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[Moogie]

Combat knives are for throwing!

Yes! Throwing is so OP, I love it. My most successful and long-lived characters weilded nothing but spears and combat knives. Mostly for throwing, but also good melee weapons in a bind.

I could kill most special Zs with a single throw at rank 4 (ish), not counting the very high HP ones (they'd take a few hits at most). I loved that magical moment when going into town didn't mean running from 50 zombies, it meant butchering 50 corpses.

I really need to get back into this. I got a bit burnt out last time, when I had a nice little shack in the middle of a forest, a bike for trips to the lake (to catch fresh fish and fill up water bottles), and a truck for scavenging excursions. What killed my enjoyment was the ever-increasing battle against skill erosion. Eventually all I'd be doing all day is struggling to keep all my skills from going red. I wish there was a mod or something to drastically slow that down, because I don't think it's very realistic to forget everything I know if I don't practice it every single day.

[Girlinhat]

There's a bionic for it, but then your challenge becomes "how do I keep my energy levels high enough to prevent skill rust?" instead.  Either way, it's not had to mod.  I can remember the bits of code, would have to look again to be precise, but it does a dice roll to see if it rusts or not.  It'd be easy to shift the dice a little for better odds.

[alway]

There's a bionic for it, but then your challenge becomes "how do I keep my energy levels high enough to prevent skill rust?" instead.  Either way, it's not had to mod.  I can remember the bits of code, would have to look again to be precise, but it does a dice roll to see if it rusts or not.  It'd be easy to shift the dice a little for better odds.

Assuming I'm reading it right, it's in game.cpp; the function "void game::update_skills()" starting on line 653 in my particular version; ctrl f should find that function for you. Poke some number there or remove the decrementing of skills as required, then do a make.

And it seems the bionic will only delay that rust a bit; it reduces it to 20% its previous rate according to that code; which is still pretty fast to forget something.

I'm actually pretty impressed with how nice the code seems to be to skim through; that was my first time looking at it, and I managed to find it in about 2 mins.

[Cane1994]

My character just fell asleep while riding his motorcycle
He wasn't even tired. He's fine though, it was just fun to watch him in horror while ASCII characters went by the screen because it was nighttime.

[scriver]

To back up a save, you can just copy the save folder, right? I'm having way to fun with my current character to want to let it go by stupid.

Also, my bad luck with spawns has finally turned, it seems. Now I only face common z's and bloaters. It's sad you can't get NPC's to get in a car with you, though, I've had to leave two friends behind to be eaten by zombies and it's only just Day 1 (Allright, so I accidently drove the first one over and let the other one be eaten because I wanted to see what the zombies he killed would drop, same thing, right?). Very sad moments. Then I drove into the forest and crashed into a trap field.

[BigD145]

There's a bionic for it, but then your challenge becomes "how do I keep my energy levels high enough to prevent skill rust?" instead.  Either way, it's not had to mod.  I can remember the bits of code, would have to look again to be precise, but it does a dice roll to see if it rusts or not.  It'd be easy to shift the dice a little for better odds.

It was more like "how to I keep my energy levels high enough to prevent skill rust AND be able to use other bionics in a pinch".

[UristMcWanderer]

Then I drove into the forest and crashed into a trap field.

Yeah, try to avoid trap nests in vehicles unless you have spare wheels and enough skill in mechanics to replace a busted one. Nothin' like running over spiked boards and blowing two tires while being chased by zombies. 'Twas !!FUN!! once specials got involved...

[The Merchant Of Menace]

And this is the reason I love Darkling Wolf

The three things on the front are lawnmowers, they make things... explode.

[miauw62]

Awesome.

So you combined lawnmowers and a vehicle into some sort of crazy-ass zombie mower.

A game where you can do that is the kind of game i wwant to play.

[scriver]

I think I'm in love with DarklingWolf too.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Spoiler: Moar screenies (click to show/hide)

[Greiger]

Bear cavalry has met it's match.

[rhesusmacabre]

Always remember to wear a seatbelt when ramming bears, kids.

Nice work.

[miauw62]

haha, awesome.

[UristMcWanderer]

Always remember to wear a seatbelt when ramming bears, kids.

Or anything else larger than a normal zombie, for that matter.

In my playstyle, if it ain't a Z, don't smash into it. _{^{Exceptions are, of course, walls, if you really want to get someplace.}}