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[n9103]

It would be nonfunctional on earth, due to the difference in gravity.

I believe they are functional on earth... unless there is something I don't know.
For the MOST part they wouldn't want to create something that couldn't be tested on earth.
It might not have great acceleration mind you...

Well, upon further research, you're *technically* correct. (the best kind, I know )
It appears that the Buggy's structure wouldn't outright fail under load on Earth... but you'd lose in a race against a grocery store scooter.
If a cripple would rather go on foot, what difference is there from being nonfunctional?

[Neonivek]

Actually when I think about it...

how would an evil corporation add anything new exactly? What could they have that would widen the scope of the game in a positive way? hmmm...

[Kaitol]

Simple. Make it a Faction that sends units into the cataclysm to see if they can potentially use or exploit any of the batshit crazy stuff. Random encounters with teams of NPC's with high quality gear who have an excuse to be hostile if you go anywhere near them or interfere.

Totally forgot what I intended to post about in the first place. Could it be possible to make Carnivore characters not get a penalty for eating offal?

[jocan2003]

... but you'd lose in a race against a grocery store scooter.
If a cripple would rather go on foot, what difference is there from being nonfunctional?

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[Neonivek]

Ohh yeah... have the Corporation use cyborg zombies as a way to weaponized the infection

[Majestic7]

EvilCorp sitting in an orbital station and seeing how their Grand Experiment is going on? Endgame goal of taking over a shuttle and going there to murder all the billionare assholes who killed the world?

[KingofstarrySkies]

Well, we already have literal demons and eldritch nightmares. Why not have sci-fi villains as well as the grim fantasy ones?

[Majestic7]

It would be nice if the game generated the Reason Behind Apocalypse when a world is created, which would affect the things in the world somewhat. You wouldn't know what it is unless you found it out by yourself. For example it could be:

1) Leaders of the world belonged to a cult that purposefully opened portals to let the Old Ones through and stuff.
2) EvilGovernment experimented with EvilTech in an attempt to mindcontrol people for Evil.
3) EvilCorporation did it for Greater Profit and it went a little wrong, but no worries, we have a plan.
4) EvilGov or EvilCorp did it on purpose to accelerate human evolution or to cleanse the Earth or something like that, they have a plan to repopulate in their image.
5) Aliens! ALIENS!

Then yeah, like with #3 you'd get the orbital station with the cybernetic Koch brothers and what not while with #1 you'd find places where the cult did nefarious rituals etc.

[Akura]

Spoiler: There's already an explanation (click to show/hide)

Experiments in teleportation technology let slime monsters from the "lower planes" into the world. These slimes infect the living; in mammals above a certain mass threshold(like teenage humans), this does nothing until they die, at which point they come back as zombies. The slimes escape, infect the world at large, then people start dying through the usual day-to-day means, then zombies. It's not really clear if the teleportation research was run by the US government(implied that China was doing the same thing as well) or some corporation. It's not really clear where they got the stuff to play with teleportation, but my headcanon is that miners found an amigara fault, the government stepped in, won an artifact from completing the event, which had teleportation powers, and the government tried to replicate it.

Also, #5 is true as well, triffids are aliens. The fungal monsters are from another lower plane, as are things like krecks and mi-gos.

By the way, does the player's body store nutrients? As in, if I eat a little more of a vitamin in a day, do I not have to worry about getting the full amount the next day? Or does the nutrient counter reset every day?

[martinuzz]

My NPC won't drink the soylent green shakes

[ThtblovesDF]

Reason Behind Apocalypse - All at once, please.

I would like to have zombie firefighters that still attempt to fight fires, as my main way of dealing with any issue is setting it on fire.

[Majestic7]

Spoiler: There's already an explanation (click to show/hide)

Experiments in teleportation technology let slime monsters from the "lower planes" into the world. These slimes infect the living; in mammals above a certain mass threshold(like teenage humans), this does nothing until they die, at which point they come back as zombies. The slimes escape, infect the world at large, then people start dying through the usual day-to-day means, then zombies. It's not really clear if the teleportation research was run by the US government(implied that China was doing the same thing as well) or some corporation. It's not really clear where they got the stuff to play with teleportation, but my headcanon is that miners found an amigara fault, the government stepped in, won an artifact from completing the event, which had teleportation powers, and the government tried to replicate it.

Also, #5 is true as well, triffids are aliens. The fungal monsters are from another lower plane, as are things like krecks and mi-gos.

I'm aware of the explanation, what I'm talking about would be it being different in different worlds, which would alter the game experience in certain ways while keeping the basic elements. It would add to replayability and excitement and whatnot.

Of course easy for me to say when I'm not doing anything for the project.

[n9103]

Sounds like you'd basically just be enabling/disabling different faction monsters (and their items) for any given scenario.
Doesn't seem *too* hard on the surface. Implementing the randomization and integrating/swapping the in-game lore to match up would probably be the hardest parts.

[pisskop]

triffids are the least like the other 2.

[Kaitol]

Why do slingshots make 37 noise when they fire? I thought it would be quiet, which is why I tried to snipe a shrieker zombie with it at night. Didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped.