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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 5, 2015 10:13:24 GMT -5
Using the chainsaw lajatang for melee. It's pretty much a quarterstaff with a chainsaw on both ends. When it's switched on, it has the highest damage compared to pretty much every melee weapon in the game... on the other hand it's heavy as hell so it takes a lot of move points per attack, and the sound of a chainsaw will draw in every other zombie in the vicinity.
In terms of overall damage, a survivor will have much better chances against crowds with smaller weapons, like a battle axe or a katana. One on one, the chainsaw lajatang can kill pretty much anything on a critical attack, and almost every zombie will be gibbed on a hit. Pretty much the epitome of awesome, but impractical.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 5, 2015 10:58:04 GMT -5
Also, maybe thanks to DF, I'm currently doing a ton of brewing. The brewing in Cata takes somewhat more actions than DF, where you just need the necessary fruit or plant and have a brewer's workshop.
Cata brewing requires cooking tools, and containers and whatnot. Ingredients are required first and foremost. Yeast is one of the key components, and the only way to get more yeast is to culture the yeast from the ones you already have. So if you use up all the yeast for brewing... tough luck, go find some more in the city. Sugar is another thing required. Sugar can be processed from a number of items, namely fruits and cheap wine. For those, lye is also required. Lye (and sugar) can be found, but you can craft both. On lye however it takes a ton of time to make, but all you need is charcoal (which you can also make).
Anyway, once you got sugar and yeast, you can take the first step to actual brewing. Vodka, rum, whiskey, moonshine and beer can be made, as well as some wines made from stuff foraged in the forest. Crafting any of those items will turn them into must/wort, and the next step is to make a fermenting vat for them to stew around in for a couple of days. Once that's done, you can store them in containers ready to be drunk.
Of course, you can mix other stuff to improve the booze. Certain liquors can be mixed, like strawberry surprise, vodka and strawberries together. Doing this increases the nutrition and quench value of the liquor, as several types of liquor have negative quench values.
Right now, thanks to some mutations and bionics, my survivor can survive on a liquor diet. Using liquor that has actual nutrition value, and having bionics and mutations that lessen the need to eat or drink. Furthermore, there's a bionic when activated filters away the alcohol in the body. Without that, my survivor would be dead via alcohol poisoning at this point. Another bionic makes sure said survivor is healthy no matter how much booze is drunk. In general, I make sure that I keep my character somewhat drunk, only filtering the blood when it's needed. And actual food is eaten once in a while for RP reasons.
Also, because of the diet, my survivor is an extreme alcoholic suffering from withdrawal symptoms after a few hours. It gets so bad that hallucinations can happen during the times I stretch out the times between blood filtering.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 24, 2015 8:55:39 GMT -5
Still waiting for the bugs to be smoothed out on DFs new version. Salivating at the thought of it, and it pretty much shows in Cata as I made an underground fort there.
Well, there's a slight benefit to digging underground to make a base. Digging while using a jackhammer is pretty much instant, so you can make an elaborate maze of tunnels with solid rock to defend you - and there's not much point in defense as hordes only spawn above ground, so you're safe aside from some noise if you choose not to engage the horde.
Constructing a building above ground is a lot more complex. Simple wooden walls can require a lot of wood and nails, and building them takes time and you also need to build a ceiling as well. The harder building materials like concrete can take a lot more time. Concrete needs sand and cement. Cement needs quicklime which needs limestone and quicklime takes hours to make a lot of them, ditto cement and concrete... then add that to several hours making the wall itself. Point is that you can't build an elaborate base with just one survivor - so go underground and have an easier time.
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