ladyterukiHonestly if this game had a rideable dinos I'd say it's my new favorite :P
I'm giving it a bit more time until I make a decision ; I've been known to be very much into a game the first few hours, and then lose interest or find that it's too stressful to continue. But I might just add it to my Steam wishlist in the future if this arrr🏴☠️ version keeps me involved !
I don't often have fun things to talk about, so I hope you'll forgive this long chatty thread...
It's my own fault really. I drove a car a bit too recklessly (I can't get used to those commands >_< ), and it eventually broke down in the middle of the countryside. I walked for two days, as it took a while to progress without much energy nor rest, and when I finally found an empty house...
...well, it wasn't THAT empty afterall.
Sidenote : does anyone play #ProjectZomboid around here ?
I keep finding garbage bags with stuff inside, and I can't find how to open them. The wiki lists all the stuff you can find in it... but uh, doesn't say how to actually put it into your inventory.
Ideally I'd also ask how the hell you dispose of a zombie's corpse in the garbage to delete it, as I've heard some people mention in videos, but you know what, baby steps. I'm fine making piles for now.
Holy sh*t. It's impressive how features are planned so much in advance ! Now THAT is what I call Early Access, goddamn !
*fails*
But I think the end might be near. I went looking for a car in all the wrong places. I'm now stranded in the countryside, and electricity was just shut off. This does not look good for me.
I had to restart with a new character (this is going to happen a lot XD ), and the first place I explored for loot had a zombie corpse in the toilets... with three weapons and three boxes of ammo O_o
If I weren't too afraid to shoot guns and alert all the zombies in a 50km radius, that would be very broken XD
Anyway, I'm having a blast, and #ProjectZomboid has been added to my wishlist. As the prophecy foretold XD
Honestly most of my deaths so far are a direct consequence of driving horribly. This time I had found a backup car, so I was proud of myself to still have a vehicle after I crashed my first car. Then I got cocky and took the second car on a long trip to the garden center. While trying to avoid a tree, I swerved, swerved again, and somehow ended up doing a barrel. The car landed on the passenger side. Thankfully I could go out, but I was stranded on a long road and -
And that's the story of how my dumb a** died this time. God I wish I had public transportation rather than cars XD
It's probably not gonna last, but it's interesting nonetheless !
Death seems to be inevitable once I start driving. I don't die in the car crashes, mind you, but get stranded in the worst* places.
*in a game where there is no good one
This time I spawned in Muldraugh, found a black van in good condition fairly fast, loaded it with items, and tried to drive south to get to Echo Creek... and couldn't find my way. I drove for days, and...
...died of thirst on the highway.
...
*immediately start watching videos about the game*
My current run is going ok, except for one major disappointment.
I found a huge warehouse full of vegetables !!!
...except I found it during week 2 and all the veggies were rotten u_u
...Ok, no sudden movement, no rash decision : this is where things usually get tricky...
I'm sure it's a coincidence that the electricity just shut off.
God I just jinxed it, didn't I ?
...Waiting for death in my purple car...
Started a new Project Zomboid save (of course).
Found an ambulance within 5min of playing.
Killed a zombie EMT, got the keys to the ambulance from them.
Got behind the wheel, realized the tank is half-full.
Started the car, turns out the engine is in great condition.
Drove south towards what I want my base to be.
20 ingame minutes in, smashed a tree by veering too abruptly to avoid another tree.
Now stranded on the highway next to a destroyed ambulance.
I'm this close to hating myself.
WHY CAN'T WE DRIVE A CAR THE SAME WAY WE MOVE OUR CHARACTER ?!
When I'm on foot, if I need to go to the right side of the screen, no matter what direction I'm facing, I use D and immediately go right.
When I'm driving a vehicle, if I need to go to the right side of the screen, I need to think : "ok, so, wait, I'm driving towards the bottom of the screen, meaning I need to use Q* to drive to the car's left, so I can take a right"
WHAT GIVES ?!
Only problem is, I've spent all the extra money I had last month, so I won't be buying the game during its sale on Steam. And so, I don't think I can get mods for an arrr🏴☠️ version of the game.
Everything was going well. Everything was going so well ! Everything was going TOO well...
My latest run was really good. Found a functioning truck within two days, drove all the way to my base spot, didn't crash the f*cking truck by the way, secured the base spot, started scavenging for important stuff (additional fridges/generators/water coolers...), packed food from the nearby egg factory, looted the gardening center and the car repair factory...
I was on a f*cking roll !
Every time I had a setback, which did happen, I recovered. I found decent gear, I organized my storage, I was ON IT.
And then, it happened. Because of course, something was gonna happen.
See, I found a trailer at a nearby farm, and decided I was going to try and use it. I've never had a trailer before but I've seen the videos, I know how they work.
I approached the trailer with the back of my truck. Slowly, to not ram into the truck.
I had to do it at an angle, but I didn't damage anything.
I turned off the truck's engine.
I used "V" and attached the trailer to the truck.
AND THAT'S WHEN THE TRAILER DECIDED TO START FLYING, TAKING MY TRUCK WITH IT, AND LANDED ON THE FARM'S ROOF.
So, first bug with my arrr🏴☠️ version of build 42 (which is itself unstable).
Fine. I'll go do the dishes.
...and counting. For now. But given that the electricity was just shut off, a lot of things are going to be more complicated now.
Jeanie had a f*cking good run. The best one so far, in fact.
But it had to come to an end...
...With at least 5 characters surviving a lifespan of 20 ingame days, in which 1 ingame day is 1 IRL hour, plus some shorter lives (especially in the begining) for some characters here and there, it's very likely that I went over 100 hours since I've picked up the game.
So whenever I can finally buy the game, let's all remember that Steam's data will only tell PART of my love story with #ProjectZomboid XD
Extremely grateful to @ham_sando for their generous donation which allows me to do this !!!
IT'S HAPPENIIIIIIIING !
So far it's not going great XD
My first official character was turned into flesh ribbons by zombies. The second one was... well, in a way I got extra lucky because there was only a 7% chance for me to get that result XD
That's too bad because the second character found a golf bag within five minutes, with 4 golf clubs in it !
And the golf bag was purple !
I really thought things were going my way, instead I exhausted all my good luck on a bag XD
I will no longer focus my energy on that damn warehouse, I think XD
By the way, THIS is precisely what I love about survival games. You die and die and die, until you find something that works. And every choice no matter how small matters.
For instance I chose to drive as fast as possible to the food warehouse and crashed my vehicle into a tree by not taking sharp enough of a turn... well now either I find another one (except this one could really carry a lot of stuff in the back) or I learn mechanics to fix it up, otherwise this is going to doom me.
This week it was the birthday of my oldest friend (sorry, I mean I've known him the longest, not that he's particularly old XD ), and I was talking about both ARK and Project Zomboid, and he said : "Oh, you like survival games* ? I've been playing a game you might like"
* I am worried I haven't been annoying enough about survival games if he has to ask
And he recommends... this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Obscur:_Expedition_33
Which is very much not a survival game.
My character arrived in the middle of the night on Day 2 at the base spot. She was exhausted but I took the time to open each room to make sure there was no Zed anywhere, spent some extra time putting all the food away in the freezer, washed her clothes & her face, and went to bed around 1am. We'll sort the rest later.
Alarm clock rings at 5:40am to not miss the Life & Living TV show (it levels up some skills !), she watches TV with a bowl of cereal then goes out...
...only to find this :
LeRoiMiracle@ladyteruki have you tried "on the road to Canada" ?
A friend of mine plays it over and over again 😅
Kuddos for surviving zombies o/ i'm really bad with games where the character can die, it stresses me out way too much, last I played was Neva and i had to restrain my playing time to around twenty minutes each because of it 😅
Charlie@ladyteruki They just wanna watch Life & Living too!
I've been busy with Zomboid this week too, though I've been working on modding rather than playing...
@ladyteruki https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3133520800
It's a mod to add a tire rack, (and soon other items), that are useful in a garage.
Built it for B41 and am working on revising it for B42. Got the majority of the code working and improved upon to support some new features in B42, and about to start on the next item for the mod.
So far I haven't had the opportunity to survive long enough to have many tires XD but I've wished for better storage for gas cans and such. I like how the storage changes depending on how much stuff is on the shelves, but it doesn't represent WHAT exactly is on the shelves and it's a bit hard for organizing. But then again I've been playing this game for only a month. I'm sure there's a mod for that. There's one for everything !
@ladyteruki That was one of my pet peeves too, but getting the tire rack to correctly show how many tires are stored was a bit of a hack and not officially supported by the game, (hence why almost no mods actually do it).
I may see about updating the big storage shelves to correctly reflect what is stored, but right now my project is a craftable battery shelf for storing (and slowly charging) car batteries.
|~hamu_sandowicz~|
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