What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[pisskop]

caltrops, a house

[MrQwerty]

Learned how to make mutagens, became a plant-like abomination. It seems fitting, seeing how my diet consists mainly of plant marrow taken from triffid corpses, and how triffids are fucking everywhere… a shame there is no “triffid pheromone” mutation.
After winter finally ends, i plan on going down the ice lab to hopefully get plant serum.

[Funkybritishgamer]

So your basically now a cannibal.

[Alasnuyo]

So I had just finished a round of late evening raiding on the outskirts of the town and was just about to hightail it away (there are hulks downtown) when this guy came up to me for a chat.

[spoiler=Well, he had a shotgun, but I had a car.]

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[deoxy]

I’m playing new character (Really Bad Day), and I bugged out of town, managed to avoid all the Zs, got to the nearby mansion (just out of town), cleared it out, etc, etc…

So, late spring, I head up to the nearby Home Improvement Super Store. I’ve got decent equipment, except for finding a good weapon (using 2-by-sword), and I want seeds for summer.

Well, after making nightly trips and drawing out zombies a few at a time until nearly dawn (and smashing zombies, not butchering, since that takes too long), and finally managed to (mostly) clear the place out and get my seeds.

It’s late SUMMER. I spent almost 2 in-game weeks doing this, and I killed AT LEAST 500 zombies (didn’t check my kill count right at the beginning), and that doesn’t count the fat zombies (a good many), child zombies (several), and zombie cops (a few).

OK, yeah, I play on x5 spawn, but even so… that means there would have been over 100 in there on regular play… and that’s at least half as many as I’ve seen in the town scrounging at night (I killed under a hundred, and there’s probably that many left), and it’s got 8-ish houses and about that many other building - also on x5 spawn, of course. The Home Improvement Super Store has something like 2.5 times the population of the nearby town.

Is there some pop-culture or movie reference I’m missing as to why the Home Improvement Super Stores are always PACKED with zombies, more than any other place in the game? Or is it just that seeds are the most important thing to zombies, and we should just give them all the seeds and they’ll be happy and leave us alone?

[pisskop]

HIs are suprisingly unusefull.

maybe 700-1000 nails, some seeds, some googles and toolbelts, and somemore exotic (read as: useless) chems and supplies.

some crates?

plenty of metal pipes.

anywho, not worth the effort, imo, unless you have a clear neef or convenience strikes.

he stores themselves are empty to begin with. the Zs spawn outside the store. as hordes close in they spawn inside.all around the store, and i guess the destructble racks must be extea loud. cuz boy, can zeds come

[Walegrin]

Broke both of my arms - AGAIN! It is my fault though. Next time I’ll make sure that the zombie isn’t a brute.

[pisskop]

holy holy holy

day 01

spawned in a 3 house city. ran outside, stole a chicken walkers cargo carrier. swapped it for a car down the road.

drove back. foundan npc who has a machete. buy said machete

Loot the town under darkness. day comes, CW is 50 tiles away. i loot the rubble of my starter house while checking his position.

I get infection and a bite. i cauterize the bite and scramble to look for aid kits or antibiotics. find second 3 house town.
ntothing but an antlered horror and crawlers. check 2 nearby shelters, nothing.

find an aid book. my starting aid skill is two, i read to 3. no supplies though. Drank too much wine and milk, -40 for barfing. really, guys? 40 morale? focus plummeted to 35.

Run back to town,loot houses, burn one down to kill zombies. hack up crawlers. nothing.

drive out of town migos meam bodies. nope.

drive more, slam into a crate after fumbling at 80kmh.

crate had rivtech guns in it.
craft crowbar. other crates had grenades in them. a mininuke even. no aid.
Finally, last crate has first aid. At 2200, i heal myself, have 2 holsters, army helmet, tac gloves, am emp grenade, 2 smoke gren, 2 flashbangs, 3 c4, a mininuke, 3 rivtech guns, 100 9mm and a glock.

and a machete and army pants/coat.

I went from dead meat to well supplied in 30 seconds, after 12 intense hours

[deoxy]

[quote=“pisskop, post:11886, topic:47”]anywho, not worth the effort, imo, unless you have a clear neef or convenience strikes.

he stores themselves are empty to begin with. the Zs spawn outside the store. as hordes close in they spawn inside.all around the store, and i guess the destructble racks must be extea loud. cuz boy, can zeds come[/quote]

The regular Home Improvement stores are almost universally useless, but the Superstore ones (they’re 6 maps squares, and off away from most everything else) are the best place to get seeds, concrete, and sand. They’re also good place to get bulk copper wire.

Othewise, yeah, junk.

But I play with hordes off, and I find ALL the zombies inside (if I go straight to the store from outside the reality bubble the first time I’m there), so I’m quite sure they spawn in the store, not outside it. The more I hang around the area, the more zombies get out and spread out, but when I arrive, that’s all QUITE clear (and they’re usually far enough away from everything else that there’s no “extra” zombies from other spawn sources).

[Alasnuyo]

Today, I managed to cause glitch in the Matrix. While I was applying a UPS conversion mod onto an electric forge, a none popped out. I can only imagine how to PC would react in-character to lovecraftian void in reality that is the none.

[Arek_PL]

none is back? i remember how npcs were holding none, none is nothing but something,it cant be thrown or droped but it do not take any space too

[Alasnuyo]

none is back? i remember how npcs were holding none, none is nothing but something,it cant be thrown or droped but it do not take any space too

Yep. I made a bug report on it. And it actually crashed the game when I picked it up and then tried to drop it.

[pisskop]

Day 04

Im sitting pretty enough now.

I just hit 3 tailoring, and read up to 3 mech. Ive been using the machete, despite my predilection for the stabby bashy. I spent the last night crafting well into dead tired, to get those ankle ammo satchels out. And the back holster, and the iron sights, and the repairs on what I could. Im okay.

Ive got my booze, my hip flask, and suprisingly enough I have spare clean water. All those crates yo. I usually fall into using toilet water by now.

I choose the glocks, since I gave spare mags for them. I choose the m1 over the fancier rivtechs because Im still used to choosing semis over autos, and I dont have rivtech ammo. I put an underslung shotty onto it, so Im going without a ranged attack. Weird.

Im in the middle of nowhere, and Im having a blast. I guess. so far I get away with the sling in my belt and some rocks. chucking them at the critters as the come by. a cougar is going to get it soon, and I put down a pack of wolves with it earlier. I drove up beside them and waves and shouted until the came over. Then I presume I rolled down the window and chucked rocks at them. huehuehue

Oddly enough, I crafted those armored gloves at like level 2 tailoring. I didnt know you could, or else have never tried?

[bill200]

Hey New Forum Person Here.

I present to you the story of Fishy the Fisherman.

Fishy was bestowed upon me by our blessed lord RGN by the saintus “Play Now”. She slighty buffed, and in her element, by the river, waiting for rescue like the outdoorsy princess that she is.

Is has not come and she is getting antsy.

Alright funny thing Fishy spawned next to a lab of all places with the basement of the lab encompassing the basement of the shelter. Didn’t check just asummed. Fishy likes living.

So Fishy makes the attempt to explore her surrounds and tries to gather food and supplies from the surrounding swamp and wilderness. After a dog attack and some cattail collecting she grows tired and starts to practice some sewing back at the shelter. Unfortunately her friend mrs giant mosquito and her suitor mr wasps comes to visit Fishy through the window and like rational person, decides to nope out of there.

No clean water and Fishy is getting thirsty in the semi wilderness. It is getting dark and Fishy is getting worried. She walks past a public works building and find herself in a nearby small town settlement with a radio station, hardware store, women’s dress shop and a few house. Fishy clears out the town with the help of her trusty nailboard and arson. Sweet sweet arson. At the end of day Fishy, with a bellyful of sodas Fishy finds rest in the remaining unburnt home.

With the rise of the morning sun, Fishy collects herself decides to explore the town. It was a good search, with a pickup in good shape and a case of beer in the front. Fishy decides to start to looting and considers staying put for a few days, but notices some trouble down south. A terrible shrieking is heard.

Fishy decides to check out the noise from south and notices a shipwreck! Fishy get excited and suddenly is scared. She notices a new creature called a Razorclaw. Fishy believes in her nail board, but notices the speed and efficiency Razorclaws chase and destroy the local wildlife. Given the pile of bodies of dead fish and small mammals, Fishy decides to keep her distance and explores a bridge to the west.

What luck! She finds not only one Solar Car, but TWO Solar Cars. Batteries charged and a decent amount of panels intact. Fishy is excitied. She is not a mechanic, but the thought of having power was making her mouth drool.

Then a situation occurs! A pack of Razor claws chase and kill an otter to the North, effectively cutting her off to the town she cleared out! Fishy is worried, she needs supplies and that truck looked good. So Fishy decides to try some science and she how durable Solar Cars truly are. Turns out, although the Razor Claw is an apex predator, it loses against the superiority of a Solar Car ramming them repeatedly at 30 miles pear hour. The Solar car is beaten, but the panels are in good order for the most part.

Shaking her head and rubbing her eyes, Fishy looks to the north. The Razor claws could still be heard shrinking in the distance and given the Razorclaw’s nest is quite close to the town, the idea of staying for a few days looting and reading may be risky. Maybe some scouting with the truck at the public works office might be useful?

Fishy perishes the thought while she butchers a few of the giant crabs she just ran over dispatched in an environmentally sustainable manner and for now wonders where the hell she can get lemon and butter in this post-cataclysm world

[Azrad]

Haven’t played for a while now, but what are razor claws, and are they delicious?

Like seriously, whenever I encounter a new thing in the game it ends up with me wondering on how much edible meat they can give my survivor to hoard.

[deoxy]

Ive been using the machete, despite my predilection for the stabby bashy.

The machete is one of the best weapons in the game, really. Great speed and damage, good hit bonus, works with at least of couple of martial arts. I generally stick with machete until I have a style and matching weapon otherwise (Niten Ichi-ryu with wakizashi or possibly fencing, although the seemingly recent-ish change where stop-thrusts can essentially stun-lock yourself against large groups just knocked it WAY down my list), unless I get whatever that south-american style is that works with the machete, then I’m set for the game. They really are that good.

[Coolthulhu]

although the seemingly recent-ish change where stop-thrusts can essentially stun-lock yourself against large groups

Does this still happen? There was an attempt to fix it quite a while ago.

[DeWolf]

Trying to survive in a mad max world (world with the desert test setting)

[pisskop]

Okay. So a boomer exploded away half my car’s hood.

And the car is honestly little worse for the wear.

Still balanced, still fast, still aerdynamic.

Beware, for I have created the tripod of death

[bill200]

Razor claw meat is good! Same as a coyote or a turkey. I think the shipwreck is one the newest experimental buildings in the lastest version, with multiple floors and stuff. if I were to guess the cataclysm version of the mirelurks from the fallout universe. Haven’t explored the shipwreck yet, cause you know, danger.

AI for the creature was a bit interesting. Runs in a single line formation like lobsters do and after it kills the target huddles together. These things are stupidity fast though. Wish I could tel you about combat, but I’m not getting close to those things just yet.