dat pain tho
[quote=“Steelmaniac, post:5219, topic:47”]>hear gunshots up north
go “oh, it’s just a turret”
get back in truck sort out guns I have in doubles so I can save space
this happens
Were you able to escape afterwards?
Smoke meaat everdayy dee dub day smo smoke meat erryday.
After drinking too much spider mutagen, my first bad mutation arrived: Carnivore. I also drream a lot about making webs.
Got away from a tank drone that almost wrecked my car. I slammed the brakes and got out (for whatever reason) and saved (for whatever reason). I was trying out the range and some other behaviour and got killed a few times. When I wanted to go away I only had 4 or 5 turns from my savepoint until it fired. 1 open car door. 2 move past car door. 3 Move to seat. 4 “you take control of the pickup” 5 driving backwards as fast as possible BOOM my right side got blown off. Fortunately I was only deaf for several hours and the frames and solar panels found fast replacement.
I then took on a fungal bloom which was one of the funniest things I ever did. No gas mask, running circles around it and preventing it from growing and sniping at the tanky bloom with my newly acquired 8x40mm Battle Rifle.
I then set fire to it, killed the last few spore clouds and thus purged the land of another big patch of mold 
Now I am looking for more spider eggs and try to level shotguns some more.
Now I remember why I play Cata, or should I say Kata. Because I live out my Martial Arts fantasies in this game.
There is nothing more satisfying then playing some nerdy dork who missed his Dojo practice, and clearing out a town with nothing but your fists. I normally take a bunch of traits that stack on top of the Centipede Style, things like [High Adrenaline] and [Drunken Master]. I wasn’t so lucky the first time, due to my lack of window/shrub abuse… that and a Tank came out of nowhere.
But now I found a Dojo, almost done clearing the town. And I’m wearing several belts on my body, I will be the very best that there ever was. I will collect them all. That and get my computer skill up, I need to destroy a lab with my bare hands.
[spoiler=[TERMINAL] Images of Some Dude, Venom Mob Protege by day, Nerd by night]
newspaper page
I don’t know why this made me chuckle. As if he just went out zo fetch the newspaper and then suddenly Zombies.
[quote=“ajwilli1, post:5224, topic:47”]Now I remember why I play Cata, or should I say Kata. Because I live out my Martial Arts fantasies in this game.
There is nothing more satisfying then playing some nerdy dork who missed his Dojo practice, and clearing out a town with nothing but your fists. I normally take a bunch of traits that stack on top of the Centipede Style, things like [High Adrenaline] and [Drunken Master]. I wasn’t so lucky the first time, due to my lack of window/shrub abuse… that and a Tank came out of nowhere.
But now I found a Dojo, almost done clearing the town. And I’m wearing several belts on my body, I will be the very best that there ever was. I will collect them all. That and get my computer skill up, I need to destroy a lab with my bare hands.
[spoiler=[TERMINAL] Images of Some Dude, Venom Mob Protege by day, Nerd by night]
Get out there, Some Dude, and become history’s strongest disciple! I believe in you!
Meanwhile, grizzled ex-cop Royce McClellan and his newly-armored ‘Mothership XL’ have acquired some hardware: A pair of Browning M2 machine-gun turrets liberated from a trio of APCs left abandoned in the middle of Downtown Melville. With the extremely limited ammunition, he only dared install one of them… but I did give it a try, and it made pretty damn short work of everything in its path… including the cars BEHIND the zombie it was shooting at.
I’m going to go ahead and chalk that up as a win, for now. He might have to swap it out for the M249 SAW he picked up at the gun shop eventually, assuming I have some luck getting my hands on some .223 casings.
Holy shit, right after I posted that I raided a gun shop with a gun I got from the liquor store. I saved the gun for when I got ganged up on, nearly got infected by I found some disinfectant. Then the craziest thing happened, I found a stairway under the disinfectant bottle (make sense of that). The basement only had a sewer rat and snake to deal with, using my Centipede skills I dispatched them and explored.
The thing is full of liquor, food, tools, pee water, and is a fully fledged man cave. I crashed on the couch down there, I have my pile of guns on the pool table. I’m going to go find some head wear as I’m freezing constantly with only a hardhat to keep warm. I’m going to make some Molotov out of the booze stash, go raid the liquor store and library that’s across from me, then probably fix up that jeep that was outside of my Evac Shelter.
@TheStoryteller I will go out there and kick some zombie ass. Also the ‘Mothership XL’ sounds bad ass, let’s just hope it doesn’t warp to light-speed and gib you the instant you unbuckle.
Liquor stores have guns in them? Holy shit I need to stop ignoring those.
I don’t know what it is with staircases spawning in bathrooms either. Then again, the staircase at my late great-grandparents’ house opened into the bathroom for whatever reason, too, so. I guess CDDA’s drunken architecture isn’t that unrealistic.
I’ve heard of people who have bars in their basements before, but they are still crazy-common in CDDA, for reasons I don’t fully understand, unless people in New England are just super-swank. When I think “basement” I always think of something like those junk basements that are just, like, a complete crapshoot.
Found a sewing kit yet?
Liquor stores have guns in them? Holy shit I need to stop ignoring those.
I don’t know what it is with staircases spawning in bathrooms either. Then again, the staircase at my late great-grandparents’ house opened into the bathroom for whatever reason, too, so. I guess CDDA’s drunken architecture isn’t that unrealistic.
I’ve heard of people who have bars in their basements before, but they are still crazy-common in CDDA, for reasons I don’t fully understand, unless people in New England are just super-swank. When I think “basement” I always think of something like those junk basements that are just, like, a complete crapshoot.
Found a sewing kit yet?[/quote]
My rich uncle has a basement that he turned into a bar, complete with pool and Foosball tables. He spent nearly as much refurbishing the basement as they spent on the house… and it still isn’t the nicest basement bar in the gated community where he lives. Apparently it’s quite popular.
Liquor stores have guns in them? Holy shit I need to stop ignoring those.
I don’t know what it is with staircases spawning in bathrooms either. Then again, the staircase at my late great-grandparents’ house opened into the bathroom for whatever reason, too, so. I guess CDDA’s drunken architecture isn’t that unrealistic.
I’ve heard of people who have bars in their basements before, but they are still crazy-common in CDDA, for reasons I don’t fully understand, unless people in New England are just super-swank. When I think “basement” I always think of something like those junk basements that are just, like, a complete crapshoot.
Found a sewing kit yet?[/quote]
Found a Motorcylce helmet that does a decent job of keeping my noggin warm. Since my last post I’ve put on a lot more crap, to the point were I’m a fashion disaster. I found a sewing kit, and I’m currently not planning on leaving my basement. I’m reading up on electronics to illuminate the place so I don’t have to waste my head mounted flash light.
I also found an armory basement just outside of town, spent all of Day 2 looting it and bringing it back. The town is nearly reclaimed. I just need to take out the few stranglers up north. Before that I found a basement full of weed. Sadly there was a strong zombie down there, I used Flare(thanks RivTech Double Barrel) rounds… underground. I scavenged what I could, but my guy was probably getting hotboxes in there.
I also found a road map in that liquor store. I forgot to add that in my last post. Seriously liquor stores are super useful.
UPDATE PICS:
[spoiler=Mostly Basement Stuff/My Gun Loot]
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Notes: The note to the left is where I found the gun stash. The note (that the cursor is on) is my basement home. And that not over by the Evac Shelter is a military vehicle that just needs gasoline.
Overall I’m worried about what’s going to happen. The last time I got this lucky, I accidentally blew myself up with C4 in a lab raid.
I had no clue liquor stores spawned that much stuff that wasn’t liquor. Why yes I will be checking them out more closely in the future.
Also, have fun with that sewing kit. I’m in the camp that a sewing kit is a fresh survivor’s best friend.
I’m reluctant to ask how you accomplished that amazing feat.
I didn’t know until I found the survivor note that mentioned it XD …and in retrospect it made a lot of sense.
[quote=“Rhodri, post:5222, topic:47”][quote=“Steelmaniac, post:5219, topic:47”]>hear gunshots up north
go “oh, it’s just a turret”
get back in truck sort out guns I have in doubles so I can save space
this happens
Were you able to escape afterwards?[/quote]
That is the question.
Yes, I was able to escape. Thankfully enough I had the time to do a goddamn 3 point turn of all things to GTFO before the tank shot again.
Based 7.5 liter V8 tho, shit threw me at 150km/h faster than it is to say it.
I had no clue liquor stores spawned that much stuff that wasn’t liquor. Why yes I will be checking them out more closely in the future.
Also, have fun with that sewing kit. I’m in the camp that a sewing kit is a fresh survivor’s best friend.
I’m reluctant to ask how you accomplished that amazing feat.[/quote]
Well I can store the guns there in case I fuck it up, that or use’em for hunting moose. I don’t trust myself enough to take on a moose barehanded.
Now for the C4. This happened a long while back, like in 2013… and is the reason why I haven’t played that much. This was the first character that I was doing excellent on, I had reclaimed a whole town and lived there for a whole year. I survived a broken leg, I had a huge stock pile of weaponry, and I was holding out in a cathedral.
Well I had recently constructed a vehicle out of scratch, and my scavenging spots were running dry. So I decided to head north, my map said that there was another town up there along with a lab. My plan: Hit the lab, come out with sweet loot, then clear another town.
Everything was going smoothly, turrets weren’t a problem, neither were the Mi-Gos. I made it to the bottom when I came across a large steel door (see where this is going), I pulled out my C4 set the charge. I ran back when I realized something… I didn’t drop it. There was three seconds left.
I threw the C4 and it blew up in my face, I got knocked down and the lab walls collapsed on top of me. I had never got so !!FUN’D!! in my entire life.
Today, on the First day of Summer, Royce McClellan avenged the death of his predecessor. Plowing through the field like a madman, Royce slammed The Mothership XL headfirst into the anti-matter turret before it could even react. The Milspec turret on the other side of the roadblock opened fire, but his heavily reinforced wildshield deflected the bullets like they were nothing. One flip of the switch, and the Browning M2 parked right over the cabin blew away the turret, three zombies, a bloater, and then a brute that came running over to investigate.
He came back to Shelter 001 to relax, but it turned out that the NPC there had a quest for him. Kill a Jabberwock. Unfortunately, he accidentally accepted… and the Jabberwock spawned in the forest right outside the open door. The NPC perished in the fight, but the Jabberwock was ultimately slain and butchered, never to harm another survivor again. Between repairing the heavily-damage shelter, Royce also installed a Recharging Station on the Mothership and began the process of converting some of his more important tools (also his e-Ink tablet, which has quite the considerable album of creature photographs saved on it).
Next Episode: While exploring the city of Fort Mercer to the south, Royce discovered a mostly-functional Luxury RV. It needs new wheels, but there are plenty of other vehicles around to provide for tat. Will this be the beginning of a new mothership build? Will Royce McClellan make it his mission to clear Fort Mercer of the undead, or will he return to Shelter 001 with his spoils and begin anew alone? Will he successfully manage to smoke all his meat before it spoils… or dies of exhaustion? All this and more in 'Cataclysmo- Episode XI: ‘Un-Life of Luxury.’ Stay tuned!
[quote=“Steelmaniac, post:5234, topic:47”]Yes, I was able to escape. Thankfully enough I had the time to do a goddamn 3 point turn of all things to GTFO before the tank shot again.
Based 7.5 liter V8 tho, shit threw me at 150km/h faster than it is to say it.[/quote]
Only now do I understand the purpose of super-fast engines. It’s not the speed, it’s the acceleration.
New event: (Ex-)Survivor Darwin Awards
[quote=“AllisonW, post:5237, topic:47”][quote=“Steelmaniac, post:5234, topic:47”]Yes, I was able to escape. Thankfully enough I had the time to do a goddamn 3 point turn of all things to GTFO before the tank shot again.
Based 7.5 liter V8 tho, shit threw me at 150km/h faster than it is to say it.[/quote]
Only now do I understand the purpose of super-fast engines. It’s not the speed, it’s the acceleration.
New event: (Ex-)Survivor Darwin Awards[/quote]
Well, these kind of engines got more torque than a lot of others IRL, it’d be logic that they got the TORKS in game as well.
I couldnt roll around at 16km/h without having tires screechin’ all the way because leltork
I just drunk tainted tornado! I got Fey Eyes and Phelloderm, my first legit mutations ever! I have 6 more, so… he he he.
Watch out, you’re on the road to a serious wasting disease or radioactivity there. Elf-A is dangerous geneline.