What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[Rezalex]

Oh, I figured it out. I kind of feel like facepalming. It’ll work fine if you transfer the save into an experimental world. Just make sure you’re ABOVE ground when you try it. I’ll report if any issues pop up.

[Random_dragon]

You are not a dorf, so yeah. Don’t play around belowground.

[Rezalex]

I do find it interesting that I didn’t seem to have any issues being inside of solid rock. I didn’t suffocate or anything, so I’ll have to assume that teleportation doesn’t put you inside of things. But how I would like to be a dorf.

EDIT: Ah, it would seem all of my traits were erased. I suppose I can live on with my skills as they are, but night vision is so much nicer in experimentals,yeah? I was hoping to test it out. Oh well.

[sagethor]

Debug tools are your friend! I had the fortune of “investing” into negative traits, so I considered it an added bonus, losing them.

[Loendal]

Well, will be posting another silly zombie-slaying rampage eventually, as I’ve been working on a tank. Guess it’s gonna be a minireactor-fueled Merkava, since modding in a diesel engine beefy enough to haul 9x9 tiles of armor and treads results in deafness as soon as you put it in gear. o3o

I still don’t get it! How do you guys find all these bits and pieces to make something this fantastic!? I can’t even create a character with points in mechanics and starting in a garage to build / repair a simple car on the street and you aces roll around in 500’ long armored RV’s with 15 turrets!

/jealousy

I must do something horribly wrong somewhere along the line. I don’t use hoards, I have revivification turned off, and even with a starting pistol on hand for emergencies I still wind up dead within a few days. I get night vision and parkour, I craft and reinforce my entire outfit through tailoring, but still end up dead awfully fast. I’ve had 1 good run in this game, I’ve yet to be able to reproduce it

[Pthalocy]

I just play like a boring coward for the first week and stockpile food and water. I never make raiding or combat/weapons my first priorities. Water, Food, Shelter. I live in the woods in abandoned small facilities, which is super boring but it’s also hella safer than raiding cities until I’m ready. XD

Also, I befriend the starting shelter npc, and then if I think there’s something nasty around the corner, I walk into them, hit n to decline the offer to attack them, and then they move one square away so they can’t block me. I steer them into turrets sometimes. They usually have armour and fare better. Sometimes they die and I take their shit. I am a jerk. It works.

[Random_dragon]

I still don’t get it! How do you guys find all these bits and pieces to make something this fantastic!? I can’t even create a character with points in mechanics and starting in a garage to build / repair a simple car on the street and you aces roll around in 500’ long armored RV’s with 15 turrets!

Technically my tank was due to modding it in and debug-spawning for testing purposes. Now building that tank from scratch would be hilarious. I AM planning to allow tankbots to be dismantled for an autoloading 120mm gun, so you could in theory build a tank from scratch once my mod is up.

No wait, you’d still need to find the engine from a tank because a regular V8 diesel can’t put out enough oomph to get a decent speed to haul an MBT.

[i2amroy]

Debug tools are your friend! I had the fortune of “investing” into negative traits, so I considered it an added bonus, losing them.

Indeed, even if you absolutely couldn’t get your save to transfer over a bit of debug tool usage can let you create an equivalent character (maybe with a dash of save editing if you really feel like it). Still a new world though, of course.

[dovla]

I still don’t get it! How do you guys find all these bits and pieces to make something this fantastic!? I can’t even create a character with points in mechanics and starting in a garage to build / repair a simple car on the street and you aces roll around in 500’ long armored RV’s with 15 turrets!

Use vehicle additions mod
Don’t take unnecessary risks
Collect supplies to keep you well-fed while working
Search for books on Mechanics, Fabrication, and Electronics
Search for hand tools such as screwdriver, hacksaw, wrench
Get a vehicle welding rig asap, mount it on a vehicle with good battery power and make sure it’s accessible from the outside
Find a suitable platform to base your vehicle on
Park the platform in a suitable location (away from settlements) and hack away. Bring any operational vehicles to the location to strip them for parts

[Azrad]

For the first time, managed to successfully fend off a big horde on a base.

Perhaps it started with finding an intact pickup truck. After making some repairs and driving it back to the base, I went in my private area in the refugee center and started reading books for skill level ups. Somewhere in the middle, character hears a bang, so I rush up to the area as fast as I could, and I saw several tough zombies swarming around the bed areas of the center. Most of them were already dead, so I go out the window and see around 70 zombies in view. Large chunk of them were grabbers and hollows, and they were still kinda far from the center.

So, not wanting to risk the guards in the center seeing them and shooting up the horde and possibly attracting another horde, I went and faced them.

[BigLie]

[quote=“Loendal, post:7705, topic:47”]I still don’t get it! How do you guys find all these bits and pieces to make something this fantastic!? I can’t even create a character with points in mechanics and starting in a garage to build / repair a simple car on the street and you aces roll around in 500’ long armored RV’s with 15 turrets!

/jealousy

I must do something horribly wrong somewhere along the line. I don’t use hoards, I have revivification turned off, and even with a starting pistol on hand for emergencies I still wind up dead within a few days. I get night vision and parkour, I craft and reinforce my entire outfit through tailoring, but still end up dead awfully fast. I’ve had 1 good run in this game, I’ve yet to be able to reproduce it :)[/quote]

Don’t worry, I’m just as lame at this game, if not lamer. I’ve had 2 really good runs, that’s all. First was somewhere between 0.9 and 0.A; second was rather recently.

Tried Assault on Precinct Z. Opened the door and… Fu… fu… fu… FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! There were probably at least 50 zeds of various kinds; another 50 joined the mob as I fled the town.

Tried Slow Zombies. For the first time, meh. Too easy.

UMP seems to be noticeably weaker than MP5. OTOH, no proper comparison can be made — I don’t remember how skilled I was during the MP5 run and what kind of ammo I used.

[Azrad]

Dang, was thinking of constructing a base using bricks, but looking at the terrain files it’s more or less just like the log wall but takes a whole lot more effort in making. Guess I’ll have to consider going with concrete or reinforced concrete. Need to get a lot of NPCs with me to hopefully help with construction if it ever gets to that.

[Azrad]

Though when I think about it, after seeing a lone zombie hulk punch through the several lab walls, I’m wondering if there would be a point spending all the time crafting bags of concrete if I could just go with simple log walls instead.

[Rezalex]

Maybe you can find a way to make your walls out of slude crawlers. I’ve seen one of those things single handedly take out a hulk and a lot of other misc zombies from a mall. They’re just slightly easier to kill than shoggoths, I think? If you do find a way to I’d be very impressed.

[Azrad]

Going with the survivor .223 carbine as my main gun and the FN Five-Seven as my sidearm. The .223 is pretty decent. Recoil is still a bit high but thanks to mods I managed to reduce dispersion to zero. Decent damage. The FN I couldn’t reduce the dispersion to zero, but the recoil has become zero. Hits well enough. Short range, but good damage and I can hit anything in it’s range area. Managed to add a lot of mods on it, except the brass catcher which prevents me from holstering it.

[Azrad]

9 floor ice lab… so much work and being careful and quite a lot of near death experiences. Two thermal electric outfits running on a UPS bionic, two jedi robes, wool socks and gloves and a lot of things to keep a character warm yet severely encumbered.

Bottom floor… it’s an item room with the four dissectors… and no items.

out of boredom, made a new game just to test the martial arts styles that fare well against shoggoths without the need for time dilation or hydraulic muscles.

At 14 strength, muay thai, centipede, scorpion, and tiger did not fare well while using tiger claws. Razorbar katar with those styles almost did the job, but stamina was drained near the end which gave the shoggoth enough time to regenerate. With a katana, ninjitsu and niten worked. Silat did well, if I recall. Fencing nope.

With mutations, stainless and rat claws was strong enough to kill a shoggoth via muay thai. Tentacle rakes and 8 tentacles nope.

[BigLie]

[quote=“Azrad, post:7716, topic:47”]9 floor ice lab… so much work and being careful and quite a lot of near death experiences. Two thermal electric outfits running on a UPS bionic, two jedi robes, wool socks and gloves and a lot of things to keep a character warm yet severely encumbered.

Bottom floor… it’s an item room with the four dissectors… and no items.

out of boredom, made a new game just to test the martial arts styles that fare well against shoggoths without the need for time dilation or hydraulic muscles.

At 14 strength, muay thai, centipede, scorpion, and tiger did not fare well while using tiger claws. Razorbar katar with those styles almost did the job, but stamina was drained near the end which gave the shoggoth enough time to regenerate. With a katana, ninjitsu and niten worked. Silat did well, if I recall. Fencing nope.

With mutations, stainless and rat claws was strong enough to kill a shoggoth via muay thai. Tentacle rakes and 8 tentacles nope.[/quote]

Katar? Like those in diablo? I guess I won’t be able to dual wield them though.
Gives me an idea for the cheater’s world. To make an assassin from Diablo 2.

[Azrad]

Yeesh. No more mycus for me, and so perhaps to balance it out life gave me a ten level slime pit to exterminate.

[Iceblaster]

Had a shootout with an NPC.

Essentially, I was RPing and escaped mutant who was able to befriend two NPCs. Later on, I was able to get a working truck! Gassed it up and we went onto the road… Before being blindsides by a milspec turrent. Both the NPCs died in two barrages, I took minimal damage aaand the front of the truck’s paneling was destroyed. Afterwards, an NPC apparently spawned and was coming to loot the area.

I took it upon myself to stop them. With any means necessary. Taking my pump action shotgun, I loaded it up with flechette shells and fired a shot at them, knowing for sure it’d miss. I only intended to get their attention. Afterwards, I immediately booked it to the forest, making sure to use the car as cover as much as I could. Eventually made it to where he couldn’t take shots at me when I couldn’t see him… Then, after loading my shotgun up the rest of the way, he popped up and here I nearly had a heart attack…

I then simply fired as many shots as I could! Luckily, I only took a couple shots over the course of the battle. One in my leg, the other in my torso, the rest, I have no idea.

Yay?

[Azrad]

Halfway done in clearing the ten floor slime pit. Every. Single. Floor. Is. Huge.

edit: Gah, and starting at floor 6, one big cavern becomes two big caverns.