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OoohU posted:In the options there's a thing to enable a colored outline that'll display what you're aiming at it's off by default (very dumb) so you should turn it on and that'll probably help you a ton. This changed the game for me, what the hell. Having a good time with PZ, I don't know why the helicopter follows you around.. like why are you doing that dude. I'm finally getting to the point to where I'm messing with vehicles and living 5-7 days.
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nuketulsa posted:Having a good time with PZ, I don't know why the helicopter follows you around.. like why are you doing that dude. There are any number of funny images explaining that. Best one I saw was a crazed religious dude hanging out the side shouting at the character the they needed to repent. LonsomeSon posted:a survival game where you run an organ farm, puppy mill, and drug den?! Excuse me, I shall have you know that the puppies I sell are at least two quadrums old before I sell them to a passing trader.
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nuketulsa posted:Having a good time with PZ, I don't know why the helicopter follows you around.. like why are you doing that dude. as the past couple of years have shown, the government doing breathtakingly stupid poo poo in the name of trying to help is actually pretty realistic
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Flesh Forge posted:as the past couple of years have shown, the government doing breathtakingly stupid poo poo in the name of trying to help is actually pretty realistic I could buy that if the helicopter does literally anything but follow you around, but it doesn't actually do anything besides that, correct?
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Frank West is in that helicopter and he’s getting mad prestige points while documenting your struggle.
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LonsomeSon posted:a survival game where you run an organ farm, puppy mill, and drug den?! I think the poster above you was sarcastic since it looks literally like a Rimworld mod. e: that said, I would actually pay for a DLC that would make Rimworld more solo survival-y while the rest of the world was still playing regular Rimworld
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Vulpine Complex posted:Frank West is in that helicopter and he’s getting mad prestige points while documenting your struggle. 
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Umbreon posted:I could buy that if the helicopter does literally anything but follow you around, but it doesn't actually do anything besides that, correct? a CDC rep is in the helicopter and he's urging you to get vaccinated
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My thing in Zomboid a couple years ago was to grab a police vehicle and a campfire kit, drive somewhat near a large group of zombies, get out, light the fire, turn the siren on, and retreat nearby to watch the horde stupidly burn itself to death. This didn't always result in the entire downtown area burning down, though that would happen often enough. I don't know if you can still do that.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Someone's working on a Rimworld style survival game gently caress it for $10 I’ll bite. Won’t be able to play it till later this week but it looks pretty good tbh.
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MarcusSA posted:gently caress it for $10 I’ll bite.
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MarcusSA posted:gently caress it for $10 I’ll bite. I'm interested, but the fact that nearly 100% of the art comes from RimWorld sits weird with me. RimWorld has a functional style that isn't particularly interesting to look at, so I guess I'm not sure why it in particular. I do recall that Tynan borrowed assets from Prison Architect at the very beginning of development and maybe this is similar, but I'm a little baffled about the choice unless it is to ride RimWorld's coattails. I also put hundreds of hours into RimWorld in EA and haven't been able to force myself to play more than 10 hours of the full release, so maybe I'm just sick of the sight of it. Ah well, I think I just finished all the content that will ever be produced for Scrap Mechanic, so I'll probably give it a shot anyway. BrianRx fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Animal-Mother posted:My thing in Zomboid a couple years ago was to grab a police vehicle and a campfire kit, drive somewhat near a large group of zombies, get out, light the fire, turn the siren on, and retreat nearby to watch the horde stupidly burn itself to death. This didn't always result in the entire downtown area burning down, though that would happen often enough. I'm not sure if the campfire kit works for that - great idea though - but Molotovs are the preferred method for siren enabled mass-clearing like this, yes.
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Wow, adding the outline to Zomboid + just playing a strong/athletic character and bashing zombies has made the game so so much more accessible. Thank you for the suggestions, enjoying this way more now! E: Tho a couple days of active looting in i somehow haven’t found any cigarettes (I have the smoker trait) or a hammer. tildes fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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if you took the Lucky trait, whenever you do find cigarettes you will find like 2000 of them (unless they fixed that). Rarity of tools is a really big throttle on loving everything in Zomboid, your best bet is either to visit one of the really good hardware stores or to go house to house in one of the rich neighborhoods with garages. more like garage to garage, don't bother looking inside the houses unless you need food.
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I also want to echo "please stop trying to sneak" when you're learning zomboid. Press the button, sure, but walk up to a group of zombies and start hitting them. Tips: There's an option in display for aim outlines, turn it on. It's amazing at letting you gauge how far away you can hit a zombie from with a weapon, its further than you think! In multiplayer, if its purely a co-op server, you can turn on a button under accessibility to leave the key in the car when you turn it off and get out. It's amazing. If you want a car for yourself you can still manually take the key out, but this has stopped 99% of "poo poo, i need this car, can someone hotwire it". Gun wise: Stop being so scared of them, when you're good with them you are basically unstoppable. I currently have 75 bullets of 9mm in mags on me, in addition to 80 bullets of .308 in my m14. We walk up to a group and I can clear them all in moments, its ridiculous. I actually killed a horde by doing donuts around them firing my pistol out the window earlier while my passenger kept throwing mags in the glovebox for me. It was amazing.
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Flesh Forge posted:if you took the Lucky trait, whenever you do find cigarettes you will find like 2000 of them (unless they fixed that). Rarity of tools is a really big throttle on loving everything in Zomboid, your best bet is either to visit one of the really good hardware stores or to go house to house in one of the rich neighborhoods with garages. more like garage to garage, don't bother looking inside the houses unless you need food. For cigarettes you mostly need to hit up gas stations, otherwise they'll drop rarely on zombies themselves. I've never seen the 2k drop with lucky.
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Thank you for all the tips! I still haven't hit up any gas stations, hardware stores, or done too much residential looting -- I've mostly just cleared out the northern part of rosewood (e.g. shops, gated community, etc). So sounds like that will be the next stop. I also just realized that apparently you can check gloveboxes etc for car keys?? I'd basically just been checking trunks or looking for keys on zombie corpses, and it seems like that is totally not the way to actually get a car. One other thing -- I'm thinking about eventually just throwing on a few of the map mods and transferring our characters over, just so that we can get all the extra places to look at. Is this something other people have done/would recommend? I realize that I haven't even seen most of the vanilla map, but if we are going to be on this multiplayer server for a long time and stuff like Raven Creek is cool/can just be ignored if you want, I might think about switching to it sooner than later.
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People also frequently miss that if you look closely On the ground you can often find car keys for parked cars near by in parking lots and things. They’re hard to spot and look like a pavement crack.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:People also frequently miss that if you look closely On the ground you can often find car keys for parked cars near by in parking lots and things. They’re hard to spot and look like a pavement crack. Search mode can help here, it picks up small items like keys. tildes posted:One other thing -- I'm thinking about eventually just throwing on a few of the map mods and transferring our characters over, just so that we can get all the extra places to look at. Is this something other people have done/would recommend? I realize that I haven't even seen most of the vanilla map, but if we are going to be on this multiplayer server for a long time and stuff like Raven Creek is cool/can just be ignored if you want, I might think about switching to it sooner than later. Do what you want, but at the same time, there's a ton on vanilla map especially with Louisville added. Other thing to check for car keys are local zombies, but that only holds true as long as the zombies haven't moved much. The building the car's parked in front of will also sometimes have keys in a drawer.
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Verviticus posted:is it actually feasible to level up fitness or strength? seems absurd how little exp you get from doing it Over time, yeah, but you ideally should find a barbell or dumbbell, those provide far better exp while exercising than sit ups/push ups/burpees. And by time, I mean like a month or two. The slow tick during play is rather little. If you're playing the build a base style, once you've gotten to the point of farming/trapping/fishing and have a secure perimeter, you can spend the time exercising (under health tab) significantly in order to build up the regularity bar so you stop getting painful a few hours later.
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lmfao it do be like that. good for him. good for him. Verviticus posted:is it actually feasible to level up fitness or strength? seems absurd how little exp you get from doing it Given how powerful those two stats are they are intended to be long-term goals to work towards once you're in midgame, it's not like going out and smacking some zekes around with a rolling pin to get a weapon skill up in no time. tildes posted:One other thing -- I'm thinking about eventually just throwing on a few of the map mods and transferring our characters over, just so that we can get all the extra places to look at. Is this something other people have done/would recommend? I realize that I haven't even seen most of the vanilla map, but if we are going to be on this multiplayer server for a long time and stuff like Raven Creek is cool/can just be ignored if you want, I might think about switching to it sooner than later. I've never played Multi PZ but there are a few maps well worth looking at if you want to expand your game area. Slocan Lake is a classic, I really like Grapeseed (His other big one, Blackwood, I like less but it's still got a cool vibe of a place where things went to poo poo with enough time for some folks to try to survive, making a nice change from the vanilla map.) Glenport is a pretty decent mid-sized town I liked for an urban feel prior to Louisville arriving. I would avoid Xonic's Mega Mall, it's all great in terms of design and layout and it also crushes your framerate into nothing. Kingsmouth is cool as poo poo, got a nice big island that varies between some nice defensible fancy homes and an incredibly densely populated tourism quarter that I stumbled into like a dipshit one time and had some real Escapades trying (and failing) to get out of. However, if you want to get to and from the island you need the Aquastar Yacht Club mod and that currently has a big warning on Steam saying DO NOT USE IN MP so  wait or take a look in SP.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Someone's working on a Rimworld style survival game I put a good 4 hours into this today and it’s pretty fun so far. It definitely has some kinks to iron out but definitely worth the $10. It only took about an hour to make the survival part trivial. I’m gonna play it more tomorrow and probably put it on the shelf for a while though.
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It looks interesting, gives me some Crashlands vibes. Speaking of which, that game was pretty fun. Is there anything with similar action (ie action rpgish vs colony management) that scratches that itch? Keplerth seems worth a try but also still looks pretty unfinished
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Sometimes in Zomboid, I feel like I'm swinging my weapon in slow motion. Is that a consequence of the weapon itself, like a heavy pipe or something not meant for weapon use, or is there something wrong with my character? It's like... really slow.
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Vib Rib posted:Sometimes in Zomboid, I feel like I'm swinging my weapon in slow motion. Is that a consequence of the weapon itself, like a heavy pipe or something not meant for weapon use, or is there something wrong with my character? It's like... really slow. Yes to any and all. It could be negative moodlets (sad, pain, exhausted, etc,) some weapons are slower than others as well.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Yes to any and all. It could be negative moodlets (sad, pain, exhausted, etc,) some weapons are slower than others as well.
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If you have an arm injury or pain (like from exercise) that slows combat. Leg injuries or pain slow movement. Check your health tab.
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HelloSailorSign posted:Over time, yeah, but you ideally should find a barbell or dumbbell, those provide far better exp while exercising than sit ups/push ups/burpees. And by time, I mean like a month or two. does exercise matter if you have your base built? seems like it’s a good investment of starting character points
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Yeah, a strong starting character means you melee well, and a fit starting character means you can run or fight for a longer time. Both those traits are such longer term works that they fit more in to the mid and late game which doesn't exist.... yet. In the last news from Indie Stone, sounds like they're working on what that late game is going to be. Sounds like a way to make NPCs have settlements that develop over time and perhaps the player can take part in trade/combat between the groups. While obviously LMAO Indie Stone timelines, they're sounding oddly positive regarding how much NPC stuff they've already got that they could start working on and I'm fairly confident the recent popularity has probably provided a funding boost. But I'm generally in a situation where my base is fairly fortified or the area decently safe by late August, so getting into the winter is when I'm working on strength/fitness. I'm only working on fitness/strength when feeling safe due to the exercise fatigue debuff you get when you work out a lot impeding survival in combat/looting, but those who either are playing with friends or who can play riskier than I could level up more during the earlier stages. Taking a strength malus for the significant point gain and then working yourself out of it while others manage the things you're bad at (as you provide what you're good at) is possible.
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If it takes a month or two of fairly focused work to get Strength or Fitness up by a single point, how long do they expect our characters to survive? Because it feels like if any character lives that long they'll probably be so well off there won't be much left to do, and you'll already have gotten bored and started a new character.
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I think the intended survival length is kind of addressed in their latest post: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/108600/view/3137320076867149347 e: to add content to this useless post, they intend to add more things to do late game and also allow people to become self-sustaining
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The basic exercises seem like they’d take 1-2 months of dedicated work to raise stats, but the barbell and dumbbell workouts give what seems like 3x the exp. You just have to find those items (lockers are where I usually find them). Edit: checked the wiki, it’s 2x difference HelloSailorSign fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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High levels (>6) of strength and fitness are so time consuming to improve that they are effectively not possible to achieve in multiplayer without taking strong and athletic at character creation. Skill gain for everything else is trivial by comparison with fast learner, skill books, and videos (even without the exploit).
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