I’ve never found a chance to use a 105 shell on anything yet :l
Day 24 of Summer, Year 0 After Cataclysm.
I have finally killed the hulk (one of two?) lurking downtown. I managed to lure it outside the township and kited it to death using a M4A1 on rollerblades. I have also managed to lure most of the horde outside of the city; they were attracted to the gunshots. Maybe I should try ramming them with the doom-mobile next…
Day 26 of Summer, Year 0 After Cataclysm.
While driving past a megamall, I disembarked from my rolling fortress to clear out some of the minor hordes hanging around the parking lot. It all went swimmingly, until everyone got on the receiving end of a hail of gunfire. It turns out that there was a light tank sitting just outside the edge of the screen and the fight had wandered into the range of its turrets. I gotta say, whatever company designed the aiming software for the turret, it is shit. The bullets sprayed everywhere, half of them not even hitting any zeds. A pickup truck and some other vehicle blew up when stray bullets met their gas tanks.
My ears rang from the explosion, deafened.
On the overmap blinking green 'Z’s appeared from the depths of the megamall where they had lain unseen, drawn to the commotion. Shit.
I climbed into my Heavy Survivor RV as quickly as possible, a task made complicated by the fact that I was wearing rollerblades. Then I floored the pedal, driving out of town. Just in time too. I the other hulk was drawn by the explosion as well. I gave chase, but it’s not faster than a my RV. I watched the pursuing hulk recede into the distance from my wing mirror. My body aches from the aftershock of explosion.
I finally stopped a dozen map tiles away next to the entrance of a lab yet explored. A green Z on the overmap blinks ominously, where I spied the raging hulk through my binoculars.
Right. Now that I have calmed down a bit, I decided on the next step of the plan. Most zombies I can handle easily. I got 15 in throwing and archery skills, 11 in rifles, and 10 in marksmanship. But with only STR 8, it cost me over 200 movepoints to aim and fire my reflex recurve bow. Fine for dealing with most zeds but not so good an idea when faced with a hulk. In the end I equipped myself with the pneumatic assault rifle (with steel bearing rounds), a steel spear and rollerblades for kiting. I didn’t use my throwing knives. Last time I did that, it just bounced off their stupidly mighty thews.
Having armed myself, I skated down the road in good time. 65 move cost is pretty sweet. I followed the hulk north up the highway, the hulk constantly just out of sight even though I’m wearing rollerblades on pavements. Man, hulks are pretty fast for their size, aren’t they?
Fortunately, the hulk got distracted playing ping pong with some triffids, allowing me to catch up. Once it had turned the triffids into pulpy smears on the ground, it turned on me. It starts charging. I opened fire on full auto, expending 15 steel bearings on its face and bringing it down to ‘moderately injured’.
It didn’t stop.
Right just it came to my face I tazed it. Huh, shouldn’t the big Z character be slightly washed out, to indicate the ‘stunned’ status? No matter. I proceed to poke with my steel spear, since it’ll take too long to reload the rifle. Next thing I know, I’m lying face down almost a dozen tiles away, sans 30 hp.
I struggled to get up.
Note to self: Tazers don’t work on hulks.
I got up just before it closed in completely. I legged it, bringing the movement cost down to thirty something. With a move pool of around 80 (lowered due to pain), it should allow me to outpace the hulk while making reach attacks with the spear.
I managed to to get two or three shots in before finding myself face-down half a dozen tile away for second time.
Note to self: Hulks are really fast.
I chalked it up to their longer strides or something, but that info doesn’t help me. I got up again, now in even more pain and reduced move-pool. I ran away while kiting with the spear. I got punted another two or three times before the hulk finally succumbs to its wounds. I dragged myself to the massive corpse and starts whaling on it, reducing it into pulp. I really don’t want to to face the same hulk a second time. A curious raccoon ambled close, watching me in my morbid task. It was nearly sun down when I was finished.
Slowly, painfully, I starts the trek back to base.
I cant find any science labs but there are FEMA camps everywhere. Atleast I have a source of zombie scientists…
EDIT - Finally came across a lab. Yielded me some supplies and books for Silat and Ninjitsu!
Lost a 32 day survivor (91 day seasons) to windows 8.1 update bug so restore, turn off automatic updates, live dangerously.
So latest experimental has been hell on new characters! New, more dangerous zeds and I swear it feels like the regular ones got a buff. Also tried my hand at x2 spawn and lets just say it has been a humbling experience. On a positive not finally got a regular survivor past day 1 so maybe things are looking up.
Gonna hole up in a basement for a couple of days and heal up. Poor NPC Marty McIforgotyournamecauseyoudead perished helping clear the house. RIP
Edit: previous character died. Head cut, no meds, bad ending to a hard life.
The RNG’s have smiled upon latest character. Huge city next to starting shelter but right down the road was a bar, grocery store and a single house. Managed to clear all hostiles pretty easy and I’m reading up on my sewing and mechanics from liberated books from grocery store.
[quote=“Walegrin, post:11924, topic:47”]I cant find any science labs but there are FEMA camps everywhere. Atleast I have a source of zombie scientists…
EDIT - Finally came across a lab. Yielded me some supplies and books for Silat and Ninjitsu![/quote]
a LAB? REALLY?!? I’ve never seen a lab give a martial art book, and I’ve been to MANY MANY labs (usually do lab start, for one thing).
my name is pisskop, and Ive been Windows update free since August if '15.
[quote=“deoxy, post:11926, topic:47”][quote=“Walegrin, post:11924, topic:47”]I cant find any science labs but there are FEMA camps everywhere. Atleast I have a source of zombie scientists…
EDIT - Finally came across a lab. Yielded me some supplies and books for Silat and Ninjitsu![/quote]
a LAB? REALLY?!? I’ve never seen a lab give a martial art book, and I’ve been to MANY MANY labs (usually do lab start, for one thing).[/quote]
Second level, might have been in the barracks area…
Lol, my laptop up until last month was pimping Vista until it finally crapped out so I adopted my daughters old laptop. I am also the guy who never upgrades my cellphone until I just can’t get to limp along any more.
been trying to boot camp windows for a day so I can un read-only my favorite flash. Spent alot of time playing and goofing off while watching a little blue meter fill slowly. Came away a failure. Wonderful waste of a day. Least I got some cataclysm in, and got a working version of 7 Days to Die.
I came home to my ranch after an intense scouting and kevlar-scavenging run by car. I was carefully backing up my damaged hatchback closer to the front door, to be able to easily move the army clothing in my trunk to the inside.
Boom.
Some small enemy hit my fuel tank. It exploded, causing a chain reaction which also exploded my RV next to it. 30-ish pain and house on fire. All my stuff and a crippled NPC with his mission completed was inside.
No fire extinguisher.
Ran to the stash and tried to decide what to save. The food? Fuck the food. The welder? Yes. The A7 laser rifle? Hell yes.
Nervously hear crashes from the east while trying to push as much of my stuff outside as possible. Fire kept getting closer. Got lucky though because the fire suddenly retracted a bit from a collapse, which gave some extra time. I managed to get all my important stuff out of the way, only losing some ammo, which exploded in my face, and some stuff I could live without. Even had time to push the splinted NPC out of the building.
I’m happily living in the silo now. It’s very cosy.
I’ve recently encountered the first lab to intersect with a hellmouth. This is the first time I’ve encountered one, and I’ve been playing Cata on and off since 2014. It started with this non-ice lab that I was looting. The first floor went okay. Then I hit a dead end on the second. There were no stairs leading to the third floor, despite the sounds of critters from the floor below.
Something doesn’t make sense. At least until I compared the map of the first floor and the second. See, there are actually several stairs down, in the first floor, only a few of them doesn’t overlap with the explored rooms of the second floor. So I went back up to check on one of the other stairs, and whad’ya know? It led down to a sheer drop. There’s no message of about a lot of heat though, so I assumed there wouldn’t be lava underneath. So I went back to my Heavy Survivor RV and fetch myself some a long rope. It turns out I was half-right.
There’s no lava beneath the broken stairs, but plenty of them around where I landed. I had found myself the very first hellmouth I had ever encountered.
Note to self: Going near lava is a bad idea.
Fortunately, I can cybernetically numb the pain, and so was not penalised by it.
And it turns out that the hellmouth (and the one south of it) are the only means of accessing the third floor. Which led me to discover extra undiscovered portions of the second south of the lava rift by going up other stairs in the third floor. There’s literally no way for anyone to access the lower levels without some ropes. Which makes it more baffling when I encountered an NPC in a locked magazine store inside a locked barrack in the already hellishly difficult to access lab. And he was more concerned about getting me to mercy kill his zombified mom. Just, wtf?
Recently found my ancient 0.A 1996 version of cata.
Messed around in it and realized how far we’ve come in recent years.
Damn I love this game, and the developers for working on it.
[quote=“Rot, post:11933, topic:47”]Recently found my ancient 0.A 1996 version of cata.
Messed around in it and realized how far we’ve come in recent years.
Damn I love this game, and the developers for working on it.[/quote]
Hear, hear!
I’m about to start a playthrough that I call “The Species Traitor”
Basically, it’s a character who worships the blob and believes that the zombies should inherit the Earth.
Goals:
Survive, obviously. If the Species Traitor dies, they cannot continue their noble cause.
Kill all human NPCs so they can be reborn as zombies
Kill all fungal creatures/structures, triffids, and nether creatures. While they unfortunately cannot be zombified, their existence opposes the zombies’ domination of the world.
Cross the slime mutation threshold.
Rules:
You are not allowed to purposely harm or exploit, directly or indirectly, any zombie, blob, or blob-created creature. This includes making zombie slaves, using necromancy, or using the blob for selfish motives such as building a vehicle out of it.
This should be interesting.
Yea, what is the hellmouth supposed to do exactly? Ive never found much of interest there besides the landmark, and its really, really dangerous to be around.
[quote=“Walegrin, post:11928, topic:47”][quote=“deoxy, post:11926, topic:47”][quote=“Walegrin, post:11924, topic:47”]I cant find any science labs but there are FEMA camps everywhere. Atleast I have a source of zombie scientists…
EDIT - Finally came across a lab. Yielded me some supplies and books for Silat and Ninjitsu![/quote]
a LAB? REALLY?!? I’ve never seen a lab give a martial art book, and I’ve been to MANY MANY labs (usually do lab start, for one thing).[/quote]
Second level, might have been in the barracks area…[/quote]
Actually, I forgot about the recent (well, last 3-4 months) change to the barracks, and the lockers in each little room commonly having skill books of various combat-related (plus swimming) things. I’ve found silat and fencing in their, but never ninjitsu. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve EVER found a ninjitsu book - they are just crazy rare.
[quote=“deoxy, post:11937, topic:47”][quote=“Walegrin, post:11928, topic:47”][quote=“deoxy, post:11926, topic:47”][quote=“Walegrin, post:11924, topic:47”]I cant find any science labs but there are FEMA camps everywhere. Atleast I have a source of zombie scientists…
EDIT - Finally came across a lab. Yielded me some supplies and books for Silat and Ninjitsu![/quote]
a LAB? REALLY?!? I’ve never seen a lab give a martial art book, and I’ve been to MANY MANY labs (usually do lab start, for one thing).[/quote]
Second level, might have been in the barracks area…[/quote]
Actually, I forgot about the recent (well, last 3-4 months) change to the barracks, and the lockers in each little room commonly having skill books of various combat-related (plus swimming) things. I’ve found silat and fencing in their, but never ninjitsu. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve EVER found a ninjitsu book - they are just crazy rare.[/quote]
Well, I did. Twice.
[quote=“Alasnuyo, post:11938, topic:47”][quote=“deoxy, post:11937, topic:47”][quote=“Walegrin, post:11928, topic:47”][quote=“deoxy, post:11926, topic:47”][quote=“Walegrin, post:11924, topic:47”]I cant find any science labs but there are FEMA camps everywhere. Atleast I have a source of zombie scientists…
EDIT - Finally came across a lab. Yielded me some supplies and books for Silat and Ninjitsu![/quote]
a LAB? REALLY?!? I’ve never seen a lab give a martial art book, and I’ve been to MANY MANY labs (usually do lab start, for one thing).[/quote]
Second level, might have been in the barracks area…[/quote]
Actually, I forgot about the recent (well, last 3-4 months) change to the barracks, and the lockers in each little room commonly having skill books of various combat-related (plus swimming) things. I’ve found silat and fencing in their, but never ninjitsu. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve EVER found a ninjitsu book - they are just crazy rare.[/quote]
Well, I did. Twice.[/quote]
Lucky bum! 
Speaking of ninjutsu books, I found one and a krav maga book in a military outpost. Just had to sacrifice some bionic power to cloak myself and shoot out the turrets with a FN SCAR-H.