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[Tilla]

Oh man. They added a story-based option to skip the tutorial and..wow is it dark. I like where this is going, dealing with the darker aspects of humanity and choices you may have to make in this kind of disaster. Maybe a little over the top

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

smothering your wife because she's badly wounded and has a broken leg

. But I stand by this being a great choice to set the tone of the game.

[Bdthemag]

So does this mean we'll finally be getting that baby killing simulator?

[Tilla]

So does this mean we'll finally be getting that baby killing simulator?

No, children won't be in this game, that is a line they said they won't cross because it personally makes the devs uncomfortable.

[Krath]

I thought Dwarf Fortress already sated all of our baby killing needs?

[Meta]

Really, really nice alpha demo. I like it a lot. And, as it was said before, the musics are awesome!

Changelist from the last build, for the curious ones.

Spoiler: v0.1.2a (click to show/hide)

Build 0.1.2a

1) Added 'speed up time' button (return) that will (PC power dependent) speed time up by a factor of ten. Useful for skipping cut-scenes, waiting out a night when not tired, or doing Benny Hill impressions.
2) Tweaked zombie numbers to make it less immediately punishing. Days are now safer for longer, without sacrificing the danger of nights.
3) Added arrow keys / right shift / control keys as alternates to WASD
4) Lowered zombie path-finding range
5) Made zombies have a chance of getting 'bored' banging doors and investigate other zombie sounds, thus making it feasible to wait out zombies at the door if they don't break it down in time and you make no further sounds.
6) Added tutorial skip option that we're somewhat ashamed of thinking of and will probably become infamous. You'll see.
7) Fixed Kate's dragged / dead frames which weren't working .
8] Fixed infinite ammo bug.
9) Player's footsteps now make sound audible to zombies. to compensate for this zombies have less peripheral vision.
10) Double click to add to inventory.
11) Fixed missing moodles for bleeding, injury, pain etc.
12) ESC skips dialogue for current conversation entirely.
13) *potential* fix to lag issues. Not definite or even probable but possible.
14) Space will now open inventory and holding it will stop it from closing.
15) RTS style control groups for equipped items. Shift+Ctrl+ 1-9 will store the current equipped items for that hotkey. Pressing 1-9 after will recall them if they are in your inventory. (shift + control is because you use control in battle so using ctrl alone would lead to accidental overwrites)
16) Ctrl click will drop an entire stack into a container straight away instead of one by one.
17) If you walk away from a container while holding one of its items on your mouse pointer, when it shuts the container it will add the item to your inventory and keep it on your pointer, instead of removing the item from your pointer.
18) Some balancing of item weights. (Still more required)
19) Improved moodle effects.
20) Added 'encumbered' moodle.
21) Bandages now stop health loss completely for that body part (until proper medical attention is in via NPCs/Skills)
22) Pain threshold reduced to better warn of scratches etc.
23) Increased wall transparency range.
24) Line of sight now works when zombified.

And FYI, the game can be played offline: Tutorial: Play PZ Offline

[justinlee999]

How do I sleep in the bed?

[Knave]

I think I read on the forums that the beds in the tutorial house are bugged and do not work.

[justinlee999]

Ah, such a swift reply, thank you.
Is there any other purpose for your wife after you've saved her from the robber dude?

[jashman]

Is there any other purpose for your wife after you've saved her from the robber dude?

One of the unintentionally deeper questions I've heard in awhile.

[Rumrusher]

Is there any other purpose for your wife after you've saved her from the robber dude?

One of the unintentionally deeper questions I've heard in awhile.

I guess to do a long challenge on nursing her back to health or to a chainsaw wheelchair and prove that you don't need to do a James Sutherland to save her from zombies.

at least give us those who play this a challenge.

[justinlee999]

Her condition improves after a while when you've bandaged her, I wonder if anything happens after she's back to normal.

[Rumrusher]

Her condition improves after a while when you've bandaged her, I wonder if anything happens after she's back to normal.

yeah it would suck balls if you kill her over a bad leg then that happens to you.
"Oh no I got a bad leg good thing the tutorial taught me well. I ... just need to get into this bed and SMOOTHER Mmmmym MMAOMAMOAMJmmmmhnmhmhmmmmmmmmmmmhhmmmmhmhhmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...mmm...mmm..mm.m......m."

Being James Sutherland also means we get pyramid head on are butts during our trip to silent hill for killing our wife who alive and wants us to join her.

hopefully Zombiod has a hidden ending for those DF adventurers who luckly KILL EVERYTHING or flood the world with magma or do both.

here's a web comic based on if other parts of DF was added other than "Losing is fun"

I dub the moat a Zomagma moat, and I wish the developers to add in the ability to flood the world with Zomagma even the pesky Elves.

 

[justinlee999]

Elf bikers

[Rumrusher]

Elf bikers

well looks liek Deon going to make a map pack to this where humans are dwarf, zombies are goblins and hostile biker lads or elves.
than and someone going to take a swing at adding in the ability to build walls and junk.

[Deon]

Elf bikers

well looks liek Deon going to make a map pack to this where humans are dwarf, zombies are goblins and hostile biker lads or elves.
than and someone going to take a swing at adding in the ability to build walls and junk.

Wat.

I didn't think of it. But now when you said it...