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[Knight of Fools]

Classic.

[Greiger]

I like the NPC staring on in horror at the destruction of the mansion.  That thing must have been the death of many a truck.

And good for you! The quad bike did survive!  Quite well apperantly!

EDIT: I just got distracted by posting and crashed my car.  I forgot I was heading into a turn and started turning too late at 70 mph.  Hit the handbrake when it became obvious I wasn't going to stop or turn fast enough and the car actually went into a skid and crashed into the forest sideways at 40 mph taking out half a dozen trees, didn't think they could do that.

Shows the durability of my little car though. Car only has armor plating on the front end, and since I went into the woods sideways, it didn't do any good.  But car was still more or less intact.  No noticeable frame damage, one door got totaled, one trunk, and the car's vanilla gas tank went red but other than that no damage.  Not even a windshield broke, and those seem to shatter every time I tap a bush with a back tire.  Cataclysm cars are definately not pintos.

[Micro102]

Anyone else unable to find any nails? At all? 2 mega stores, 5 hardware stores, uncountable numbers of houses. Nothing. I would really like to build stuff, but can't 

[Moogie]

They've been exceedingly rare in my current cluster of 3-4 cities. I think I've found 3 lots of nails total, out of about 8 hardware stores. So they're not impossible to find, but perhaps their rarity has been increased? Or we could both just be unlucky. It happens.

[Azated]

I found two parking lots next to each other within the starting map. One had a car and the other had a truck. Other games I have to go through half a dozen big cities and a couple dozen parking lots just to find one motorcycle.

I've found that motorcycles spawn really often in sewage treatment plant parking lots. 9/10 of the lots I've found have a motorcycle in them, which is pretty damn cool because I never live long enough to build my own car.

[BigD145]

It's entirely random. Parking lots are the same.

[kulik]

Plenty of nails in my current game but im searching for a chainsaw and an wood axe, they seems nonexistent in my game I've searched dozens of hardware shops. I won't request to raise the spawing rate cause i had games where i had no problem to found them. Isn't there something wrong with how things spawn?

[arguablycrassic]

Just got stuck talking to an NPC who appeared out of nowhere and told me to drop my weapon. If I dropped my weapon, the game would crash. So I chose the "Calm down" option, which turned him hostile. Upon retrospect I should have just debugged him away, but I chose to examine(x) him. So before i can apparently look at someone, he manages to shoot me twice. NPC's, never again.

[Shades]

Plenty of nails in my current game but im searching for a chainsaw and an wood axe, they seems nonexistent in my game I've searched dozens of hardware shops. I won't request to raise the spawing rate cause i had games where i had no problem to found them. Isn't there something wrong with how things spawn?

It's just the luck of the RNG I'm afraid. The code is fairly simple about how it chooses items (random change for random item in a given item group) so is unlikely to be broken.

Both those items are pretty rare though.

[Micro102]

I have found 3 chainsaws, but no nails....

I think the game needs to spawn a minimum number of each item before spawning anything else. Normally you could find hundreds of nails in any hardware store. And at least one box of nails in every house.



Also, how do you guys travel to other cities? Do you always use a car? I try traveling on foot. But every time I come across a horde of extremely deadly creatures. Mainly giant mosquitoes.

[iceball3]

Genius. I'm keeping NPCs because yay aspirin addicts.
Edit: Did I mention that he/she had a Saiga-12? Did not end well for me and my team.

[arguablycrassic]

Genius. I'm keeping NPCs because yay aspirin addicts.
Edit: Did I mention that he/she had a Saiga-12? Did not end well for me and my team.

Just drop your weapon then explode their heads.

[iceball3]

Just drop your weapon then explode their heads.

Actually, I did that the first time, worked perfectly
Picked up the aspirin again, got mad, said NO U.
Then my head exploded by saiga-12

[Greiger]

Also, how do you guys travel to other cities? Do you always use a car? I try traveling on foot. But every time I come across a horde of extremely deadly creatures. Mainly giant mosquitoes.

Now that I have a car I drive everywhere, but walking is otherwise the only way.  Back before vehicles I would follow a road and hope for the best.  If I see something in the distance particularly difficult like a mosquito I would immediately turn around and go back to town and try another direction.

Spoiler: My incomplete list of road walking threats and my strategy for avoiding/dealing with them (click to show/hide)

Mosquito/Dragonfly= turn around consider that path blocked until I have a way to deal with them.  Swamp bugs will ruin your day.  If you must fight one, they are basically more evasive wolves.  A mosquito can often be taken out in one shot, dragonflies will need a few.  Both don't use sight, so if you can keep them off screen you might be good.

Fungaloid/fungalzombie= Continue, but take care to avoid being near them they can only smell and hear, and keep a closer eye on the map, if a bloom is seen try to adjust the route to give it a wide berth.  Avoid gunfire if possible.

Trifflid= They can also only hear and smell, adjust your route to avoid them as soon as you see one. generally if you keep them from coming on screen they will never know you were there.  Avoid gunfire if possible, and keep a cutting weapon handy.

Bees= Very localized. Chances are if you see one, and no nest on the map, it's alone.  If it's hostile, just shoot it.  If you are in the wilderness you don't have to worry too much about zombie spawns.  If you see a nest, give it a wide berth and pass by, they get pissed if you kill one of them, so don't kill any near any non hostile ones unless you have to.  Tracking ones will become hostile soon.

Ants= I've personally never seen more than 1 at a time even near a mound.  If it's hostile, shoot it.

Wolves=OMGWTFBBQ.  If you see them they saw you.  Pray it's a lone random spawn.  If it is good, take it out with your method of choice.  If it's a pack they are faster than you.  They hit and run like fast zombies, if you are melee try to move in such a way that when an individual comes in to strike a hit they have to use 2 turns to do it, so you can get a swing in before they back off.  If you are using guns, try to plug one coming in for a strike or backing off.  They dodge better than deer, so unless you are a crack shot, you'll want to minimize the range penalty.  Fortunately they have less than 30 hp, so a good hit can often one shot them, they will also sometimes flee if you kill a couple.

[iceball3]

Personally, I keep a .22 compact firearm around just in case of wovles, preferably loaded with CB. Still not completely silent, but quiet enough to avoid a spontaneous swarm of everything, and is still good to kill in few hits.