What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

Game Talk The Bunker
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I died to a horde after I found a sledge and the day came up. Shame.

In this next one I woke up in a barracaded room. Grabbing a string and stick from the nearby window, I did 2 laps around the room as a single Zman chased me. Moving the dresser, I ran out the door and into the hallway. Blindly feeling around I found a second bedroom; this one with a DB shotgun and 00 shells on the nightstand.

<3 My hero. True Story, most of my characters keep a loaded sawed-off under the driver’s seat of the vehicle.

I have a pipe now, and my character is now running around in a pair of nice wool socks. They count as footwear for the purposes of walking over uneven ground :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ve killed 128 hulks.

Two days ago (IRL) I had 35 kills.

Zombie evolution is one hell of a drug.

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Clearing small towns during winter expedition continues to go smoothly. Food supplies still holding up; survivor will never ever even consider drinking plain clean water at this point - basically herbal/dandelion tea during the day, quenching booze at night. Food and tea is heated by the atomic coffee maker. Previously day meals are soylent shakes, but since the survivor ran out she’s been munching on a variety of other cannibalistic cuisine. There’s still about 70% steel rails remaining. Roads coated with zombie gore calling card; survivors won’t know how did it, but they sure as well know it’s someone they don’t wanna cross.

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Lol nice

Im sure azrad the last time we spoke you was going to record some of your playthroughs.

I said befor i like your style of play and the storys u share here would love to watch a stream or what ever :slight_smile:

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Well, my razor boy is slowly but steadily working at poking around the edges of this MASSIVE city. Which is weird because I’d reduced city sizes a notch or two.

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[quote=“stk2008, post:10964, topic:47”]Lol nice

Im sure azrad the last time we spoke you was going to record some of your playthroughs.

I said befor i like your style of play and the storys u share here would love to watch a stream or what ever :)[/quote]

Well, honestly, right now due to a number of stuff I don’t have much time to stream something. Maybe a month or two from now I can figure something out, so for now I’ll just play without streaming.

Anyways, the small town I cleared out somehow had ten zombears rush me. Not a problem, but I reckon this is the first time I encountered so many in one place.

Also, coffee shops. Why is it that every coffee shop I run into is almost always collapsed. Like somehow it’s a zombie magnet.

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Ive got a case of the ‘too much guns’. And rags.

I was too proficient in my sheet collecting, and now Ive got an overflowing car trunk.

This would not have been an issue if this wasnt my third vehcicle this game. I grabbed an SUV, that was leaking gas. I smashed the leaky tank because it kept leaking, thinking the tank adjacent to it would hold the fluid. Nope. They both blew, and gas and flames went in all directions in a somewhat funny manner.

I got my hands on a running luxery RV though. This one also had a leaky tank, but the tanks were nonadjacent. Yea, nope. It shattered and all my diesel went into the wind.

I hoofed it to a mine and found a working car, this one I have now. I looted several houses (because all Ive found so far are houses. suburbia) and then I found a gun store in a basement. I couldn’t leave all those poor, neglected guns alone, could I? :c

So now I have myself full to the brim with sheets and rags and guns and liquor. So Im taking the time to sort it all out in a field. So far a bear was a dick and smashed a windshield because he could, so I chased him down with the homeswrecker I made and made him pay. I liek the homewrecker, even if it isn’t a ‘toptier’ weapon. Itsa nice, brutal premise that I would liekly use irl should I ever feel like killing people. amirite?

newho, Im noticing that leather has more uses. I approve, since leather is a thing I also approve of irl.

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Should we be contacting the authorities?

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Been using a morningstar lately. Krav maga and ninjutsu seem to be the only ones compatible with it. Previously used the Mjolnir replica, but I went with the morningstar since it has some pierce damage as well.

While not as efficient at killing with the rapier, it’s still fun to use. At 17 strength thanks to mutations and bionics, it’s more or less enough to smash through normal walls and reinforced glass.

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The needed rebalance of martial arts means that I can no longer explode hulks by hitting them intelligently via dragon style.

It does however let me sweep out their legs an knee them as they bounce off the pavement, not to mention pinballing zeds off each other.

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[quote=“pisskop, post:10967, topic:47”]Ive got a case of the ‘too much guns’. And rags.

I was too proficient in my sheet collecting, and now Ive got an overflowing car trunk.

This would not have been an issue if this wasnt my third vehcicle this game. I grabbed an SUV, that was leaking gas. I smashed the leaky tank because it kept leaking, thinking the tank adjacent to it would hold the fluid. Nope. They both blew, and gas and flames went in all directions in a somewhat funny manner.

I got my hands on a running luxery RV though. This one also had a leaky tank, but the tanks were nonadjacent. Yea, nope. It shattered and all my diesel went into the wind.

I hoofed it to a mine and found a working car, this one I have now. I looted several houses (because all Ive found so far are houses. suburbia) and then I found a gun store in a basement. I couldn’t leave all those poor, neglected guns alone, could I? :c

So now I have myself full to the brim with sheets and rags and guns and liquor. So Im taking the time to sort it all out in a field. So far a bear was a dick and smashed a windshield because he could, so I chased him down with the homeswrecker I made and made him pay. I liek the homewrecker, even if it isn’t a ‘toptier’ weapon. Itsa nice, brutal premise that I would liekly use irl should I ever feel like killing people. amirite?

newho, Im noticing that leather has more uses. I approve, since leather is a thing I also approve of irl.[/quote]

When you find a car with a leaking tank, you can remove the tank to save the gas - items don’t ever leak. Also, you can then pour the remaining contents of the removed tank into the other tank if the other tank is still good (and it had more than one tank, of course). All it takes is a hacksaw and a little mechanics skill (level 1, maybe? don’t remember).

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Aye. I didnt have the skill or the hacksaw att, but I did have fists of fury. They held a 2x4 :}

I dont think Ive ever gone 2 weeks withput exploring the map like I did here. I found a survivor outpost just to the south of where my intial LoS cut off, and I traded them all my OP guns. Unfortunately, while I was in my car doodading about a goup of Zmen spawned and I kited them into the shelter. They put them down, but I guess I didnt pulp one or something(?) and it murderized the 2 guards in the greeting room. Their sacrifice is not in vain, although I was happier to have their batteries then their weapons. 600 rounds and an H&k to fire them off with.

I spent the last 2 days breaking down the last of my bulky supplies, installing car bits, and otherwise fending off the Evil Multicooker. The Stingray is now operational. It has 2 stowboards for rear doors, 2 hatch for trunck doors, a minifridge for the front passanger side door, a floor board for a passanger side seat, and a hatch for a driver’s seat. In my mind, Ive lowered the frame of the car into something you cant properly sit up in. Theres also a muffle too; and a dirt water tank. Dirty water is less useful when you dont have a hotplate to cook it with, but it is there for me, and it does a have a few uses yet.

Its so cute and low profile, and because it was made with a makeshift welder it was costly. Still looking for my first non-sportsstore, nonliquor store and non-pawn shop.

I apparently lived in the ghetto :confused:

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Should we be contacting the authorities?[/quote]
Nah, IRL days, not kills. That’s when I upgraded from 0.C to the experimental.

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Trying out the turbolaser against a horde. Previously, I only really tried this on smaller groups, so I brought one mountable turbolaser to test out its capabilities against a larger group.

For starters, it’s range is only a little less than a third of the hypervelocity driver. This more or less prevents my survivor from sniping out faraway necromancers causing trouble. Damage from the hit isn’t as high either; you get 50-120 damage per hit. Not a lot of zombies get vaporized on impact; in comparison to the hypervelocity driver which does 200 damage at the minimum. It can score 100-200 damage even when firing from 40+ tiles away. Doing 200+ damage usually means the zombies are vaporized.

There’s also the fact that the turbolaser creates a larger explosion than the driver. You need to fire about 6-7 tiles away to avoid the explosion of the driver from hitting you, and more importantly the vehicle. The turbolaser requires about 11-12 - but in some ways it also works out for it.

As for damage from the explosion, the turbolaser is far better. The hypervelocity driver causes a small explosion, which doesn’t really do a lot of damage, and shrapnel which does do damage to zombies, walls, corpses and items, but they fly about randomly which isn’t really reliable when you want to kill stuff.

On the other hand, the explosion from the turbolaser is far more consistent. You can shoot up a group of zombies close together and everyone will be damaged. It takes several shots to indirectly kill a zombie from that, but it all adds up when you’re firing at them from max range. Even the ones a little beyond the max range will be damaged as well.

The main tactic for the hypervelocity driver is to shoot from ten tiles away, to make sure the zombies get vaporized, while the turbolaser is more shoot at them as far as possible and let the explosions thin out the crowd. Several shots will destroy items and corpses eventually, but for most part it’s not something to rely on. If a zombie manages to get into the safe range, you can always fire at a space where the explosion won’t hit you and let the explosion indirectly kill the zombie.

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After this winter expedition, or if I encounter it on the road, I want to do something zany… basically make a V12 powered motorcycle, find a tank drone, and skewer it at 100+ mph with an awl pike.

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God, every time I hear “turbolaser” I imagine those honking rectangular laser towers from Star Wars and that unique sound they make when they fire.

Anyway, I finally got a motorcycle and decided to do a little scouting. The roads where I started are kind of unfortunate in that there’s only one city connected by road and a second city like meters away, but without any way to drive there safely. And north is a mall, and a small ocean of undead.

I managed to skim by them while staying on the road, and ahead of that was a smaller town, with a disproportionately large amount of zombies loitering the streets. I thought I could just plow through a bloat zombie like it was nothing, but no, those are apparently solid and my vehicle came to a total stop. There were a handful of undead coming forward out of the smog, and I felt confident as I chopped them down one by one, till a brute wandered in and inflicted an amount of damage and pain I did not expect. It’s always when I feel invincible that my block almost gets knocked off and I realize: I’m really not. Not even close.

There were two of them, and my pain kept me from outrunning them. I got ping-ponged like 4 times till I landed inches from my bike, which I dragged myself onto and gunned it out of there.

The thing that did it was this time I decided to use a machete, so I could holster it and wear minimal storage items rather than carrying my spear. Turns out keeping out of melee range was more vital to my survival than I realized. This will be noted quite extensively in the future.

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Yesss. I wish we had a vehicle-mounted turbolaser. Or maybe that main array…best way to solve the Cataclysm, give it an Alderaan Makeover.

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If the turbolaser is even vague comparable, then it’s a LOT better… because AMMO.

Also, the thing that I like about the area effect of the turbo laser is getting rid of corpses… including hulk corpses, actually, if you shoot the ground enough times. When you take out the thriller and have a zillion hulk corpses to dispose of, it’s nice.

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:smiley: somebody added vambraces for me ^.^. And continued to make the GUI sexier. crafting menu continues to lag though :frowning:

Made my first light-strip and used it OMG it lasts SOOOO long and for only 15 battery put into it ?!?!?!! Why have I not done this before!!?!?!?!

decided to stay awake until the lightstrip ran out of juice so as not to waste it… only day 2 now of lightstrip and starting to rethink that…

zombie decided to knock on the door while I was crafting in the night. when I opened door I realized I couldn’t see anything… throwing the lightstrip solved that real quick ^.^ and revealed there to only be one zombie. Makeshift crowbar hero.

In other news running a character with both high thirst and high metabolism (high hunger) continues to be a bit of work in the early game

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Huehuehue. o3o

Also…yeah, enjoy trying to outlast that lightstrip. If I recall, the biggest disadvantages are you can’t turn it off (which seems like bullshit to me, how is opening the circuit THAT complex a task?), and if I recall somewhat low light output.