What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

Game Talk The Bunker
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I recently learned that a very min/maxed martial arts character with high starting stats is much, much more in line with my play style than someone with alot of skills. Dragon style + high int and strength will deal 70-120 damage with nothing but fists and kill most early enemies in a single hit. A couple of choice bionics later, and he’s pretty much self-sufficient.

I’m hesitant to say how long this guy has been alive so far in case I jinx myself, but he’s been around long enough now that complacency is setting in. My next goal will be to build a supercar, which I’m pretty sure will be what kills him in the end since he has no driving skill and I’m unsure if there’s a book or easy way to train that.

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Driving is the least useful skill in the game. It’s not worth the time to read the books for it.

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Realistically speaking. Just about knowing vehicles exist should allow you to drive a car with some basic visual cues from childhood. Such as seeing adults drive. If vehicles were made to be overly complicated to drive, nobody would have one. People are friggin dumb as a brick in real life. Cripes, back in the old days before mass production. You had to be able to build a friggin car to have one or at least know to fix one. So whats that point? Lots of people in a relatively ignorant world, then, still had vehicles.

Cars are only skill based in game to me for reason of how well you can control a vehicle and how likely you can understand how to control something more complicated. Like a tank. Even a heavy construction based vehicle like a dump crane…even though I do not think we have those yet.

PK? Dump cranes and contruction yards? :wink:
(just my go to guy for puking my ideas at lately, sorry lol)
You just seem capable of cool crap =)

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I thought swimming was least useful?

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I thought swimming was least useful?[/quote]

Next to driving, swimming is useful the least often, but in the very rare cases where it’s useful (say, punched into deep water by a hulk), it can mean the difference between life and death.

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driving is useful all the time.

driving is useful for avoiding shrubs.
driving helps at night intercity to avoid cars without slowing down and lets Zs smash your car
driving helps prevent skidding
driving helps avoiding ramming into trees
Driving helps with damaged cars; helping to compensate for the damage’s effects.

driving helps in small ways. driving isnt essential because it governs a skill that doesnt have a hard failure/sucess rate or gates like other skills, but its small effects make dangerous situations managable and reduces required maintainance and provides a time advantage

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[quote=“pisskop, post:12079, topic:47”]fire will scare off mammalian predators, though it may take a few turns to get their fear up.[/quote]That’s actually what I tried, and might’ve gotten me a bit closer to getting killed in the situation, as firemaking with matches and the like takes several turns now, and I had no flamethrowers as I had just started out.

[quote=“Zireael, post:12080, topic:47”]Slow healer? Ouch. Might have been better to get killed by the wolf - you look set to die a slow death by starvation and/or thirst.[/quote]Surprisingly actually doing relatively more well for myself than I thought. Not fully well, though, but I’m sort of burning to make progress. The immediately adjacent forest and the city being more than 3 tiles away helps with this.

I do think I’ll need to make a night raid for my wound, though, and with my leg broken (there seems to be a bug which makes having extremely low limb health and having 0 limb health visually indistinguishable), I will be very hard pressed to avoid engagements. A previous character has taught me that grappler zombies with acid zombies are a one way stunlocked ticket to hell.

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The quickest way to tell if it’s broken is if you can apply a bandage (or other healing item) - if it will let you use the bandage, it’s not broken.

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The quickest way to tell if it’s broken is if you can apply a bandage (or other healing item) - if it will let you use the bandage, it’s not broken.[/quote]Yeah, that’s the manner I’ve been checking it. If you have nothing on hand, then a more indirect way to tell is to attempt to sleep and see if it regens any at all.

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John Smith’s Log:

Year 1:

Spring: I gathered some stuff in LMOE shelter (mine start location) , went outside, met an NPC, headed into city and to football field, found a water cart, modified it, dragged it around for a long time, and then salvaged some parts, and voila, 3100 storage space powered by electricity. I had to improvise: 4" casters at back and 20" banded cart wheel at front. Finally found normal 20" wide wheels. I named it USS Cataclysm. End of spring.

I also looted clothing store, and in meantime, I hunted animals. Cheated myself a minireactor and a lot of plutonium cells. Who cares, it’s singleplayer game anyways.

Summer: Cracked in bank vault, found gold, silver, minireactor and RM13 combat armor. I decided to try it out. When I went outside the bank, I saw a zombie fighting with an eyebot. I killed that eyebot, and then 2 riot control bots arrived. I once allowed myself to be arrested, and then I turned on my Railgun CBM and I was throwing those handcuffs. I had a lot of fun. Then went into a house, boarded up windows and built a metal door in bedroom exit. I went out with USS Cataclysm and arrived to mansion. Boarded up windows and it turns out that for the mansion bedroom alone you need a lot of two by fours. Built a forge and other stuff, built a vehicle, attached vehicle forge, solar panel and minireactor. Replaced ALL windows in the mansion’s southern larger pool with wooden walls and one metal door. I did the same with bedroom. Build 2 vehicles, one for two by fours and the other one for general storage Crafted a crossbow, went out to chop trees, encountered a pack of wolves and killed them. Butchered and made some meat jerky. End of summer.

Autumn: Made a ferromagnetic rail rifle and chopped a tree. Made plate armor. Who’s the knight now? Spent like 2 days making all parts necessary for a FOODCO Buddy. Added a FOODCO Buddy to my vehicle forge. Ran few times into a forest, killed and butchered a couple of animals. End of autumn.

Winter: Modified soldering iron, head lamp and light amp goggles with UPS conversion, so I can run them off bionic power. Deconstructed every single shelf in library, and recovered leather from seats. Went into a spider basement. Made a thermal electirc outfit and modified it to run off UPS.
Also made an electric jackhammer and killed some zombies.

Year 2:

Spring:

To be continued…

Screenshots: https://mega.nz/#!gsFgkIYR!gwkgFznS3_gSmVdNRVotI2GxnQkq0Xo2Lxuxt88Qnto - Download, unpack and enjoy.
My mansion bedroom: https://postimg.org/image/i38qwg067/
I also added military plating.
Character was named John Smith.[/color][/color][/color]

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[quote=“lol2121, post:12090, topic:47”]John Smith’s Log:

Spring: I gathered some stuff in LMOE shelter (mine start location) , went outside, met an NPC, headed into city and to football field, found a water cart, modified it, dragged it around for a long time, and then salvaged some parts, and voila, 3100 storage space powered by electricity. I had to improvise: 4" casters at back and 20" banded cart wheel at front. Finally found normal 20" wide wheels. I named it USS Cataclysm.

I also looted clothing store, and in meantime, I hunted animals. Cheated myself a minireactor and a lot of plutonium cells. Who cares, it’s singleplayer game anyways.

Summer: Cracked in bank vault, found gold, silver, minireactor and RM13 combat armor. I decided to try it out. When I went outside the bank, I saw a zombie fighting with an eyebot. I killed that eyebot, and then 2 riot control bots arrived. I once allowed myself to be arrested, and then I turned on my Railgun CBM and I was throwing those handcuffs. I had a lot of fun. Then went into a house, boarded up windows and built a metal door in bedroom exit. I went out with USS Cataclysm and arrived to mansion.

To be continued…

Screenshots: https://mega.nz/#!gsFgkIYR!gwkgFznS3_gSmVdNRVotI2GxnQkq0Xo2Lxuxt88Qnto - Download, unpack and enjoy.
I also added military plating.
Character was named John Smith.[/quote]

That combat armor, if you get the chance to fuel it, is pretty badass. You can also refit it for your body. So even out of combat wearing it for full body protection for the immunities is HUGE. Once you can fuel it, even better.

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The only way this guy would have been more dangerous is if he had gasoline and a loaded flamethrower.

I shudder to think if he had some RDX and C4 and a nuke.

I dub thee “Naked Pyrobomber”.

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EDIT : actually this explains why the coffeeshop nearby burned down…

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How the hell did she even carry all those wonderful toys?

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Day 4: 9 AM. I cannot find the guy I was hiding out with, here. The surroundings outside have finally gone quiet, though I think he could have either fled, or joined the many bodies across this shelter
With the coming of day, I had felt exposed from all the break-ins, so i barricaded the windows with desks and benches i pulled apart
I am thirsty, and my injured leg is beginning to feel numb. Running is painful. I feel unwell.

Rain falls quietly against the snow outside.

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I found a Dead Pyramid artifact recently, it seemed to sap my health when close to it and decrease all my stats by two when held. Three charges, used one and nothing seemed to happen. Any ideas? Worth it at all?

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Natural artifacts (I assume you found it with a small bit of rubble around it?) always have a positive and a negative affect. The “when close to it” effect should be part of the rubble where you found it, so that’s no problem. Decreases all stats by two is one of the worse negative effects, so ouch, but that means that the active effect is something that’s considered positive.

If there’s no message (other other noticeable effect) at all when you active it, and we assume it’s a positive effect, that leaves… um, the effect that makes some of the monsters join you? Go active it near some monsters, and see what you get - there are a couple of effects that do stuff to all monsters nearby, so it might be one of those.

I think all the negative activated effects have a message.

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My Sheltered Survivor (who’s been chugging along for a couple months now) made the maximum possible number of holsters so her inventory volume would be freed up.
I think at the end of the spree (and raiding several gun basements) she had two fast draw holsters (one containing a LeMat revolver and the other her suppressed M1911), a back holster (containing her double-barrelled shotgun) two ankle holsters (one containing a .22 pistol I had far too much ammo for, the other containing a Glock 22), and a sheath containing her multitool.
It was coming in handy at a power substation crowded with zombie technicians, going full gun-kata and pulling a new gun for every one stolen, until my game crashed, sending me back to ages before.
;-;

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[quote=“Adragis029, post:12097, topic:47”]My Sheltered Survivor (who’s been chugging along for a couple months now) made the maximum possible number of holsters so her inventory volume would be freed up.
I think at the end of the spree (and raiding several gun basements) she had two fast draw holsters (one containing a LeMat revolver and the other her suppressed M1911), a back holster (containing her double-barrelled shotgun) two ankle holsters (one containing a .22 pistol I had far too much ammo for, the other containing a Glock 22), and a sheath containing her multitool.
It was coming in handy at a power substation crowded with zombie technicians, going full gun-kata and pulling a new gun for every one stolen, until my game crashed, sending me back to ages before.
;-;[/quote]

that load out sounds pretty amusing; shame about the crash

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Tough times in the Dark Days Ahead for Yona Iche.

Can’t even actually get a full night’s sleep because in the past few days, either the influenza has made it impossible to sleep continuously, or the base was in the process of being sieged by a steady stream of undead, which I’m not even very capable of fending off 1v1.

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Oh my gosh, you got an NPC named Nathaniel Ford?! :o