PC How many days would the real you survive?

At my age? prolly not live as long as I would like.

40 years ago?  um.. gonna need cleanup in aisle 3, 4, 5 and 7.

1,2 and 6 are just smoking craters now.

Then again, I know where the armories are, and I do remember how make things that go BOOM or BURNYBURNY.

Thank you harmy training.  😛

(actually, I'd probably try to get to a small island and just wait it out there with a few... defenses.) 

:)

heh.

 
Depends on luck in my opinion. Giant direwolves and bears occupying the forest areas would make it difficult to traverse, and if you stumble into one, you wouldn't be able to outrun it fast enough before getting mauled to the ground.

Lack of survival experience apart from hanging out in forests and fish from time to time. I would only know how to make a campfire and the basics. I did suck myself into tonnes of videos and articles about survival in various situations, but I don't think they're gonna be of much use if I haven't even worked with my own hands that much.

Runners and feral zombies. They can sprint at you for how long they want at an insane speed, but you most likely won't including the amount of gear you will maybe have on you (filled backpack, clothes) unless you are an athlete. I jogged with a mil backpack on me once. Really will be turn out to be bad when you get exhausted. Unless you are tanky and confident enough in your melee skills with a suitable weapon to be able to take on one, it probably won't end up in a happy ending. Wights and feral soldiers are especially insanely taller and stronger built than the average joe, plus consider they run aswell, you'll better pray you have an firearm with you or you'll go down in the worst way possible down.

Survival chances would go down till it reaches nil at some point if you take into account at how ridicolous (and awesome) it will get with the blood moon horde as you survive more, if you manage to make it that far. Yes, hello 5 zombie bears, 20 wights, soldiers, cop pukers on day 100?

 
It depends on how fast I could find a rifle or shotgun with ample ammo.  Not good with a pistol and melee would be a form of suicide for me!

If the BM horde can track you, no matter were you are and could smash through walls like they do... it would be a few weeks at most (depending on ammo supplies).

 
Ornias said:
Yeah but we would get LBD back though....
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lol...THAT'S how you would die. You'd be too sore and tired to get away from the zombies after spending three days solid of no sleep doing dozens of simple actions repetitively in order to somehow "learn" complex skills through "doing"....

 
Roland said:
in order to somehow "learn" complex skills through "doing"....
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You jest, but that is literally how every thing that was ever learned was learned. We have all had a front-row seat for Elon Musk blowing up or crashing numerous rockets before he* figured out how to launch and recover them on the regular. For most of us, If we decided tying a rock to the end of a stick was going to be useful, we'd probably go through a few iterations before we found a workable tool. Especially if we first had to weave our own rope from plant fibers. Even if we somehow found a schematic, we'd probably have to try a few times to get it right. We have whole buildings - campuses even - devoted to this idea today, where the ignorant are shown how to do a thing and they practice it over and over until they're proficient. With guidance from experts, no less.

*The genius engineers who work for him, more accurately

As for OP, are we talking about zombie-sized horses or horse-sized zombies? 🙂

If it is strictly limited to the game world, where I wake up with nothing and the apocalypse is in full swing (but no zombies in the immediate vicinity, and they can't smell me), I think I could make it a few days on basic survival skills learned in the military, though without even a pocket knife much would depend on the biome I woke up in. Snow might be slightly more survivable because we start with a torch. I have about 1/4 the stamina of a level 1 7D2D character so when it becomes necessary to run away, that would be the end. I can fight 16-20 5-year-olds at a time and survive, but not by running away from them. Bears, dogs, and wolves would probably be a bigger threat than the zombies.

If I get to start in my house, with knowledge that zombies are coming, I might be able to survive for quite a while, Walking Dead style. I'd load up my two old rifles and limited ammo and all the tools, medicine, food, and water in the house into the RV and head for the hills. And I'm bringing the bicycles, not learning how to build new ones! A crowd of zombies would likely not be survivable, but with access to modern tools I could probably set enough traps and have some primitive-ish weapons to fight off one or two without wasting ammo. Heck, I'd probably build several different iterations of traps to try to learn how to do it better. 😜

In either case, I think mental strain would be as much of a risk as the zombies. Fear and isolation are mind killers.

 
Boidster said:
You jest
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Always....but....given your good points, MY point was that in video games players take LBD to such ridiculous extremes all in the name of power leveling that any semblence of reality is destroyed. The joke was only partially about doing simple tasks like making a stone axe 1000 times in order to suddenly be able to craft high quality steel axes as well. That would be like Elon Musk setting off 1000 plastic water rockets over the course of a week and then his first actual rocket using rocket fuel operating perfectly because of all his LBD with the simple water rocket.

The joke was also about the incentive gamers feel to spend the first game week simply doing LBD activities before they start playing because they only want to actually play the game with skills that are already high instead of playing and naturally building up those skills over time in an organic way. That is the weakness of every LBD game out there. They are all exploitable and tempt the player to play in an unnatural way. Even Valheim (Which I played for the first time last night) allows you to just spam jump around in place or run in circles in order to pump up those LBD skills and that is a new game with the benefit of seeing how all past LBD mechanics have been abused and still not doing anything about it.

I think LBD is fun but I also enjoy the point system. The weakness in LBD that apparently can't be plugged by any development studio is having constraints in place so that unnatural spam leveling of skills doesn't work. Please keep in mind, that I am talking purely from a game design perspective. If someone out there LIKES spam leveling LBD skills and is feeling like I shouldn't care how others play the game, relax. Play how you want and have fun. I just see a weakness in the LBD design and am giving my opinion of that perceived weakness.

 
Roland said:
The joke was also about the incentive gamers feel to spend the first game week simply doing LBD activities before they start playing because they only want to actually play the game with skills that are already high instead of playing and naturally building up those skills over time in an organic way. That is the weakness of every LBD game out there. They are all exploitable and tempt the player to play in an unnatural way.
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But but, you're one completely natural post away from Poe? :)

 
Roland said:
The joke was also about the incentive gamers feel to spend the first game week simply doing LBD activities before they start playing because they only want to actually play the game with skills that are already high instead of playing and naturally building up those skills over time in an organic way.
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Agree, and I think the games themselves don't help as much as they could. There are ways to do LBD, IMO, which reward the player for doing without giving incentives for doing over and over and over. I won't elaborate 'cause I've already contributed to a derailing of OP's question. I do like the points system just fine.

In OP's scenario, I'll be LBD a few things I'm sure. But once I've got it good enough, I won't spam another 100 in the hopes I suddenly learn to build an SMG turret.

 
Based on my priorities in game, not very long.  On Day 27 and I am working on upgrading my working/living areas only to look down at my horde base setup and see all the reinforcements I have below that I haven’t poured concrete in yet........

Good thing I noticed it on Day 27 and not during blood moon. 🤔

 
BFT2020 said:
Based on my priorities in game, not very long.  On Day 27 and I am working on upgrading my working/living areas only to look down at my horde base setup and see all the reinforcements I have below that I haven’t poured concrete in yet........

Good thing I noticed it on Day 27 and not during blood moon. 🤔
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Yeah, upgrading to cement the day of a blood moon can be really bad news...  Someone, who might be me, has done that with disastrous results.

 
While I do have some survival experience as I've done some practicing out in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a hatchet and string, and I've studied survival techniques and whatnot for several years and I also have a collection of firearms in which I've gotten proficient with, I doubt any of that would help me against cheating zombies that always know where you are and come at you in full force every 7th day. Not to mention the fact that food is literally everywhere except in this game, not to mention how much you have to constantly eat and drink in the game, so I guess my survival on that would also be debatable if this world and 7d2d somehow merged. Zombies can easily break through any material in 7d2d, which is physically impossible in real life. Weapons are everywhere in real life and nowhere in-game.... so that's a problem too. There's also the fact that you start off as a complete moron in-game with no skills or knowledge or even physical fitness and have to read a hundred books in order to be able to do anything in-game, but at least you're capable of reading entire books in less than 1 second... right? I guess what I'm trying to say is that I doubt anyone could possibly be expected to survive 7d2d in real life... unless it was just this world + zombies, in which case, incredibly easy to survive... wouldn't even have to own a weapon. Just lock up your doors, board up your windows and let the military handle it. Besides, how incredibly dumb would the world have to be in order for a zombie apocalypse to even happen? I realize covid-19 happened due mainly to stupidity, but zombies... that's on a much dumber level.

Sorry if I rained on your parade. But reality is what it is.

 
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Jost Amman said:
Sorry, but no.

Not stupidity... if happened because of China!  :nono:

We should never forget that however they try to spin it.
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Who cares which country it originated in, the initial spread was caused by stupidity, nothing more. The fact that we continue to allow it to spread is just continued stupidity and the fact that vaccines are being given only to some ppl due to limited quantities is like putting a band-aid on a severed limb as it does nothing to solve the real problem, again, continued stupidity. Stockpile the vaccine until you have enough to apply it to everyone (even if it's just one state / province at a time and prevent travels to and from those areas until other areas are also cleared) and be done with this virus. You'd think this would be the common sense thing to do, but again, stupidity. In my opinion, China is the one country that handled this virus properly. Their lock down ended their problem with the virus instantly and have since been doing very well. Our versions of a lock down is a blatant joke and is the reason why it's not really effective.

 
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Well I'd probably have an advantage if we're starting the apocalypse in our real world locations. Almost any house you raid is bound to have at least one shotgun messiah crate.

I'm thinking I'd get at least a level 3 tactical assault rifle by day 1. And since bandits aren't in yet I don't have anything to worry about! 🙂

 
Fox said:
Who cares which country it originated in, the initial spread was caused by stupidity, nothing more. The fact that we continue to allow it to spread is just continued stupidity and the fact that vaccines are being given only to some ppl due to limited quantities is like putting a band-aid on a severed limb as it does nothing to solve the real problem, again, continued stupidity. Stockpile the vaccine until you have enough to apply it to everyone (even if it's just one state / province at a time and prevent travels to and from those areas until other areas are also cleared) and be done with this virus. You'd think this would be the common sense thing to do, but again, stupidity. In my opinion, China is the one country that handled this virus properly. Their lock down ended their problem with the virus instantly and have since been doing very well. Our versions of a lock down is a blatant joke and is the reason why it's not really effective.
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Ok, I see misinformation got the best of a lot of people... let's just end it here since this is going to become too much about geo-politics and we're going too much OT.

 
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