PC A19.. What has killed you so far? The wolf cheese at night has got to stop.

Synvastian said:
Haven't died yet, night 43 nomad, jog during days, nightmare nights. (taking my time) a few close calls with wildlife (bears are silly quiet before they notice you...)

A few things need tweaking, and some optimization, but it hasn't been a bad alpha thus far
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the animal spawn rate is growing on me. I have encountered wolf packs more frequently now, and i think that instead of a lone wolf here and there, a wondering wolf pack should spawn in. It's more realistic and would be quite a fun sight. I do think the spawn rate for cougars needs to be nerfed. driving through a snow biome and seeing 20 endangered animals is kinda weird. maybe decrease their spawn rate, but make them more dangerous? did they nerf bears? i am not sure if it was a mod or an older alpha, but i remember having a bear survive two rockets and still manage to kill me. Now i club them to death with a steel club. 

Then again, this now makes water bases and underground bases more viable, because you do not have to worry about animals bothering you at night. I built a wall around my base to keep the wolves out because they would bother me at night. 

 
Single player game - wolf and vultures

Multipler game -

Death 1 was a vulture within the first few minutes in game. 

Death 2 was my fault.  It was late, I was rushing home on my bike (aka the vulture magnet) and I'd set up my early base on top of one of the 2 story ruins.  I pulled up on my bike and ran in to the wrong nearby ruin and got mobbed by zombies.  Ok cool, I'll get outside and run them  past my bike and circle round  and get on my bike and escape.  Run them out - check.  Past my bike - check.  Circle round - check.  Get on my bike - check.  Escape - not so much.  My bike got jammed in a rut in the rubble and they were on me before I could jump off and run.  I'm more careful now to drive up to the correct ruin.  I'd paint a gaudy marker on it except the idea was to keep it looking uninhabited.   Not really necessary on the server, just role-playing how I'd do it in a real apocalypse.

 
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Laz Man said:
Probably boredeom...jking I couldn't resist...

The last death in A19 was to a direwolf in B163.  I was harvesting a wolf and was distracted.  He got me good (no gun). 😅

B163 Will forever be known as "7 days of Animals"....for me...😅
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Yeah. I think I stepped on a landmine in a factory in the staircase not knowing it was there and that was back in A16. You kind of develop your guts to survive as you get used to this game!

 
I don't think I've died to any zombies yet in a19, but pretty much every hostile animal has killed me at least once. Mostly Mountain Lions  and Dire Wolves, which can't be outrun (at least not in the early game).

Also vultures (which were @%$*#! to begin with) are the leading cause of me starting to hate this game because of hour and a half real time game stopping broken legs. Stupid, stupid design. Stop play and sit around with your thumb up your @%$*#! for a freaking hour and half or get punished even more for playing the game. Mindbogglingly absurd design. A vulture getting one hit on me generally inflicts three+ critical injuries, one of which is always a broken leg. Close to just modding them out.

 
First Death - Day 77 Horde, fell on my own spikes. Permadeath. 
 

Second Death - Day 1, kiting zombies in a room to funnel them through doorway. Reached the doorway, came face to face with Hawaiian tourist. Became sandwich.  Permadeath.  
 

That is all for me so far, but my friend survived 132 days without dying. Then he died on Day 10, new server, because he thought challenging a bear with a primitive bow was an outstanding idea. That is his only death. We play rather religiously. 

 
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I've died recently while clearing a building. The light path leads at one point to a hole in the floor you use to jump down from third to second floor. I check through the hole, can't see a thing. Jump down to two bears and two dogs chilling just out of sight. I've seen them spawn before but never inside until that point (there was no path for them just walking into the building). Needless to say they ate my face.

 
On the current server I play:

  1. Got a little too full of myself and went head-on against a boar.
  2. Diggin' for ore, when a zed spawned on top of me, and beat me to death. Always have a hatch above yer head, mates. Always have a hatch above yer head.
 
Day 2 fetch in Parishton or whatever the snow biome city is now where apparently the radiation turned all of the residents into mountain lions with excellent hearing.

Joining an insane/nightmare server 2 hours before nightfall, climbing a roof to hide and then immediately falling through the roof onto the face of a less than friendly nurse with terrible bedside manner only holding a wooden club, not having applied any skill points yet.

Haven't stepped on any land mines yet so the future is looking bright.

 
And i thought this is about cheesing for wolve meat at night. 😛

The usual things as always. Didn´t really change. Basically doing stupid things is, what kills me.  I never go outside in the first night. Busy getting my home done anyways. On day 2 you do have a blunderbuss for sure. Unless you don´t loot anything at all. Wich would be your own fault. I carry 2 of them at night until i get other fire arms. 

What really annoys me is that the bears take like 10 times more bullets now, but still give only 750XP. A tourist is way easier to kill with way less ammo and also gives you 750XP.

 
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Death three in A19: became wolf kibble on my first night in B173. I keep forgetting that animals in 7DtD are just zombies in disguise, advanced path finding algorithms and everything. Made the mistake of opening a storage chest while crouched on the 2nd floor of a destroyed warehouse, heard a growl and saw a black shadow quickly navigate to the one block giving access to my elevated position; it was over pretty quickly after that. Should've just ran into town and taken my chances there, but I wanted to see how viable lvl2 blunderbuss is against a quick moving target in the darkness. Now I know.

 
We started a new game today because our server host didn´t update yet. Day 4. Haven´t seen a deer, stag, boar, wolf or direwolf so far. Only cougars and bears as we live on the border of the snow biome. 2 chickens and 3 rabbits. Cougars and bears on warrior are a big no no that early in game with no fire arm, luckily we have a ton of vending machines around us as there is no fresh meat for us. But hey if we finally get meat we can make tons of bacon and eggs.

I went out in night 2 and 3 until morning running around all the time, where i haven´t been before. No sign of any animal. I hope we get a wolf pack soon...

 
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Wanna know what I Love? You can test this yourselves on a map if youd like. Spawn a BEAR/zombiebear in a room and alert it then close the door. See if that Bear doesnt MAGICALLY Push its body through the door to kill you. NOT DESTROYING THE DOOR, ATOMIZING ITSELF THROUGH PHYSICAL OBJECTS TO KILL YOU!

 
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