Red_Ensign

in 3pp I have: potatoes. and earthworms.

I think so

oddly enough, turn your graphics preferences up, not down. low settings puts the load on the cpu instead of the video card, and it bottlenecks. saw it mentioned here and tried it, and it works.

hard to get a non-zombie to sit still for that

try aiming high. a couple of times shooting a zombie through a window I had to aim for the very top of its head.

that's albuquerque, take a left turn there

the people who want a more challenging game experience should read this. for a long time I've been playing my hardcore (1pp) character under certain restrictions, in the interest of a different game experience than I have with my 3pp character. the restriction are: - can only use bow and melee weapons - can't eat or drink from cans (rice, cereal and powdered milk is ok) - can't use anything from previous life's camp or corpse - campfires only, no gas stoves - no server hopping when .55 hit, this character was totally screwed. bows don't work, zombies are silent (much bigger problem in 1pp than in 3pp), spawned veggies are invisible, and you need a dumb number of things to cook meat (I was gone for a few patches so this change hit me in .55) and those things weren't even spawning. well... shit. in the game's current state though (spawns rolled back, and cooking supplies spawning again) it's workable again. I've gone back to playing in 1pp with the original rules. man it's hard though. I know what people were talking about on those servers where food wasn't spawning - when you have to rely on berries and apples for food, there's actually LESS food when you leave the coast. and when you're an inch from starving it takes just one zombie hit to knock you out (died several times that way yesterday). yes there's hunting and horticulture but it takes several tries to live long enough to just find the basic supplies for those. I'm enjoying my 1pp's brutal life though. this particular life I took the time to get up to energized on berries (thrilling hour of gaming, that), and then moved on, planning the trip ahead and deciding what route to take that would cost the least energy and hydration and have the most opportunities to replenish. several hours in, I've managed to keep him healthy and found 2 bags of rice as a nice cushion against starvation when I'm in those areas inland where apples and berries aren't as easy to find (half the time I play at night). found myself a vest and a good pack so I have space to start collecting seeds and tools to get a small plot planted. one concession I made is I picked up a crossbow because bows don't work right now. saw some bolts but couldn't pick them up (alpha). too bad you can't craft bolts. but I'm healthy and slowly finding what I need and surviving. and it's been rewarding and compelling - what this game hopefully will be for everyone. and I drive better in 1pp (who knew). the people bemoaning the spawns being rolled back to 'easy mode' can dump all the gear they currently have stockpiled (I did) and try the way I play my 1pp. if anyone does, I'd like them to comment here about the experience. for the people who took a break from the game after .55, give it another shot and restrict your resources by choice. it's good practice for surviving what's coming.

free info for the trading community! supposedly you can plant potatoes and grow them. here's how to get potatoes: they spawn in game (along with all the other veggies) - they're just invisible. because alpha. go where loose veggies used to spawn and mouse around or check your vicinity window. this only works NOW since they reverted the spawns - when they go back to random spawns we'll have to wait until they fix the invisible veggies bug to find any, because good luck knowing where to look.

I have dirt. will trade for treasure.

I got pinkeye from searching all those outhouses

character's an inch from death by the time you realize you're on the wrong server. you (the minority hardcore mode braggarts) have the power to make the game as hard as you want, even in its current state. you don't HAVE to pick up all the stuff that lying around. go for it. feel free to play the game standing on your head or with the monitor turned off. but the problem (yes there was a problem, acknowledged by the devs not just imagined by the 'CoD people') was real, and fixing it however they needed to was the correct action. sorry for the inconvenience.

you guys are the minority. you were finding enough stuff? well congrats on picking the right servers. other places were broken and had squat. they rolled it back til they can fix the issues. hopefully you can survive the hardship of not enough hardship. be strong.

1. put a backpack down 2. come back in 4 hours 3. if the pack is still there, persistence works on that server

everyone was told. besides, since .55 (and before, for that matter) there was ALWAYS a chance your tent would go byebye. surprise! it went byebye.

hope you packed up your good loots before vacation.

I want my derringer to use bazooka ammo. XD

completed trade with Yawdarius. everything went well except the raw chicken I ate. *burp*

deadliest thing in this game is the programming

stock up on rice! and I can find a shotgun again

way ahead of you. I empty or purify every bottle I pick up. also, new spawns are at almost full blood, and apparently at full blood the chances of getting sick are very low. so you're mostly just throwing bottles away and giving people free water.

would like private sorted out, since there's a lot of them now a week ago I played half a day on a private server without even knowing (nothing stopped me or asked for a password etc). I'd just died and switched servers, so I didn't think anything of it when I started with nothing. didn't realize that server was private til I went to another and had nothing again.

it's sad that we can't tell what was on purpose and what they fucked up on. lol

act 3: other guy shoots a freshie, is a 'fucking prick'....

until you take their truck.

trade for a can of food - everyone will jump at that