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Major Isoor posted:Also, another question - are there any mods that let you upgrade vehicles? Like, welding plates over the side windows, give your car a bullbar, etc. so that they're more survivable? I'm not sure if there are any that let you modify vanilla vehicles but these two from Autotsar are really good: Jaap Wrungel: a 4x4 with loads of customisation options Bus: create your own battle bus I've been considering a nomad playthrough for my next run using this RV Interior mod which looks great, probably a bit OP though!
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Vib Rib posted:I have words and they're all negative. I'm a lizard-brain level player who loves hoarding resources and seeing meters tick up and Dysmantle somehow failed to engage even me. I played too long to refund it and now it's on my Steam account like dead weight. 90% of the game is just going to be you standing against an object holding the button down to keep whacking at it and slowly collecting resources you need stupid amounts of. Somehow this is intensely unsatisfying, even to someone who enjoys resource gathering in most games. I can't fully explain it but just punching fences and chairs and barrels for hours on end is not a good gameplay loop. I felt very similar. I don't consider Dysmantle to be a survival game or a very good game in general.
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Recently some friends and I played through the first bit of Craftopia. It's free on gamepass, and if you're into extremely Japanese 'survival' games I'd say give it a shot. It's fun right up until the midgame where you weirdly run into a poop-based bottleneck.
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piano chimp posted:I'm not sure if there are any that let you modify vanilla vehicles but these two from Autotsar are really good: drat, these are pretty cool! I'll definitely have to at minimum use the Jeep one, for sure.
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I'm the idiot that bought Kenshi after reading this thread and looking at the store screenshots *but not any gameplay* and then was dismayed to find out it's a third person point and click game in the style of Neverwinter Nights.
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Just zoom out til youre a dot on the screen. Now its an rts
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computer_ posted:Has anyone played Conan with the new sorcery update? Does it add enough to make the game worth revisiting? It's not out yet
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Does leaving ovens on cause a fire like it did in the old (maybe current as well) tutorial? And are zombies attracted to fire? I've just started trying to do it as a really dumb way to mark houses I've cleaned out but I haven't seen anything happen yet. It would be nice if it drew zombies away from my safehouse too. edit: in Project Zomboid
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Spanish Matlock posted:Recently some friends and I played through the first bit of Craftopia. It's free on gamepass, and if you're into extremely Japanese 'survival' games I'd say give it a shot. It's fun right up until the midgame where you weirdly run into a poop-based bottleneck. It’s really the most “throw every possible idea into a blender” game Ive ever played. Fun in its way but so, so weird.
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BrianRx posted:Does leaving ovens on cause a fire like it did in the old (maybe current as well) tutorial? And are zombies attracted to fire? I've just started trying to do it as a really dumb way to mark houses I've cleaned out but I haven't seen anything happen yet. It would be nice if it drew zombies away from my safehouse too. I think it only causes a fire if something is in the oven to catch fire. As far as base locations go, I think my favorite base location is a self-storage area west of Riverside. There's a little area with a couple of warehouses, a gas station, a trailer park, and a couple of stores. The self-storage is very nicely fenced in, so it doesn't take too much to secure the place, and you can see the zombies around you, so it's easy to set up retreat options around the perimeter if you're paranoid. The little storage units are wonderful as well, and the flat roofs on them make it easy to set up water barrels on the roof and plumb the region below. The only real downside is not having easy access to an oven, but there's barbecues in the trailer park, and you've almost certainly found at least one generator in the storage area, with easy access to the gas station just down the road to keep it topped off. Between the storage unit loot and the warehouse loot, you're more than prepared for just about everything. There's also plenty of farms nearby for getting some farming going for long term survival.
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Tweak posted:of course a vehicle doesnt shut off when you exit it and when I went back to turn it off got bitten Yeah, learning this the first time can be rough for a lot of reasons, like running out of gasoline on a very low tank when you're a ten minute run to the nearest gas station, but it's actually hella useful utility since having the flexibility to leave it on or turn it off can save your life if you need a quick getaway. That and cars that have some engine damage or have been hotwired will often take a couple tries to get the engine to turn over, which can be just enough time to get ripped out of your car window and showed politely back to the character creation screen.
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Ah so many times of: gently caress gently caress turn cmon cmon no gently caress cmon looks at the zombies now within melee range of car CMON START YOU loving ENGINE first bang on the window, then engine starts AHHHH DRIVE GO GO DON'T GET STUCK AAAHHHH
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Dirk the Average posted:As far as base locations go, I think my favorite base location is a self-storage area west of Riverside. There's a little area with a couple of warehouses, a gas station, a trailer park, and a couple of stores. The self-storage is very nicely fenced in, so it doesn't take too much to secure the place, and you can see the zombies around you, so it's easy to set up retreat options around the perimeter if you're paranoid. The little storage units are wonderful as well, and the flat roofs on them make it easy to set up water barrels on the roof and plumb the region below. Riverside is a great spot for a starter base, I've built a base on top of the gas station in probably a half dozen games, but eventually it's too far from all the other cities and towns and I get bored and move somewhere with a lot more zombies and then I die.
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Dirk the Average posted:I think it only causes a fire if something is in the oven to catch fire. Pro tip: you can farm anywhere, even on the roof of a building. All you need is a Shovel and at least 1 empty sack to transport dirt. Using open fields is kind of bad because a small group of zombies can easily trample all of your crops. But on a roof? Hopefully your base is set up to not even let zombies up there. And if you're in a dry spell, you can siphon some water from your rain barrels to water your crops.
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Dirk the Average posted:The only real downside is not having easy access to an oven You can move electric ovens in yourself with Electrical 3! It's more fuel-efficient to use a wood burning stove or BBQ but I much prefer the convenience of an electric oven hooked up to a generator. That said, it's quite tedious to get Electrical 3 in the base game. I've recently been using this CDDA Reading mod which lets you gain XP directly from reading skill books. Definitely overpowered but opens up a lot of the game without grinding.
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I didn't find it too tedious, but that's mostly because I'm trying to level mechanics right now and instead of going "oh cool, this guy had a watch to dismantle" I go "time to take out the lights/bar/radio and put them back in again" each day
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tildes posted:It’s really the most “throw every possible idea into a blender” game Ive ever played. Fun in its way but so, so weird. It's basically exactly like playing one of those animes where a dude gets stuck in a video game. Like what kind of game is this? Are there swords? Sure. Magic? You bet. Guns? Why not?
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im waiting for Craftopia's big seamless world update before playing it again, it's almost certainly gonna be a disaster and im excited.
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What character occupation do you guys generally use in PZ?
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Lumberjack, Park Ranger are very good for pretty obvious reasons. Engineer is great because it gives you several exclusive bomb recipes you can't obtain otherwise, the pieces are things like hair spray cans and aluminum foil. Veteran is very good if you ever want to get into guns, because of the Fearless trait unless you're ok constantly scrounging and scarfing beta blockers. I am not sure if there's an open trait that is as good as what Veteran starts with.
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Engineer is nice too for the electrical skill boost, but generally I go Park Ranger. You do so much carpentry, foraging, and trapping as part of long term survival that the skill bonuses can save vast amounts of time. With the new foraging system, Park Rangers also have an inherent bonus to search radius, and ignore some amount of darkness and weather effects to the radius. They also have some buffs to finding certain items which is only beaten out by Farmer imo. I use Dynamic Traits mod to change things over time, so I tend to start a Park Ranger with Slow Healer, Underweight, Pacifist. This lets me pick up Fast learner, Outdoorsman, Lucky, and.... I think Dextrous and Fast Reader?
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I do burglar almost exclusively because grinding to be able to hotwire cars is a pain in the butt.
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Man, the current state of Seven Days to Die is so drat good
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Anything in particular you think they've nailed this patch?
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I tried 7DTD but got hit with a recurring issue where I'd try to go to the trading post that is the like fourth mission in the game and every time I got close to it the game would teleport me away in a random direction.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I tried 7DTD but got hit with a recurring issue where I'd try to go to the trading post that is the like fourth mission in the game and every time I got close to it the game would teleport me away in a random direction.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I tried 7DTD but got hit with a recurring issue where I'd try to go to the trading post that is the like fourth mission in the game and every time I got close to it the game would teleport me away in a random direction. And that’s not because it’s closed right? failing that, there’s this one MP issue where traders get stuck and lock you out and you have to rely on sever admins to reset it.
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buglord posted:And that’s not because it’s closed right? failing that, there’s this one MP issue where traders get stuck and lock you out and you have to rely on sever admins to reset it. Maybe but I waited outside for a few days and it was on a single player server so I guess I was the administrator of one. The issue was that I couldn't even get within ten yards of the walls of the compound so it's not like I could try the front door.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Maybe but I waited outside for a few days and it was on a single player server so I guess I was the administrator of one. The issue was that I couldn't even get within ten yards of the walls of the compound so it's not like I could try the front door. That is normal behavior between the hours of like... Sunset and sunup basically. To prevent you from hiding out inside instead of building a base. But yeah if it's happening at like noon that's a bug.
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It acts like that when the trader is closed, there is a mod that disables closing time behavior that would probably work around that problem. e: here it is https://7daystodiemods.com/always-open-traders/ Re: what it does so well is the whole post apocalyptic atmosphere, the way all the semirandom Points of Interest are plugged together in what feels like a very natural way, without the cookie cutter procedural generation feel of basically all other games in the general ballpark. They also got the early and middle game a lot smoother with pipe guns easily craftable on day 1. I don't really like how you're pushed into spending levels on Intelligence because all the crafting benches and vehicles are gated behind it but otherwise it's very reasonable to focus on any stat and its associated skills and have a very different experience on different playthroughs. So much replay value! Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Big Scary Owl posted:What character occupation do you guys generally use in PZ? It depends on what I want to do. Lumberjack if I want to mess around with axes, Engineer if I want to make bombs, etc. Repairman is a good all-rounder since it starts with points in a lot of good things; carpentry is essential to long-term play, maintenance is extremely good but hard to come by, and short blunt is a pretty good and easy to find weapon type. The biggest thing about this choice is that you also gain a massive learning boost for any skill points that your character starts with. The tooltip for this is a little misleading; a character starting with 1 point in a skill gains experience 4x faster than a character starting with 0 points. The change is to your base learning rate, so it's multiplicative with skill books https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Skills#Starting_Skill_Levels My last character was a Police Officer because I wanted to experiment with guns. Guns are very very good at 5+ aiming, pretty much any pistol becomes a headshot machine and many of the hunting rifles, while slower to fire, can take out 2+ zombies per shot at a range where they won't aggro. The noise is much better than it used to be and even a 2x scope on a pistol can give you enough range to eliminate big groups before they can even reach you. There is also plenty of ammo all over the map if you know where to look
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Most of my characters have been Burglars for the increased sneak XP and immediate access to vehicles however recently I've been leaning into min-maxy builds focused on a single weapon type. It's nice to be extremely capable with one type of weapon (as long as you can actually loot one in the first place!):
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Veteran plus the best strength and fitness perks I can cram in there. It’s really awful trying to work out, fitness and strength like never raise, and they make such a big difference. Fitness especially makes the game a lot more chill imo.
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Fitness and Strength are both extremely important and it's also important to have a weapon skill, so you inevitably become a Shortsighted Underweight Claustrophobic Slow Reading Smoker with a voracious appetite and a compulsion to carry 2 full water bottles
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I found my first working car with a key. Got on the highway and wanted to see how fast I could go. Didn't see the T intersection and wrecked. Decided to walk miles back to town through the woods at night. Didn't make it.
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THIS IS HOW YOU DIED. Like an idiot.  Me too. I lost my decently well off single player character last night because apparently the Dyanimc Traits mod added a hidden and undocumented drug overdose “trait”.Kinda pissed about that. If I had known it was a risk, sure, my fault for popping pain killers, sleeping pills and beta blockers to try to deal with my injuries and nightmares to get some sleep, but don’t hide poo poo like that. 
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After reading the posts here about the occupations I decided to start as a Repair(wo)man with the Fast Learner trait and by the 3rd day I have almost level 7 carpentry already just with books and the TV    EDIT: NOW IT'S LEVEL 7 BABYYYYYYYY LET'S GOOOOOO Big Scary Owl fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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I am very happy they added playable VHS tapes, though I'd like it if the skill ones dropped a bit more often. As it is, I don't really like the strategy of, "make sure you're back for your TV shows" gameplay of the first few weeks, but the exp gain from watching TV is just so good.
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Only recently did I see some of the VHS tapes I was ignoring had names that seemed like training videos, guess I need to move a TV into my safe house (or upgrade to a better safe house)
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