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[Leatra]

Hehe, I'm so bad at this game, but it's a lot of fun.

My latest character was running around in the wilderness, collecting food and supplies. She had that trait (I forget its name) that makes animals friendly; so, of course, all the squirrels and rabbits in the neibourhood were bloodthirsty and hostile and would not stop attacking me wherever I went.

So all this commotion inevitably attracted all the zombies in the area, so I ran back to my base and tried to defend the doorway from all these zombies and squirrels. The whole time, I'm swinging wildly and not hitting a thing, and I'm thinking "What the hell, why can't I hit anything?!"

Well I couldn't hold the door for long, and soon I was surrounded. I knew I was about to die. Still miffed at my incredible miss rate, I checked my equipment.

'Weilding: Strawberry'

...God damn it. LOL. I died trying to defend myself with a delicious berry.

Heh, I just imagined someone trying to fight against squirrels and zombies by swinging a strawberry around.

[Fniff]

I just imagined billions of dead zombies, surrounding a man with one strawberry in his hand.

[gimlet]

They must have taken the course! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afi7_01GnxY

[kilakan]

How did I ever survive before finding my science id and military id cards... dynamite and CBM's are so awwweeessoommmeee!

[Moogie]

Does anyone have any tips or strategies for surviving visits to town? Basically every time I attempt to go looting residential streets, I'll end up chased by zombies I can't outrun, eventually get surrounded, and inevitably die. Even when I pick the quickness and quietness perks, it seems they can always track me and surround me.

If I don't go to town, I never find any tools, so I can't even begin to craft spears or anything.

[BishopX]

Does anyone have any tips or strategies for surviving visits to town? Basically every time I attempt to go looting residential streets, I'll end up chased by zombies I can't outrun, eventually get surrounded, and inevitably die. Even when I pick the quickness and quietness perks, it seems they can always track me and surround me.

If I don't go to town, I never find any tools, so I can't even begin to craft spears or anything.

Windows are your friend. Make the zombies come through a window and stab them one at a time. When they get through or start swinging at you, run. Generally I try and fight at the back of a houe first. That way when they get through the first set of windows you can run out the front door, shut it, and then move over to the front window so they path through that as well.

[Johnfalcon99977]

I'm trying this game out, and so far my thoughts are: "If Left-4-Dead was a Roguelike". I mean that in the best way.

[Whales]

I'm trying this game out, and so far my thoughts are: "If Left-4-Dead was a Roguelike". I mean that in the best way.

When I started development, it was called L4DRL, and meant to be a roguelike conversion in the spirit of DoomRL.  Then I wrote a map generator, and realized that a full-fledged sandbox with open exploration would be more interesting

Stay tuned for a Left 4 Dead-esque Sprint Mode challenge coming at some point!

[DrPoo]

I'm trying this game out, and so far my thoughts are: "If Left-4-Dead was a Roguelike". I mean that in the best way.

When I started development, it was called L4DRL, and meant to be a roguelike conversion in the spirit of DoomRL.  Then I wrote a map generator, and realized that a full-fledged sandbox with open exploration would be more interesting

Stay tuned for a Left 4 Dead-esque Sprint Mode challenge coming at some point!

Will we also get some mad black guy to run around and annoy us about pills? I mean, GMod machinima style?

[Johnfalcon99977]

Nah, he would likely realisticly overdose on pills before you could get to him

[DrPoo]

Nah, he would likely realisticly overdose on pills before you could get to him

Your right.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Yeah I've run into bug. If you try and fire your gun if its out of ammo, the game crashes, for me anyway.

Edit: It only seemed to happen once, so Its all cool.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

That happens if you spawn in a gun via the debug console
Possibly with NPC weaponry too.

[kilakan]

Hey how exactly do you guys manage to keep the starting npc alive?  I find she/he usually lives about a day or two before he/she starves to death or stupidly walks outside into a zombie horde.  I don't want to have him come with me and have to babysit him all the time, but I don't want him starving to death either.... any way you can give them items without convincing them to follow you?  Also do you ever find any other npcs without using the two-way radio?

[boatie]

Should I download the cataclysm.zip linked at whalesdev.com or the cataclysm2.zip linked in the "Windows Version" thread linked in the first post?