What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[Rezalex]

I’ve been breaking my limbs a lot lately… probably because of all the hulks and brutes. Thank god for flatbread and cornbread, without them I would have gone hungry or had to risk scavenging with broken legs. I need to get a shotgun or something to deal with these hulks before I get myself killed. Pray to the RNG.

[Azrad]

I’ve been breaking my limbs a lot lately… probably because of all the hulks and brutes. Thank god for flatbread and cornbread, without them I would have gone hungry or had to risk scavenging with broken legs. I need to get a shotgun or something to deal with these hulks before I get myself killed. Pray to the RNG.

The pneumatic assault rifle can be a bit effective against most meaty zombies - the power armor wearing zombie probably being the exception. Bearings at least can deal respectable damage per shot, and really, with the rate of fire and abundance of either pebbles or bearings, rifles skill will go up fast.

[Zireael]

Rezalex, thanks for the tip. I would have checked the wiki but it’s inoperational right now ;w;

Anyway, a fight with four tough Zs left me with a leg only points away from being broken (6) so I beat a hasty retreat. Even hastier when I noticed a huge boomer in the hotel. I had to leave the luggage rack behind, though.

As I was very weak from 100+ pain, I lumbered myself into the electric car and drove south and then west to the parallel road which would bring me to the shelter. I remembered from previous excursions that there were wolves about halfway down the road, and I was right. I increased the speed, and one of the wolves barrelled straight into my path only to get splatted. A coyote further down the road shared the same fate. The other two wolves were too far behind to give chase.

I parked the car next to my base and plonked down to the basement to sleep. It’s now the next day and that leg still looks bad. I guess I’ll use the day for something non-dangerous and go back to that teeny town to the east after sleeping the next night.

Time to go edit my season length. Good thing I keep a save backup in case of a crash or a bug.

[scorpion451]

Today I learned that it is in fact possible to raid a hospital without having to use a heat dissipator biotic and a shovel.

Well, without having to use a heat dissipator, anyway.

[Taraq]

[quote=“scorpion451, post:9544, topic:47”]Today I learned that it is in fact possible to raid a hospital without having to use a heat dissipator biotic and a shovel.

Well, without having to use a heat dissipator, anyway.[/quote]

RIGHT!? am I the only one who’s driven absolutely insane by corrosives destroying buildings and zombies not patching around walls? Whenever I try to run through a house or maybe sleep or something two minutes later everything collapses on my face and it’s just from an ordinary special instead of a say a hulk. At least for me it just makes them annoying while adding nothing–they don’t even hit hard in melee, they just smash walls cuz fuck you.

[Random_dragon]

Well, I was driving up the road and noticed a triffid grove right next door. Having had queens start eating away at the asphalt I decided this just wouldn’t do. So I took up the incorruptable sort and got my purging on.

All that remained was a quick mop-up to remove any triffid queens in the area. And the spoils of war? 30 essence, which’ll keep my blade fueled for a long time once I consecrate it all.

Also inexplicably found Oaths to The Chalice in a library, so my magic book collection is complete. That reminds me Azrad, how would you sort magical loot? o3o

[Rezalex]

A hostile NPC walking loot pile shot at me with a Taurus Raging Bull today… but it missed, hit a wall, and destroyed it. Pretty sure that wall wasn’t damage before, but I could easily have missed it since it was within my reality bubble while I was recuperating from 4 broken limbs.

[Noctifer]

Day 87 of 90 in summer, crop filed full, Bionic Mutant, Military armored/electric turret/fully electric mobile fortress, hero ranking in the ranch, in need of 200 vitamins for a nurse npc…

[Random_dragon]

Nice. So, trying to find an LMG for the Stug Life. Should I pick an M249, M240, or M2 Browning? o3o

EDIT: Found an impact site.

[Taraq]

[quote=“Random_dragon, post:9549, topic:47”]Nice. So, trying to find an LMG for the Stug Life. Should I pick an M249, M240, or M2 Browning? o3o

EDIT: Found an impact site.[/quote]

Browning for shared ammo with M107A1.

[Random_dragon]

Tempting. So, I had a bit of an “oh holy shit” moment when I first entered the floating structure, due to how many flying polyps were there to greet me. Switched my sword on and went to town on them. Then after that, while I brought the M27 in case the Archon proved to be dangerous, turns out a glowing holy sword makes short work of it when you have 20 strength.

So, lessons learned?

1. I need to shift the trap placement for the floating platforms section. They aren’t aligned with the red floors properly.
2. Might need to add more variety to the floating platform monsters. Vortexes maybe. That’ll lead to infighting, but it’ll be interesting to see.
3. Need to tone down the amount of books spawning in the bookcases of the sanctum. Maybe find more variety for them as well.
4. Move the beds around, they look weird.
5. Might axe the craters surrounding the impact site.

[Azrad]

Waiting for my tomato crop to grow. Need them tomatoes to complete my cannibal cuisine.

[Azrad]

Yeesh. My first leg break*. Was gathering stuff from the forests, when I spy an NPC. I go and follow him, heavy duty flashlight shining in the darkness, into a thick patch of trees. I can’t see him anymore, so I turn the corner and fwoosh, I get hit my the flames from a simple flamethrower. I was recovering from wounds from the last raid, and I’m too cheap to use the 100+ bandages I have on base, or the 10 I carry all the time. Left leg was damaged enough to go to zero, along with burning my boots and thermal electric outfit (seriously, those things get destroyed all the time).

I turn on thermal dissipation, and open fire with the pneumatic assault rifle. Thankfully it’s a short trek back to base and I’ll just chill out in HQ for a while.

*as in first limb break and still be alive to survive another day. Pretty much all the times I get a limb broken it’s in a situation where all possible moves will lead to death.

[noble]

RIGHT!? am I the only one who's driven absolutely insane by corrosives destroying buildings and zombies not patching around walls? Whenever I try to run through a house or maybe sleep or something two minutes later everything collapses on my face and it's just from an ordinary special instead of a say a hulk. At least for me it just makes them annoying while adding nothing--they don't even hit hard in melee, they just smash walls cuz fuck you.

Issue #14027. Rivet said it's a bug and someone needs to fix the bashing code.

So, trying to find an LMG for the Stug Life. Should I pick an M249, M240, or M2 Browning?

M2 if you have tankmod. Pretty much all my survivors have a crate of >5000 .50 BMG rounds after looting tanks. If you don't have tankmod I would go with the M240.

We need PKMs and similar so I can stop disassembling all that soviet ammo.

[Azrad]

Finally found an NPC that was able to teach my marksmanship skill up to level 8. I say goodbye to my pneumatic assault rifle and say hello to a .223 survivor carbine will all the mods.

Got a gyroscopic stabilizer, tuned mechanism, and a sniper conversion for those uncraftable mods. Crafted several more other mods. The result is that on standard .223 remington rounds is there’s zero recoil and dispersion is only the one that the ammo has. There’s 15 recoil on reloaded .223s and 30 recoil on the 5.56 NATO ammo. Pretty damn good stats, I’d say. Double magazine also gives it 18 total ammo (20 without the sniper kit).

Pretty powerful damage on zombies from a distance. I may try selecting a different gun. My survivor is trigger happy, but since the sniper kit pretty much removes any way for burst fire, I could try selecting a different rifle instead. So far, the pneumatic is better since it reliably kills most things and has easy to craft ammo, but I want guns and ammo dammit!

[Random_dragon]

[quote=“noble, post:9554, topic:47”]M2 if you have tankmod. Pretty much all my survivors have a crate of >5000 .50 BMG rounds after looting tanks. If you don’t have tankmod I would go with the M240.

We need PKMs and similar so I can stop disassembling all that soviet ammo.[/quote]

Huehuehue. Yeah, was using tankmod. I haven’t found a crapton of armored vehicles lately though, likely because I’d tried to nerf how common they are, along with how much ammo is in them. The Stug Life was built from one of…maybe 2 or 3 of the only tankmod vehicles I’d found so far. >.>

[Zireael]

Day 21 of spring (yes, I edited the season length, and upgrade rate, accordingly)

All went as planned. I was practically holed up for a day and a night so that my leg would heal. Then I went north, killed four wolves, and then east along the track I mapped when I drove back the electric car.

I killed the huge boomer that gave me the fright last time and looted most of the hotel - sadly, it was mostly empty. I put the luggage cart in a safe spot and went towards the house. I got beset by loads of Zs and had to backtrack a few times, but perservered (the worst was a d-9 and a tough Z together - even worse than a second huge boomer which I simply lured over a few bushes). The house had some food (most of it rotten) but no drinkable water, and some cooking books. There’s also a billard pool basement but I had to go back due to thirst and tiredness.

I dragged an electric scooter to the bridge (I’ve verified that the bridge is far enough not to encounter any Zs) and then got the luggage cart and retraced my steps, picking up loot and tossing it in. The SWAT truck I noticed while driving had guns, ammo and UPS in the back.

Once I got back to the shelter, my first priority was to make clean water, and then to sleep. As I woke during the night, it was a perfect time to sort the loot. Then I slept some more. It’s now morning of day 21 and my order of business will be to fix/remake the torn clothing, and then to read the new books.

Last posting was on day 17 btw.

[Azrad]

Almost autumn on 45 day seasons. The modded .223 carbine is damn powerful, on close (but not melee) range, it’s one-shotting most zombies at 100 damage on crit. Hulks take four to five shots. Able to one shot most zombies from up to 10 tiles away reliably.

Also growing tomatoes, wheat, and sugar beet. Human flesh is fine and all, but a survivor’s gotta set a food pyramid!

[Azrad]

Hrrmmmmmm. Not finding any curry powder, which I need for more cheapskate currywursts, and uncooked hot dogs which I need to get my first batch of cheater chili dogs.

[Azrad]

Began making a ton of vodka wort, and at the same time began to farm strawberries. Gonna make strawberry surprise and be constantly marinated in booze.