ladyteruki...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 :
Challis2070@ladyteruki Oh no, I did know that you were browsing existing mods!
That's why I was like "instead of looking for existing ones, why don't I just...mod it..." forgetting it's usually much harder than the modding I was doing.