• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - FUCK NO SPORTING GOODS STORES
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[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;44582831]I have only lived as long as I have lived because I found a katana which seems to magically turn my character into an anime character who blocks everything with ease.[/QUOTE] Oh yeah baby! My latest victim, er 'character' found a katana in a basement a few days in. She is now the super ninjaette kitty from hell! Slice and Dice! [editline]21st April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;44598724]Lost my car to a Skeletal dog that I just couldn't hit. Took every drug I had and sprinted away, leaving my car with all of my stuff inside it. Fuck. Managed to find an electric car with two working solar panels which will do as a temporary vehicle for now until I can go back and get my stuff back! Nearly died, was on the last red '\' of health![/QUOTE] Were you totally encumbered or something? Skeletal dogs aren't exactly difficult - there is no way someone who knows how to use a katana shouldn't kick that dogs butt!
[QUOTE=M1nks;44608058]Oh yeah baby! My latest victim, er 'character' found a katana in a basement a few days in. She is now the super ninjaette kitty from hell! Slice and Dice! [editline]21st April 2014[/editline] Were you totally encumbered or something? Skeletal dogs aren't exactly difficult - there is no way someone who knows how to use a katana shouldn't kick that dogs butt![/QUOTE] Kill Bill but during a cataclysm!
[QUOTE=M1nks;44608058]Oh yeah baby! My latest victim, er 'character' found a katana in a basement a few days in. She is now the super ninjaette kitty from hell! Slice and Dice! [editline]21st April 2014[/editline] Were you totally encumbered or something? Skeletal dogs aren't exactly difficult - there is no way someone who knows how to use a katana shouldn't kick that dogs butt![/QUOTE] I'm honestly not sure why I couldn't hit him but my health was too low for me to risk carrying on. Swapped the katana for a rapier, still seems to kill everything with ease but I can at least pretend I'm a pro fencer or something. Electric Car solar panel attachment was this week's task. Spent 5 days making my car one space longer to fit more solar panels onto it. Seems to still take it ages to charge, does each panel have to be on top of a battery?
No, they just do that for convenience I think. It effectively just charges the car in general, so you could have the battery on the complete opposite side of the car from the panel and it would still charge at the same speed. Also keep in mind that the weather and your reality bubble affect the charge rate. If it's on it'll also drain the battery, as you might expect.
[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;44608692]I'm honestly not sure why I couldn't hit him but my health was too low for me to risk carrying on. Swapped the katana for a rapier, still seems to kill everything with ease but I can at least pretend I'm a pro fencer or something. Electric Car solar panel attachment was this week's task. Spent 5 days making my car one space longer to fit more solar panels onto it. Seems to still take it ages to charge, does each panel have to be on top of a battery?[/QUOTE] Don't forget you can install panels over seats, windshields, kitchen units, trunks etc without any penalty. This way my car's interior is al,ost entirely covered in solar panels. I don't put them outside because zolfs often shatter them. With 9 panels I keep my minifridge on at all times, often cook (thus using the hotplate) and craft, keep headlights on for long and my battery stays at 20% (I have 1 storage, 1 car and 1 truck battery, so it's hard to fill that to 100%). So spam panels, around 8 is pretty much enough unless you are using electric motors (which you shouldn't really). [editline]22nd April 2014[/editline] Also put an alternator on your engine and just leave the car on without going anywhere. You will have a full battery within a day.
Project unarmed only is going pretty well: [IMG]http://g36.imgup.net/unarmed18f8.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;44612812]Don't forget you can install panels over seats, windshields, kitchen units, trunks etc without any penalty. This way my car's interior is al,ost entirely covered in solar panels. I don't put them outside because zolfs often shatter them. With 9 panels I keep my minifridge on at all times, often cook (thus using the hotplate) and craft, keep headlights on for long and my battery stays at 20% (I have 1 storage, 1 car and 1 truck battery, so it's hard to fill that to 100%). So spam panels, around 8 is pretty much enough unless you are using electric motors (which you shouldn't really). [editline]22nd April 2014[/editline] Also put an alternator on your engine and just leave the car on without going anywhere. You will have a full battery within a day.[/QUOTE] Sadly I am using an electric motor. I'm going to eventually move everything across to a different vehicle but for now I'm enjoying the high safe top speed and no need to scrape together gasoline! I'm currently in a massive town which seems far bigger than any other town I've ever found. I guess it's a city. Enemies everywhere and it's not safe to drive anywhere so I've been basically clearing out a street, then driving the car down the street before clearing out the next street. It's nearly summer so with any luck I'll be able to charge the car a lot during the day when I'm killing things. I do plan to make a car either from scratch or by using a chassis in a garage. I wouldn't mind having a sort of hybrid car that uses an engine to generate electricity and an electric motor to actually move but I don't think that's possible.
Nothing wrong with electric cars. They work great as your first car, and for a general purpose exploration vehicle. I usually have an electric car as my standard car and a huge APC for long distance and for if I want to spend a long time away from base, like when raiding a lab or something.
Electric cars are fine, but solar panels are very unreliable. Getting gas is very easy. I have never been out of gas, ever.
I've actually been using what amounts to a Car-Cycle-Pede. A small 9 tile vehicle that seats one. Powered by a foot crank with car wheels on 8 of its tiles, it can hit up to 47 MPH. Its meh for medium distance scavenging. On the plus side, it can stop easily since it uses a Foot Crank and doesn't need fuel/power. A downside is building up enough speed to reliably run something down.
[QUOTE=SteakStyles;44615556]I've actually been using what amounts to a Car-Cycle-Pede. A small 9 tile vehicle that seats one. Powered by a foot crank with car wheels on 8 of its tiles, it can hit up to 47 MPH. Its meh for medium distance scavenging. On the plus side, it can stop easily since it uses a Foot Crank and doesn't need fuel/power. A downside is building up enough speed to reliably run something down.[/QUOTE] What happens if you install 2 foot cranks?
Squid have 8 arms, 2 tentacles... Advanced cephalopod mutated people should be able to use 4 foot cranks simultaneously and the tentacles for the wheel.
So I can't really find anything except stretches of road and forest
Sometimes that happens. Follow a road and you'll eventually hit something significant.
One negative trait I'm never taking again is Junkfood Intolerant. The moral slam for each calorie of sugar is so much more intolerable than I expected and not worth the points for the trait. You'll eat your pop tarts and you will like them you snot nosed piece of shit. My character had the nerve to snub freshly made chocolate waffles. [i]Chocolate waffles made fresh on a waffle iron.[/i] In the [i]zombie apocalypse[/i]. Fuck you, smoke some weed and read some computer textbooks until your delicate little stomach wears off the temper tantrum you fucking fainting flower.
[QUOTE=lightningstreak;44616732]One negative trait I'm never taking again is Junkfood Intolerant. The moral slam for each calorie of sugar is so much more intolerable than I expected and not worth the points for the trait. You'll eat your pop tarts and you will like them you snot nosed piece of shit. My character had the nerve to snub freshly made chocolate waffles. [i]Chocolate waffles made fresh on a waffle iron.[/i] In the [i]zombie apocalypse[/i]. Fuck you, smoke some weed and read some computer textbooks until your delicate little stomach wears off the temper tantrum you fucking fainting flower.[/QUOTE] I can't even find any food so yeh :v: fre puntos
Thinking about it, I'm fairly sure I have a V12 engine in the garage close to my base. I could stick that in the car! Do V12s use significantly more petrol than lower ones? If it's only like double I'm not bothered, but I don't want the thing draining in a matter of minutes! Yeah, I used the batteries I had to power my car enough to get back to the garage at the other side of the city and there's a 12.87 litre V12 engine in here. There's also a 3.53 litre V6 and a 2.99 Inline-4 engine. Probably going to just slap the V12 in and hope for the best.
In general, yes. But it's based on the liter. A 12.87 liter engine is generally going to use a shit load more than a 6 liter. It's also going to put out considerably more power.
More liters = More room for fuel to burn (and therefore more fuel) = More power pushing the cylinder behind each bang = More torque [editline]22nd April 2014[/editline] But since you can't modify engine timings and fuel injection and such it's probably modeled pretty linearly in the game
So uh, how the hell do you build roofs? Even messing around with the debug to get all the materials and tools, I only get "You cannot build there!" when trying to construct one. Even tried building the walls first, but it still doesn't work.
FUCK. My car doesn't have a petrol tank. ... I think there was one in the other garage, about 20 map tiles away and infested with zombies. Let's do this! Found one in the garage I was in actually. The V12 has a fuel usage of 12 whereas the V6 has a fuel usage of 3. I'm going to go with the V6 for now, purely because I'm in a city where I have to constantly go slowly to avoid things in the way, so I'll probably not get much use out of the V12 just yet. Might put it in the trunk of the car and consider switching once I've got out of this hellish place.
Roofs - and I hate that that is apparently the correct spelling, why English language why - have to be constructed with 2 anchor points. Two walls - or doors, windows, etc. - diagonal or across from each other to start the roofing section, then you can start using the previous roof tiles as anchor points. Well, unless they changed that. I haven't actually built roof tiles in like 4 versions.
This V6 is a downgrade from my electric motor. I mean sure I can power it with petrol and not have to worry about sunlight but it's slower, louder, smokes and also seems to brake slower. With the electric motor it would brake instantly but this one takes time to slow down. If only the V12 didn't use 4x as much fuel. Update: I think I have made it out of the city! Most of my car's parts are on yellow or red condition from the zombies around, but I am finally free! I had spawned in an area surrounded by forests, the only road out led to that city which was huge. Need to find somewhere to make repairs and carry on my adventures!
If you install a muffler it'll greatly reduce the sound the car makes.
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;44618077]Roofs - and I hate that that is apparently the correct spelling, why English language why - have to be constructed with 2 anchor points. Two walls - or doors, windows, etc. - diagonal or across from each other to start the roofing section, then you can start using the previous roof tiles as anchor points. Well, unless they changed that. I haven't actually built roof tiles in like 4 versions.[/QUOTE] That worked, thank you. Yeah, 'roofs' is one of those words that just looks like it isn't spelled correctly, even if it is.
Oh baby yeah quantum solar panel jeez hella cool. Put an electric motor on my car too (in addition to V8) because now I am swimming in free energy, weee!
Ugh this world is shit. Normally I find lots of roads and places to explore but this appears to literally be just a city with no paths leading from it to other places. Getting bored of all the zombies and having nothing to explore other than the same buildings over and over. Even driving is shit because of all the wrecked cars around. I cheated myself a road map and used it to find the (one) road out of the city. I feel bad for cheating but there was no way I was going to be able to carry on playing otherwise.
You know you can drive on dirt with basically little to no effect on your car, right? You might accrue some damage from slamming into bushes - after a lot of bushes, not just after a few - but you don't have to dodge cars. That's generally how I drive anyway, fuck roads.
Man, I just can't figure out a way to get into a store without getting swarmed
Mostly you don't. The only stores you can safely dash into are ones with a back door or side/back windows you can open or smash. Generally it's better to clear the area first and then come back and loot. The only real exception is when you have to have food and you're raiding a grocery store quickly, in that case you basically want to use the aisles and the fact that the AI wants to take the most direct path to your advantage. Dash in, take as much as big food as can quickly, then if there's a lot of zombies kite them around the store enough so there's an opening. You don't need a clear path, just a single tile that lets you get out. Damage can be healed while sleeping if you can get enough food to last you, and if you have disinfectant or a first aid kit you can clean any bites you get.
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