor healer had a lot less affect then I was expecting since she didn’t really take all that much dmg.
Putting in the effort to get robust genetics was definitely worth it, I didn’t pick up a single negative mutation once I started going down the elf-a line because of it. If I wasn’t going with a theme I imagine medical would of been a decent line to follow though the high hp and quick healing is less of an issue if you are mostly avoiding dmg.
The bad back trait was a pain to deal with at times particularly since I ended up relying on chainmail to deal with the crazy summer heat but it wasn’t a huge problem, the vegetarian diet was fine and I don’t really have my survivors eat junkfood so after early game that was a non issue. The biggest problem to deal with by a wide margin was the low intelligence, book reading took ages and failing crafting that I had the skill level for was a rude surprise, magic was almost entirely out of the question. I did learn natures bow as a back up weapon but it didn’t really get much use, I also practised translocation for the spellcraft training though I’ve only just gotten enough mana to use it after I started mutating down the elf-a line.
Overall it was a fun build and challenge to play with.
@Maan
I’ll probably do it now, challenge is complete anyway so I don’t feel like I’m cheating.
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Found a church with a full set of living quarters on the third floor, so that’s my official safe house this playthrough. Only downside is there are roaches in the area and they are not stepping up to do anything about the zombie menace. OTOH, endless supply of sinew for my tailoring shenanigans.
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20 strength with bad back and hollow bones, 36kg carry weight. x.X
I’m lucky cos I have an artifact (the coat) that boosts it by 22kg but still, pretty horrifying. On the other hand, wearing rollerblades while running I’ve got a movement cost of like 22 and even with the tennis shoes it’s still 35 so pretty damn fast.
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Thus far, there’s been the story of many Jacks.
He only has the one name, Jack, and everytime he expires he’s reborn.
First, he was a simple survivor that made it to an evac shelter, who eventually died at the hands of a zombie brute. Flung through the wall, his neck snapped. A bright flash enveloped his vision, and he was someone else. As he stood he found himself in the same shelter he was in before. Yet, he was a lumberjack now and felt that he knew and could do things that he couldn’t before.
He ventured out yet again to seek the place which he had died. There, he found his body, and the same brute that killed him before. He was shocked, so shocked he forgot how to run, and was catapulted into the hood of a beetle nearly a dozen feet in front of him. He winced, and barely had time to stand up before the enraged brute tore him in half.
The pain was only temporary, as his vision again went white. This time, he felt almost godlike, as if his creator wanted him to see the world. He ventured out, and found his adversary. In a flash of blinding fury he slammed into the brute and tore it to bits.
Finally, the revenge he deserved.
In the distance, he noted a missile silo. “How curious” he thought. As he ventured up towards the silo, he noticed the strange machines that surrounded the structure. There he decided they were of no threat, and as short as the thought finished crossing his mind. There was no mind left to be crossed, as the small machine, a turret, tore his torso and head to nothing but unrecognizable flesh, blood, and bone.
Welp, those were my first experiences in the game.
Pretty much had no idea what I was doing until I did. God I love roguelikes.
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Timothy Gibbons, know as ‘Tiny’ Tim to his friends, was a colossus of a man. Standing at almost 7 feet in height the true impact of his statue wasn’t always noticable, for while he was tall he was also large in every other regard. It was only when judged from the perspective of his surrounding that the true scale of the man became readily apparent.
He had spent most of his adult life employed as a security guard, it was a job that suited him well as few people were willing to argue with a man with arms thicker then their thighs and fewer still willing to cause him trouble. It paid well and left him plenty of free time to train his body and pursue his goal of becoming the worlds strongest man.
That was until the catacylsm hit and he found himself trapped in the facility he had been guarding…
I was getting a bit bored with my archer so I decided to roll up a new character going with a strongman theme, I kind of want to see what happens when you stack high strength on top of tough, solidly built/TANNK and the strength/size mutations. I’m leaning towards going down the medical line but I might pick up ursine or cattle instead, I’m staying pretty open minded on this one.
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Tim wasn’t a violent man but there had been little choice left as the bodies of his former colleague rose and attacked him. Taking care to not examine their faces too closely, Tim had met them with extended baton in hand. Dead wearing uniforms like his own, protective lab gear, even camo gear, all had fallen under his mighty blows.
That was until he’d encounted the remains of a bionic operator, even in the past these elite soldiers had distrubed him but as one flowed out from behind a corner and threw itself at him Tim had felt his blood chill.
Even riddled with wounds the reanimated corpse moved with a fluidity that seemed impossible, sweeping Tims legs out from under him and tearing into him as he tried desperately to get back to his feet. Fighting back was out of the question, in mere moments the thing had launched a series of attacks that had left the massive man reeling. Struggling back to his feet under the relentless assault Tim had turned and fled, even at full sprint he’d only just made it to a pair of steel doors ahead of the horror, as he slammed the doors shut the creature had thrown itself at them sending a hollow boom down the empty corridor. Breathing deeply with his back pressed against the cold metal, Tim thanked whatever gods might be lisening for his lucky escape.
Returning back to the apartment he’d commandeered Tim carefully picked up the rifle taken from one of the dead soldiers he’d encounted, there was no way he was going to leave that creature wandering the hallways…
Man that bio operator gave me a good trouncing, it was bloody quick too. I could only just keep ahead of it at full sprint and it took some work manovering it to were I could gun it down without it just rushing me.
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