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[Kaitol]

*slow clap* Congratulations, you gamed the system in the simplest, easiest ways possible while staying in the safest locations possible and never fighting anything remotely dangerous to an experienced player for four days, as well as never accomplishing anything of import, value, or skill. Also, The HP lowering traits are some of the best bad traits, especially so if you intended to sneak around in the dark for four days with night vision so that you would never fight anything more than one or two at a time with enough gameily layered clothing that a normal zombie or two couldn't damage you

Now try actually RPing, and playing the game. Also, Try actually taking some crippling traits. Like illiterate, slow, fast metabolism, thirsty,etc. Also, turn on wandering hordes, and go try to kill a zombie hulk with those stats and a wooden spear. Layering basic clothing probably won't block all of that damage. As well as increasing the monster scaling and decreasing the item scaling and town scaling. Also, don't start during the night.

Also, with so little documentation, theres no way to tell if you just outright cheated with a debug menu or savescumming.

[Nighthawk]

What I find most amusing is how he complains about the difficulty of a sandbox game in which there are ways to alter the difficulty to your tastes.

[LordSlowpoke]

does anyone actually play defense mode

tell me about the defense mode

[UristMcDwarf]

defense mode is ok

[Elephant Parade]

does anyone actually play defense mode

tell me about the defense mode

Defence mode is kind of interesting.

Slightly buggy, though.

[The Darkling Wolf]

I like the implication that the game was hard when Whales developed it. Y'know, back when there was an hour and a half long period where no zombies could spawn, and the primary strategy was to saunter into town and loot a few gun stores then be set for life.

[IcyTea31]

tell me about the defense mode

You spend 20 minutes setting your equipment up, then accidentally shoot your generator a few times and lose. There should be a query when you're about to shoot at friendly targets.

[Zireael]

I like the implication that the game was hard when Whales developed it. Y'know, back when there was an hour and a half long period where no zombies could spawn, and the primary strategy was to saunter into town and loot a few gun stores then be set for life.

LOL

[Tawa]

I typically take a mad dash into town with a few sacks over my shoulder, take ALL THE STUFF, and get the hell out of there, throwing rocks and firing guns at any following tough zombies.

Also, I lost a 1-year survivor today. (My seasons are 30 days, for the record.) I was taking out some shotgun traps from the middle of the road when one fired.

Into my face.

WTF. I was even wearing a goddamn survivor helmet, which is made out of effing kevlar. Bigger bullets really shouldn't deal cutting damage.

I didn't even have Frail or Glass Jaw or anything.

[Kaitol]

Kevlar isn't a magical bullet repelling material, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't covering your eyes. And you did just shoot yourself in the face with a shotgun. I mean even if the armor did somehow manage to protect the majority of your face and head, theres still your neck right there, and the concussive trauma alone might have done critical damage.

Pretty sure helmets aren't generally designed to withstand pointblank shotguns. You'd need a specialized helmet for that kind of thing.

Man, I just saw a wolf and a moose going at it, and the wolf won. That's one scary motherfucking wolf.

[Jacob/Lee]

We need an artist to draw that. Is it possible to step on a nailboard when disarming it?

[Tawa]

Fair enough. I'm not going to savescum, although I might make some kind of crazy dude who mysteriously encounters my old base of operations and the Batmobile, my indestructible spiked cube van.

Spoiler: The Batmobile (click to show/hide)

This thing is two tiles longer than a cube van. The entire thing is covered in spiked plates. There is a door between the back and front. The back contains an RV kitchen unit, a FOODCO Kitchen Buddy, an onboard chemistry lab, a welding rig, a forge rig, two trunks, and a bed. There are windows with curtains and the back is accessible from a shutter door in the back. The front contains a seat straight in the middle with floor trunks on either side. The front has three spikes and two blades welded onto the front. This vehicle crashed into a building and destroyed a wall shortly before my face was blown off with a shotgun, and the thing came out COMPLETELY UNSCRATCHED. It did not have ONE damaged part. It also had a water tank with outer-accessible faucet next to the kitchen unit. There were also solar panels mounted directly above the wall between the cockpit and back.

Spoiler: My Character's description, for any artists who want to draw that as J/L descripted[/spoiler (click to show/hide)

He was kinda skinny, because he had 7 Strength. He was wearing eyeglasses and I imagine him to have extremely long, curly hair. He was wearing survivor items (hood, trenchcoat, cargo pants, light boots, harness under his trenchcoat). He had a MOLLE pack on. There were combat knives tucked into his boots. I think he was holding either a fire axe with "And my axe!" engraved on it or a railgun with "Bueller Gun" engraved on it.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Sounds more like a mobile command center.

[NullForceOmega]

No kevlar is not a magic bullet repelling material, it is however extremely effective at  decreasing the effective energy of projectiles, also, buckshot sucks wind at penetrating bone, many people have survived point-blank shotgun discharges to the face due to this fact.

[Kaitol]

I thought most point blank survivals of shotgun to face were due to birdshot. (ala Mr. Former Vice President's little accident)

Also, some of those can probably be attributed to fast effective medical assistance. Which is not coming in the cataclysm, unless you are the luckiest son'bitch on the face of the universe. Or actually have friends. *muted snort of disbelief*