What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

Ferodaktyl · 2014-01-01T20:29:54.000Z

looks like the 0.1 Items Spawn option combined with 2 Spawn rate is a bit too harsh for my poor chars. From the last 10 or so, maybe 1 made it past day 2. They put up valiant fights, so in their memory i’ll raise the Items Spawn to 0.2.

VampyreLord · 2014-01-02T08:44:47.000Z

So I’ve figured I want to stay in my safehouse for days reading books and crafting stuff because why would I venture outside and get myself killed (it would be impossible to happen since my character never get a scratch when fighting even a massive horde) when I have food that 'll keep me fed for months. It is time to eat those stacks of non-perishable canned stuff. When I’m finally out of food I’ll go outside again.

VampyreLord · 2014-01-02T14:34:48.000Z

My longest standing survivor just died now venturing deep into an anthill to be killed by the swarm of soldier ants. “Don’t underestimate the ants!” are my last words, I have nothing else to say.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-01-03T03:12:55.000Z

You know, looking back at those first posts at the beginning of this thread…

They were never prepared for zombears.

Fuck those continually spawning bastards baskets.

Graypante · 2014-01-03T22:14:22.000Z

I, once a lowly alcoholic hobo and by Autumn a seasoned adventurer, went down into the science labs to discover why the world had become a hellhole. I had shootouts with turrets and robots, and was harried by mutants, but profited greatly by finding CBMs and mutagen. Eventually, to lighten my load, I dropped on the ground 50 rounds of ammo I accidentally picked up at some point and set them on fire for entertainment. I was promptly obliterated.

DG123 · 2014-01-03T22:27:12.000Z

Graypante:

I, once a lowly alcoholic hobo and by Autumn a seasoned adventurer, went down into the science labs to discover why the world had become a hellhole. I had shootouts with turrets and robots, and was harried by mutants, but profited greatly by finding CBMs and mutagen. Eventually, to lighten my load, I dropped on the ground 50 rounds of ammo I accidentally picked up at some point and set them on fire for entertainment. I was promptly obliterated.

I love this game. I do not know of a single other game in which you can shoot yourself by cooking off bullets.

Although in Jurassic Park Trespasser, you could shoot yourself in the face by turning your gun around to face yourself and then firing it.

The_Slime · 2014-01-04T04:13:11.000Z

And in ArmA 2, with the ACE2 mod, vehicles that carry ammo have that ammo cook off after they explode. Standing too close will fuck you up.

Protester · 2014-01-04T12:51:27.000Z

DG123:

[quote=“Graypante, post:1745, topic:47”]I, once a lowly alcoholic hobo and by Autumn a seasoned adventurer, went down into the science labs to discover why the world had become a hellhole. I had shootouts with turrets and robots, and was harried by mutants, but profited greatly by finding CBMs and mutagen. Eventually, to lighten my load, I dropped on the ground 50 rounds of ammo I accidentally picked up at some point and set them on fire for entertainment. I was promptly obliterated.

I love this game. I do not know of a single other game in which you can shoot yourself by cooking off bullets.

Although in Jurassic Park Trespasser, you could shoot yourself in the face by turning your gun around to face yourself and then firing it.[/quote]

Aye, once i ran through town with a broadsword, got a rather large pack following me including two hulks, got in a window and started chopping. I briefly rummaged through the corpse pile for CBM’s and candy, then lit the pile on fire to save time on butchering. Apperently there was a grenade of some sort in there, and the following explosion left my slightly wounded character a fatally wounded one.

TheFlame52 · 2014-01-04T14:41:34.000Z

Yeah, one time I lost a marloss-eatin’ mutagen-chuggin’ katana-wieldin’ molotov-throwin’ bionic badass of a character to setting a pile of corpses with ammunition on fire. It’s not the first explosion, or the second, or the third that kills you - it’s 20-50 explosions one right after another, shrapnel or no.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-01-04T16:07:54.000Z

I actually look through the zombie drops and don’t set them on fire to save time.

You have all the time in the cataclysm.

DG123 · 2014-01-04T20:02:13.000Z

I just butcher them with my katana. No danger.

Ferodaktyl · 2014-01-04T21:31:10.000Z

shortest game ever : spawned outside a shelter, skeletal dog sees me, skeletal dog kills me

duke455 · 2014-01-04T22:41:32.000Z

Pretty good game, reached the day 6 after cleaning a 2 houses, 1 gunshop, 1 liquor store and 1 library town, fortified in a cathedral next to the city, picked up shopping carts and literally gathered everything useful in the city, raided another one, and then after obtaining some Science lab keycards I decided to transfer my stronghold in a laboratory 7 tiles away, packed everything up in the cart and left, reached it and guess what? NO DAMN DOOR! My next objective is to find a mininuke/C4 and blow the c*ap out of that wall…

DG123 · 2014-01-05T00:19:38.000Z

Ugh… Something bad just happened.

I’d found a huge basement full of guns. Granted, most were G36s. But there was one thing down there I really wanted. The M14.

Anyway. I ended up screwing up later on and exited the game after having crashed a car into my shelter.

I played again later, and discovered that autosave had been turned off. On the bright side my shelter is fine.

But… the guns aren’t in that basement. They were replaced by some crappy items and even the basement layout is different. I’m really not sure how that’s possible…

You know what? I’m going to cheat myself the M14 because this was bullshit.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-01-05T00:55:02.000Z

You sure it was the same basement?

And you cheating n00b.

TheFlame52 · 2014-01-05T01:28:57.000Z

Yeah, the terrain generation is fixed, but the item and other generation is random.

DG123 · 2014-01-05T13:00:31.000Z

[quote=“FunsizeNinja123, post:1755, topic:47”]You sure it was the same basement?

And you cheating n00b.[/quote]

It was the same basement.

And as for cheating, I only had to do it because of how crap driving can be.

You can’t see far enough ahead of the speeding vehicle to slow down in time for obstacles.

Looks like I’ll need to fiddle around with my resolution etc to try to get smaller tiles. Although I really don’t want smaller tiles at any other time…

Sure would be nice if the game could adjust the tile size when you get in a vehicle and start driving. Or maybe have the minimap showing something useful. Like things in the road ahead of you.

DG123 · 2014-01-05T15:08:48.000Z

Meanwhile I found a kid zombie in a school wearing a wedding dress.

What in the hell was going on in that place?

Also: Am I the only one having major problems driving? I hit things because the viewport is too small. It’s set to max width in the menu but it’s about half as wide as it is high (and the height is set to about half the width).

!?

Iron_Foot · 2014-01-05T15:28:32.000Z

Decided to spawn a new map to throw my character in, so the game just spawns me randomly in the map at 2am. Probably should have waited until dawn to do this.

Oh well, none of the map is loaded so I can’t see around me, gonna just wait here until dawn.

Oh. I spawned TWO MAP TILES AWAY from a fungal spire. That was nice. That was really nice.

Derschlact · 2014-01-05T22:27:40.000Z

[quote=“DG123, post:1758, topic:47”]Also: Am I the only one having major problems driving? I hit things because the viewport is too small. It’s set to max width in the menu but it’s about half as wide as it is high (and the height is set to about half the width).

!?[/quote]
One solution is to load a square font for general use.

On a related note, I killed a bear with a baseball bat thanks to a magical cocaine overdose! Shortly afterwards the kill I was assaulted by a coyote, which I murdered with a crossbow arrow. However, I am also now at 87 pain slowly being crushed to death by carrying thrice my immediate weight capacity.