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Come on its not that bad. Do you just sit back and let them beat on your concrete? I agree very late game it starts to become a chore getting enough ammo, but I've usually got my base fully repaired by 8 am if not sooner. Grenades are your friend. Let 10-15 pile up in one spot, drop it, duck around the corner because radius damage is insane, and boom, 10k-15k xp. Repeat. I use my guns for vultures and when there are a few smaller clusters, but I have one vault door they all floor to because that is the only way to get to me and thy pretty much cluster there and eat grenade sandwiches all night.
Very true.

I like making a brute strength fortress sometimes without firing a shot or tossing any grenade or Molotov.  Just to stress test my design and to store up ammo for even more POV excursions.  POV's = Loot + excitement.  :)

However, once it takes more than a day to repair, I change a game setting or go to a cheese fort, because BM hoards are to be avoided and not engaged, for reasons.  

 
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Speaking of chuck Norris, is there a chuck norris build? Agility+Fists?  Might be fun to try one in A19.  Maybe make tall perches for you to jump on and rest/heal between bouts?  

...however chuck norris doesnt need any rest between zeds.....The zeds need rest from church norris...😂

 
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Speaking of chuck Norris, is there a chuck norris build? Agility+Fists?  Might be fun to try one in A19.  Maybe make tall perches for you to jump on and rest/heal between bouts?  

...however chuck norris doesnt need any rest between zeds.....The zeds need rest from church norris...😂
Kage848 did a fist play through and did pretty good from the youtube vids that I saw of it.

Edit:  I like the perch idea of yours, maybe make a series of them (10-20 even) for a BM horde night? 

 
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Kage848 did a fist play through and did pretty good from the youtube vids that I saw of it.

Edit:  I like the perch idea of yours, maybe make a series of them (10-20 even) for a BM horde night? 
Probably only need 5 tops if you make them sturdy.  Just enough for you to use meds, buffs, etc.

 
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Hey guys, i've been reading alot in de previous pages, and i'm wondering @madmole are you guys planning on implementing car respawns on multiplayer servers so we don't have to use mods? also, speaking of vehicles, when i close a door, the motorcycle / minibike / bike fall over :') is that something that is being worked on as well? i know it is a super minor thing, but it caught my attention the other day.

Keep up the good work tho, i've only been playing the game for about 6 weeks now, but it's great!

With kind regards,

Sir negan

Kage848 did a fist play through and did pretty good from the youtube vids that I saw of it.

Edit:  I like the perch idea of yours, maybe make a series of them (10-20 even) for a BM horde night? 
Beer is the only thing that makes melee with knuckles viable, and that is only if your PC can handle melee during hordenight 😛

 
Hey guys, i've been reading alot in de previous pages, and i'm wondering @madmole are you guys planning on implementing car respawns on multiplayer servers so we don't have to use mods? also, speaking of vehicles, when i close a door, the motorcycle / minibike / bike fall over :') is that something that is being worked on as well? i know it is a super minor thing, but it caught my attention the other day.

Keep up the good work tho, i've only been playing the game for about 6 weeks now, but it's great!

With kind regards,

Sir negan
If you activate a quest POI that has a car in it,the car will respawn.There are plenty of cars in the Tier V apartment building.Or the factory.

 
You know, I now have some gears turning in my brain... If anyone is daring enough, here's a challenge for ya: Nailgun Only Challenge. You spawn in a nailgun and, say, 500 nails, and you're allowed to use nothing else against enemies. No guns, no melee weapons, no bows, no crossbows, no throwables. Just you and your trusty nailgun. ;)  Heck, I might do this challenge run next.
What difficulty ?

 
Is this a madmole stat or a real one?

(Surprised it's that high) 
Somewhat realistic but impossible to get a definite count. A good while back I compared forum accounts/visits and game sales.

So while the forumites sometimes think they represent anything, the truth is that the entire forum together is a tiny minority. It definitely is something we keep in mind when evaluating feedback. 😃

That reminds me... I think there should be a progression on container sizes.  The small storage chest, which is categorized as 'basic' and only requires wood, holds 72 items.  The storage box (crate), which is physically larger and requires both wood and nails to craft, also holds 72 items.  The bigger, more expensive container should hold more.  Or conversely, the small, cheap storage chest shouldn't hold so much.
I would love to do that and have brought it up multiple times because I also think that it's an important part of progression.

Never got any support, though...

 
Finding glitches or figuring out how the AI works means fun to me, and the frequent updates with bugfixes and finetuning keeps the game interesting, because some techniques to survive won't work anymore and you have to find new.

I don't want to imagine how it would become once the development is finished -- will it become static and boring? I hope not.

 
Somewhat realistic but impossible to get a definite count. A good while back I compared forum accounts/visits and game sales.

So while the forumites sometimes think they represent anything, the truth is that the entire forum together is a tiny minority. It definitely is something we keep in mind when evaluating feedback. 😃
(answering sincerely not sarcastic) That is a huge variable indeed all things considered. The people that post vs not post, the people that care vs not caring, and everyone inbetween.

I would love to do that and have brought it up multiple times because I also think that it's an important part of progression.

Never got any support, though...
While it would be a drag starting out having increased (depending on amount of reduced slot size) amount of initial boxes all over. It would further implement even more inventory management plus fit progressively better. Kinda like how the vehicle storage increases as you go up in vehicles.. imho

I don't want to imagine how it would become once the development is finished -- will it become static and boring? I hope not.
Even if the dev team left it as is when it goes content finish/full version (though the devs have on multiple occasions submitted they wouldn't abandon their baby), I believe we'd see more modders come into the fold (not having to rework their work 19+ alpha changes type thing) to change things up to "help" keep it interesting well past full release and/or vanilla.

 
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the breadcrumb system is best noticed at night or when you are inside a POI and zombies are outside. It is what draws those zombies towards you as you make noise. 
 

During the day, when outside, zombies usually just see you before the breadcrumb system kicks in to draw them closer to your positio


Isn't that just the heat map system? I thought breadcrumb was where zombies would follow the path you took so they would know where your doors were and where to jump or avoid traps etc

Come on its not that bad. Do you just sit back and let them beat on your concrete? I agree very late game it starts to become a chore getting enough ammo, but I've usually got my base fully repaired by 8 am if not sooner. Grenades are your friend


Yeah, Grenades are near mandatory even for my "on the road" fight. I've made a few decent "kill chimney" that rely on explosives with low block damage, but maybe it's just on the higher difficulties, it seems like when I've tried grenades with a "Castle gates" style build it starts getting hectic way too fast, especially with Demos. But I guess those are late enough where you just expect noobs to account for them with their base design or die

So while the forumites sometimes think they represent anything, the truth is that the entire forum together is a tiny minority. It definitely is something we keep in mind when evaluating feedback. 😃




Do you guys ever monitor the Subreddit? As with basically all games, the subreddit is like 10 times bigger than the actual forums or the steam forums and seems to be the main place people discuss the game. Like me for instance, I've played for like 3 or 4 years but never even really thought about posting on the official forums until the A19 signup stuff was here. The subreddit is quite active, especially after big updates

 
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