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Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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Honestly if there was One True Build I would be super disappointed in the game balance so I'm ok with multiple takes on things here

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Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
no you turd burglars. 10 for agility from the get go, put the rest into strength for carrying capacity. The AC and health bonuses from vigor are worthless when you stack them up to pretty much any armor setup and perception is straight useless unless you plan on using guns

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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I kinda plan to use guns tho

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

perception is straight useless unless you plan on using guns

>unless you plan on using guns

yea let me just do any important content by meleeing crowds of bandits/military

(you can do this, but max does it fine, so why waste it on my PC?)

carrying capacity is overrated, I had like a full shelter build by day.. 45-50ish? on my first playthrough with mediocre str, 4 people carrying poo poo is plenty, even in armor

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013

Akumos posted:

>unless you plan on using guns

yea let me just do any important content by meleeing crowds of bandits/military

(you can do this, but max does it fine, so why waste it on my PC?)

carrying capacity is overrated, I had like a full shelter build by day.. 45-50ish? on my first playthrough with mediocre str, 4 people carrying poo poo is plenty, even in armor

MUCH LIKE YOUR POSTING but real talk I've done just fine using a railroad hammer and wild swing on human enemies and it's nice not having to make more than one trip to clear an area of loot before I unlock the car

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

MUCH LIKE YOUR POSTING but real talk I've done just fine using a railroad hammer and wild swing on human enemies and it's nice not having to make more than one trip to clear an area of loot before I unlock the car

That still doesn't happen for me with a full party.. there are maybe 4 maps I've run into where I need to go back, and 2 of them were shelters, idk. I mean, sure, if you want to loot all the junk items to use in the recycler it's more important, but if you're not doing a recycler rush you don't need max str.

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013

Akumos posted:

That still doesn't happen for me with a full party.. there are maybe 4 maps I've run into where I need to go back, and 2 of them were shelters, idk. I mean, sure, if you want to loot all the junk items to use in the recycler it's more important, but if you're not doing a recycler rush you don't need max str.

Junking all the trash and useless armor and weapons is exactly what I do with the recycler. The idea of people not doing that is baffling to me

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

Junking all the trash and useless armor and weapons is exactly what I do with the recycler. The idea of people not doing that is baffling to me

I do it, I just don't rush it, so by the time I get it I have plenty of poo poo to recycle anyway. Rushing it is viable, but sadly upgrading the shelter doesn't seem to do a whole lot besides boost morale, which I haven't no issues with.

MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill
Man, I love that Dead State lets you set up scenarios like: using firecrackers to lure zombies outside of a fellow survivor's house and then bursting in from the backdoor, knocking him down with a sledgehammer, then running away while zombies eat them.

It takes a bit of quicksave-quickloading to get right, but man when it does...

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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How the gently caress do you use energy drinks? I stayed out a little too late with my MC on the first night and I'd like to drink the fatigue away.

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Coolguye posted:

How the gently caress do you use energy drinks? I stayed out a little too late with my MC on the first night and I'd like to drink the fatigue away.

Put them into an active inventory slow, like where bullets or nades go, click them, click a party member.. I assume you're trying to drink them in inventory, that's how nothing works in the game besides unloading guns.

Btw apparently this poo poo game doesn't end til day 80-100.. lmao. I finish everything by day 60ish.

Akumos fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Dec 13, 2014

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

Akumos posted:

But them into an active inventory slow, like where bullets or nades go, click them, click a party member.. I assume you're trying to drink them in inventory, that's how nothing works in the game besides unloading guns.

Btw apparently this poo poo game doesn't end til day 80-100.. lmao. I finish everything by day 60ish.

*hands you a gold star*

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Pewdiepie posted:

*hands you a gold star*

idk wasn't really a brag more just talking about how slow the pace of the game seems to be, there are a lot of days where nothing happens at all, the plot could be moved up a little but just give you more time to complete poo poo

btw this is what happens when you recycle 14 days of random junk early game

Akumos fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Dec 13, 2014

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
Not putting in a repeatable goal for killing zombies was a stupid design choice imo and I hope somebody mods it in. I know that the devs said that realistically nobody would care what your body count was (haha loving what) but HOLY poo poo LOOK AT THAT GUY WITH HIS ARMS FULL OF TAMPONS GET THIS FUCKER SOME STATS STAT

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

Not putting in a repeatable goal for killing zombies was a stupid design choice imo and I hope somebody mods it in. I know that the devs said that realistically nobody would care what your body count was (haha loving what) but HOLY poo poo LOOK AT THAT GUY WITH HIS ARMS FULL OF TAMPONS GET THIS FUCKER SOME STATS STAT

lol you get a stat point for solving 10 of the hangman games too

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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that's particularly funny because Max clearly does care what your body count is. i like the whole thing about not giving a poo poo what your kill count is though, since it means i can set up stupid traps for people and make a bunch of dudes murder the gently caress out of eachother so i can go pick up the pieces.

i think i got a bug though. that one cunty IT guy came to me this morning and demanded we build a watchtower like in the movies.

we've had a watchtower both up and manned for the better part of a week. I'm hoping the game just checks to see if it exists tomorrow and he fucks off.

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Coolguye posted:

that's particularly funny because Max clearly does care what your body count is. i like the whole thing about not giving a poo poo what your kill count is though, since it means i can set up stupid traps for people and make a bunch of dudes murder the gently caress out of eachother so i can go pick up the pieces.

i think i got a bug though. that one cunty IT guy came to me this morning and demanded we build a watchtower like in the movies.

we've had a watchtower both up and manned for the better part of a week. I'm hoping the game just checks to see if it exists tomorrow and he fucks off.

yeah that's a standard quest that happens every game, it happens before you're supposed to have one, but good players or people who put priority on it can

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
Cool mod ideas: zombie killing goal, extra attribute every 15 points instead of 20, the dildo from SR

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

Cool mod ideas: zombie killing goal, extra attribute every 15 points instead of 20, the dildo from SR

lol the dildo from SR probably wouldn't be hard at all to import to this game considering the low graphics, likely a dumb sprite pic is all you need to edit in like literally mspaint

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
I'd do it myself but I'm codetarded and it's like trying to figure out chinese

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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Man I feel kinda bad for liking this Jodie dude so much. He is so low maintenance though, I just built him a garage and put him to work on the car and he is happy as a loving clam and never bothers anyone or asks me for any favors. He even eats less than normal. Good poo poo

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
Yeah Jodie's a bro. If it was possible to just gently caress off from the shelter forever with him, Nathan, and Paul I would totally do that

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

Yeah Jodie's a bro. If it was possible to just gently caress off from the shelter forever with him, Nathan, and Paul I would totally do that

nathan the scumbag gambling cheater

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013

Akumos posted:

nathan the scumbag gambling cheater

Nah, Nathan is the fisherman/official team food bitch

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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Can you send out a team to fish separately from your scavenger team or do you have to waste a day escorting nerdlingers to the nearest lake

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
What I know about fishing: you have to physically go there to do it because everyone else is too retarded to find their own way on the map, your mad gainz are based off the survival scores of everyone in the party, and I always get a bunch of other random harvest events and poo poo when I do it

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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Well I guess its a good way to make sure you stay fed after you finish looting the map

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
Yeah there isn't any good reason to go empty the rivers and lakes before you max survival. You should be maxing survival anyway cause it makes you travel faster

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Tyrone Biggums posted:

Yeah there isn't any good reason to go empty the rivers and lakes before you max survival. You should be maxing survival anyway cause it makes you travel faster

afaik having a party member with high survival is all you need, I know it works with horses too, I had a super slow horse and when I swapped a specific member in it sped way up.

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
Travel speed is based on the total survival of everyone in the party i think

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006
lmao they aren't patching again til mid/late jan so gl if any bugs come up

Tyrone Biggums
Mar 5, 2013
Nerve gas is the only one-use item worth keeping around imo. I just dropped whatshisdick in the junkyard and went all firing squad on him and took his unique baton and he would have murked the gently caress out of me and mine if I didn't use it

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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So I just found my first set of advanced tac armor. This poo poo rules. Where can I get more of it?

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Coolguye posted:

So I just found my first set of advanced tac armor. This poo poo rules. Where can I get more of it?

Wish I knew, never even found one, and I've killed the police and a secret military camp.

4 inch cut no femmes
May 31, 2011
The walking dead state of decay

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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Akumos posted:

Wish I knew, never even found one, and I've killed the police and a secret military camp.

I found my first set investigating the shelters for Vic. I ran into one of them with a rogue military squad around, and after I killed them I found an advanced tac vest in one of their bags.

Now if I only had someone at 10 Science so I could rock some Apocalypse Armor.

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010

Coolguye posted:

So I just found my first set of advanced tac armor. This poo poo rules. Where can I get more of it?

Austin. Go to Austin. Come loaded for bear. Bring a car. You will have more of that armor than you can loving carry before you've even cleared half the map. There's a party member you can recruit there too, once you've iced approximately a billion heavily armed baddies.

I've been coming back once a day or so and clearing out a little more of the map, bit by bit; I'm maybe halfway through and I've got enough advanced tac armor and riot gear to equip my entire shelter.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

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Thats one sizzling hot tip, thanks gamer

Now to just figure out the 10 science problem. Obvious answer is to just keep coming back with shitloads of scavenge since I have a couple people who are close, but gently caress man I want it now

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

I got a game ruining glitch in Austin.

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Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

This game needs another year of development at least.

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