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Demandred1957 said:
I had to buy a lvl 1 pump shotty and ak both to have something decent to fight the horde with..
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Fighting the horde is where the blunderbuss really shines though, as its reload does not really matter as much. 

On a 5 high base you can easily 1 shot most zombies with a blunderbuss headshot on nomad.  The range actually is not that bad. 

That being said I am on like day 19 now and I finally found a pump shotgun recipe... No good ones found yet.

I am also mostly invested in turrets, but the only one I have is a tier 1 I had to buy... still waiting to find a good one or the recipe so I can actually test them out lel. 

I am currently level 40 in that game.

 
pregnable said:
Fighting the horde is where the blunderbuss really shines though, as its reload does not really matter as much. 

On a 5 high base you can easily 1 shot most zombies with a blunderbuss headshot on nomad.  The range actually is not that bad. 

That being said I am on like day 19 now and I finally found a pump shotgun recipe... No good ones found yet.

I am also mostly invested in turrets, but the only one I have is a tier 1 I had to buy... still waiting to find a good one or the recipe so I can actually test them out lel. 

I am currently level 40 in that game.
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i had fun with the robotic sledge, i posted a small snipit of it a few pages back, i think around 650 or later, i have a new love for it and when stable hits and im forced to restart, im so specing into it more than i have

 
Demandred1957 said:
Default, pregen 01, 32 zoms per blood moon horde loot respawn @15 days.

My strategy is to use my brains to stay alive..

Don't know if it's a bug or not, but I burn through food like crazy just standing still..

like for real, watch it tick down every few seconds..

I loot some of the smaller poi's, since I have found out on a prev run how nerfed looting is.. but other than that, I just do new player stuff.

And yeah, I play super scaredy cat on top of that.,, I don't go into a fight unless I have a (small) chance of winning.

I literally don't find hardly anything except paper, and the few odd blueprints that won't help me NOW. Only one I know of is the pump shotty blueprint, which takes a bunch of forged steel and shotgun parts to make..smh

and single player.

ugh no.. Although I fully support your option to do it..

Nothing about anything you said sounds even remotely fun to me.
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What are your loot and experience percentages?

And you are not playing on anything approaching default settings.  32 zombies per blood moon stage is insane.

And yes, food does go down rapidly ... it's a good idea to invest a few points early on in iron gut ... just a couple help a lot.

 
pregnable said:
Fighting the horde is where the blunderbuss really shines though, as its reload does not really matter as much. 

On a 5 high base you can easily 1 shot most zombies with a blunderbuss headshot on nomad.  The range actually is not that bad. 

That being said I am on like day 19 now and I finally found a pump shotgun recipe... No good ones found yet.

I am also mostly invested in turrets, but the only one I have is a tier 1 I had to buy... still waiting to find a good one or the recipe so I can actually test them out lel. 

I am currently level 40 in that game.
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I havent posted it yet, but during my day 14 horde I am in a "glock9" style base which is 3? high, and I am blasting them with the good stuff and a lvl 6 blunderbuss. not getting hardly any one shot kills from it.

haven't put anything into turrets, since you can't just build them now..

Guess this play is cursed since I seem to be getting the short end of the stick all round.

Pegasus said:
What are your loot and experience percentages?

And you are not playing on anything approaching default settings.  32 zombies per blood moon stage is insane.

And yes, food does go down rapidly ... it's a good idea to invest a few points early on in iron gut ... just a couple help a lot.
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loot and exp are default.

IDC about bloodmoon hordes. I have a glock9 style base, so they are just exp for me, unless I do something dumb like fall through a blasted hole or something.

I have at least 1 point if not two into iron gut..It just burns down..

The only thing I have helping me is loot at 15 days, although that is a moot point since I just hit day 15..

 
One type of difficulty i would like is a hardcore mode, like the one ark has where when you die, your back to level 1, that could make for some interesting gameplay given you would still have your base but you wouldn't have the levels to back it up haha

 
Phoenixshade35 said:
One type of difficulty i would like is a hardcore mode, like the one ark has where when you die, your back to level 1, that could make for some interesting gameplay given you would still have your base but you wouldn't have the levels to back it up haha
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Just delete your save when you die.

We call it "Permadeath".

Thanks to Glock9's stupid butt, that's the only way I can play these days, since coming "back to life" after you have been eaten seems so cheap and easy to me now.

 
Demandred1957 said:
I havent posted it yet, but during my day 14 horde I am in a "glock9" style base which is 3? high, and I am blasting them with the good stuff and a lvl 6 blunderbuss. not getting hardly any one shot kills from it.

haven't put anything into turrets, since you can't just build them now..

Guess this play is cursed since I seem to be getting the short end of the stick all round.

loot and exp are default.

IDC about bloodmoon hordes. I have a glock9 style base, so they are just exp for me, unless I do something dumb like fall through a blasted hole or something.

I have at least 1 point if not two into iron gut..It just burns down..

The only thing I have helping me is loot at 15 days, although that is a moot point since I just hit day 15..
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Okay I'm going to give a try on those settings, minus the permadeath and the blood moons.

Do you have air drops on?  Are you looting everything?  by that i mean trash containers, mailboxes, cars, etc?  or are you just looking in "high" loot areas?

 
Phoenixshade35 said:
i had fun with the robotic sledge, i posted a small snipit of it a few pages back, i think around 650 or later, i have a new love for it and when stable hits and im forced to restart, im so specing into it more than i have
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Yeah the robotic sledge seems pretty cool, I am going to test it out with a modification to my base to see if it can just melee them all safely from above heh. 

The same design lets me melee from the top of the base with a spear, which might make them seem more useful again IDK. 

Demandred1957 said:
I havent posted it yet, but during my day 14 horde I am in a "glock9" style base which is 3? high, and I am blasting them with the good stuff and a lvl 6 blunderbuss. not getting hardly any one shot kills from it.

haven't put anything into turrets, since you can't just build them now..

Guess this play is cursed since I seem to be getting the short end of the stick all round.
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I am not sure, I can almost always get a 1 shot kill with the blunderbuss on nomad. 

Are you zooming in to aim?  I never aim with it... I always hipfire and have very good results. 

 
Pegasus said:
Okay I'm going to give a try on those settings, minus the permadeath and the blood moons.

Do you have air drops on?  Are you looting everything?  by that i mean trash containers, mailboxes, cars, etc?  or are you just looking in "high" loot areas?
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Yeah, air drops every 3 days and marked on map. forgot about that bit of help... And yep, loot everything I come across like mailboxes etc. I just avoid the "high value" poi's like crack a book and shotgun messiah, even though they are just down the street from me.

pregnable said:
Yeah the robotic sledge seems pretty cool, I am going to test it out with a modification to my base to see if it can just melee them all safely from above heh. 

The same design lets me melee from the top of the base with a spear, which might make them seem more useful again IDK. 

I am not sure, I can almost always get a 1 shot kill with the blunderbuss on nomad. 

Are you zooming in to aim?  I never aim with it... I always hipfire and have very good results. 
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sometimes zoom, sometimes no.. doesn't seem to make much diff in my game.

If I am close enough to touch them and zoom for the head shot then yeah, but not on Moe, or the bikers.. those are strictly 2 shots from a lvl 6 blunder always.

 
Moderators or ADmis start silencing or banning people.

It is becoming a toxic snowball that grows with each answer.

It is just a tip. I want the discussions of the stone shovel to come back (I was laughing at this haha) or when they added mods for the vehicles

Gracias / Thanks

 
rubens9311 said:
Moderators or ADmis start silencing or banning people.

It is becoming a toxic snowball that grows with each answer.

It is just a tip. I want the discussions of the stone shovel to come back (I was laughing at this haha) or when they added mods for the vehicles

Gracias / Thanks
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lvl 6 stone shovel beats a lvl 1-2 iron shovel no prob..

I have a grave digger mod in my stone shovel, but will take it out and compare just to be sure.

but just straight pretty sure it beats a lvl 1 iron hands down.

And why would you want to silence people?

just because?

Nobody should ever silence someone because they have a dissenting opinion.

 
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Demandred1957 said:
lvl 6 stone shovel beats a lvl 1-2 iron shovel no prob..

I have a grave digger mod in my stone shovel, but will take it out and compare just to be sure.

but just straight pretty sure it beats a lvl 1 iron hands down.
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i actually waited till i found a level 5 iron shovel before i abandoned my lvl 6 stone shovel, the stamina trade off wasn't worth it, the mods made the stone shovel a god tier tool almost for digging loose dirt.

im going to do a test for fun, take a stone ax to break ore cause i got all the miner books now, and if im one shotting with a stone ax, my mining will become hilarious

im also marking on my map when stable hits all the working vending machines, since they still give food and taking a day to hit them all up for food after trader questing or treasure mapping lol

and i know the permadeath stuff, i was just thinking of one where you can continue, but at a severe disadvantage given day of death and your gameday doesnt reset

 
Phoenixshade35 said:
i actually waited till i found a level 5 iron shovel before i abandoned my lvl 6 stone shovel, the stamina trade off wasn't worth it, the mods made the stone shovel a god tier tool almost for digging loose dirt.

im going to do a test for fun, take a stone ax to break ore cause i got all the miner books now, and if im one shotting with a stone ax, my mining will become hilarious

im also marking on my map when stable hits all the working vending machines, since they still give food and taking a day to hit them all up for food after trader questing or treasure mapping lol

and i know the permadeath stuff, i was just thinking of one where you can continue, but at a severe disadvantage given day of death and your gameday doesnt reset
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yeah, I tried the lvl 1 iron I found for a hot second... the stamina trade off and needing a repair kit didn't seem like a good trade to me either.

not to mention at GS lvl 30 I still find lvl 6 stone stuff which seems to out perform most iron tools with just a piece of stone to repair.

The balance just seems to have gone off the rails..

 
Demandred1957 said:
Yeah, air drops every 3 days and marked on map. forgot about that bit of help... And yep, loot everything I come across like mailboxes etc. I just avoid the "high value" poi's like crack a book and shotgun messiah, even though they are just down the street from me.
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Okay, you must have the worst RNG luck ever.  I haven't even completed day one, and I've only looted 2 small houses, but mostly trash piles and such on the way to the trader for the starter quests, and I already have all of this: (plus after taking that screen shot and walking back to base I also found the schem for shotgun turret and armor pockets.

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ya, even with level 2 sex rex iron doesn't feel worth it, even with coffee or mega crush, steel feels right for the stamina drain but iron i do agree feels harsh, with level 3 sex rex and the ergonomic grip makes a big difference.

Speaking of similarites or odd things needing balance, when i used the ratchet over the wrench i didnt notice any difference, maybe in damage but no real gains, the impact driver i noticed a world of difference for sure

 
Pegasus said:
Okay, you must have the worst RNG luck ever.  I haven't even completed day one, and I've only looted 2 small houses, but mostly trash piles and such on the way to the trader for the starter quests, and I already have all of this: (plus after taking that screen shot and walking back to base I also found the schem for shotgun turret and armor pockets.

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...yeah, game life follows my real life... "if not for bad luck, Wouldn't have no luck at all" credit Hee Haw..

Phoenixshade35 said:
ya, even with level 2 sex rex iron doesn't feel worth it, even with coffee or mega crush, steel feels right for the stamina drain but iron i do agree feels harsh, with level 3 sex rex and the ergonomic grip makes a big difference.

Speaking of similarites or odd things needing balance, when i used the ratchet over the wrench i didnt notice any difference, maybe in damage but no real gains, the impact driver i noticed a world of difference for sure
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* sad noises* still havent found either of those things on day 16.. Still cherishing my lvl 2 wrench I found.. *sob*

 
oh i had a lucky horseshoe up my @%$*#! my first week, found the impact driver schematic day 2. though i did manage to find looter goggles so with now 3 lucky looter and a +4 looting bonus from the goggles it helped a fair bit to be sure

 
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