What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

Game Talk The Bunker
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Today, the 13th of spring, that mutant raptor-beast-bird thing threw a crowbar at a goat that was running away. It kept leaping just outside his reach. He then took out his 410bore Frontier and capped a .45 into its ass and picked up his crowbar again. Since he is deft Im using the large iron rod more. Its still -1 to hit but its more his speed as opposed to a fire axe.

Im looking for a large town, which is either through a sizable forest or east than south and then east again, a weeklong journey even in a car. A tourist map told me so.

Im off right now to raid a public works center for a welder, hopefully. I finally found UtH in a lab, lucky me.

The image of a large, broad-shouldered man with bright tribal tattoos running after a goat and throwing a crowbar at it amuses me greatly.

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This survivor of mine raided a hospital for prozac; found none. ofc.

What he did find was a largely empty hospital with only a few drug spawn locations. He found the spitters werent really a menace, and he got a lot of healy supplies and restocked his truck with jerky and water. The food of men is Slim-Jims and Dasani.

with this done, he returns to his car 20 birshot, 10 .45, and 12 00shells richer. And, to boot, he found the klaxon and the ithaca 2021. Which are both my (above average, cuz otherwise why would I add them in instead of using the regular guns) creations I want to balance out.

The doom gun needs, most likely, a damage reduction. And the klaxon is okay where it is, in fact Id argue that its the wrong gun to take to a slugfest. Good for day to day looting though.

this guy has moved into a regular car from his hatchbaack, and now is going to leave the area. its been mostly picked clean of areas of interest. I tried to loot the school 2x. The second time I did. The first time I went I used 2 goo canisters and that worked well against the children until the zombies ran into the goo pits and tarred themselves. I used 2 manhacks the second time and the blobs killed one. But it was easy going by then, since they killed the children who would dodge my feathered attacks.

Now, Ive got no electronics book to level with, and no electronics skill to make a welder with. Sheiaeofoanfa.

I guess I could grind hotplates? Im a slow learner so its a bad proposition, but its time I got to fortifying a car for scouting runs and eventually making a deathmobile.

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[quote=“pisskop, post:12399, topic:47”][quote=“KiBoy, post:12397, topic:47”][quote=“pisskop, post:12396, topic:47”]you almost died.

without a viable melee weapon or serious unarmed theyd have worn you down.[/quote]

Eh, not really. Didn’t even get any HP damage ( though my thermal electric suit was destroyed ) and to make things easier I was setting the ants on fire.

If I had the fabrication book which teaches you how to make Japanese weapons I’d go there with a bokken. Boxing seemed to work pretty well against them, but it was quite tedious to kill them as when your stamina is very low you speed suffers a lot. I had to endure like 15 attacks per a single one I did. I’m gonna return there once I finish raiding the whole town and kill them all. Things will get easier once I have unarmed at 5 ( 4 right now at about 30% ) and counter-attack.[/quote]
Sounds like you could use a mod to make them more of a viable threat.[/quote]

Maybe, but I’m not that much of a pro yet to use your mod. I wanna have a successful character that survives into a late game and raids multiple labs, bunkers and mines etc. before I do that. I almost died to a group of zombies because I overestimated myself and ended up duking out with a zombie hulk inside a basement. Fist for fist, he pretty much destroyed the basement with my body. I finally headshotted him with a reflex recurve bow moments before my legs were broken ( acid ).

I decided to use kevlar-reinforced survivor wetboots with fire-resistant socks instead.

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Summer, Day 8

Been 22 days now. Drunkkop Birdman quit drinking and stopped detoxing. He found prozac oddly enough within the last 2 days of the tremors. big fraking help then after the worst of it had passed already.

Pisskop just finished swapping out his cars gas engine into a humvee. He moved all his stuff in. 101 shotgun shells tell the story of his survival from detox. :o

Now Ive got a cargo carrier marked on my map. Im going there to swap the gas engine for a diesel one. Ive found a few more, but I swear they use a lot of chickenbots here. A shocker zombie pwned one I know, but I was too busy fleeing for my life as it was one of those moments where you round a corner to see a gun barrel staring you down.

So, were over the hump, and I guess its time to do what I came for: mutagen testing.

Its not inrediblybly common, but I did find some on the overworld.

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After my most recent death I started a bionic prepper and discovered that the integrated tool set let me not only disassemble the lockers it let me use the sheet metal to put a couple trunks onto a couple of wooden frames greatly improving my hauling capacity over my usual single tile travois. I also discovered I was in Mushroom Town and got the hell out of dodge and in the first house I ran across discovered an atomic lamp. I just hope fighting my way past the shrooms didn’t give me a fungal infection.

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So

I start in an evac shelter. The spawn location is glorious and everything that I look for in a longterm base. A triffid nest is within sight and an ant colony is within sight. There are plenty of forest tiles, at least a single swamp tile. The river is very nearby. Everything screams longterm base.

The few exceptions are that I have no idea where any schools are for book learn-making. There are no visible mansions for similar book learn-making. There are no garages or public works buildings for toolboxes and welding equipment. I start with a screwdriver in the basement, and I am determined to find a hammer so that I can start deconstructing my the furniture in my base (I don’t much like smashing things, especially destroying objects in what will be my longterm base). I score some toolbox tools (can’t remember what) in a basement type that I call "Last Man Standing with the crates, the M60 and empty .308 rounds in addition to a survivor map. Found in that same shelter was a pair of bolt cutters, an absolutely essential component to making caltrops from wire or nails It won’t display the exact buildings that I am looking for, but it certainly helps with figuring out where the towns are. I head south.

I enter this town just as dark is falling. I hit the only two garages and find not a single toolbox, but more components. I am missing the notorious hacksaw. I break in through the windows from house to house, looking in the basements, hoping for either a gun-basement or a disorganized basement that often has tools and garbage in it. A few of the gun basements that I enter have smoker zombies, and I deem determining if there is a hacksaw in them worth the risk. Sadly, none of them do.

So, I am coughing and attracting the attention of zombies as I continue to break into houses and the like. I would have resided in the basement that I inhaled smoke in, but there were two survivor zombies in addition to the smoker, and I would not have survived that. I find a basement with a sewer rat to shelter in while I have my coughing fit.

I finally find the elusive hacksaw just before dawn. I decide it’s time for me to flee from the sizable town back to my evac shelter, with an additional 200 nails in hand. Of course, right outside of the basement that I have sheltered in is a shocker brute.

Thankfully there were impact craters to slow the beast down in while I made my escape. In one of the original buildings that I had raided. During my greedy scavenging–which typically gets me killed–I found books to raise my trapping and fabrications to level 3.

So, here I am with a surplus of caltrops knowing that so long as I am prepared, I can kill just about anything (excluding robots though I also managed to find a hackpro and laptop to deal with them as well).

I nearly got killed by a moose earlier, but I have decided that I am going to avoid exploring until I have managed my resources well and began developing armor and possibly weaponry for emergency situations, because my caltrops have proved themselves incredible at dealing with threats when I can lure them in.

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Day 23. I’ve since raided a mansion and a (vastly annoying) megastore. The mansion was much more profitable than the megastore. I picked up a few choice books, including the Medieval Swordsmanship skill book. To my great disappointment, my steel spear is mostly incompatible with the style, though my melee is high enough to unlock some benefits anyway. My piercing weapon skill is up to 5, though. I swapped out my trunk for a handy cargo space, but even that is nearly filled and I’m straining myself to move it. I just need a jumper cable, and there’s a somewhat worse for wear RV that I can move into. In the meantime, though, I need a better way to move that darn shopping cart that isn’t. Since I was dumb and didn’t think about using the ones from other shopping carts, I now have to lug it all the way back to town to get another extra-light frame and casters. There’s a steel chain in one of the houses somewhere that I plan to turn into a foot crank. I just have to find it. On a related note, do the wheels used affect ease of dragging? If I was to swap out the casters and turn it into a bastardized wheelbarrow, for instance.

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Ronson dislikes summer. It’s hot, especially when you’re wearing power armor but are too lazy to charge it up. But failing to wear power armor has its own consequences.

After doing a lot of the farm commune missions, Ronson decided he’d had enough. It’s bad enough to disassemble two whole cargo containers worth of windows for the overseer, but to have to do it again is ridiculous. They can build their own glass houses. He returned to Forestlake Mansion and decided to do stuff he could do in his shorts - gardening and smithing.

So Ronson buckled down and made springs. Springs take forever to make, but are necessary components of the solar array that he wanted to use to replace the solar panels powering his minifridge and kitchen set and also the shock absorbers he wanted to put under the seats of his deathmobile. So he spent a week or two tending his garden, eating baked potatoes and corn, and making various improvements.

Finally, Ronson decided to return to exploring. He’d heard rumors that there were things in the sewers near the refugee center, and wearing his Power Armor, he crawled through the sewers until he found them. That was kind of tedious, but eventually he found an area with power and lights and a lot of irradiated survivors, which he mostly killed. It was also really hot work, and he almost overheated a couple of times in addition to nearly passing out with exhaustion. Overwhelmed, he returned to the surface and decided to trade out the stifling Power Armor for his lighter weight survivor gear. After all, there aren’t any Brutes or Hulks or Shockers or Corrosive zombies in with the survivors, so survivor gear, a nodachi, and Niten-Ichi Ryu should be plenty to handle it.

Holy fuck.

Ronson’s second encounter with 30 or so irradiated survivors went pretty poorly. Apparently those weirdos hit pretty hard, so Ronson’s various utility vests and runner packs were quickly shredded, as well as a lot of Ronson’s limbs. Some aspirin and bandage mostly cured that up, but Ronson was forced to retreat again and rethink his strategy.

New option 1: come down with some 9mm turrets and deploy them as traps to blast the survivors apart from range. He’s worried that the turrets will either shoot him in the back or get overwhelmed and destroyed and then the shrapnel will hit him in the back.
New option 2: wait another 60 days until mid-Autumn, when hopefully it will be cool enough to safely wear Power Armor in the sewers.

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So, in the course of looking for that elusive steel chain, I found a broken bike instead. Yoinked the saddle and foot crank, only to find a pickup that just needed a new transmission. I supplied said transmission and drove it out to the megastore where I left my stash (and buddy). Picked up both loot and pal, and got to use my control laptop for the first time on an eyebot and police bot. Left the police bot in combat mode just because, and now I’m making my way toward the lab again to retrieve the rest of the books I had to leave behind. Oh, and a chemistry set. That, too. As a significant aside, I was able to clear up some helicopter wreckage and retrieve a hard plate MBR vest and an Infrared Vision CBM. The former will hopefully be very useful when it comes time to raid a military outpost.

EDIT: Made it to the lab. After giving my truck the standard post-trip once over, I found that it somehow managed to have its transmission destroyed again. So that’s a thing. Fortunately, the battery is near full, and there’s nothing installed that draws battery yet. Once I make it to the next town, I’ll have to look into replacing it.

EDIT 2: That hard plate MBR vest I got? Yeah, that would have been really nice to have. Attempted to use my control laptop on a turret. Actually succeeded, too, but there was apparently a second one just around the corner. Either way, I was turned to Swiss cheese in a remarkably effecient fashion. Oh, well. Was thinking of rerolling anyway.

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So I mostly cleared the horde from the northern part of the city I live in ( there’s ANOTHER one thanks to one of the NPC being ‘kind’ enough to force spawn a zombie master as part of a quest, meh. He already died to a random hulk already )

It took me about 4-5 in-game days.

I woke up, eat a succulent breakfast consisting of deluxe scrambled eggs, go towards the trap zone I placed ( nailboards + caltrops though I found I barely used it except for weakning hulks ), lure a couple zombies in, kill them, butcher them, lure more in, kill them, butcher them, lure them, kill them, butcher them… etc.

Thanks to actually taking the horde on I found a lot of zombie types I never fought before. Feral Predators are insane, they are about the same threat level as hulks since their impale attack causes bleeding rather often and armor can’t stop it. Wrestlers are rather annoying too, just like Nightstalkers ( hey, let’s combine shady zombies and brutes, nothing can go wrong, right? )

But hey, that’s life in a zombie-infested world.

I finally managed to get into that freaking dojo, which was halfway destroyed due to 5 or 6 hulks having a blast party in there. I learned Aikido and Judo, but the two styles I’ve been hunting for ( Krav-maga and Niten Ichi-ryu ) weren’t there. Oh well, there’s a insane road that’s going straight north from the city I live in. Once I finish things up there, it’s gonna be time for travelling. I have no labs or bunkers in sight, and I’ve really wanted to pop open one of those. Should get some EMP grenades crafted first.

And I still need to thank the ants for having me over for a couple days when I was recovering from overdose of hulk fist in my face.

How many queens/queen chambers are on average in a ant hill? I really wanna slaughter them all thank them personally for a warm welcome.

Trivia: I have roughly 850 ant kills hugs ( 1500 kills hugs in total )

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as a compromise i nerfed them before adding them to the game. wrestlers and nightstalkers.

their stats in the mod are impressively above coregame versions.

dem predators thoug, are a real nasty beasty. a few monsters in the coregame are

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It may be the end of an era, my boys. Marloss Man Reborn’s save is incompatible with the new experimental. I should mention it’s been over 1200 experimental versions since the last time I played.

EDIT: It’s true. Even migrating to a new world doesn’t work. MMR has been defeated - not by hulks, blobs, or triffids, but by the slow march of time. I’ll keep a copy of his save, but I’m starting a new character. Something I haven’t done in years.

Oh boy.

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Which one?

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Yea man, you need to document it.

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From 4517 to 5754.

EDIT: HOLY FUCK I JUST NEEDED A FRESH INSTALL

MARLOSS MAN REBORN LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!

EDIT2: Ha! Look at my bionics! I’m basically a robot covered in mold!

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A squirrel dented my military composite armor.

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Wow Bork, how fast were you going?

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[quote=“TheFlame52, post:12415, topic:47”]From 4517 to 5754.

EDIT: HOLY FUCK I JUST NEEDED A FRESH INSTALL

MARLOSS MAN REBORN LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!

EDIT2: Ha! Look at my bionics! I’m basically a robot covered in mold!

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I remember when granades were really prevalent in 0.A and I used them to boost my stats up to 30+

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I was travelling at a leisurely 40 mph; the squirrel smacked into my IFVs’ side armor. The damage was minor, but very surprising.

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Makes me think of last night, I was tearing around doing marshal stuff in my slightly modified hatchback at 50mph not minding the bushes a whole lot because they didn’t seem to be hurting my vehicle.

Then when it was night time I went to turn on my headlights and they weren’t just destroyed… they were gone :confused: