What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[Catfoodbob]

But point blank nuke is always the safe option.

[pisskop]

Back to Day 01.

Was hallucinating in a motel, threw a molotov at a couple of hungry zeds because I couldnt handtohand them. The molle worked, and all the zeds died to fire, but a mancubus was pestering my looting of the leather bitties and I accidently pressed ‘s’ smash the mancubus who was on top of several bodies. Needless to say, the fire caught on me and when I finished smashing the bodies my head and body were at : health and my limbs broken. I called it quits.

My new bro in a new world found himself a nice brand new car in a garage and drove it off with 70 pain from the harassment of the zeds inside said house. Fire, ladies and gents, fire. Fire is the salvation of men.

[TheWumpus]

I finally found not one, but TWO fire stations after two solid weeks of searching! Huzzah! And there’s a refugee center…right next to town. Oh. And there’s a group of Red “I” RIGHT in the center of town.

[Azrad]

Noticed that the surface level of an ice lab has the similar feature of preventing food from rotting. This some sort of a bug, though I recall the same thing happening on a different run more than a year ago…

[Rysith]

Noticed that the surface level of an ice lab has the similar feature of preventing food from rotting. This some sort of a bug, though I recall the same thing happening on a different run more than a year ago…

It’s related to temperature - food doesn’t rot below freezing. The surface levels of labs are 10 degrees C colder than outside, so it can sometimes go above zero during the summer. The first underground level is 10 degrees colder than that, so will almost never unfreeze and is generally safe to store all of your perishables near indefinitely.

Side note - getting or being able to construct a (power-hungry) freezer would be really nice

[deoxy]

Side note - getting or being able to construct a (power-hungry) freezer would be really nice

AMEN TO THAT!!!

It’s not like there aren’t dozens of them available, or anything… just make us able to hook one up to a “vehicle” power system, eh?

[Azrad]

[quote=“Azrad, post:12824, topic:47”]Noticed that the surface level of an ice lab has the similar feature of preventing food from rotting. This some sort of a bug, though I recall the same thing happening on a different run more than a year ago…

It’s related to temperature - food doesn’t rot below freezing. The surface levels of labs are 10 degrees C colder than outside, so it can sometimes go above zero during the summer. The first underground level is 10 degrees colder than that, so will almost never unfreeze and is generally safe to store all of your perishables near indefinitely.

Side note - getting or being able to construct a (power-hungry) freezer would be really nice[/quote]

Yeah, but it was the middle of summer. Temperature was high enough to be not negative, but the tainted meat inside the lab on the ice lab surface still didn’t rot.

[Azrad]

91 day seasons. Started preparing at around day 53 of summer, and more or less finished at day 16 of autumn. New car made, hooray! Usually I have my survivor make their own car, ignoring the use of vehicles she didn’t make (wheelbarrows and shopping carts don’t count), and this was basically the first run where my survivor used a car that already existed, adding a few modifications to it.

Spent about a season using it. So, I reckon that I should give it a send-off for its service. Slingshot cannon with an inferno canister to the gas tank, and a few thrown dynamites to boot. All done next to a forest for more fire.

When the flames didn’t quite destroy the engine, gas tanks and batteries, I added in some more fire with a flamethrower. I want my old car to have a viking-ish send-off, darn it!

And it did. Since the car was covered in military composite armor, it’s outer frames were still intact. Basically, some heavy duty frames, military composite plating, and a reinforced windshield was still standing, but I reckon it’s enough.

I’ll just keep that car there, with the bits of metal scattered around, and not take the still usable frames and platings. That vehicle serviced my survivor for about a 91-day season, so it’s earned it’s rest.

[pisskop]

Day 03

New character. last one found an acidic zed inside the back room of a sporting goods store. No escape.

This guy was nibbled on both arms and got himself infected on both arms. an agonizing night was spent with diarrhea and pain. The morning saw me get a first aid kit pack, but not before a brute busted into the bedroom i climbed through. He neglected to smash me, instead hammering me and standing in the fire. helpful.

The road east of town goes into the swamp, and just beyond that, a river.
The road north I took, and it led me to a burnt out crater. Sludge crawlers were pissing off cows who were trying to aggress upon me. I yelled real loud and lit a fire. the sludge crawlers have relatively poor vision, and did not bother me as much. I looted a pair of roller skates from a corpse in the crater and I realized how useful such a thing would be for a car-less wanderer. hunh.

I found some birdshot, and now I have a worthless gun. and several baseball bats. 2 wooden ones and 1 aluminum bat. I am the batter. On skates.

[Azrad]

Had five NPCs, only two worth keeping. One by one, call the three and remove them from their guard position, tell them that my survivor and them will go their separate ways. As they begin to walk away, my survivor climbs up to their cart which has a slingshot cannon installed. Launch a lead ball from less than ten tiles away. Headshot at 300 damage, pretty much caving in the NPC’s skull.

Headshots to all three NPCs, and all is right with the world. Good thing, too, since my survivor was running out of human meat.

[pisskop]

Speaking of -

My custom NPC just spawned in the world. So happies to hear him state he’s knee-deep in the dead.
He then tried to tell me to piss off his land and leave my dead-battery hippie van there for him to loot.
I capped his ass, and am now in the process of eating him to avoid starvation. With spiritual trait and not cannibal or psycho.

Theres actual lines of code to cover this situation Im about to embark upon.

[pisskop]

Day 01

Several survivors later. like 2.

I started in a small town. Found 2 rock houses 2/katanas in them, left one.

The RNG has some really sick sense of humor. fighting a zombie? along comes a soldier ant.
Fighting a forager ant form the safety of your car bottlneck? here be a hollow sneaking up on you.
Wanted to keep tha duster? Nope, lol, good story.
Think that a 95% chance to heal infection is sufficient? hahahahahahahaha

So now I have a beaten up beetle, no duster, an infection, a lot of pain, and to top it all off, an npc tried to rob me at crossbow point. wtf is up with all the xbowers spawning? I know its the default equipment for npcs, but did classes break or somethin’? An awful lot of crossbow lately …

So I pulled out my glock to kill this npc. OFC the noise will attract whatever zeds are left in town, like a master and a survivor zed. :roll:
Anywho, now Ive got zombies pathing to us, and, always remember, kiddos, that all monsters will prioritize you over any other hostile should all other factors be equal. Like distance. So they of course attack me, and my aim all kinds of ruined now.

So I have to katana them while the xbower is taking his time trying to shoot me and reload, and its all I can do to not die.

So now, I get to move all my crap back into the beetle because the stupid npc took advantage of my trying to lose him in the house to rob me blind. :v maybe not so stupid npc.

Very hectic first day.

Not as violent as my last survivor, who started next to doom castle and a evac hub all together. That was ended by a zombie horde when I underestimated the horde., oddly enough, not the demons.

[BadSniper]

My first day back on this forum in at least a year or so. I hardly remember the last time I was here.

Anyways, onto the main point.

My first survivor was a military recruit who started in a gun store, and quickly died due to my overzealous use of a STEN and my M4. Second survivor, security guard. That guy survived for about a day. Whilst running into the city on a supply raid, I was still in pain from yesterday and eventually find myself surrounded. I decided to jump into what I thought was a mostly-functioning Mech Infantry Carrier, only to find out that I can’t load normal batteries into the its storage battery, and the mounted .50-cal had no ammunition. At that point, I was in considerable pain and surrounded by all sorts of zombies on all sides. So I renamed the Mechanized Infantry Carrier to “Armored Coffin” (since that’s basically what it was), sat down on a back seat, fired a shot from my pistol, and committed suicide.

For my third survivor, I decided to dial back a little bit and sort of play as myself. I started off by immediately smashing a couple things around the standard evac shelter, found a lone canteen in the basement, made a keffiyeh and hand wraps, a makeshift crowbar, grabbed the emergency blanket, and headed out.

While trying to escape a small horde I had gathered, I find–to my surprise–a fully-functioning SUV with some gas in the tank and some battery charge. So I hop in and start running over smaller zeds, amidst about half a dozen game crashes, to GTFOOD and head towards the mission I got from the shelter’s computer–get to a refugee center.

I eventually did make it to said refugee center. Right now I’m just slowly circling around it, wary of anything that may be lurking within.

Also, when did this thread get sticky’d? I was honestly surprised to discover that.

[Azrad]

Luigi Lasagna is a pretty cost-effective meal in terms of human meat needed. Like, for the ingredients of human flesh, it’s either 2x human flesh, dehydrated and rehydrated human flesh… or one soylent slice.

Now, the soylent slice that uses a glass jar to store it requires two human flesh chunks for two portions. So, with those two slices, you can get 2 servings of lasagna instead of just one from using the other choices for human meat. Or use the canned version which gives one slice for one human flesh, basically using only one piece of human meat instead of 2.

Human haggis can also be made with one jerk jerky, instead of normal/dehydrated/rehydrated human flesh, soylent or simpleton slice, or smoked sucker. That said, you’ll still need a human stomach for it, though there’s not much else you can cook up with a human stomach.

Sap soup is still pretty dang nice if you got cans for it and a can sealer. One can has 4 servings, which is enough for a very hungry survivor to get to full.

[Inconspicuous]

Well, I had quite a few more short lived runs. I made an NPC buddy, lost that buddy in a fight at an Antique store, then started walking through the forest to the refugee center, only to be mauled by a bear right after.

Another time, I was playing around with the Cataclysm ++ mod, and found a survivor camp, only to discover it was populated with evil robots. Dead.

Moose. Dead.

[pisskop]

Some of noct’s designs put me to shame >.<

[pisskop]

bwahahahaha

I found a fire house as a new survivor, and found an entry suit (fits) on the rack outside the house itself. I killed a firezed inside and found a halogen bar on it. Now Ive fucked up a dozen fire zeds while taking so little damage I am still a strong 5 green bars across the board.

hilariously powerful I feel in my entry suit. If there are many more of the things I might have to up and take a nap in the middle of this deadly melee combat.

[prytoclasm]

Well …

Day 2 - found a perfectly working electrical car - first mobile base to say so

Day 5 - found a perfectly working Hummvee next to a gas station with 2 diesel pumps, hooray!

Day 7 - found a Power Armor MK2 in a bank, thank god I grabbed that stethoscope in that hospital (SCREW YOU SPITTER ZOMBIES!)

Day 10 - driving around in the Hummvee with lots of diesel in the tanks, looking for stuff to do, hoping to find a well equipped workshop somewhere to take my time to upgrade the humvee even more, spend some time tailoring and stuff, reading all the books I got, and hopefully extract some cbms out of those shocker zombies (if those are still around workshops, didn’t play for a long long time)

[TheWumpus]

So the doom stuff is kinda disappointing. Maybe it’s because I burned 400 rounds of .308 and a boatload of medical supplies to end up with a small pile of crap ammo, a few BFG shells, and some PRM gear that’s worse than what I have on. That and the tendency of doom monsters to set EVERYTHING on fire gets real old, real fast. I appreciate the challenge but I’m not really sure my next world will have that stuff in it.

[Azrad]

Had two NPC followers who died. Strangely bummed out about that. One died from protecting my survivor; serving as a distraction by fighting a horde close range while my survivor blasted the undead with her rifle. The other one died by accident; didn’t notice that he was standing in the way of my slingshot cannon, and got a lead ball cracking his head for his trouble.