Last character got murdered by a chicken walker, so started a new one. Went with the burning building scenario. Ran out of the house while the NPC tried to beat down some zombies with a long rope. Lulz were had.
Outside about two squares down was a gun store ran inside. One of the annoying ones that has all the automated machines instead of easy to get stuff on the shelves. Zombies breathing down my neck I ran to the back of the store and found a 1911 and 50 rounds of .45 in a locker. Shot zombies in the face and looted a ripped trench coat. Checked map again while I caught my breath. BINGO! Fire station 7 squares over. Ran to it with a regular shocker and a couple of normal zombies on my tail.
Get inside and blast the 5 firefighter zombies in there. Now here I sit with my newly acquired Halligan bar waiting for night to fall so I can loot some of the surrounding houses. One of the more eventful starts that I actually survived.
Started up, ran out my starting building (which was on fire…) switchblade-ed some zeds in the face, butchered em pretty quick, ran down the street, and got some help from a lady named Helen, who had a Cx4 Storm and seemingly unlimited ammo. She basically cleared the town and sat in the ashes, so I took some of the loot, traded her a few zombie drops for a gas mask, survival knife, and canned food, then left for a small power plant. Took out the tech zambies with the knife, and holed up in the office, where I am now, with my leather touring suit, scarf, gas mask, survival knife, and canned clams. So far, pretty good.
Burning building scenario. I got out through a window, cut myself, caught on fire, and was greeted by several burning firefighter zombies (OH THE IRONY), some of which I killed off with a two by four. Then I turned a corner and saw a horde of zombies and mostly zombie children. Fighting would’ve been suicide, so I ran into a house and kite-‘n’-killed with the broken window-which went pretty well, until a shocker zombie joined the fray.
I threw the two by four at it and ran like hell. Through the house, into a kitchen, out a backdoor, into the back yard, over a fence, and into a small raiding party (around four or five) of survivor npcs. Fortunately, I wasn’t deafened by the explosions from the stoves and stuff catching fire and managed to convince the survivors to not blow my brains out-well, some of them at least. The others didn’t talk. What followed was amazing. The NPCs took half the horde down and the other half burned to death. Some of the friendlier ones followed me and cleaned the small city out for me. I’m not sure if the game’s still active off screen but I like to think the other NPCs were committing acts of awesomeness too.
I’m well into my second Winter now. My arsenal includes several high-end U.P.S. weapons as well as my signature Automagnum. My survivor outfit is self-made, fitted, and reinforced. While most of the NPCs stopped following me after a while, Lara McCroft and Scottie Something have stuck with me since day one.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I LOVE NPCs!!!
P.S.
Are they supposed to spawn in groups that size or was it a bug of some sort?
Built my first vehicle; a wheelchair; celebrated by using a vibrator whilst driving.
Not my best idea.
[quote=“fish have fingers now?, post:3524, topic:47”]Built my first vehicle; a wheelchair; celebrated by using a vibrator whilst driving.
Not my best idea.[/quote]
Why?
It gives passive morale boosts.
It doesn’t actually affect you in any other way.
Using a vibrator is just like listening to music.
You can do both while running over hundreds of zombies.
Getting off with a vibrator takes time. Time you should rather spend on controlling the thing you drive. 
what is now in VI version of your car?
[quote=“KA101, post:3520, topic:47”][quote=“FunsizeNinja123, post:3519, topic:47”]“The L34B-45 is a .45 variant…”
YOU HAD ME AT MACHINE PISTOL AND .45 KA I LOVE YOU[/quote]
That’s the L39B-45. “[…]Leadworks LLC released an L39B chambered in .45[…]” If you’re gonna talk about Leadworks products, get 'em right.
KA101 shakes his head. Sheesh! and I thought Hagane was Out There.
That’s been in-game for probably a month now, anyway.[/quote]
Myr~
I’m not sure what all I’m going to add, but right now the entire car is three heavy duty frames.
Should I finally expand my car to be 6 tiles wide? Or should I go all out and make it 7?
EDIT: Making it 5 tiles again so it is both symmetrical and a good size. In an unrelated note, I blew up a house with a mininuke last night and now every zombie in a ten-mile radius is here to eat my brains. This may stall work on the Solar Roller.
I’m not sure what all I’m going to add, but right now the entire car is three heavy duty frames.
Should I finally expand my car to be 6 tiles wide? Or should I go all out and make it 7?[/quote]
Go 7.
Do it Flaming one! Embrace the Dark Side of… vehicle building i guess?
FUCK IT WHY NOT DOING IT
I have finished the frame of my car, but not so much that I can’t just add more to it. I will need to take apart another wreck for metal, though.
My most recent character died–farewell, Buck, you were awesome while you lasted, effing cop bots–but started in the most recent experimental. Then this happened.
[spoiler=Oh, over there I guess]
That’s an LMOE.[/spoiler]
Aaaaand there were two random ants in there!
Weeeeeird…
goes to nom on some ants
Right now I’m clear cutting a forest on my hyper intelligent asthmatic so that I can fit my armor plated truck trailer through. I think I’ll make a wagon out of some of the wood, seeing as my long time companion wants to find a farm to call her own.
I seriously love these branching NPC quest lines…
That… could’ve gone better…
Darn moose…
New character since the wheelchair one.
Really bad day scenario, found a first aid kit pretty early. Stats and traits are amazing. Found two LMOE shelters with some decent stuff in them. They are a bit too far from the city for my liking though. There is a small town to my north east with a mansion rather close to it… We’ll see.
Most recently I found some coke, a katana and a power armor hauling frame.
This character might be the one… 
Brewed some alpha serum, injected my char, got robust genetics and less sleep. Sweet.
Looted something like a dozen labs, several bunkers and four banks, got only one quantum solar panel and some bionics, plus a load of explosives and various rare weaponry. No minireactor or Granades though. 
Making a sweet-ass mobile base out of three humvees, an armored truck and some trailer cargo carriers now, will post it later in the vehicle thread.
I dismounted a 750 kg iron drum from a roller and I’m using the magnet CBM to smash zombies to death with it. Kills them instantly, gibbing them no matter the size and can also be used to wreck walls.
This CBM is fun. It can be also used to wreck a car really quickly and gather all the components. I filled 4000 volume tile with steel and scrap in like 20 turns.
[quote=“Coolthulhu, post:3538, topic:47”]I dismounted a 750 kg iron drum from a roller and I’m using the magnet CBM to smash zombies to death with it. Kills them instantly, gibbing them no matter the size and can also be used to wreck walls.
This CBM is fun. It can be also used to wreck a car really quickly and gather all the components. I filled 4000 volume tile with steel and scrap in like 20 turns.[/quote]
- Get sledgehammer
- Find wrecked vehicle
- Smash vehicle to smithereens
- Put all the steel on one tile with Electromagnet CBM
- Feed steel to steel compacter, compact into lumps
- Turn lumps into hard plating
- Weld plating to car
- Profit.
You don’t need a sledgehammer to do it.
If you stand near the wreck and spam magnet, the wreck will get more wrecked after every use.
The resulting metal is a mix of scrap, chunks and lumps, so there’s no need to remelt anything.
The drum magnet method also works for safes. The bad part is that exploding metal walls with it causes so much noise that it causes deafness.
EDIT: I just found an item named “mutilated chicken noodle soup”. Nothing special about it, it just sounds hilarious.