Started a new game with an infected science club member. Spawned in a small cluster of houses near a bar that I cleaned out quickly with a couple larger town visible on my map. I head north west to the nearest cluster of building to look for some more food and some batteries to power the hotplate I made with my electronics skill. In the first group of zombies I meet in the new town . . . an irradiated wanderer. And for once my character wasn’t hallucinating it. I spawned a short walk from a Necropolis. The bombed out grocery store had a damn good haul too. Still short batteries but I did get some vinegar and lemons so I should be able to make my own.
Finished building a 5x5 wood shack.
At this point i noticed i always build such tiny shacks and then build a proper base and then leave it to store barrels and tanks
I decided to start with a random character. Got a Parkour Expert Pugilist, with some minor skills, 8 str 6dex 8 int 12 per. After not finding anything in the small town to the south of the shelter, he headed south, encountering a bear. He boxed with that bear until it ran off. Heading further south, he found a mansion with fitting plate armor, a battleaxe, and a mace. Currently he’s driving around in a hippie van looking for more supplies.
Running my first game of PK’s rebalance to get past the first day. Set up a nice temporary base in a last stand basement on the edge of town, started gathering parts for a vehicle, and realized that I’m on the corner of the largest city I’ve ever seen. I’ve been looting it for 28 days with binoculars and a car and I still haven’t seen the other side.
One of my favorite places to make a base used to be in derelict, outlying neighborhoods that had a dead end to build my base.
that was back before 0.C
Even a shitty light framed and bicycle wheeled sand rail i made eats gasoline like an american musclecar.
What.
[quote=“xironfistx, post:12646, topic:47”]Even a shitty light framed and bicycle wheeled sand rail i made eats gasoline like an american musclecar.
What.[/quote]
Engines and fuel are broken.
On a related note, since the current game state is so broken I’ve been experimenting with ways to break the game. Currently I’ve managed (and I have no idea how) to make it so that vehicles have no engines, even if they have an engine installed. I keep getting alternator errors in the debug logs. Annoying, but not nearly as annoying as the 5900 series experimental when SALT WATER was broken and not usable in crafting, even if there was a pool right next to you.
Once the game gets unbroken I’ll go back to playing seriously.
Random Scenarioed until I saw one I though looked good, then tweaked it a bit. School start, decided to clear out the school but once my arm was almost broken and 5 nailboard traps in checkered pattern wasn’t killing zombies well enough combined with makeshift crowbar, I decided to raid the nearby museum. My arm got “broken” before I made it but I raided the place, busting down troublesome doors and looting 2 spiral stones, a spiral skull, full set of plate armour, and a bullwhip.
I couldn’t use the bullwhip due to arm being to injured ‘can’t use with only one arm at current strength’ so I killed all the zoms without taking a single point of damage, using bottlenecks for speed of fight. item spawn was at .5, I have now turned it down to .25
Started as a seat dude with the nearest city filled with bandits, everywhere. More bandits than zombies almost. As NPCs are bullet sponges at the moment I quickly run out of ammo, before being chased by two bandits and eventually mowed down mercilessly by punching and with a hatchet. It took a lot of time for the poor pal to die.
So my base got surrounded by like a 2x2 maptile horde, about 50 or so zombies, no way i can kill them with my nail bat, i thought.
I had a fire truck that i was working on, but i also had a semi-truck laying around, using diesel, which i really, really dont like using.
so i though, why not give it a try ?
removed all items from the truck, drove to the middle of the horde honking and making as much noise as possible, making them follow me.
Went a good ten map tiles away from my base with them two maptiles behind me, got out of the truck and said my last goodbye, threw a molotove cocktail to trash the truck to hide my scent so i can get away.
The truck went up in flames, and the horde went on to bash it, some of them even died.
went back to my house after a long round-about journey around the horde, and ate the best morale boosting food i could make out of celebration, and made a monument (a heavy duty frame with a truck horn and a wide 24" Wheel) in the middle of my courtyard.
And that is the story of how a Semi-Truck bravely gave its life to protect its little sister, me, and my base as well.
RIP FIRE TRUCK
Day 2 - Day 8
You will be missed
Lately I’ve been playing with a character template I call Tom Cruise in a world with mundane zombies
str 14 dx 8 Int 10 per 8
night vision, lightweight, scout, pretty, trigger happy, addictive personality, sleepy, deft, heavy sleeper, poor hearing, fast learner, truth teller, quick, shower victim
Then I craft a bunch a couple bindles and a bunch of clothings in the starting shelter taking care to leave torso encumberment 0 or at most 1 then go around looting bandages and first aid kits while killing zombies with a cudgel until I find the book to learn nitten-ryu and katanas.
By the time I find the book and katanas I get bored and run into the middle of a large town and kill hundreds sometimes even thousands of zombies before dying, if somehow I survive I patch myself up sleep and repeat with the next town, until I die or get too bored to keep going.
The thing is that with enough skill, the proper style and a good weapon zombies just melt in one hit. You run into the horde killing everything in a straight line then when you’re in the middle of them you start killing them all as soon as they step in one of the eight squares around you. After a massive killstorm like that it is not uncommon to have hundreds of zombies pilled up on each of the eight squares. The only reason you die is that sometimes 6+ zombies step on the eight square killing area and sometimes one of them gets lucky and lands a hit on you before dying. Take a few dozen lucky hits while you don’t have time to patch up and you die.
Been considering using that big hammer with area of effect attack instead of katanas, I wonder if it will work.
Already heavilly damaged somehow managed to survive a fight with a shocker. Day 3 Dodge skill: 3
I guess full plate is not detrimental to fighting a shocker? (Good museum!)I made sure to drop my makeshift crowbar, and fight him with my stone spear instead, but did my armor act as a Faraday cage? Seems like I should have been toast. As is getting him to run over a spike trap once or twice first probably saved my life.
Now to find/ craft a knife and hope for some bionics for future instalation.
Getting into mid-game for the first time with wander spawns on. Basic evac/survivor start, evac center a short jog outside of town.
It was rough going for a while. Knife spear was not really cutting it against the specials I was running into. Hordes of shady zombies were making it very difficult to move about unnoticed at night. On night 3 a tough zombie and spitter broke into the evac center and melted the NPC while I slept. I woke up to the spitter chewing on my boots and managed to poke both of them to death, marking my 3rd or 4th near death experience on this character at that point.
Luckily the hordes wandered away from the center of town long enough for me to make a sprint for the antique store and grab a genuine naginata on night 4, which catapulted me up the power curve. I’ve never used the naginata before, tending to prefer the high DPS swords and axes. The naginata is awesome.
Just finished my first reading binge after clearing out two bookstores. Carved up my first shocker brute when it barged in on me reading Glamopolitan. Nobody will know my shame.
It’s something like day 12 now. Starting to see the first survivor gear recipes, have enough gear and skills to start thinking about a vehicle. The evac center windows are boarded and all the carnage from the spitter incident is mopped up. I’m decked out head-to-toe in leather armor with a trench coat, naginata, and a Mossberg 500 with a fully-loaded shotgun bandolier. I like to imagine I look pretty damn cool.
Starting to think this survivor might be okay for the long haul if I can get him a bit more geared before some random NPC tries to feed him a buckshot sandwich.
I started a 12 Str boxer with the missed scenario, starting in a library. Unfortunately, it was a smaller library with a lot of windows. I was spotted through a window, and started a chokepoint, taking down zeds. Then the zombie brute showed up. With no chance of outrunning him, I gave up for dead and stood toe-to-toe with the brute. I survived. Lots of pain, some damage, but I survived. I boxed a brute. Now I’m hiding in a grocery store back room with a lot of basic look and making runs to electronic stores, the library, and two bookstores.
Just pulled some initial D deja vu level shit by literally drifting around a military outpost’s search lights and throwing an EMP near the entrance while the car was still moving
easily the best move i’ve pulled since i started playing
[quote=“Aesop, post:12653, topic:47”]Luckily the hordes wandered away from the center of town long enough for me to make a sprint for the antique store and grab a genuine naginata on night 4, which catapulted me up the power curve. I’ve never used the naginata before, tending to prefer the high DPS swords and axes. The naginata is awesome.
Just finished my first reading binge after clearing out two bookstores. Carved up my first shocker brute when it barged in on me reading Glamopolitan. Nobody will know my shame.[/quote]
Polearms in this game are very useful against anything that can be killed in three hits or less. Once you get to the big boys, the higher DPS non-reach weapons start getting more useful, as the one extra hit from the reach doesn’t make up for all the slower hits in close combat. Almost any weapon style will also be a bigger boost than reach, as well, though the reach might still be worth it against the little guys.
The shame of reading Glamopolitan is that it’s almost NEVER worth reading - unless you’re VERY short on materials (and when are you ever short on rags?), it’s much faster to just make and unmake handwraps or such. Unless that’s the cooking one, in which case boiling water/cooking meat usually takes care of it naturally. Either way, 24 minutes a read for level 0? Just say no.
[quote=“deoxy, post:12656, topic:47”][quote=“Aesop, post:12653, topic:47”]Luckily the hordes wandered away from the center of town long enough for me to make a sprint for the antique store and grab a genuine naginata on night 4, which catapulted me up the power curve. I’ve never used the naginata before, tending to prefer the high DPS swords and axes. The naginata is awesome.
Just finished my first reading binge after clearing out two bookstores. Carved up my first shocker brute when it barged in on me reading Glamopolitan. Nobody will know my shame.[/quote]
Polearms in this game are very useful against anything that can be killed in three hits or less. Once you get to the big boys, the higher DPS non-reach weapons start getting more useful, as the one extra hit from the reach doesn’t make up for all the slower hits in close combat. Almost any weapon style will also be a bigger boost than reach, as well, though the reach might still be worth it against the little guys.
The shame of reading Glamopolitan is that it’s almost NEVER worth reading - unless you’re VERY short on materials (and when are you ever short on rags?), it’s much faster to just make and unmake handwraps or such. Unless that’s the cooking one, in which case boiling water/cooking meat usually takes care of it naturally. Either way, 24 minutes a read for level 0? Just say no.[/quote]
Yeah, I don’t often find myself using reach weapons after replacing the knife spear. It’s just happened to work out that nothing higher DPS has come along. All the swords in 3 antique shops and a museum have been fakes. The one weapon I found in the museum that was real is an awl pike. Reach attack lyfe. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ended up having to use the Mossberg trying to get to that museum in the first place. It was guarded by a shocker, brute, and soldier zombie that were already giving me trouble when a zombear decided to join the party. Between that and the noise of the alarms going off when I bashed the museum doors down I ended up attracting some new friends. Ducked around a corner and booked it home. Met two ami-gos on the way home. Shotgun bandolier was a good choice.
lvl1 beauty mag simply needs more recipes.
anyone have irl glamo xp? what kinds of Krafts can be had in it?
arm warmers and leg warmers yes.
stockings at lvl1?
some leg recipes for >lvl3 would be good for balance. leg gear, warm leg gear w/storage is hard to make before then
um I assume you mean <lvl 3 by the way you phrased that?
maybe. yes.
I mean thats what I said