Huehuehue. Meanwhile in more adventures in mod testing…how DID I manage to give the Mongolian horse archer both leather body armor AND lamellar armor?
Got to the point my hobo now has survivor gear. Bionics have been great fun. I was lucky enough to find a mini flamethrower CBM which has been great in helping dispatch hulk, predators and brutes. spam that 3 times just before they reach you. Instant raging fire. Also got the adrenaline pump for extra melee badassness. Was raiding a school and finally found a mid level fabrication book. Proceeded to make an electric forge to go with the anvil I found in a public works. Still only got a makeshift welder. but it does the job so far. Now got all the tools for fabricating metal items I’ll need. Got myself a shotpistol. Love it. it’s perfect to have in a holster to deal with hulks in an emergency. Though the noise means I have to pick when to use it carefully lest I get a horde swamp me. Main weapon now being a steel spear. Got no combat styles but it’s doing great work just with skills I’ve accrued in use. The immediate vicinity around the base is littered with semi smashed vehicles, scrap piles and reams of bodies from the hordes I’ve been dispatching. Been cutting into the forest for wooden plank fabricating too. Did a bit of interior remodelling and now the sewage plant is a pretty cosy base. Once I get more supplies I’ll be adding more walls. Maybe a concrete outer perimeter. At the rate these hordes wander the area I think I’ll need it. Also. A triffid grove to the north in the forest. I don’t think I’ll ever go hungry again!
Been a hell of a ride for day 45/91 of spring. Haven’t even had a chance to touch a lab yet.
Ran a SUV into a jabberwock. Feels good man. Instaroadkill.
Was going out the front door of my barricaded sewage treatment plant hideout and found a stray zombie technician. Thinking nothing of it killed it effortlessly with my new survivor Naginata. Only to find an enhanced memory banks CBM after butchering it. Successfully installed and on. In comparison every grenadier or bio ops I’ve butchered thus far I’ve gotten nothing but power storage and burnt out bionics. Wearing a mix of normal survivor and light survivor gear. Got a still built and looking for booze to start brewing me some tainted tornado. Chipping away steadily at the zombies in town and food right now consists of random animals I kill getting in my way or filling my bags with triffid marrow and fluid sacs from the nearby grove. It’s overall shaping up to be a great base. Relatively quiet too since the last horde I dispatched. Surrounded by forest in every direction barring the road out. Cutting back some woods to have some ground prepared for the growing season.
Also. Really enjoying the survivor naginata. With my dodge, melee, piercing and bashing around 7 it’s proving amazingly good for wading into groups of zombies head on. Not invincible yet. But I can certainly plough into bigger groups without worrying so much.
Had been living for about half a year in this abandoned house I found in the forest. Nicely set up, had some plants growing, a bunch of solar panels, electric kitchen, stereo pumping out music.
Finally managed to build a vehicle welding rig, and was trying to work out where to install it, so it could reach my car outside. Wandered around the outside of the house, and realized one of the boarded up windows didn’t match up to anything I could see on the inside.
Brought out my trusty crowbar, only to find a small dusty room with a staircase leading down.
Quite literally a descent into madness.
In retrospect, what did I expect from an abandoned house in the forest?
Well in my journey to finally find a refugee center and complete some of the quests, after i managed to kill all the raiders i somehow thought it would be a good idea to try to ram a fungal blooms growth spreading towers with my roller drum armored APC, not realizing that the fungal growth around it not only was not effected by my roller drums but also got the whole vehicle stuck, in my attempt to free the vehicle, in this case i tried a lighter was quickly defeated by the rain, also by the fact that by then my vehicle was surrounded by slimes from the near by pit which i proceeded to waste all my ammo on (i had quite abit, 100-200 ish) to little progress, so i decided to hop in on of the raiders/caravans vans and run them over, which worked for a few moments till i somehow got launched under the vehicle and was quickly runover and killed by it (i think the seat had no floor under it, so once the ramming had finished damaging the seat down i went)
I saw that Silver, that was a hilarious death. XP
By the way, that house you stopped in your next adventure, where you parked the humvee by the crater? You missed a tank juuuust south of that.
Planning on building a monster tractor for clearing out cities.
Beep beep.
Planning on doing ARCHITECTURE. Well, a big base anyway. Multiple rooms, garage, basement vault, and a porch with an armchair. Want to have to proper real estate for the base; not too far from civilization… well, not too far from what used to be civilization. River with fish has to be nearby; don’t plan on fishing but dammit I wanna see fish swimming around while I relax on the backyard, dammit.
Log, brick, or stone walls is what I want. Having an ice lab for food storage will be extra good.
Extra bonus would be to find an area that spawns an artifact where the rubble surrounding said area generates fire or lightning, because that’ll be a hardcore conversation piece for guests/food.
Gonna be a long term project, though slightly worried that I’ll run into the refugee center/static NPC crash once again.
Enjoy Blinky watching you build.
EDIT: And then I finally got to see Silver’s latest LP vid on youtube. All of my squeeing to see he found a technical and a tank. <3
Just started playing the game again, and holy sh*t there are tanks now.
Gonna run around in in a poncho and women’s underwear for a while so I can hopefully survive long enough to commandeer one.
Stopping by mostly for other reasons, but I’ve been playing again and having tons of fun (and lots of death). I forgot just how scary moose are.
Highlights of my current character include making about 50 sharpened rocks to throw at the zombie hulk in my basement to get LOADS OF LOOT, a goo infested town i had horrible time biking through, being mauled to half to death by ANOTHER hulk that followed me out of town, then nearly being finished off by a moose… All before biking right back through that hellish town.
Fun times. Fun times.
Building a proper fortress from frames, quarterpanels and spiked platings throug vehicle construction.
Are the other ways to create a wall, that blocks movement, but lets shoot through than quarterpanels?
[quote=“troll from behind, post:8113, topic:47”]Building a proper fortress from frames, quarterpanels and spiked platings throug vehicle construction.
Are the other ways to create a wall, that blocks movement, but lets shoot through than quarterpanels?[/quote]
You could use vehicle turrets to shoot through the walls.
Step outside the shelter, see a Mi-Go. Oh dear… I back into the shelter, and let my NPC friend save us both with his shotgun. Yay!
However… I started out near a horde. They HAVE to have heard that… Not good. I start running, but end up in Fungal lands… I skirt the edges of the horde as I head north, away from the fungal bloom. Unfortunately, I find myself wedged between a river and swamplands. With the horde oncoming, I brave the swamps.
After several narrow escapes, and distant sighting of terrible monsters, including MULTIPLE T-rexs, I find the other side of the swamps. Its utter chaos. The local wildlife has gone insane, with literally dozen of predators slaughtering countless prey (especially lemmings). I pick my route carefully, and manage to make my way through the battlefield without attracting undue attention.
Heading southwards now, I find a ranch. There’s plenty of water, but not much food. I find large numbers of Giant Ants further south. I speculate an any hill lies beyond. For now though, they will serve as food.
I survive for several more days, trying to build up supplies. However, it seems somewhere along the line I got a small cut on one of the Ranch’s fences, and now I have tetanus. There’s a town nearby… perhaps I can find some antibiotics there. I spend several days clearing the edges nearest to me. I’ve got some decent clothing, and a knife spear, so as long as I am careful, I should be ok. I go into a basement to see if its filled with drugs. I see a survivor zombie. Hmm. Dangerous, but I can take it. I wait for it to close, then engage. It grabs me solidly, so I keep hacking at it, but… wait, there’s more of them. With the first one grabbing me, I cannot flee. I down several, but eventually, I succumb to the half dozen elite zombies. Thus ends the tale of John Smith, 5th of his name.
Got shot by an npc with a 9mm pipe rifle and died on my second day… this game is hard 
i wasnt even playing with hard settings
"You better get outa here!" “oh ok just lemme get my shopping cart…” Pow! “OW! wtf??”
[quote=“Force21, post:8116, topic:47”]Got shot by an npc with a 9mm pipe rifle and died on my second day… this game is hard i wasnt even playing with hard settings
"You better get outa here!" “oh ok just lemme get my shopping cart…” Pow! “OW! wtf??”[/quote]
Here is a tip, when an npc is near you de-equip your weapon. The npcs that tell you to drop your weapon and get out of their because its their territory will have different dialog when you have nothing equipped and essentially tell you to leave but don’t take any hostile actions against you if you stay.
So, I started up a new game after not playing for a month or two and on my first world a minefield was placed right outside my starting evac shelter. Some time in the night a coyote ran into the field and died to a mine and the resulting explosion resulted in a huge horde that came from all directions to come to the minefield, only to get blown up and attract more zombies. I tried to stay in the shelter not making any noises and tried to survive, even surviving when a few zombies from the horde decided to break a window and come in. However my time eventually ended when a zombie hulk came through the door and smashed me against the wall.
Working on modding in and testing magical items, whee.
Your A Wizard, Dragon Harry
It’s gonna mostly be magic items, no innate things like spells. Think Heretic or Hexen. X3