Project Zomboid v. 7

[Zakk]

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;42975750]I began my story in a medium-sized blue house, wearing no shirt. My chest was [I]very [/I]manly.
For the bigger part, I didn't seem to experience much difficulty gathering the resources necessary for survival - in fact in my very own home I found a gun and ammunition.

On day 2 I was surrounded by zombies while scavenging the nearby medical store. The moment I had opened the window and entered the premises, the alarm sounded. I quickly scavaneged everything I could as I saw the undead gathering outside. My gun saved me that day. I got away with only two scratches, on my torso and left foot.
However, I had to spend the next couple of days at home, recovering from the damages.

After 7 days I noticed my fridge had finally given up. I decided I can't stay in my safe haven anymore and packed everything food-ways that didn't have an expiration date, all my medications and my most important tool so far: A pistol, now with 60 bullets.

And so I began my long journey to the farm.
It took me 2 days to get there. Much running was made. A lot of dodging Zeds, and hiding in construction yards for the night.

And so here I am. My name is Shawn Wood - and this is the story of how I almost died once, but managed to escape fairly well and found my way to probably the worst place on earth because there are literally no resources here and I'm pretty much fucked THANKS A LOT

[editline]25th November 2013[/editline]

FUCK I JUST ATE UNCOOKED BACON

GODDAMNIT[/QUOTE]

I got salmonella once from eating undercooked bacon.
I shit like I had ebola, but it didn't kill me.

This game needs to get its disease symptoms from facts.

Actually I think it'd be cool if you chose.. a "doctor" profession, you could treat your wounds better, know what symptoms are related to what, be more accepted by survivors, idk.

[vlad]

they gotta buff zombies. they're really no threat. I've literally cleared out 800 zombies in just 17 days

[Manian]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42977071]they gotta buff zombies. they're really no threat. I've literally cleared out 800 zombies in just 17 days[/QUOTE]

When you have 2 or more zombies grabbing you simultaneously you're pretty much done for.

[vlad]

[QUOTE=manian112;42977163]When you have 2 or more zombies grabbing you simultaneously you're pretty much done for.[/QUOTE]

I've managed to get out situations like those a dozen of times. even though every limb is scratched and bandaged I'm still surviving

[milkandcooki]

if i press volume down or up on my headset, some multiplayer menu pops up that i can't close, even when the game window isn't selected.

i have to restart to fix it. this blows.

[Cyril Connolly]

I want to be able to mix and then chug bleach and ammonia in order to commit suicide like a true professional.

[Βlasphemy]

Swallow a molotov. The whole thing.

[Ajaxial]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;42976678]I got salmonella once from eating undercooked bacon.
I shit like I had ebola, but it didn't kill me.

This game needs to get its disease symptoms from facts.

Actually I think it'd be cool if you chose.. a "doctor" profession, you could treat your wounds better, know what symptoms are related to what, be more accepted by survivors, idk.[/QUOTE]

Unless the doctor was from England. At which point you'd be better off without the ability cause they are generally always wrong here. :v:

[Ravenholme]

[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;42985308]Unless the doctor was from England. At which point you'd be better off without the ability cause they are generally always wrong here. :v:[/QUOTE]

Source pls.

[Ajaxial]

[QUOTE=Craigewan;42985468]Source pls.[/QUOTE]

Oxford. Come here and see a doctor. You'll wish you hadn't bothered. :v:

[Robust Retard]

[QUOTE=Blanketspace;42984549]I want to be able to mix and then chug bleach and ammonia in order to commit suicide like a true professional.[/QUOTE]

Actually, you should be able to commit suicide with more things. If I'm bitten, I should be able to shoot myself, or at least strap a bomb to my chest then charge a horde with a butter knife to die a honorable death.

[B][I]I SHALL PROVE TO MY ANCESTORS AND ODIN THAT I AM WORTHY OF VALHALLA![/I][/B]

[Robust Retard]

This thread is beginning to lack content, so I was thinking about a themed run where fellow FPers could suggest basic ideas for characters, and I'd pick one followed by attempts to rationalize how the fuck that would work followed by my best attempt to make that personality influence my choices (way of dying).

What do you think? Is it good enough of an idea?

[Kimaru]

I really want to get this game for my cerebral palsey brother but I had to buy his prescriptions if anyone is in the mood for giving can I have a key for the early access on steam?

I would appreciate it so much...And so would my brother he really want's this game....My username is kimaru on steam or [email][e-mail]...Thank[/email] you..

You don't have to rate me dumb just say no..That would suffice. I'm just asking. Not implying or saying you Have to. Hell he said he would take a picture with his written name and game he wants on it or a video. But forget about it..Sheesh.

He's 25 years old just cannot walk.. Spastic Quad.

[Shanto]

[QUOTE=Robust Retard;43001110]This thread is beginning to lack content, so I was thinking about a themed run where fellow FPers could suggest basic ideas for characters, and I'd pick one followed by attempts to rationalize how the fuck that would work followed by my best attempt to make that personality influence my choices (way of dying).

What do you think? Is it good enough of an idea?[/QUOTE]

Your character has Narcolepsy. Enjoy that =D

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Robust Retard;43001110]This thread is beginning to lack content, so I was thinking about a themed run where fellow FPers could suggest basic ideas for characters, and I'd pick one followed by attempts to rationalize how the fuck that would work followed by my best attempt to make that personality influence my choices (way of dying).

What do you think? Is it good enough of an idea?[/QUOTE]

fobia of sharp items (axes, saws, knives, nails, etc)

[SomeENG]

There is a disturbingly high amount of pistols spawning in the school.... (four)

[Sector 7]

[QUOTE=Robust Retard;43001110]This thread is beginning to lack content, so I was thinking about a themed run where fellow FPers could suggest basic ideas for characters, and I'd pick one followed by attempts to rationalize how the fuck that would work followed by my best attempt to make that personality influence my choices (way of dying).

What do you think? Is it good enough of an idea?[/QUOTE]

put zombie sight, hearing and smell to minimum

become one of them

[C O Y O T E]

[QUOTE=SomeENG;43032914]There is a disturbingly high amount of pistols spawning in the school.... (four)[/QUOTE]

'murrica

[Robust Retard]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43019218]fobia of sharp items (axes, saws, knives, nails, etc)[/QUOTE]

YOU MONSTER, THAT'S THE MOST TERRIBLE IDEA I'VE EVER HEARD!

I'LL DO IT.

[QUOTE=Shanto;43016843]Your character has Narcolepsy. Enjoy that =D[/QUOTE]

Really considering this, might do it on the same run I do the previous one for maximum """Fun""".

[QUOTE=Sector 7;43043818]put zombie sight, hearing and smell to minimum

become one of them[/QUOTE]

All three at once, I'm liking this idea.

[SomeENG]

went to bed after watering plants and woke up with fourty-eight buckets.

[C O Y O T E]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/KWvAlix.jpg[/t]

Well shit.

[metalhand]

So i just got this game, and i've been enjoying it a lot. I just never seem to able to get any wood to build stuff.

Any tips in general?

[EndOfTheWorld]

[QUOTE=metalhand;43054638]So i just got this game, and i've been enjoying it a lot. I just never seem to able to get any wood to build stuff.

Any tips in general?[/QUOTE]

Until you get an axe/saw to cut trees and make wood, break down doors. Doors in any building you are not going to use and take the planks. You can break doors with any blunt weapon.

[C O Y O T E]

Ever since I found out that breaking down doors gives you planks I found the game a bit too easy, so I upped the zombie hearing to "Pinpoint" and spread them out in uniform on "High".

I survived for about 7 hours and died in the most stereotypical zombie-movie way possible. Cornered in a small room, door about to break in with tons of zombies on the other side. Boom it goes, and in flows like 50+ zombies and bite my arse off while I try to push them away with a golf club.

gg

[SomeENG]

Anyone else ever had the glitch where all the zombie noises start at once randomly? Nearly broke my chair.

[Flem]

Just bought the game, gonna piss my gf off later and nerd at it hard.

[C O Y O T E]

Guys, Indie Stone have opened up a sort of "private" Beta which you'll need to enter a password to get to.
[url]http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/3962-released-build-19-the-new-iwillbackupmysave-branch/[/url]

Go into the Steam Beta tab and input the following password:
[B]iaccepttheconsequences[/B]

Lots of new stuff in this update as well:
[quote]
[B][BUG FIX][/B]
-The weak trait will now reduce your max capacity.
-Fixed the weird lighting in the church.
-Fixed the brown wooden stairs textures in carpentry menu.
-Fixed some bugged walls (where you could loot through them).
-Craft food from rotten ingredients will give you a rotten food as result.
-Now save the unhappy and boredom level.
-The Anti-depressants now reduce the unhappyness (effect is not immediate, it take some times).
-Fixed lighting issues / holes in world draw errors.
-If you click outside the delete save modal dialog in the world selector, it'll disapear.
-Fixed the fire saving/load bug.
-Fixed a bucket/garden spray can duplication bug.

[B][PERFORMANCE][/B]
-Fixed memory leak causing OOSs on some systems.
-Performance changes / improvements (no promises, including the demo, with the numbers we're talking chances are it'll take a few to get most of them sorted).
-Tweaked the camping code to make it much more efficient.

[B][NEW STUFF][/B]
-Added inventory icon for berries bush.
-Added various tooltip (pills, ...), to help the new players.
-New items ! (include lovely spiffo burger by our cutie pie Mash !).
-New recipes : Box of things, explaination : You can now find box of nails (you also have screws, bullets...), right click on it and select "open" will give you 100 nails AND if you have 100 nails, you can also right click on it and "put in a box" to move them around easily.

[B][BALANCE][/B]
-When you make an item, we set the condition of the result item with an average of the used items condition, and not just the lowest condition.
-Tweaked the number of berries in a bush.
-You'll now have much more chance to find stuff (including axes and hammer) in the West Point toolstore (in front of the sea horse coffee).
-Time to start a fire in a oven increased.
-Tweaked a bit the fire spreading (it spread more... "The roof is on fire, we don't need no water let the..." Erm.)

[B][MODDERS][/B]
-Now load "Item_...png" instead of "item_...png" in the mod loader.
-The mod directory can now be different of the mod ID for the mod loader.
-New event : "OnFillContainer" // Every time we fill a new container with item, param : room name, container type name, the container just filled.
-New event : OnChangeWeather // Every time we change the weather, triggered in lua, param : the new weather (string).

[B][TRANSLATIONS][/B]
-Updated translation : Russian, French and Polish.
-Added few new things to translate : [url]http://theindiestone...ge-2#entry43568[/url]

[B][BUG FIX][/B]
-No longer possible to equip a two handed weapon if it's broke.
-Some world convert fixes (still have some crash on certain save :( Will do more).
-Fixed a lot of farming bugs :
-When you harvest a plant, click on another (even dead) to have the last clicked plants vegetables (I fixed this for all the other actions)
-Some plants disapear.
-Fertilizer.
-Other minor fixes.
-Fixed sand bag walls : They were not hoppable and not acting as a wall. (now they block you, not your vision, and you can climb them).
-Fixed alarms saving.
-Fixed the mod loader bug (I thought we already made a hotfix for that, apologize !).
-Fixed the temperature of items after the electricity shut-off.
-When crafting an of item of food - its age will be dependent on the average age of the foodstuffs that went into the recipe. What's more, if any of the food you used was rotten - then don't expect the results to be particularly edible either! This is a fix for crafted food that 'cured' the rot of what went into it - ramen etc :)
-The loot found on zombie bodies is no longer dependent on the room/area in which they were 'killed'.
-General UI polish.
-Ripping something into bandages that's inside a container won't have the side-effect of ripping up the clothes you're wearing. (Sorry!).
-Some typo fixes.
-You can now destroy non-player made stairs.
-Fixed bunchs of XP books bugs :
-No more xp reset if you stop/restart to read the book.
-Page read will be reset to 0 if you finish to read them (thanks gekkobear ;)).
-No more multiplier reset in the middle of the skill.
-No more "can't read last page bug".
-Hand made construction will now drop some materials used to build it if destroyed.
-Fixed the weapon tooltip.
-Food will also become rotten inside if put inside zombie body.
-Fixed a bug in the calcul of the rotten food when it was in a container you never open before.
-Some reloading fixing by our lovely Stormy !
-Fixed a bug where the name of the plant wasn't in the info box in case of dead plant.

[B][NEW STUFF][/B]
-You can now find sand bag, gravel bag and empty gravel bag, you can click click on them to spill -sand/gravel on the ground, adding a sand/gravel tile where you want. These bags can be used 4 times before giving you an empty bag, which, with a shovel can be filled with sand, gravel or soil by clicking on the right tile on the ground.
-Some new items : threads, garbage bags, gravel bag, watch, wooden glue... Not all of this item have a purpose right now, but they will really soon, that's why they are already in game. (think about people who already explored a lot of things, when this new items will have an utility, they'll have hard time to find them..).
-Added gravel bags walls in the carpentry menu (under "Fence sub menu).
-Fertilizer for farming (this was not really "new", but bugged and the fertilizer weren't spawned) : Use it up to 4 times on your plant (no more ! or it'll die...) to reduce by 20hours the next growing phase.
-Added a tiny icon (like the little orange round for the equipped item) for broken weapon.
-Empty gravel bag and garbage bags are container (you can equip them), they are big but with a really small weight reduction.
-Changed crate crafting: level 2 carpentry allows for rough/crap crates, level 4 lets you build proper ones.
-Player-created floors, like walls, now have three different textures to match your carpentry skill level.
-You can now pack 50 seeds into a seeds package - so it now works like boxing up nail.
-Campfire will now look like it’s alight when fired up.
-Some containers (school bag, plastic bag ...) will now have items spawned inside. A purse might contain lipstick etc.
-Berries will now rot.
-New message added to demo to underline to players that you start off infected.
-Crops in farm areas now have a chance to spawn corn.
-The container tooltip (for plastic bags, school bags..) will now display the icons of the 3 last items added inside it.
-2 new traits : Lucky and Unlucky, they will influence thing as loot rate, chance of break your weapon, chance of success in fixing it...
-Fixing System ! Yay ! [url]http://theindiestone...e-fixing-system[/url]

[B][BALANCED STUFF][/B]
-Up a bit the loot rate of sand bags.
-Rain collector change : You now need to be carpentry lvl 2 to build a small rain collector, and then lvl 4 to build the big one (the current one). You also need garbage bags to build them now.
-Up the loot rate of the hand shovel (required for farming).
-Increased the likelihood of discovering tent pegs
-Lowered the potential for alarms to sound once the electricity has shut itself off.
-Name of a rotten food will now be displayed in red.

[B][MODDING][/B]
-Added a setCustomColor(ColorInfo) for IsoObject.

[B][TRANSLATIONS][/B]
-Updated French, Polish, Italian and Russian translation.[/quote]

[Βlasphemy]

(I really don't think this news should even have been posted on this thread.)

Seriously though. This build isn't meant for everyone. If you don't want bugs, don't opt in.

Back up your saves if you want to try that out. And don't act surprised if you find a game breaking bug that destroys your world or progress.

*Saves are here: "C:/Users/<Username>/Zomboid"
*Post console logs if you crash.
*Don't post any media (screenshots / videos / streaming) of this password build unless you get explicit permission from the devs.

[C O Y O T E]

If you mean the info on the locked beta, then they should really make the forum private. The information is perfectly open there.

[Βlasphemy]

Yes but their forum receives much less traffic than this one does, so it is still fairly under the radar. Not to mention they have much a much easier time reading feedback over there, than it would be over here. I'm not saying they haven't posted here, because I know they have. I'm just saying its easier for them to see feedback on their forums over this one.

It also seems a bit more meant for those on the forum anyways, as the ones who frequent there would be much more accepting of the issues that locked build would contain.