PC how often do you die and should I lose motivation after I die?

How often do you die

  • Often

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • Not often

    Votes: 25 78.1%

  • Never

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Only on horde night

    Votes: 1 3.1%
  • Total voters
    32
Adam the Waster

Adam the Waster

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For me I have a rule where I die 7 times I have to restart but should I keep doing that cuz I miss out Alot in Game. Mostly to ferals/at night. And I make it punishing when I die. 

On horde night I often die/base falls apart because I don't do any meta builds. So that also adds up. 

Also ferals.... ferals scare me and rads make me @%$# myself 

I consider myself pretty experience due to hours but I still fumble 

 
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"Should" you feel bad? No. But it still feels bad, anyway. 

The ways I usually die are because I just made a careless mistake. Like falling off the same tall ladder twice in a row, or having a feral drop on top of you in a POI in the early game, or getting eaten by a dire wolf while I'm building my base. 

My advice to anyone who struggles with fear during combat, is just fire up creative mode single player, put on god mode, and just fight things. Get a feel for how zombies move, how your weapons function, and get comfortable with the sounds and sights. 

 
"Not often", mostly to glitches, and Always doing something stupid. I don't play with strict ironman, but dying does spoil the mood usually, so I'll end up restarting.

For you, should you change it? Only if you feel you need to. Can't advocate for changes if 7 lives keeps the game entertaining for you. There's no right way to play, if 7 is good, 7 is good :)

If you want to get better.. drop the difficulty down a notch and go with one life. Gets the heart rate going, might even learn to load your weapons pre-emptively. But do you need to? Winning the game makes it boring .. ;) And half of the "learning" in the game seems to be about "what hacky things I can use to beat this encounter?" Don't get me wrong, the other half is also important, but the cheese gets tastier with "actual" risks involved.

 
I rarely die, and when I do, it is almost always because I did something dumb.  I don't see any reason to feel bad about it, though.  It is a game where you are supposed to be challenged, and in that challenge, death should be something you expect once in a while.

 
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Dad is dead, 

It depends, some times I get full of myself and die in first day.  Summer times it takes a while. 

But whenever I die is a restart.  Depending on mood I may or may not start a new map as well.

 
Riamus said:
I rarely die, and when I do, it is about always because I did something dumb.  I don't see any reason to feel bad about it, though.  It is a game where you are supposed to be challenged, and in that challenge, death should be something you expect once in a while.
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I'm not saying like I don't like the challenge. But I mostly give up after my 7th death. My last run ended cuz I entered and moved into the burnt forest too soon. Man those ferals and THE BIRDS 

@%$# THE BIRDS! Still want zombie pigeons tho

MiTHMoN said:
The ways I usually die are because I just made a careless mistake. Like falling off the same tall ladder twice in a row, or having a feral drop on top of you in a POI in the early game, or getting eaten by a dire wolf while I'm building my base. 
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That's how I die as well for the most part

Rotor said:
Dad is dead, 

It depends, some times I get full of myself and die in first day.  Summer times it takes a while. 

But whenever I die is a restart.  Depending on mood I may or may not start a new map as well.
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Unfortunately on console you can only have really one map with high render so once I restart I restart lmao 🤣 

 
I don't consider myself a PC snob, but I have played almost every console created until about 6 yrs ago when my youngest went to college.  I won't trade my gaming rig for any of them.  And trust me, I have spent more money than I care to mention on consoles .... Darn kids /shakes fist.

 
Rotor said:
I don't consider myself a PC snob, but I have played almost every console created until about 6 yrs ago when my youngest went to college.  I won't trade my gaming rig for any of them.  And trust me, I have spent more money than I care to mention on consoles .... Darn kids /shakes fist.
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I'm saving up for a PC myself 

 
Rarely.

I've only died once during horde night. I fell in my own electric fence trap and was shocked to death. I died once in MP, right after horde night running around trying to clear u the slackers.

I used to die fairly regularly in the first few days to dog packs. I've gotten better, and that hasn't happened in a long time.

I haven't died yet in 1.x other than while testing respawn mechanics in mods, but have been close a number of times.

I don't play nightmare/insane settings.

 
I’d say I die average amount from a mixed bag of things. Doesn’t bother me and my guy seems to brush it off quite well. Only time I’ve ever felt bad about dying in a video game is if I was out of quarters.

 
thatguybeard said:
I’d say I die average amount from a mixed bag of things. Doesn’t bother me and my guy seems to brush it off quite well. Only time I’ve ever felt bad about dying in a video game is if I was out of quarters.
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I think ima change the title from feel bad to something else cuz I don't get depressed and sad about it. I'm just trying to get an achievement and it seems easy to do it early game and live on. But once I die I go @%$#.  Here we go again

 
Adam the Waster said:
I think ima change the title from feel bad to something else cuz I don't get depressed and sad about it. I'm just trying to get an achievement and it seems easy to do it early game and live on. But once I die I go @%$#.  Here we go again
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Lol!  Yeah, that challenge can be annoying if you happen to die before completing it.  :)

 
The longest I have gone without dying is horde night day 28. I usually make it to day 14 until I do. If I miss the obvious "drop down into ambush" ladderless hatch, that is usually the only other time. I think dogs outside of being surrounded in a POI are my highest single enemy culprit. I avoid bears and dire wolves unless I have an obvious height advantage. I don't think that I've died from a landmine since A21 

 
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warmer said:
I think the only death you should feel bad about are ones where you told yourself...

"I really shouldn't go into this POI this encumbered but...."

That is you not listening to your instincts and being greedy.
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I am way too guilty of this. Most of the melee fights I get into, I'm encumbered. It's a big problem in early game when you've got a level 1 stone-tier weapon against a feral or two, but once you can bonk them hard enough, it's not so bad. I really just don't like leaving loot behind, haha

 
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