GlyphGryph posted:

Why not just get a pack animal to carry the heavy stuff for you? Slows you down too much, still?

Edit: Would a dog even slow you down at all? Thats 70 more pounds of supplies.

Major Isoor posted:

Yeah, it's a pretty good crash-course! I love the fighting system in URW, despite the obvious hazards. (Plus I'm never sure if dodging is better than blocking, or vice versa) I've never been game enough to try the 'escaped slave' start though!
The robber one is quite tricky though I think - I feel I was majorly lucky with my knife-toss at the start.

Also, what's the best way of making bandages? You can tear them off old cloaks etc that you don't want, right? (I only had wool available to me last night, when I was playing. I reckon you can rip up nettle/linen clothes though, if I'm not mistaken) Since yeah, I definitely need to start thinking about bandages... I cleaned my cuts, but after that fantastic start the last thing I want to do is die of an infection

piano chimp posted:

I picked up Project Zomboid in the Steam sale and have sunk about ten hours into it; I'm completely hooked! It looks like it's been in early access for several years but the current beta, 41, has a lot of depth along with full Steam workshop support.

TorakFade posted:

I also love the combat system because you're never really sure if you're doing the right thing. About blocking vs dodging, well dodging is basically entirely skill-based (so if you're lightly armored/unencumbered and agile you can get up to 80-90% which is awesome and in that case you should dodge forever) while blocking also depends on weapons stats: some weapons have good inherent defense values (shields, spears and swords in roughly that order and depending on specific weapon type, see https://www.unrealworld.fi/wiki/index.php?title=Weapons for slightly more details) and if you're also skilled in that type of weapon you'll have an easier time blocking than trying to dodge with a middling-low dodge skill. It also depends on what weapons you're against, 2 knives will basically cancel each other out, attacking someone armed with sword and shield with a knife won't end well, while attacking a knife wielder with a battlesword will probably end awesomely for you.

Yeah I make all my bandages by tearing up clothes, most often clothes that I snatched off the still warm, but definitely dead, body of my enemies make sure to also always carry on you some heather flowers or burdock leaves to clean wounds, and something to dress wounds that can stop bleeding like golden rod, milkweed or yarrow - the last two have both bleeding stop and anti-inflammatory effects, and using these herbs makes a HUGE difference in recovery times and not making wounds get worse if you botch the healing attempt. Some herblore, at least enough to recognize a few plants with healing properties, is a must-have as a dedicated warrior if you don't want to spend forever healing "naturally"

Galaga Galaxian posted:

1. Survive
2. Acquire a proper set of axe
3. Build a homestead.
4. Prepare for winter
5. Survive Winter

I usually get bored and stop around 4.

Major Isoor posted:

OK, that's good - at least my thought processes on dodging/blocking seems to be accurate. I always try and keep dodge up, so I guess I'll keep going for that, while I'm without a shield. Especially since I assume blocking a lot with my beloved broadsword will slowly whittle away at its condition, right?

Also, to be honest I've never really bothered with herblore. I think the most I've done is put milkweed onto a bad, bleeding cut once.
I suspect I should probably change my attitude towards it though, judging from what you've said! My character's herblore is quite low (like, 15-20% maybe? Going by memory here) so will I know enough to be able to identify some of the more basic/common plants? Like milkweed was quite common near the streams my last character lived by, from memory.

Major Isoor posted:

After that, I plan to head east a bit, set up my kota, make a cellar and some pit traps, etc. and start scouting out the region for Njerp hunters and villages. Then when I'm confident of my skills and equipment (after killing plenty of roving njerps, mostly) I'll sneak near a njerp village, dig+cover a few pit traps assuming it's still warm enough to dig, then go into the village and pick off a couple, then run back behind my traps and keep on shooting, until one or two fall into the pits. Then just hack and slash, praying that I make it through alive! (I mean hey, I've done it once before without the concealed pit traps. But that was far too close, for my liking)

Major Isoor posted:

So, how often should you be applying milkweed? And does cleaning the wound (as in, regularly - after applying the herbs) remove the benefits of herbs? Since in the past I would clean the wound, apply milkweed and then bandage it. Then probably the next day I'll just clean the wound and bandage, then depending on severity I'll either apply another milkweed or just wrap it up again. Should I be doing things differently?

TorakFade posted:

In other news I am an idiot because I thought the Steam screenshot key was F10 and so I failed to take screens of my latest endeavour: taking the fight back to the Njerpez to avenge all newbies slain by them. I started off in Kaumo land with a big burly guy expert in axes and bows. A couple weeks to gather up some weapons and food, and off I went to Njerpez land!

I entered the first village I found wielding a fine woodsman's axe and attacked a Njerpez maiden (boy she must've been surprised by the giant Kaumo man rushing at her with an axe - what goes around comes around, you assholes). She took a blow and fled, but the village was alerted so I found a defensible position between a few trees where only 3 people at once could attack, and let them come to me.

The first one to arrive was a Njerpez warrior. I swung wildly at him and slashed him in the thorax, he fell down and couldn't do much after that. A housewife came along and started trying to kick me, I hit her in the eye and in the neck making her bleed profusely from both wounds but she kept coming, kudos to her. Eventually she bled off and collapsed. When a craftsman approached I swiftly slashed his legs from under him, then fended off 3 of the bastards at once, counterstriking furiously and chopping their limbs off.

After killing at least 4 of them and maiming another couple, sadly I was very fatigued and a bit injured so things started going badly. A stupid kid circled around and attacked me from the back, and another maiden took the place of one of her injured comrades and started skillfully attacking me with a spear. I couldn't counterstrike effectively, having a combined -25% penalty from wounds and fatigue, so after a while she managed to hit me in the groin, that did barely scratch my enormous cojones but caused me to faint and get kicked to death by the damned kid.

I have bathed in Njerpez blood, heard the death cries of their women, stood atop a pile of their mangled corpses and died a glorious death.

(note for next time: acquire more armour and a dog before going to fight a whole village at once)

TorakFade posted:

On a slightly darker note, as said I was bored out of my mind with my old uber exploity character. So I decided to rid the world of the Koivula race, ethnic cleansing at its finest (yes if you clear out villages the "cultural region" will disappear from the map and go back to no man's land).

Having a masterwork battlesword, 90% sword skill and full green/dark green armor against everything helps a lot in that regard; I already slaughtered 7 villages, the poor fuckers don't stand a chance coming at me with handaxes, knives and rocks as long as I stay inside a building where only 2-3 people can attack me at the same time (and away from windows, the single wound I received was from an arrow shot at me through one). The battlesword loving rocks, 1 hit in 3 causes bleeding wounds when it doesn't cut limbs in half straight away. Another 30 villages or so to go and there shall be no more Koivulaiset in my UnReal World.

Here are a few pics of the insanity:







All hail the mighty, if a bit unhinged, Garthal Kaumolainen the terrible

Sab Sabbington posted:

Project Zomboid rules, and a few years is a bit of an understatement. I was a teenager when you could buy it from their website directly. The core gameplay, look, and feel hasn't actually changed much in that time beyond the added features and tweaks, which imo goes to show how solid the loop they were rolling with actually is.

Major Isoor posted:

Also also, hmm... your 'note to self' in your quote reminded me about dogs. Maybe, when I set up my trap line near a Njerp village to fight behind, I'll position it so that a tree (with a leashed dog) is behind me, so Njerps need to hazard the wrath of my hound, if they want to get behind me.

Major Isoor posted:

So, how often should you be applying milkweed? And does cleaning the wound (as in, regularly - after applying the herbs) remove the benefits of herbs? Since in the past I would clean the wound, apply milkweed and then bandage it. Then probably the next day I'll just clean the wound and bandage, then depending on severity I'll either apply another milkweed or just wrap it up again. Should I be doing things differently?

Drone posted:

I still know absolutely nothing about effectively playing URW but that's almost the exact same style of spot that I put down my first camp.

Fishing is good and more reliable than trapping imo?

Drone posted:

Edit: also your name is Porko and you are Sweating A Lot, fyi.

30.5 Days posted:

https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/the-homesteading-update-v1150-r287/

New vintage story update out, it's mostly cosmetic and food focused.

TorakFade posted:

VegasGoat posted:

All the talk of unreal world I tried the free version 3.62. I'm not understanding tracking. Even when I randomly run into an animal and try to follow it I can't find any tracks. I saw a tip about standing on mountains to see animals on the world map and tried that. I was able to run into a few that way but still no tracks after it runs away.

GlyphGryph posted:

Finally got around to grabbing Zomboid.

explosivo posted:

As if I didn't have enough poo poo to play right now I saw that Astroneer just updated with some cool new vehicles like a vtol and hoverboard. I never went back to that game after they added the machinery stuff and always meant to but I keep finding other stuff instead.

Speedball posted:

Astroneer's new hoverboard and vtol are both great but the game has other tricks up its sleeve in the new content update. They populated the worlds with boxes you need to blow up with dynamite (fortunately, dynamite is now commonly found around various wreckages now) and that puts out this thing called an "Exo Chip" which is what is now needed to build the top-tier stuff as well as the new vehicles.

There's a quest system called a "Mission Log" which is what lets you unlock the hoverboard and vtol and while it acts as a mini-tutorial or guided experience on how to get through the game it also offers nice rewards like a few things you can get earlier than you could before, like a free hydrazine thruster for your rocket once you synthesize hydrazine the first time.

There is also a new extremely useful item that is (mostly) only found by either doing missions or blowing up boxes, the "QT-RTG" which is like an RTG except it fits in a small slot and you can have one on your backpack at all times. This lets you use the hoverboard or a drill or a portable oxygenator without running out of power.

The hoverboard is *fast* and the best use I found for it is blasting across long distances you have already explored and put tethers down on the overworld, like from wherever your base is to the nearest surface teleporter. You glide along the tether line to stay powered and oxygenated and it's great.

EDIT: also dynamite doesn't blow up resources. I forget if this was always the case but any resource clusters near a dynamite explosion turn it into a nugget of resources, very thoughtful.

Vib Rib posted:

It's always weird to me when games like this go for half-and-half when it comes to fantasy elements. You have "temporal storms", the players are all non-human creatures, and these strange monsters roam the lands. But also, the trees are all very specific real species of trees, like the larch and the bald cypress. It feels like a strange midpoint aesthetically, but maybe I'm just weird about it.

Either way, looks like some great new decoration options, and games like this I always want more decor.