I think if you give items to the NPC with a value higher than their current money, they become completely cooperative in things like teaching you stuff and guarding.
Curses. Internal furnace is as annoying as it is useful. I ended up eating my camera pro which had a lot of monsters collected already. If it’s not that, it’s almost always the cash card or the mods attached to the gun.
I’ve been following the adventures of Thomas the Tank Drone, which has been rampaging through an inner city block. So far it has killed three hulks, two masters and more lesser zombies than I can shake a katana at.
I wish I could tame it and ride it into battle. It wouldn’t even have to shoot anything, just riding my own plutonium-powered deathbot.
That’s why it can be toggled on/off; it’s a safety switch to (hopefully) make accidentally eating your shoes a little less common.
You kinda can, if I recall. Control laptop. You can’t get it to do stuff, and it may not follow you, but you won’t get shot at by the drone.
And yeah. Most of the time I have it off. It’s just one of those moments when I forgot to turn it off.
Made a new character - 20 dex, fleet footed, Indefatigable, Quick and Parkour expert. Slept off the amphetamine withdrawal from tweaker start on toastems and few gallons of cheap wine. Found a go-bag in first house and katana nodachi in nearby museum. Searched 7 garages still no soldering iron…
So there was only one route to a FEMA camp I wanted to go to. A small street, about five map tiles long, and holy hell there were lots of zombies. Somehow managed to run through about a hundred of them, and somehow most of the car parts are barely damaged.
Pascal died.
It wasn’t me, I swear! I was making a duffel bag, and half way through, he just rolled over and died!
It might have been an infection, but it is only day two, and infections don’t end that soon. I never saw him eat or drink, but he never picked up any food or water… do NPCs need sustenance? His head didn’t explode …
How else can you die without getting mauled by zombies?
[quote=“digitCruncher, post:6608, topic:47”]Pascal died.
It wasn’t me, I swear! I was making a duffel bag, and half way through, he just rolled over and died!
It might have been an infection, but it is only day two, and infections don’t end that soon. I never saw him eat or drink, but he never picked up any food or water… do NPCs need sustenance? His head didn’t explode …
How else can you die without getting mauled by zombies?[/quote]
Heat/Cold? Radiation? Mutation even?
I died soon after (turns out having guns doesn’t mean you can drive into the middle of town and start a shootout, and win), so mutation and radiation are possible, but very unlikely (I haven’t dealt with anything that looks radioactive). Cold might have done it, but he was inside, and had just woken up, and should have been pretty warm. Heat is definitely right out (he wasn’t wearing much, and it was the second day, so it was pretty cold)
Update-Noticed there was a public works next to the fire station, checked it out and cleared about half of it out. There are tons of tools in it (seriously like a ridiculous amount of tools in it), ill have to come back when im a bit more healed and clear it out further and take my shopping car next time. Got around to setting up the braziers which work wonderfully at night, i can read when i retire for the day and half managed to completely read through the popular mechanics magazine and the under the hood book excluding the recipes. Since i found the proper tools i’ve been going around collecting any solar panels i come across. Luckily for me i learned the makeshift welder recipe, been going around destroying refrigerators and ovens hoping to build it. Ive got everything so far that i need but i do need more copper wires (if anyone knows a good way to find those please reply). There was a damaged road roller i found, i plan on taking both the diesel and diesel engine out of that and putting it into the SWAT truck i found earlier to get it up and running. Finally found a steak knife so i can butcher those rotting shocker zombies outside my base.
Edit- Weirdest thing just happened, i had a guy threaten me to put my weapon down, usually i always suspect thats what a NPC is going to say when i see them running up to me. He was armed with a Remington 870, and unlucky for me i had put my M9 away at the base. I did what i was told and put the fire axe down and he ran away into the building next the fire station, i picked my axe back up and literally right when i was about to turn the door open he shot me. BUT something odd happened, other than him landing a shot on me, he like blew up into smoke and disappeared. The next day after getting some rest, he was gone, no body, blood, or gibs, just gone. And the thing is, it seemed he was able to score more than one hit on me in 1 turn, i realized he had shot more than once due to the empty casings. Nearby i found a empty smoke canister, which may explain the smoke, or tear gas? But strange all around.
You were attacked by a shotgun ninja. owo
New hobo, new experimental. Last one died after car engine got torn out during running things over and getting swarmed by ants. Set off 2 c4 and an incendiary grenade as they converged on me.
Just used a bus pulling handbreak turns to make it into a wall of zombie mulching steel with its momentum. Also got an evac center luckily to hunker down in. Was able to snag a few days worth of bacon, jerky and a hotplate that let me refine water for a few portions before cravings hit. Now alcohol free and got plenty of materials to scrap from vehicles and start building once I find mechanics books and tools. Found a smg and pistol but no ammo. DID find a sledgehammer and plenty lighters. bash them in head whilst they struggle to go through set fire to bushes. A classic tried and tested tactic if ever.
[center]You wake up.
Something is making noise.
You hear an agonized scream![/center]
This is the fifth time you’ve been woken up tonight. It’s time for that thing, to go. Grabbing your rifle from beside you, you step through the flaps of your large tent, your night vision powering up. It’s a quick trek around the building, to the source of the sound, one of those things. You’d seen it take down many-a zombie before, or, at the least, you’d seen one of it’s kind do so. Regardless, you want your sleep, so you step closer.
“Hello.”
You pause. Is it sentient? Are its screams actually of pain? You’d never thought so before. Whenever you’d met these things, (As if you have, more of a ‘stare from the distance’), their strange utterings had seemed random, mimicked words of people who’d conversed in front of it. You’d even heard one reciting the line where the people (scientists?) realized that it was doing so, parroting them.
It takes a step forward. You react almost out of instinct.
Blam!
It stumbles back, and begins to turn. Your next move was no question, no fore-thought needed. This thing was going to die, and you were certain of that, if anything. With the flick of a switch,
P-p-p-pow!
it slumps over, motionless. You return to your tent, take another pill, and sleep. You’d feel guilty, if you do at all, in the morning.
tl;dr: I set out to kill a mi-go, had Trigger happy trait, and thought it was worth writing a small thing about.
Disassemble any and all electronics you come across and don’t need. They all drop varying amounts of copper wire. It can also be crafted but the duct tape cost is prohibitive and the crafting takes forever.
Disassemble any and all electronics you come across and don’t need. They all drop varying amounts of copper wire. It can also be crafted but the duct tape cost is prohibitive and the crafting takes forever.[/quote]
You can also get hundreds by smashing and disassembling vehicles.
Hope got skeletoned in the face, sadly. On to another! May he feast in Hobohalla with the honoured street-bum dead.
Wiping the small town off the map is still a distant project. Next project I got my eyes on is to demolish my old mansion base. There’s a pool in the middle, and I plan to turn that area into some sort of oasis-like campsite for NPCs I decided not to eat. I mean, it serves no real purpose, but it should be a nice project that will hopefully be pretty to look at.
Tents as living quarters for NPCs. Storehouses, some stalls, maybe a sort of town hall made with simple wood walls. A little slice of civilization in the cataclysm.
I was famished and short on food options so I choked down a gallon of mayo. Before that, I did the same with about 6 raw moose steaks. Morale took a dip, but other than that I’m fine.
If you get cramps and pains a few days after, look for anti-parasitic drugs.
New hobo went on a wander. Found a RV with clean water, power and gas. Just sans wheels. nearby triffids being hunted and wildlife they killed butchered. Whenever he wakes up from a sleep it’s a straight to cooking on the kitchen unit before morale plummets. Scavenging parts for more molotvs.
Butchering the mansion is taking quite a while. I could just jackhammer the entire place to oblivion, and then shovel out the rubble after, but then I decided I wanna deconstruct all the wood furniture. I’m dragging out some of the things that can’t be deconstructed, such as the indoor plants and non-working fridges, and most problematically the ovens which need the hydraulic muscles to pull.
There’s also a pool table, which I intend to drag out for the sort of bar area for my NPC camp.
Pretty much all those things are useless except for the look of the thing.
edit: as it turns out I don’t need the hydraulic muscles to drag the oven out, neat. 15 starting strength plus muscle augmentation.
By far the most time consuming thing is probably deconstructing windows for the glass.
editedit: damn, looks like I can’t drag out the pool table.