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Quote from: BigD145 on November 22, 2013, 12:45:41 am

Quote from: Edmus on November 21, 2013, 11:56:22 pm

Nothing beats the feeling of having a dying character with infected wounds collapse into a bathtub full of bandages and antibiotics.

These are Dark Days indeed.

These are glorious days, when you literally bathe in your relief from suffering!  Now begins the uprising!  Now begins the fight anew!

Given that our characters never bathe, I suspect that any bathing at all would be a shock to the system. Ahh, the smells of the apocalypse.

Restarted some kind of centrifuge, which, without warning, vented the atmosphere. In a more puzzling design decision, it also meant I had to run between safe points in the path of the centrifuge to an elevator. With no oxygen. While the (somehow more vacuum durable than my SPACE SUIT!) aliens tried to kill me. The aliens weren't too bad, but the centrifuge is instant death, and I... didn't make it.

If the shelter is near a river, you could grind survival until you can make a stone pot and use that to purify water. But yea, you really do need to hit the city within at worst a day or you'll start to suffer starvation/dehydration.

I usually focus more on stats than skills. Strength gives you a bonus to damage, which is always nice, and massively boosts your carrying capacity and health which is important. My current starting loadout is 12 str, 8 dex, 10 int, 11 per. I usually prefer to grab a pipe for a weapon for that nice +3 hit bonus. I take a full compliment of negative traits for the extra 12 points. The only trait I always take is Fast Healer, since it basically gives you a full health bar overnight which is extremely useful. I often take Robust Genetics and Fast Reader as well. This leaves about 4 points for skills and a profession.

With the current build, Tailor is my new favorite profession. Spend another point to start with 2 additional tailoring skill and you can craft a full set of a backpack, cargo pants, trenchcoat, and reinforce it all. Smash the windows for two sheets (which you can cut up with the scissors for 40 rags total) and disassemble the strings (into 6 inch strings, which you can further disassemble into 50 thread apiece) for the materials to craft a full set of reinforced clothing. Now you're ready.

When you get to town, lure zombies into bushes, light the bush on fire with your matches, and clobber the zombies with your pipe. It's all downhill from here.

Hmm. Apt-get has been acting up on this machine, and manual install didn't work. This is going to be... challenging.

Link from the forums.

you can make makeshift knives from scrap, I think...

Requires a rag, which requires a knife. Given that Bone Needle has been reduced to Survival 1, you're actually better off starting as bow hunter, stepping outside and shooting a few defenseless woodland animals, crafting a bone needle and loading it with disassembled strings. At one point, it's a decent decision for starting with 4 tailoring. You just need to find something sharp.