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Any tips for surviving my first winter? I just realized my house is cold as gently caress but luckily I've crafted some decent cold weather clothes. I've also just found out water freezes so I need to setup some kind of basement system. I'm thinking about moving my entire crafting area down there apart from my vehicle maintenance zone that will remain above ground. Food I'm not too scared of, I've tons of canned goods.
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Faithless posted:Any tips for surviving my first winter? I ended up just moving into the basement of the evac shelter I was using as a base. 43°F, day or night, summer or winter.  If you have a jackhammer (or maybe a pickaxe?) you can install a well so you don't even need to leave home for water. You'll need to purify the water that comes up from it, though. Hopefully you found an electric water purifier, those things can purify an entire 200L drum in seconds if you hook it up to a power grid. (This probably needs to be fixed; I suspect it was balanced around being battery operated, but now that you can hook it up to a power grid it's extremely silly how good it is.)  My power grid is a bunch of solar panels hooked up to storage batteries. I have one very large storage battery for the base itself, and I plug my car in (+2 very large storage batteries) when I'm at home for more buffer. Outdoor extension cords bring the power downstairs so I can run freezers, cook, purify water, and craft with electric stuff. -- In terms of leaving base and being effective in combat, I have fewer ideas. I'm currently abusing the Internal Climate Control CBM (and, on the coldest days, adding the advanced nomad jumpsuit's climate control) to stay warm out and about even in my combat gear. I only really wear cold-weather gear if I'm going to get surgery at the Exodii base or if I am working outside and don't want to burn calories (metabolic interchange CBM) to stay warm. Then again, I don't really use guns much so maybe waddling around like Randy from A Christmas Story works better when you just need to squeeze the trigger.
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worm girl posted:Somebody recently added craftable ballistae that you can mount on your vehicle. They can't be fired by hand, but you can stick one on a shopping cart. Can you still rip the heavy machine guns off of the APC/Tanks and stick them on a shopping cart? That was my favourite dumb way to clear a town.
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As long as the cart can handle the weight. I should check what the weight capacity for tricycles are.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:I ended up just moving into the basement of the evac shelter I was using as a base. 43°F, day or night, summer or winter. This is great thank you, also thanks for posting your base thoughts - Mine is just currently sprawled around a house and despite it being cute having to go to the kitchen to make myself a sandwich I should really min/max my crafting and whole setup. I can't even remember why I chose this particular house but it does have a basement which is pretty large and moving into it should be simple. Also thank you for the advice in relation to the well, that will help a bunch.
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Faithless posted:This is great thank you, also thanks for posting your base thoughts - Mine is just currently sprawled around a house and despite it being cute having to go to the kitchen to make myself a sandwich I should really min/max my crafting and whole setup. I can't even remember why I chose this particular house but it does have a basement which is pretty large and moving into it should be simple. Also thank you for the advice in relation to the well, that will help a bunch. Could always move the kitchen downstairs! Also, check the internal walls of the basement and Reveal Wall Wirings using the construction menu. Wall wirings make it very easy to set up workshops and kitchens and such. You can hang your own wall wirings too, but using ones that are already there saves some trouble.
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https://i.imgur.com/0oxUfOj.mp4 I tried to post this on the CDDA Reddit but apparently it doesn't allow videos, so enjoy this inventory tutorial. edit what am i doing, this is OP material
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Vests with a shitload of pockets are wonderful both in CDDA and in real life.
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worm girl posted:edit what am i doing, this is OP material poo poo, next time I play CDDA I need to remember to get some business cards!
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So I just got wrecked by another new(?) monster that's seemingly in the same vein of other 'Surprise, you're dead in the first month unless you have a .50 Cal or something' monsters (you know, the Shadow or the Star Vampire). It's about a month in. I'm going through an area I've cruised through several times. I'm not an end-game survivor but I'm reasonably good at fighting (Silat, STR of 12, DEX of 10, wanna say Bashing, Piercing, Melee, and Dodge of 4-5). I'm escorting an NPC I found back to base, through what should've been otherwise empty meadowland. The only real threat is a Triffid Grove nearby, which is more threatening than usual because of Magiclysm meaning they've got the magic-using ones now. Seriously, gently caress the gas Triffids, they'll kill you dead. Then this thing called a Nuckalavee comes out from off-screen and admittedly the description sounded bad: giant centaur-like thing with poison-gas spewing mouths. But the title on the screen wasn't red, the usual indicator of it being a big problem, so I put on a gas mask and go over with a steel spear to have a word. I'm at full health, leather armor with a steel chest plate and an army helmet. I figure I'm good. Cue me getting whomped in two hits, barely dealing it any damage, and presumably the (definitely weaker) NPC running away screaming in panic. (And the best part is, I thought it was Magiclysm only, but then go look on the Hitchhiker's Guide and nope, that thing's base game.) Is it like the Shadow or presumably the Star Vampire, and there's some way to proc it to spawn that I tripped in some way? Or was it just very bad luck on my part because that thing's a natural spawn somewhere? Because there wasn't any place that'd seem like it'd 'spawn naturally,' like a portal or something.
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Googled that thing, drat. Looks spooky
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Mountain Lightning posted:So I just got wrecked by another new(?) monster that's seemingly in the same vein of other 'Surprise, you're dead in the first month unless you have a .50 Cal or something' monsters (you know, the Shadow or the Star Vampire). It's rated at 165 difficulty, fatally dangerous. That's the same as a juggernaut. They have 200hp and no armor except 5 bash and the PLASTIC flag, which makes them reduce all incoming bash damage by 25-50%. They've only got 6 melee and 2 dodge, and they're categorized as large, so they're really easy to hit with any weapon but especially guns. So the intent appears to be that you should shoot them, which is of course complicated by the fog. It probably got you because it has 200 speed and hits like a truck. 8d6 is a hilarious amount of dice to be throwing, on par with the Melded Task Force (one of the hardest enemies in the game, unique and locked to a single location), especially when they also have smash so they can potentially do that twice in a second or follow it up by punting you across the street. A spear was basically the worst possible weapon to choose to fight it with. I think the only way for them to spawn out in a field is if there's a portal or tear in reality nearby, or the new "nether-fatigued field" map location. They'll also show up in lab-type places. I like the idea, but the damage and speed both seem a little extreme.
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worm girl posted:https://i.imgur.com/0oxUfOj.mp4 Irl survivor vest hell yeah
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The Lone Badger posted:Lotta weight to not have any medical supplies. He's so good he doesn't need them.
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He's got hand sanitizer in case anything turns blue. That works, right?
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Night10194 posted:He's got hand sanitizer in case anything turns blue. That works, right? I had assumed that was for drinking.
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aghast at the lack of pocket protectors, those pens are going to explode and ruin his vest
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worm girl posted:I think the only way for them to spawn out in a field is if there's a portal or tear in reality nearby, or the new "nether-fatigued field" map location. They'll also show up in lab-type places. Might've been the case with a portal or tear. I'm running a few updates back, and as mentioned, I was basically giving a Triffid Grove a wide berth since with Magiclysm, the two Triffid Mage types make going near them a massive pain in the rear end. So in theory there could've been either within distance and I finally 'activated' it by getting too close that day or the day before. (For those who don't play with Magiclysm on, Triffids and Mi-Go got updated a fair bit back to have special Mage units. I've luckily avoided the Mi-Go variety so far, but the Triffid ones are *rude.* One is constantly spewing (and spraying) a gas that saps your stamina and breath rather fast (and for a while), so not only is it guaranteed chest damage unless you've got a mask (maybe, didn't test with a mask), but you're also now likely out of stamina and surrounded by Triffids. The other attacks with vines and can pop up vine walls to gently caress you up if you're trying to drive through the area they're in.)
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One of my formative memories of Cataclysm is the house I was hiding in turning into 90% vine walls, and then getting impaled to death by vines, and that was agessss back, maybe even during whalesdev, so pretty sure it is. Unless it got removed at one point and then Magiclysm put a form of it back in, or gave the ability to triffids other than [the queen?].
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The Lone Badger posted:Lotta weight to not have any medical supplies. Those are in the cargo pants obviously.
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Mountain Lightning posted:So I just got wrecked by another new(?) monster that's seemingly in the same vein of other 'Surprise, you're dead in the first month unless you have a .50 Cal or something' monsters (you know, the Shadow or the Star Vampire). Do you have auto-notes on? It'll tell you if portals are nearby by marking them on your map automatically. I think you generally only see them when you're near a portal or a place where portal monsters should be I recently had an experience with these guys, where a portal spawned about five squares away from the downstairs of a research facility, I spent about a half a day dicking around in the lab below, came up to the security checkpoint floor and there was half a dozen nuckalavees waiting for me. I kill all those guys, wait for the gas to dissipate, drag a cyborg I spent half a day painstakingly doing surgery on to the exit tile, and then walk into an ambush of three star vampires I survived but the cyborg did not; sorry Mark (I actually kinda love the nuckalavees right now and think they're fine, usually by the time they show up you'll have a gas mask and maybe even a nictating membrane and at that point they're just kinda tough dudes. That said, I don't play melee at all.) Gotta give the star vampires credit for being a genuinely unsettling enemy in a game of this genre, they are both really scary in a mechanical sense and just very creepy overall, the constant tittering sounds whenever they're nearby make me want to run for the nearest vehicle Engorged Pedipalps fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Yeah I always rock auto-notes. Pretty sure I just ventured closer to the Grove and uncovered one or something. Alternatively, Mind Over Matter has the various crystal spots occasionally have a Reality Tear and I wasn’t paying attention to one. Unsure at this point since I updated finally and deleted the old world. I generally roll melee, simply because for a while I had the absolute worst luck with gun store spawns and couldn’t find a dead military patrol/roadblock to save my life. Plus, the steel spear with silat is generally pretty solid (especially if you can’t find one of the weaponsmithing type books, as it’s pretty easy to make). I just wasn’t expecting that thing to be that brutal. Lesson learned I suppose.
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I like to lean on environmental damage and vehicles for most of my early killing, and try to tackle a FEMA camp on day 1 or 2 if I can. Additionally, a very common mass grave that spawns with a tent sometimes will have an M-9 flamethrower in it which is enough to smoke (ha ha) all the zombies at pretty much any outdoor location, they're a little dangerous to use but very effectivecode:
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worm girl posted:It probably got you because it has 200 speed and hits like a truck. 8d6 is a hilarious amount of dice to be throwing I double checked this 'cause I was going to submit a fix, but it's actually only 8d3 bash + 8 cut, so it'll do 8-24 bash with 8 cut every time it hits. That's still very high, but not bonkers like I thought.
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In your LP video you left a hunting rifle in Nestor's island cabin and I think you have a lot of 30-06  Having played a bunch of open xcom mods and dwarf fort way back when, i need to give this game a shot.
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Checking back in just to say I love the wood axe so much. Rolled up an experiment start with the tail and genetically unstable mutations, first roll was into genetic chaos and then I found a cabin with the wood axe and have gone on to chop through hundreds of zombies. I’m sure if I come across anything more complicated than a tough zombie I’ll probably need to rethink my approach but hoping the mutations will progress to cover that problem for me. I may have made myself slightly too powerful in character creation but it’s been a good way to experience some of the more mid game level mechanics so I’m fine with that. Also I can’t get over how easily the game makes it to like roleplay your characters, not sure if I’ve played anything before where my characters “came to life” as effectively. Which definitely makes it a lot more fun but also way more tense when they get in stressful scenarios. Anyways time to get back to choppin’.
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Ok.. went with unwilling genetic experiment, woke up in a field next to a pumping station. killed a lone zed and picked up a ton of tool belts, tools, and work clothing, pl;us a bolt cutter. headed to the nearby shelter, got like 50 protein bars I stuffed in a bag i got by dumping cement powder out at the pumping station, then to a farm supply store, snagging a axe from the garden center, and killing a pile of fat zombies and a cop. cop had a 9 shot 12 gauge, the store had a 410 hotgun, and a ar-15, but no ammo. There is soo many tools and materials in this place. i spied a few solar panels on a few buildings, so next project is to see how hard they would be to take off. Biggest mistake was getting into a brawl while holding a laptop as a weapon. so i got some bruised ribs when a fatty caught up to me. im about noon/early afternoon of day 1. unsure where i wanna hole up, im in the boonies, this store is way too open to use as a shelter. i could start dragging crap to the emergency shelter i guess.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:If you have a jackhammer (or maybe a pickaxe?) you can install a well so you don't even need to leave home for water. You'll need to purify the water that comes up from it, though. Hopefully you found an electric water purifier, those things can purify an entire 200L drum in seconds if you hook it up to a power grid. (This probably needs to be fixed; I suspect it was balanced around being battery operated, but now that you can hook it up to a power grid it's extremely silly how good it is.) Home UV Water filters are actually pretty darn efficient and can do something like 10+ gallons per minute, so I don't think it's all that far off.
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Got machinegunned to death the second i opened a door to a lab, Started a new game, and installed a couple mods. Start in a field, start heading toward a village, and see a few zombies walking about. I start giving a wide berth and see an anklyosaurus there grazing in a field. I start yelling and making a shitton of noise in my underware on the far side of the dinosaur, and a huge wave of zombies start mobbing it under. Normal undead cannot hurt the thing. so, before noon day 1, i got a town to loot. It also seems to be following me like a puppy as i move through the town. I keep shouting and leading zombie swarms to it.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Dinosaur NPC followers when?!?! You can already tame and ride some of them!
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My fangs PR just got merged, which changes how fangs and the new vampire fangs (from the chiropteran mutation ) work. These are going to be the model for all mutation attacks going forward, so you might want a heads up if you use mutations or have been thinking about it. Previously, fangs just randomly procced sometimes and added something like strength x 2 stab damage when you attacked an enemy. So you'd hit a guy with a cudgel and just, for free, also do 20 stab to him by biting him at the same time, somehow. Now, fangs have a 1/5 chance of replacing any melee attack you make altogether, substituting whatever you were going to do with a bite. The bite is fast (base 75 moves, faster with dex and melee skill) and can crit just like a weapon. Fangs have relatively low DPS (they're just 2 inch teeth in a human mouth) but there are a number of advantages that might not immediately be clear: - They use your mouth as an attack vector, so only head injuries will make them less effective. - You can't lose the use of them because your arm(s) got grabbed. - If you are being grabbed, attacking the enemy who grabbed you will cause you to greatly favor your fangs, letting you take full advantage of the above two factors. - Mutants often have problems with arm and hand encumbrance, which fangs sidestep. If you have the digitigrade legs mutation and any paws mutation, you can crouch or run with your hands free, and you'll go down on all fours, gaining the "Natural Stance" effect. This makes you way harder to shoot, lets you hide behind stuff, and you still crouch-walk at your full walking speed with quieter steps. While natural stance is active, you suffer no penalties to dodging or making unarmed attacks (including mutation attacks) and will greatly favor using any that you have. You can also get Natural Stance if you have Bat Wings and Bow-Legged (both from the chiropteran line). Bats also get Vampire Fangs, which are better than regular fangs, and have anticoagulant saliva, which will greatly prolong any bleeding wounds you cause. The suggested way to play as a bat is to sneak around with your silent crawling, bite an enemy once or twice, then use your ability to climb walls to escape and let them bleed out. Weakpoint proficiencies will be vital for this in the late game. If you would prefer not to bite, simply wear something over your mouth. Beast, Lupine, Rabbit, and Feline all get paws and digitigrade legs. Chimera doesn't, partly to differentiate it from Beast and partly to encourage people to consider mixing lines. I intend to give other mutation attacks conditions where they will be favored - hooves stomping on downed enemies, shark teeth proccing more often in water, folding fangs proccing more often vs webbed enemies. You get the idea. and thats how mafia works! worm girl fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Does natural stance make you faster? In my mind it obviously would, like from a vibes-based perspective, but I don't know if there's anything to back that up.
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Vib Rib posted:Does natural stance make you faster? In my mind it obviously would, like from a vibes-based perspective, but I don't know if there's anything to back that up. Only for bats, and only because their upright walking speed is sorta crap. I didn't code the digitigrade/quadrupedal stuff, I just made it relevant in combat. It's been around for a while. Non-bat quadrupeds have reduced carry weight while upright. They also all get +move speed and or stamina buffs from their mutation line so it sorta all works out anyway.
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I never expected to get crushed by the flaming ceiling in the middle of the night, but i was there for it  was looting a town, there were a bunch of those mushroon things, so i lit their fungus patches on fire, and kept looting. i went to sleep in a stone garage with a steel door mostly surrounded by cement. Did not count on the roof going up and being a heavy sleeper, got smished
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woo, slow thread! anyway, day later. Is there a way to make like an entire stack of gallon zipper bags high priority so i can just mass pick up my perishable food?
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winterwerefox posted:I never expected to get crushed by the flaming ceiling in the middle of the night, but i was there for it People complain about dying, but all my most memorable stories in this game are from times that I died. winterwerefox posted:woo, slow thread! anyway, day later. Is there a way to make like an entire stack of gallon zipper bags high priority so i can just mass pick up my perishable food? I don't think so, settings are per-pocket. When you whitelist a pocket for an item category, it will automatically set priority to 100, so that's something I suppose. edit: Bile changes are live. Boomers that barf or explode in bile or glowing bile will now make an honest to god attack roll with it rather than just magically getting goo on you. If it reaches your skin or your eyes, it has a minor negative impact on your lifestyle score and makes you way smellier for a few minutes. Bile splashes also check against armor. Just like any other attack, they start from the outermost layer for the body part they hit and roll against coverage for each layer until the attack has been stopped or they reach your skin. Any time bile rolls under an armor's coverage, the armor deflects an amount of the liquid relative to its breathability score and rolls a saving throw against the amount of liquid remaining, penalized by its breathability score. Currently the filth rate from a barf attack by a normal boomer is about 1% for a direct hit to a 0 breathability item and 4% for a 100 breathability item. Huge boomers are something like 3% and 12%. The explosion from a boomer death has a bit higher of a chance. To prevent getting filthy: 1) Kill boomers with ranged weapons or traps so that you don't get splashed. 2) Failing that, dodge their attacks. 3) Failing that, wear high-coverage low breathability items. Something like a rain poncho is perfect for this, as it will protect your gear very well and is itself disposable if you don't feel like doing laundry later. You can carry a few in your backpack and just discard them as needed. Filthy gear confers a -7 morale penalty (not a big deal) and can cause filthy wounds if you're injured while wearing it (also not a big deal, thanks to antiseptic being everywhere now). worm girl fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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worm girl posted:People complain about dying, but all my most memorable stories in this game are from times that I died. My favorite death was when a brute got inside my deathmobile thanks to diagonal tiles then punched me hard enough I fell out of the driver seat. Next turn was the back window of the deathmobile running me over. quote:Filthy gear confers a -7 morale penalty (not a big deal) and can cause filthy wounds if you're injured while wearing it (also not a big deal, thanks to antiseptic being everywhere now). Likewise one of my favorite runs was when I ate some bad food and then spent 10 days living off cocaine and luck, looking for anti parasite drugs.
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