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[Eagle]

Meh. Fema camps aren't too hard. Several times they're the first place I've went to. (the secret is barbed wire)

EDIT: So I dropped this fractal jelly because I was about to chug a bunch of mutagen so I just dropped everything. And it... turned into nothing (3). Huh. Never even got to use it...

Also. If I have hooves and webbed hands and tentacle arms.. How am I supposed to warm up my feet and hands? I can't wear any clothing on them. I thought being furry would help, but its not.

Youll have to sit near a fire. Craft a brazier and you can light a fire inside it safely even indoors.

[jocan2003]

What i like about the starting shelter is that the upper right console emit JUST enough light to read in pitch darkness nights. Thats the reason why i always live and expand it, well either the starting one or another one closer to a town if the starting one is too far. Also i have a question. Does palissade gate are customizable in lenght? Because i wanted to make a courtyard/scrapyard where i would work onn cars etc while still  being protected from wildlife. Having a bear sneak on you while installing an engine can be a bit fun breaker...

[The Darkling Wolf]

As long as you have a section of palsade wall on each side, they can be as long as you want.

[jocan2003]

As long as you have a section of palsade wall on each side, they can be as long as you want.

Perfect !!!

[Bronimin]

you can light a fire inside it safely even indoors.

Having previously lit fires inside a LMOE shelter, I thought it would be safe to light fires inside a house and read books by it (because who wants to waste their batteries?). Obviously, the house burnt down, with me scrambling to pick up by grenade launcher and longbow. Not fun.

Having totally not learned my lesson, I decided that the fire probably started because the fire was too large. So I try with a single stick and some splintered wood. Doesn't work. House #2 goes up. This time, I get cornered by the fire and burn to death.

Next time, braziers; although I have no idea where to get sheet metal from.

[The Darkling Wolf]

You can get it by disassembling slides.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

What tool do you use to disassemble slides?

[Moogie]

I just wanted to say that I started playing DDA for the first time yesterday and I'm already loving it. Static spawns was an unexpected, but very welcome option, and lead to a crazy situation.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd been picking off the normal Zs from the outskirts around a small town, gradually edging further inwards as my skills and resources would safely allow. At one point, I'd forgot to turn Safe Mode back on (is there no Auto SafeMode anymore? This system feels different somehow, but I can't quite remember how it used to be) and stumbled too close to a Hulk. The 'Big Blues' as I call them are not easy to outrun; I popped some Adderall and Cocaine and he was still edging closer as I ran at 140 speed-units. I had no choice but to start darting around buildings and trying everything to break Line of Sight before he caught me.

This cat & mouse chase took us right through the heart of the town and circled around at least twice, aggroing every single zombie spawn that existed there. They were EVERYWHERE. All directions. 9 ZDogs snapping at my heels, spitters and shockers slaughtering droves of their own as they chased me. Every direction I turned was towards another group of Zs, I was ducking and weaving around a sea of green, and in the background, that damn Hulk was still keeping up.

Sustaining heavy injuries, I had no choice but to stop periodically and take care of those damn dogs that were getting free hits on me as I ran. I then focused solely on the LoS issue with the Hulk. Eventually, somehow, I lost him... and being so coked up from the drugs, I easily outran the rest and escaped back into the countryside.

I know it's not a new situation for this game, being ambushed and surrounded by hundreds of Zs. But just knowing they were already there, waiting for me to stumble across them, instead of spawning on my head because I made some noise? That's fricken beautiful. Hats off to whoever coded that mode, and to everyone working on DDA.

[Sirian]

What tool do you use to disassemble slides?

It should be screwdriver+hammer like for any deconstruction. Also, you can craft sheet metal from 4 scrap metal, as long as you have at least 2 in mechanics, welding goggles and a charged welder.

[The Darkling Wolf]

I just wanted to say that I started playing DDA for the first time yesterday and I'm already loving it. Static spawns was an unexpected, but very welcome option, and lead to a crazy situation.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd been picking off the normal Zs from the outskirts around a small town, gradually edging further inwards as my skills and resources would safely allow. At one point, I'd forgot to turn Safe Mode back on (is there no Auto SafeMode anymore? This system feels different somehow, but I can't quite remember how it used to be) and stumbled too close to a Hulk. The 'Big Blues' as I call them are not easy to outrun; I popped some Adderall and Cocaine and he was still edging closer as I ran at 140 speed-units. I had no choice but to start darting around buildings and trying everything to break Line of Sight before he caught me.

This cat & mouse chase took us right through the heart of the town and circled around at least twice, aggroing every single zombie spawn that existed there. They were EVERYWHERE. All directions. 9 ZDogs snapping at my heels, spitters and shockers slaughtering droves of their own as they chased me. Every direction I turned was towards another group of Zs, I was ducking and weaving around a sea of green, and in the background, that damn Hulk was still keeping up.

Sustaining heavy injuries, I had no choice but to stop periodically and take care of those damn dogs that were getting free hits on me as I ran. I then focused solely on the LoS issue with the Hulk. Eventually, somehow, I lost him... and being so coked up from the drugs, I easily outran the rest and escaped back into the countryside.

I know it's not a new situation for this game, being ambushed and surrounded by hundreds of Zs. But just knowing they were already there, waiting for me to stumble across them, instead of spawning on my head because I made some noise? That's fricken beautiful. Hats off to whoever coded that mode, and to everyone working on DDA.

The better thing? One day you're going to be strolling through that area of the world and that hulk is going to be there waiting for you.

Enemies in Static don't despawn like in Dynamic, they're offloaded into the tile they're in once you leave and will reappear when you return.

[TempAcc]

The new system is pretty awesome, on the old spawning system you spawned zombies everywhere through noise and you could never really clear a town of zombies which stole a lot of the feeling of progression you can get now. Now if you get strong enough you can give yourself the mission of clearing out every town you cross, and it gives you more incentives to continue exploring after you get yourself a nice shelter.
When cataclyms gets real Z levels and more endgame content, it'll become one of the best survival games ever.

[DrPoo]

I just wanted to say that I started playing DDA for the first time yesterday and I'm already loving it. Static spawns was an unexpected, but very welcome option, and lead to a crazy situation.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd been picking off the normal Zs from the outskirts around a small town, gradually edging further inwards as my skills and resources would safely allow. At one point, I'd forgot to turn Safe Mode back on (is there no Auto SafeMode anymore? This system feels different somehow, but I can't quite remember how it used to be) and stumbled too close to a Hulk. The 'Big Blues' as I call them are not easy to outrun; I popped some Adderall and Cocaine and he was still edging closer as I ran at 140 speed-units. I had no choice but to start darting around buildings and trying everything to break Line of Sight before he caught me.

This cat & mouse chase took us right through the heart of the town and circled around at least twice, aggroing every single zombie spawn that existed there. They were EVERYWHERE. All directions. 9 ZDogs snapping at my heels, spitters and shockers slaughtering droves of their own as they chased me. Every direction I turned was towards another group of Zs, I was ducking and weaving around a sea of green, and in the background, that damn Hulk was still keeping up.

Sustaining heavy injuries, I had no choice but to stop periodically and take care of those damn dogs that were getting free hits on me as I ran. I then focused solely on the LoS issue with the Hulk. Eventually, somehow, I lost him... and being so coked up from the drugs, I easily outran the rest and escaped back into the countryside.

I know it's not a new situation for this game, being ambushed and surrounded by hundreds of Zs. But just knowing they were already there, waiting for me to stumble across them, instead of spawning on my head because I made some noise? That's fricken beautiful. Hats off to whoever coded that mode, and to everyone working on DDA.

The better thing? One day you're going to be strolling through that area of the world and that hulk is going to be there waiting for you.

Enemies in Static don't despawn like in Dynamic, they're offloaded into the tile they're in once you leave and will reappear when you return.

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So i can actually have a pet zombie? Holy shit.
Can we get to make cage traps?

[Bronimin]

Did some testing on lighting fires inside houses and it seems that bathrooms are actually fireproof to a degree. Lighting a fire with four heavy sticks in a bathroom resulted in the fire going out eventually (~10mins game time) while a fire the same size in the bedroom made the place go up in smoke. Its cool that the game simulates the tiling in places like that.

EDIT: Sudden urge to ask for a pyromaniac trait; giving morale if you burn things. Not being a coder, I wouldn't know how hard this would be to code.

[jocan2003]

Did some testing on lighting fires inside houses and it seems that bathrooms are actually fireproof to a degree. Lighting a fire with four heavy sticks in a bathroom resulted in the fire going out eventually (~10mins game time) while a fire the same size in the bedroom made the place go up in smoke. Its cool that the game simulates the tiling in places like that.

EDIT: Sudden urge to ask for a pyromaniac trait; giving morale if you burn things. Not being a coder, I wouldn't know how hard this would be to code.

For each tiles or raging fire in sight give +5/10 morale bonus? Too long without a raging fire you get *urges* that if you dont fill it within a few hour you get morale drawback. Might be like asthmea attacks exept you need to see a fire and get negative morale instead of physiscal drawback

[sebcool]

So, I'm continuing the adventures of Cole Coleman.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Chapter 2: Cole was quite pleased. His strategy was working quite well, and the town was becoming quite deserted. He could actually walk into the shopping district without being swarmed from all sides. He was travelling towards the three gun stores in the western part of The Big City. He had always wondered how they could all stay in business when they were right next to each other. Of course, he didn't have much time to wonder with the bloody dogs always snapping at his heels. By the time he got to the trio of stores, a small group of dead 'eads were following him. He darted into the one he called The Shotgun Store, and found himself a beautiful looking Saiga. He had never actually handled a gun before, but the movies made it look quite easy. Just hold it in the general direction of the zeds and away they go. He had quite a bit of fun with that. Decimating the entire group that followed him. And the group after that.

Then he ran out of ammo. Cole cursed his luck and darted into another store. This one looked quite trashed. There didn't seem to be ammo for any of the impressive guns, he supposed he had to compromise. Cole eventually settled with an USP 45., a SIG Mosquito, and a Glock 19. He considered it a rather meagre arsenal. He was quickly proven wrong in that regard. Even the Mosquito, using the rather meagre 22. LR, could reliably take down a zed at close range. He had even more fun with those weapons.

After committing genocide on all four-legged creatures, Cole decided to head to his old garage. He had been working with a vehicle there, and hopefully it was still there. He dodged, weaved, and genocided his way to the garage, and began clearing the perimeter. When he eventually decided that no zombies were hiding in the woodwork, he made his way inside and discovered that his ride was, amazingly, still there. It was... A quadbike! This will be fun.

To sum it up: I love 22. LR, and I hate dogs. I also have a quadbike, Ho Ho Ho!

Also:

EDIT: Sudden urge to ask for a pyromaniac trait; giving morale if you burn things. Not being a coder, I wouldn't know how hard this would be to code.

This! I suppose it could be possible to give a mood bonus when near a fire, although it would be a bit of a problem when you start getting blisters.
Edit: Ninjad.