/v/ - Video Games

Call me a fag but I almost always play with the Classic Zombies mode. No crazy shit like skeleton behemoths, but it does make it harder to find CBMs (can't just butcher augmented zombies). I generally either make my base slightly out of town, or preferably, play a strong/slow/intelligent mechanic and base out of some public service area (forget what they're called) and only make trips into town to gather bits for my self-sufficient RV. Lots of traps and grenades, while steering clear of machines and big cities.

It strips a lot of the content out of the game playing just classic zombies, but I like it. I've tried default settings a few times, and generally just get smoked by some electroshock zombie in a mansion or something almost immediately. Or get thrown through a wall by a hulk while I'm wielding a rock, 2x4, or improvised crowbar.

My favorite start on classic zombies was starting as a science nerd kid in an elementary school, and stuffing as many books in my bag as I could manage while trying to escape the school, which was only successful maybe 80% of the time. Once I got out and hotwired a schoolbus (I think, something like that) and tried to drive away at high speeds, but the kid was a poor driver and jerked into a roadside minefield. It disabled the bus and the kid, and I tried to escape through the minefield away from the zombies when a pack of wolves descending upon me, tearing me apart in between getting blown up by mines. That game didn't last very long, but it was very FUN!!

Did they fix Vehicles yet

>>15623100

>only successful maybe 80% of the time

I meant I died trying to get out 80% of the time.

I'm going to make a weeaboo blacksmith who uses a naginata.

>>15623108

I'm not sure what you mean since I've only been playing a couple months, are you referring to being at a diagonal angle and shit just straight up walking through your walls and tearing your face off? If so: no.

>>15623119

Do it faggot.

>>15623100

>>15623113

That's what I started playing on. I usually start innawoods until I gather enough supplies to try raiding towns. Knife spear is absolutely essential starting gear imho for dat reach attack.

Also I prove the rule of OP being a faggot since I savescum. Pretty sure I'm worse than you because of this.

>>15623131

>I'm not sure what you mean since I've only been playing a couple months, are you referring to being at a diagonal angle and shit just straight up walking through your walls and tearing your face off? If so: no.

In the older versions they nerfed vehicles and made them really fragile, they made them so fragile that even tanks used to break apart from hitting almost anything.

>>15623087

What is best version right now?

Oh god, I just checked that fatass SJW furry grenade's github and he's attempting to put in the CoC.

>>15623142

Thank God for forks. Can't believe the base game has fursuits, dildos, and every imaginable religious book (also with an option to disable them all) for a sense of equality and diversity. That's probably why that world got so fucked, every city, even every 4 house + gas station town was inhabited by every degenerate and a member of every religion you can think of.

>>15623134

You can drive through a building or two if you've got Heavy Frames and Military Plating, though I don't recommend it without a Ram. You can see from my screenshot that I've got a Ram on top of the extra plating I put in front of my converted Bus. Partybus knows how to Party

>>15623135

I dunno, I'm playing a version that's a bit over a week old because they added a memory mechanic so your character remembers where buildings and cars are without them being in line of sight which is pretty legit for crawling around underground.

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>>15623144

That's what fire is for. I rarely burn down structures on purpose. But when I do, a furry lived there.

Did a "fled the riots" start and came out with this. Plenty of easy thread, a hammer, source of water, and a cutting tool. Just need to get a cooking tool now and start scouring hardware stores and garages for metal saws and acetylene torches. I also need to make a backpack, so I'll have to go knock out a window or lure of a few zombies so I can beat them to death with my hammer. I have yet to decide what weapon I'll use for early self defense, but likely something wooden. I would like not to use a crude sword, but if I can't find another cutting weapon (what I took starting points in) I will.

Last game I did wandering zombie hordes which was fairly difficult until I managed to scrap some supplies on some night runs and hide in a basement. Eventually I got the usual deathmobile and all the supplies I could need and quit after getting bored from raiding labs for cbms.

>>15623156

Best early game weapon is the improvised crowbar. Take a rock and a pipe (rocks can be found anywhere and pipes can be found by bashing lockers and shit like that with the rock) then fabricate the crowbar. Does OK damage, but more importantly you can pry open windows and doors without making much noise, most of the time. If you have shitty strength and/or dexterity sometimes it doesn't work, or you'll break a window while trying to pry it open and make a lot of noise. But generally it's great for hitting the outskirts of town without drawing too much attention, and dealing with a Z or two now and then.

>>15623205

Building a campsite is cool, starting with a simple pine bough lean-to and going from there. My hangup is always trying to build a butcher rack which requires a nearby table, which I can never build. I usually end up dragging a table from a nearby town, but that takes forever and is annoying getting it through the bushes and brush in a forest.

Have they nerfed spears yet?

>>15623256

Au contraire, I love it, but you know balancefag autists hate fun, and there are a lot involved in the development of this game.

>>15623265

That's a nice setup anon, but you should do something about that schizophrenia.

>>15623267

Looked it up myself on the item browser, apparently they made Knife and Forked Spears fragile and changed some recipes. Prediction fulfilled.

>>15623267

God is such a shitty Dev. Outside isn't balanced at all. You ever try to 1v1 a Hippopotamus with anything less than a tier 4 firearm? Fuck no, you either run, get oneshot or oneshot them with a big ass gun. Those are the only options.

>>15623273

Don't worry, those are just dreams about being a Medical Anomaly. I'm a Cybernetic Mutant. Shit like that tends to give you weird dreams.

So should I just grab the latest experimental build? Or is there a fork somewhere I'm not aware of?

>>15623287

I'm just playing the experimental build with a few mods. I'm a newfag to C:DDA so I dunno about any personal builds or anything like that.

>>15623286

Thumbs are OP, just dig a pit and boom.

>>15623287

get the CDDA Launcher and use latest experimental

Best way to train up combat stats in early game without getting killed?

>>15623324

Approach single buildings and kill single normal zombies. Small critters are also useful. If you're using throwing, slings, archery, or statsthroughskills, then [f]iring at a wall might be worthwhile. I assume that still works.

>>15623305

This disproves my "Outside isn't balanced" argument how?

>>15623324

Depends on the skill. You can whack small trees and throw rocks at walls. At least that's what I seem to remember.

>>15623324

If you really want to skip the early game, go into the settings and change the allowed stat values for character creation. Be warned though, if you go overboard with this it will make the game very boring, very fast.

>>15623374

>& + / + [insert item here] = ?

Search function isn't entirely self explanatory but that's pretty much it.

Now if some one could tell me how to auto sort items into stacks that would be nice.

>>15623407

It should stack items automatically, unless it's like lighter(100) and lighter(78). But there are autopickup settings and stuff like that in the settings, so you can set it to automatically pick up bullet casings or 0 weight/volume items like matchbooks.

>>15623420

Huh I'll have to try that, thanks.

But I was actually talking about sorting items on the ground. I'll just look it up again.

>>15623446

Oh, you mean like advanced item sorting, [/] I think? Use the numpad to select directions or your inventory. Great for sorting numerous items into nearby storage things like lockers, or transferring shit from multiple nearby sources into a cart/buggy or some shit that you're dragging.

>>15623458

Nah; I've used that tons of times.

I watched a LP of C:DDA where the guy sorts stuff on the ground automatically outside of the 9 squares around you. He actually loses some shit after killing a Shocker Brute by getting stuck in an infinite sorting loop bug. I was mostly listening to it as background noise while I played so I wasn't paying attention when he talked about how to do it (I think).

>>15625335

Whatever's in there can hardly be worth it anyway considering if there's one lab nearby then there's probably another. Or at least that's my experience.

>>15623446

Oh, it's [Y] to define different zones for clothes, ammo, food, etc, and [O] to sort items in them/into them.