One of the worst things about Project Zomboid is the built in FOMO regarding Life and Living.
One of the worst things about Project Zomboid is the built in FOMO regarding Life and Living.
One of the worst things about Project Zomboid is the built in FOMO regarding Life and Living.
Just set exp multiplier to 10 and skip the boring as frick grind that serves no purpose
then I feel like I'm cheating and the game isn't fun
it's called an aarpeegee for a reason
There's nothing fun about min/maxing tv/books so you can destroy 100's of church pews and double beds to slowly reach level 7 carpentry. The leveling system/crafting system doesn't make sense and is just not fun.
You're right. I have around 100 hours and have never gotten most skills past 3 lol, I've never used xp increases except for fast learner, I've missed out on a lot of stuff like mechanics electronics fishing etc because of the xp system...
I'm gonna try a 5x xp game now because of you and see how it goes, what do you think about zombie population?
I would turn off respawn because it doesn't make sense for firemen zombies to magically come back to life after a set amount of time near the firestation again. Zombie migration is a better way of "respawning" zombies anyway since it takes zombies from other chunks and distribute them on and in nearby chunks. As for the zombie lore and population it's more of a taste thing I guess. I've usually left it pretty default for the most part, but next game I'll either increase zombie density or total population to high to make clearing out a town harder and to make the game more challenging. Infection settings are usually off but I might leave it on for a game and have some kind of cure mod or something to not make it a 100% certain death.
In the end it's up to you and what you think would be the most fun.
Yeah zombie respawns was one of the first things I turned off, it's stupid
Right, because building 200 floors makes you know how to build a set of stairs and how to weld
>lust-provoking image
I like to increase xp gain and give myself more starting points. Feels way more realistic, rather than just my guy struggling to know how to basic shit for days
>thinking about having a gf, going on a date, having sex
>actually having a gf, going on a date, having sex
I suck at human relationship and my small dick has premature ejaculation.
are there any mods that circumvent the whole TV bullshit? just stuffing the potential exp into DVDs I can find or something
>1993
>DVD
but all memes aside, there are vhs tapes of all the xp giving shows I'm pretty sure. just rather rare unless you hit video stores
if you have no balls to play with sprinters then you didn't finish the game
>insane pop
>uniform
>sprinters
>superhuman strength and toughness
>max hearing and sight
>environmental damage
>open doors
>zombies trigger house alarms
where boys become men
you forgot about that mod to spawn in louisville you pleb
This would be fun to try out, except for open doors, that's just bullshit.
its possible but everything has to go perfectly and you need to work really fricking quick. even if you lock yourself on the second story of a house, there's no getting around the fact that you have to leave at some point for loot, you can wait out the initial shitstorm of 8 house alarms going off at once and the ball of death that comes with them but even then your time window to get out and find shit is extremely small.
good luck to you if you try it, its very fun and it'll change the way you play on every other difficulty
They cant open doors locked from the inside/barricaded ones with furniture
this but I lower zombie count to like five percent and without door opening
>exploring foggy ghost town
>looting store
>hear window break
>sprint out of there
>get killed by two zombies stunlocking me
Making the game harder to that level makes it really fricking boring.
Same reason i turn off zombie disease from the game because it just becomes so un-fun, you dont want to do anything because 1 fricking scratch will kill you.
But the game devolves into moronic gameplay either way, you move into the woods and eat cabbages allday doing pushups
I dont think its a solvable issue without adding ACTUAL FRICKING CONTENT IN THE GAME LIKE npcs OR STORY
I really like the game, but that is just unplayable.
>Permanent Winter
>Night Sprinters
Yeah, it's cozy time.
The whole survival and RPG experience is just meh anyways. Maybe it's because I just don't play with right mods or mindset or something, but it just feels like the systems don't draw enough out of each other to make me enjoy going around exploring, looting, etc. in the long term. It's pretty easy to just game your way out of dealing with zombies and such, and while something like enabling Sprinters can prevent that, it's a bandaid that addresses one facet in a cheap way that doesn't suddenly make the other bits more engaging
Even though the whole thing is about "here's how you die," I can't help but feel I'd much more enjoy completable challenge/adventure maps instead. While I decry the long term survival experience, the mechanics sure are fun in the short-term, and there's enough items available that you could set up some real fukken cool survival horror experiences with notes n' keys n' shit (if static items can be set)--with full co-op support too.
OP here, look at this butt.
>picking obese as one of your traits
>kill like 20 zombies
>get a level or two in aiming
maybe 5x is too much
cat's eyes dextrous brawler fast learner stout
high thirst smoker prone to illness weak stomach
damn the UI looks better in 2k and 4k. show traits gay
Now that’s a brapper
npcs
i would argue the worst thing is tied between moronic stunlock animations and too many nonsensical nag meters
>mechanic becomes bored/sad taking apart cars under a roofed, clean, well-lit and secure garage stocked full of parts
>burglar becomes bored/sad rummaging through houses or buildings full of loot
>zombie crawling over a fence lunges and 'knocks you back' into a fullmoron U-turn spin instead of just sending you backward
actually mid-shitpost i realized fence zombies are the dumbest fricking thing in the game. that stupid fricking lunge push is by far the most lethal thing you'll ever encounter
You're right about the fence zombies - that was a full moron, petty overcompensation by the devs after being insanely butthurt over people using fences to kill zombies. It's easy to miss, but that's why there's actually an option to turn those off completely, since they ARE objectively unfair garbage.
explain
Based CBN Enjoyer
Most fun I had playing this game was when tbhra was still a thing
>Small map, around 30-40 houses and structures. Simple but fun mechanics and systems.
>Loot half the map, setup a full base in one of the east side houses
>End every session in the bar, turn on the jukebox, start a fire and start blasting zomboids with the shotgun and hundreds of shells, seeing how long I can survive
Do I dare say it was peak SOUL
Watching life and living at the start of the game is the most midwit thing ive seen people do. Go read books before you watch the shows even the level 1-2 book multiplies your experience gain by 3 times.
Also get the rebalanced fitness xp mod because it takes an entire year even with the most optimal setup to level it up to 10 and the devs are too moronic to change it into something reasonable.
>Watching life and living at the start of the game is the most midwit thing ive seen people do. Go read books before you watch the shows
you can do both at the same time but i'm not sure if the XP is reduced
You need to read the book in its entirety to get the full XP multiplier. The less you've read it the smaller it becomes.
i meant that i'm not sure if you get the same regular xp when you read books and watch tv shows at the same time. you get some xp from the show yes. but idk if it's less than only watching life and living without "distractions"
You can do absolutely anything and still get the full XP as long as you are within certain range of the TV while its on (the XP range seems to be smaller than hearing range so you can still hear the show and see the text but not gain levels if you are too far)
You dont get xp from reading books you moron, you get the multiplier for the xp you receive, the more the book is finished the bigger is the multiplier
that's what i'm saying you stupid moron. you need to read the books to get the bonus xp from the shows right? well guess what. you can READ THE BOOKS WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING THE FIRST/SECOND SHOW AND APPARENTLY YOU GET THE SAME XP.
do the 2 things at the same time don't skip the first shows because you didn't get the bonus xp you shitter
Just get VHS tapes and watch the shows at your own convenience tbh
>there you have a vending machine and you can spend money or get the key to open it
>this update is gonna be great so many possibilities!
what is stopping me from fricking smashing it open and taking everything inside, who will arrest me? zombie police officers?
>what is stopping me from fricking smashing it open
the noise of doing so
>the noise of doing so
if it works the same way as car windows and home windows then it is a non issue, still no reason for me to use money or key to open it, gonna smash every single one I will come across, actually it would work if npcs where in the game so you could trade at survivor camps or something but again
>project zomboid
>npcs ever
Just let me build indestructible walls without mods
All I ever wanted
I tried getting into this game over 25 hours while clenching my teeths.
I get into it a lot but I can't seem to survive long after water is cut off.
Any tips ? I'm seeing some of you playing with reduced zombie spawns and I might do that. Any others, please ?
camp at a river
fish
???
profit
Enjoy having a challenge while you're still ignorant. Once you know certain strategies the game becomes a stripped down version of the sims
Well my only lighter had disappeared due to a bug so that stopped me from playing for a while.
I might force myself through it again.
learning the game is the fun part
if you aren't enjoying it now, you won't enjoy it later because it will become trivial except for the grindy and occasionally suffering a bullshit death because the combat system is fundamentally broken
I'm enjoying it but not sure I'm doing it right as I always get b***hslapped by cumulated debuffs once water stops (bored, tired etc.)
if the water is an actual issue, you can boil water in pots on a campfire to clean it until you can get water collectors set up
>bored
vary your food intake, make more complex meals (should do this anyway; complicated meals get a bonus from cooking to hunger reduction)
go do stuff outside, like chopping trees
read books or magazines
kill a few zombies
>tired
always try to sleep until you aren't tired anymore
try not to go beyond moderate exertion unless necessary
high exertion causes your tiredness gain rate from actions to rise A LOT
ideally you would want to stay below even moderate exertion
walk more, don't run constantly
don't walk around with a heavy load
don't drink alcohol unless necessary
There are so many cool systems, but none of the are any useful if you die in 1 week anyway.
Project zomboid is terrible
The devs insist on moronic shit like pottery
meanwhile zombies can still divine where you are through solid buildings unless you wait there for a few seconds
Being naked during summer prevents DOUBLE fatigue
half the negative traits are freebies
Liking project zomboid is delusion
as someone who has played it over the years, yeah
what the devs are trying to do and the idea of the game are amazing
the actual result, the game itself, is pretty bad
but it's also the only game of its type, it has zero competition
the closest thing to it is CDDA but only in its content, the implementation is completely different
It's a bad game but I still play it because sometimes it all comes together and for a moment it lives up to its promise. A lot like Todd's games funnily enough
Todd lives rent free in your head.
That being said, what are some of your mod reccomendations to make zomboid less shit?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2660165557&searchtext=
bussin' fr fr no cap
The Half Life themed reskin I made for the original alpha a decade ago
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2648779556
is there any sex mods?
Anon...there's no npcs to sex
there's zombies
But anon, you'd get infected from sticking your penis in a rotting zombie corpse. Is it really worth it?
wear a condom
UOH!!!!!