[quote=“Rosanna Foxfire, post:4715, topic:47”][quote=“Loendal, post:4714, topic:47”][quote=“Rosanna Foxfire, post:4711, topic:47”]Ugh.
I’ve been having a Groundhog Day -esque experience. Because I’m happy with the character and the spawn, and I’m trying to learn from my mistakes, I’ve been save scumming. Pretty much daily in game. Except that I keep screwing up. The severe cold gets to me and slows me down, and the zombies eat me if I aggro even one or two of them. Alternatively, I decide to make a break for the gun store, only to discover that the metal door is not a door I can use a pry bar on, and very quickly die while running between cars looking for a working one to run over the horde I seem to have attracted.
Also thirst. I apparently get thirsty really fast.[/quote]
As for the gun store: I thought I read somewhere you can use a picklock on those metal doors, so a makeshift picklock would be a good thing to make (I’m pretty sure it’s low on the totem pole for ingredients as well as skills needed)
Thirst: You probably already know this, but any toilet in the game can provide you with something to drink. You will have some nausea after drinking it though. e + direction on the toilet will bring up your list of empty containers that can hold water and be filled, if you have no empty containers when you ESC out of that screen, it’ll ask if you want to drink from your hands. Fortunately, there’s a way around the nausea. You can start a fire somewhere and then go into the & crafting menu and over to food. Find clean water. It’s a straight 1 to 1 recipe, 1 water becomes 1 clean water. If you have a gallon jug full of water you’ve taken from a toilet and an empty gallon jug in hand, you will fill up the spare with the clean water. You must have an empty container to pour the clean water into. The same thing will work if you carry a hotplate.
Also, if you come across a funnel, you’re set for water. (a)ctivate the funnel and supply a direction (outdoors) and you’ll set up the funnel to catch rainwater. (d)rop a container onto the funnel and it’ll collect water into said container. This happens automatically, and I never got sick drinking the water I gathered from my funnels, only toilet water. You can also craft a makeshift or leather funnel. It won’t gather the water as quickly as the normal funnel will, but they do work. It also worked well for me after I crafting up a large waterskin. It’s less volume than a gallon jug and holds more water (I think it holds 20, gallon jugs hold 15)[/quote]
Yeah, I figured it out. Mostly what was killing me was improper awareness.
I made it into the gun store with the picklocks. Again, I ran to it, and a Brute and a bunch of others noticed me despite my care earlier. So I grabbed up a weapon and shot and killed the brute and the rest. The store was built like a fortress, provided they only banged on the windows. That took most of the day, so I spent the night in the store, feeling safe.
Only to find that overnight, the entire city of zombies had converged upon the store, and I was in a shootout for my life. Police bots had spawned as a result of me breaking in, and all the gunfire. And when I finally ran out of ammo, I decided to try and make a break for it, and got tazed to death by the four police bots that had shown up. I -did- manage to kill one before I left though, so that made me happy.[/quote]
move at night time. even without the bonus night vision stater trait( which is practixally required for me), you can still get away easier at night than day. run into a hulk or brute at night; empty a shotgun then flee his friends through a house, shurting doors behind ya. by the time they break out yer long gone.
