i’ve cleaned a small town. And by cleaned i mean striped every building of every item remotely useful, in some cases dismantling the furniture and recovering the pieces, and i piled them in the house that became my base. Someone is stealing from me though, i could have bet i had more chocolate bars and candies some times ago.
Ah the good old “you’ve eaten it but forgot you did” must apply to Cata:DDA as well as IRL.
setting things on fire with some 40mm incendiary i found goddamn these things are powerfull… i could probobly draw zombies into the fire by blocking off a street with a round of this and having some kind of path around the fire.
Sleepmunchies. 
My current character has lasted a year now - the first time I’ve had one even make it past Spring. I’ve cleared out two thirds of a large town using a crowbar and a few rocks, relocated my base to a garage there, and started working on a car.
A nearby house has an infestation of black widows, plus a strange temporal anomaly that causes me to jump back in time whenever I throw a molotov cocktail at it (it crashes). I’ve burnt houses and webs before, so I’m not sure what’s up with this one. Anyway, I guess I’m going to have to build a wall and adopt a live and let live policy.
Sleepmunchies.
My current character has lasted a year now - the first time I’ve had one even make it past Spring. I’ve cleared out two thirds of a large town using a crowbar and a few rocks, relocated my base to a garage there, and started working on a car.
A nearby house has an infestation of black widows, plus a strange temporal anomaly that causes me to jump back in time whenever I throw a molotov cocktail at it (it crashes). I’ve burnt houses and webs before, so I’m not sure what’s up with this one. Anyway, I guess I’m going to have to build a wall and adopt a live and let live policy.[/quote] Tried just dropping a stick nearby and burning that? Sounds like it has some tasty loot inside, so in any case I’d go through first and try to find something of value.
Start game after previous death, rush outside because I’m impatient to get past the initial “get your shit together” period.
Wolves. Six of them. Immediately.
Of course, I was in a rush, and was a good 30 steps away from the shelter, with no other buildings within anything less than 6 map tiles away.
Yeah, I ran back inside, but two of them got in. Proceeded to fight while at insanely high pain levels with only a pocketknife and a counter to cover my ass from their ridiculous movement speed.
Died to the second wolf while it was seriously injured.
Yeah, game hates me.
I spawned, started raiding the nearby town for random goodies (not much) and a little food, and was promptly chased out of said town.
Much murder and many near death experiences later, I set up a farmhouse as my base, and took the flatbed there for a test drive… though the woods.
All of the woods.
And bears, lots and lots of bears.
The bears were not happy when the truck finally broke.
[i]A bear killed me, I was running some zombies and he caught me.
So far I did not worry with the zombies, but rather with wildlife throughout the game.[/i]
That seemed to work. I also noticed there were no spiders around so I took a quick look inside before I burned it. There was nothing exceptionally useful besides some batteries and binoculars. That surprised me, because I was expecting to find something that might explode - assuming that’s what caused the crash due to too much Fun going on. Maybe it’s the spiders that freak the game out when they burn. 
Anyhoo, I finished the car and I’m clearing the last third of the town. I ran into a zombie master. Literally; I ran into him with my car. I assumed he’d be tough so I didn’t want to take any risks there. I did have a scare when a deep zombie bite got infected, but otherwise things seem to be going smoothly.
I was scavenging around town, headshotting any zombies with my silenced glock 19, when a child zombie came up to me. I killed it and it dropped some items. They were… interesting. He was carrying a baseball bat, 100 rounds of .22 CB, and some crack. Kids these days… 
I’ve mostly cleared and raided my starting town. Been pecking at two others that are near by. Mainly raided the garages as my starting town didn’t have any. Also an electronic store, which my starting town was also missing. So far I’ve gathered a car, two motorcycles, and a car chasis. Everything other than the car I cut up for transport. Replaced car engine with a V8. Front four and the windshields are hard plated. Created a bike with a V6 and covered in steel plating. Only thing it doesn’t have a normal bike has is a headlight. I also put in a seatbelt. Of course everything has a muffler. Mainly been using moltovs to deal with massive zombie swarms. I have two liquor stores and two gas stations in my starting town. Gaining a lot of implants from zombies, but no power source ones yet. There are two LMOE bunkers north of my starter town. I think I know where one more car is I may raid for one night. Only missing two skill books that I know of. Advance Electronics being the important one. The other is the rare that I only know of being found on scientist corpses. Had a crash after I’d done most of this once and had to redo a lot. Many things were not spawned in the same place. I’d live in a LMOE shelter if they weren’t totally dark.
Started a game with dynamic spawn. First char had 4 points in traps and 7 perception. Raided a town for some supplies before zeds started spawning, then i blundered in an invisible mine field, where i triggered 2 of them. I used all my bandages and aid kits (had a few from a pharmacy) and escaped with heavily injured torso, and in terrible pain (no pain killers). Got ambushed repeatedly by worms - never saw them with static spawn until now. I avoided them for a while by sticking to the roads, but i had to go back to shelter, and they were both patient and persistent, so they got their meal in the end.
My second char has even worse perception - 5, but has fleet footed , 2 melee and 2 construction. Started north of the same town my first char spawned near(but to the south). A very successful early raid got me a gun store fully stocked with rifles and ammo, 2 good supplied pharmacies and a sporting store, so i got a full load of everything i could carry and lost myself in the woods. Luck is still with me, because i found a farm , and i think this will be my perma-base. All i need right now is a pot.
Any suggestion as to what to look for in a dynamic spawn game? Only played static until now, but i feel it’s kinda easy.
I found a truck trailer with only one missing piece of frame and a busted wheel. I’m harvesting it in case I want to build a more epic battlewagon later. I ended up sleeping in my car near the trailer site and was attacked by a wolf. I guess I did something wrong while building it, because I assumed it would be sealed. Time to go and wiki myself before the next carjacker is a bear.
Dynamic spawns changes how towns work, basically. Rather than carefully chip at the outskirts, taking care of small groups of Z, it is better to rush in right away. Go for the interesting buildings and loot the best stuff you can get your hands on. When the Z start spawning, just keep moving for new buildings. The first day in particular is completely trivial as only basic Z spawn. The downside is that you cannot clear the towns gradually, one part at a time. Till the Z pool runs out of bodies, they will spawn all around you, rather constantly. Therefore, it is usually far easier to rest out of town. A truck without a muffler is an awesome tool to make Z spawn and die quickly and in great numbers.
I started a new game this evening after a rather horrific death-by-bear; new one is going well. I chipped away at some outskirt houses as well as a hardware store… didnt find much food or water initially, but the hardware store had several gallon jugs. jackpot! Im reluctant to wander further into that town due to the Zs, so I decided to go on a trek, following a road… came across a sewer plant with a truck tractor! <3 gassed up, fully wheeled and everything. After stopping by a nearby village for supplies (tons of food, most of it rotten) I loaded everything up into the tractor (rather anally sorting it all) before driving it back to my starting base to load up all of that stuff as well.
I’ve nearly finished building an RV out of a harvested truck trailer and some other spare parts. I’m looking forward to taking a road trip when it’s done and seeing some new sights. I figured out how to make it critter* proof so I won’t wake up to wolves chewing on my face anymore.
The only problem is that all the engines I’ve found are pretty pathetic, except for the one I put in my “lightcycle”. I made it especially for long distance errands when the car was just too slow. It’d be a shame to use it for parts, but needs must.
- By critters I mean the slang for creature, not the aliens from the Critters movies. They could be interesting enemies though: creatures that feast on the leftover meat you leave lying around until they grow large enough to lay eggs and hatch more of themselves. In the movies they shoot needles that cause people to pass out.
With my last character I had great luck with finding death scientist I got myself 2 mutagens in the first day and got very smart and very dexterous perks after that I was going nice and smoothly then I run into a mansion in the frickin middle of a forest it didn’t had anything thou I pretty much had an infinite number of food because of my trusty bow then I went to a farm to station for the night the next day I gone out to find a river finally so I can set up a makeshift base I were just going nice and peacefully then a GIANT WORM POPS UP RIGHT BY ME only I have is a bow and a bat and no armor and you can think I got killed by it tried to run but wasn’t able to go 5 tiles. I didnt even known that there are giants worms and they can just pop up from the nowhere. well I wont be sleeping in a farm house next time.
I took the Newbmobile into the neighbouring town to raid the garages for parts. A smoker was obscuring a tree and I ended up driving right into it, destroying the engine. I had to flee the horde and had a running street battle as I circled around and eventually molotov’d them. I found a working motorcycle in one of the garages and escaped town with the parts I needed to finish the Marauder. It’ll be a few days until I’m ready to leave, but the open road awaits!
I tried to break down the steel door of a sewage treatment plant with an upgraded motorcycle… it didn’t work.
I will preface this by saying that I am using a character with a set of unnatural (cheat) base stats from character creation.
After having cleared the town (and hording everything) I started clearing out the subway/sewers but with only one Subway entrance and five manholes exploring the subway/sewers on foot was rather time consuming. This led me to bring a bycycle down piece by piece- But pedaling that though the sewage got tiring very quickly, even if it does freshen it up a little, so I had to strap the largest engine I could find to it and make it into a Tri’ke. With that extra move I immeadately found myself deep down the obscenely long sewers that the giant ants were invading, where dismounting to loot the corpses and was too risky, so I stopped stopping entirely. While opting to snatch items things up at ever increasing speeds, I soon realised that there is time in the longer tunnels to cook a meals or read a magazine if I slow down.
Well things continued to escalate and soon I was some sort of amphibious post-apocolaypic polo jockey thundering down these tunnels at a comfortable 112 kph, with a hotplate in on hand, a magazine in the other- I even did an almost perfect powerslide when I forgot what state my cruise control was in.
sigh inevitably I had to try…
[spoiler]
I would like to imagine that this hubris was punished by the logical consequences of leaning down to the earth to mash a knife through a carcass while charging though a turblent surf of sewage and hostile giant ants whilst overburdened by a pack full of preowned pornography and metal, in a confined space over uneven terrain, while wearing skant but two skirts, a rain jacket and steel toed boots for protection…[/spoiler]
…and I crashed so hard I hit the desktop.
(I think that % at the top of the screen was the carcass in question.)
So now that I need to do all of that again; I’m thinking I might try to find a bigger engine.