Booticus

The other day I wasn't doing so hot. I was down on my luck and feeling it. I didn't have much at the time, only some blue jeans and a leather jacket I knew was sure to intimidate any trouble makers I might encounter, on account of how bad ass I looked in it. Unfortunately, no amount of good looks or bad assery could pull me out of my current situation. I was like, super hungry. I checked a few apple trees, but after 30 minutes of peeling the bark away from the base of the trees, I still didn't have any apples. After deciding that I had no god damn idea how to apple tree correctly, I moved on. A little farther down the road I found a village. By this time I was thinking to myself "I'm dying of starvation." I frantically searched the empty houses. I found a few items, but none that I could eat. As I was leaving the town, I noticed a can on the top of a car. I walked over and, as if god himself had delivered it to me, a can of tactical bacon rested upon the trunk. I greedily snatched it up, only to realize... I had nothing to open it with. I began running toward another small group of houses farther up the road and reached them as the world was losing its color and I began to slip towards the light. First house, empty. Second and third, bunk. Last house... last chance... empty. I walked outside, ready to meet my maker, when I noticed in the shed beside me there was a crowbar laying on the ground. I ran over and grabbed it, eyed it up with the edge of my can and let her rip. Disaster. Devastation. Tragedy. I spilled it. All of it. Well, except for what I assumed was roughly 6% of the initial volume. All my hope was gone. I accepted my fate. All that was left to do now was lay down on the ground and stare at the pile of tactical bacon on the ground beside me, 94% of a can that I could no longer eat, because it had fallen onto the ground... and become... yucky. [death]

Apple trees and gardening skipper.

So, I joined a group yesterday because I'm trying to find some decent players to run with. I entered the ts and joined a group of active players. Apparently I joined at the right time. I caught them in the middle of duping mp5s, mags and ammo. This pissed me off. I've had my current char for over a week. Hours upon hours of running around trying my damndest to survive and find the gear I much needed. It was only 2 days ago that I came across a pristine mp5 [with a loaded mag right beside it, believe it or not!] That accomplishment feels like nothing knowing that their are large groups of players running around finding these rare items once and then just duping them 10 times to fully arm their group. What is the point of playing the game right if it means wasting 20+ hours gathering, only to run into a gang of dupers who want to take my hard work and exploit it for their own good? It's giving an unfair advantage to these groups and ruining the integrity of the game.

Bambie doesn't need a ration pack. There are apple trees all over the spawn areas. The point is to be very hard starting out and to gradually get a little easier as you progress. Here are some steps I take as a freshy in the new patch. 1. ditch the flashlight 2. tear shirt to rags [you will most likely get bloody as a freshy] 3. find apple trees and eat until you are energized/hydrated. 4. check a few building for basic shit if the area doesn't look cleaned out already. 5. point your ass at the ocean and go until you find an inland town to actually get some good gear. 6. run from town to town and be super lonely until you eventually find someone who will either try to kill you or disappear immediately because it took you so long to find them that the server now has to reset. 7. Die. As far as the zeds go, I've gotten the hang of stealth or shoot over the course of the week. It isn't too bad out there after you hone your zombie detection/evasion/elimination techniques. Honestly though, i think the game should head in the opposite direction with the dead. I feel like instead of 3-4 fast op zeds per small town, there should be 10-15 weaker zombies. Melee has been more or less obsolete since the patch, which isn't good. I think we can all agree that when we pick up an axe or bat irl we say to ourselves "I'd love to bash a zombie skull with this." They have taken that from us lol. It should only take one or two well placed wacks with a GOOD melee wep to dispatch a freak. I admit that it would be lame with the current zombie pop, but if it were 2 wacks to drop a zombie while 5 more are closing in on you at a quick walk/jog, you would definitely feel the fear. They should be dumb. Their eyes should be rotting and not that great. It should be somewhat easy to get around them in a small town with some patience and skill. At first you avoid the mass of zombies and snag only what you can. If you make it past that and actually find some guns and friends, you will be labeled as a survivor. The next step is running into a city or large town, side by side, meeting a wall of dead with a wall of lead... That sounds like a good fucking time to me.

Eat people. It is the only way.

All I can say is, good luck attracting new players. If it is almost completely impossible for vets to spawn a freshy and make it off the coast with enough food/water/first aid to make it to anywhere good inland [only to find it's as empty as the coast towns] without being merced by these new kenyan sith lord zombies, imagine how bambie feels?

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