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[Kenadian]

Actually all I've been doing when I hop on is mine rocks, materials and hemp. I found an automatic rifle the other day so I'll start going after more animals as well. At least it gives me a bit more of a chance against bears and wolves.

Also, my guess is it's much better to skin animals with a bone knife or something better to get more stuff out of it right?

 

[Shilka]

Yep, a bone knife is actually best for getting recources off dead animals. It's not very good as a melee weapon, but is best for taking recources out of bodies.

Hemp stock has gone up considerably, there's some good spots to find hemp near the base, eastwards on the northside of the water, and north/northwest/west of the airfield are some large plains that have a good amount of hemp, so yeah, hemp harvesting is doing great atm.

Spent most of the day on gathering rocks and wood too, and now we have double stack size, I've changed tacticts to working from the base chopping rocks till my pickaxe wears out, then work back towards base chopping wood.

That helicopter attack on the base was awesome, with the way this game works it really felt 'dangerous', that was pretty cool. Died 4 times of helicopter attack today, 1 time out in the open, 3 times within the base. It's almost like the chopper is starting to understand where to find us, and the thing is pretty intimidating... especially when it started shooting rockets, and not 1 at a time, but in salvo's.......

 

[little P]

Sounds awesome. I was hoping for more of a PvE thing going on as it didn't really feel "dangerous" out there. If the choppa is up for a fight then that's good. Gives us something to worry about/fight.

 

[Shilka]

Sounds awesome. I was hoping for more of a PvE thing going on as it didn't really feel "dangerous" out there. If the choppa is up for a fight then that's good. Gives us something to worry about/fight.

Sais the guys who gets killed by his own bear traps and falls asleep drunk in the open field just yards away from safety. No wonder the game doesn't feel dangerous if you are your own worst enemy, hahahahaha.

But yeah, I kind of felt the same way untill yesterday. Apart from the odd wolf/bear attack I felt reasonably safe, but then that chopper came along. BTW, a downed chopper will yield some very good/rare stuff, so yeah, it is worth fighting about/shooting at if you have the chance.

Just reread Duke's reply, and I just want to say, don't take my earlier post as if everybody should be out there chopping stones and trees, just wanted to give some sort of in character update on what's low on supply in the general materials depot, so anybody who wants to do some restocking doesn't need to go through 50 crates to see what's low on supply.

Please do whatever you want, wether it's mining, lumbering, scavenging, exploring, hunting, building base reinforcements or your own personal recreation of hoover dam. If you have your own idea's on how to fortify the base for aerial attack, please build them! When I started on an outer wall for the base, I only made a 30 meter stretch in the hopes that others will continue on it, so don't shrug to expand the base as you see fit if building is your thing, it's a community effort

I've built the materials depot for everybody to use, so if you need stuff, feel free to grab it, that's what the whole thing is there for. Of course if you have the ability to build some cool stuff from a blueprint you've learned feel free to craft a bunch of it and put it in stock for others to use. There's still some empty crates on second floor that can be filled with whatever you can make, and if certain crates get full we can always expand the building a bit like I did yesterday to create extra stock room. Restock of existing crates is always welcome of course!

 

[Kenadian]

No worries Shilka and please keep on mentioning our Supply Inventory because I'm happy to help out. I can't dedicate the amount of time and energies you guys do into building stuff so I feel it's the least I can do.

Last night I was on the Server for 90 minutes or so and chased the chopper, even shot at it once or twice, but it wouldn't engage. Having said that, it was pretty far away from me and the chances of me hitting it with a bullet at that range were pretty slim anyway.

I did manage however to find a supply drop from the airplane which was exceptionally cool. I saw it make the drop but had to freeze my nuts off crossing this 00ber channel to get to it.

I ended up finding some great loot including this pistol which I'm now carrying.

Also, I did a little hunting with the crossbow and that was incredibly fun. One shot to the face will take down a buck and I managed a horse in 2 shots.

Does anyone know if sneaking helps you get closer to the animals because it sure seemed to work with the buck. Mind you I was in cover and hidden behind a wall most of the time but it never saw me even when I moved from the cover of the wall.

All in all I'm enjoying the game a lot more that I thought I would.

I think I may have Zac interested in the game and a few people from the Stream last night may be interested in coming to our Server as well.

 

[Shilka]

Yeah, I must admit it's a lot more fun then I expected too, I was kind of ready for an ARK like disappointing experience with bad optimization and so-so functionality, but it is a lot better then I expected it to be... The building is fun, crafting makes sense most of the time, hunting is at times challenging, and survival, well, it seemed easy, but by now I've woken up too many times naked to be able to still say that Just when you start thinking the survival is too easy you get mauled by a bear or get a rocket to the face....

On a side note, can you guys leave my pants on while I sleep?

On another side note, stone yield has been doubled to make it slightly less of a grind, so it's about comparable, but slightly harder as getting wood now.

 

[Skid_Marc_]

On a side note, can you guys leave my pants on while I sleep?

I don't own this game, but I've been around this community long enough to know...

No.

The answer is No.

...and that is the final answer.


Just.
No.

 

[Kenadian]

rofl :lol:

Have you given anymore thought to picking it up?

 

[Kenadian]

Had my first run in with the Chopper today and that thing is fricking sketchy. I think the door gunner (or whoever is shooting at me) is a bit OP because he knows where I am all the time it seems.

I was inside a building and they weren't taking any chances, the were hitting me with miniguns (I'm guessing) and rockets.

Nearly died twice and don't think I actually got a hit on that bl00dy thing once.

...but I'm still alive lol.

Incidentally, did nightime get lighter in the game or was it just lighter because I was at the Nuclear Power Plant and there's snow around there?

 

[ElektroVodka]

I've noticed the Helicopter showing weird behavior.
At moments i thought they saw me but apparently they didn't.
And the moments where i had the feeling i wasn't spotted....i was spotted.

Nights have random "Darkness" sometimes it's pitch black, and sometimes bright as f...
i think you've seen a full moon night, which almost looks like day.

 

[Kenadian]

Yeah I didn't notice but it most certainly could have been a full moon. If that's the case that is exceptionally cool, I've only ever seen pitch black.

The Chopper itself just needs a bit of a delay added to it where it engages a bit after it has line of sight (say 1 or 2 seconds); I think that would be fair.

It also needs to disengage sooner as it was blasting rockets at me where it couldn't possibly see me well after losing line of sight.

Does anyone know if it engages you because you're holding a rifle as opposed to a pick axe? What I'm saying is, does it assess targets or does it just spray all humans with impunity?

 

[Shilka]

It will always engage you when you're close enough. They might miss you if you hide well, but if they spot you, they will shoot at you or your last known position for sure, no matter what you're holding. They are enemy by default.

The only time it will not engage you is when you are naked and have no equipment.
It will patrol al monument areas, and it will only stop engaging after 15 minutes, or untill it is destroyed, or if you manage to move out of range.

And we haven't even seen it do the napalm attack yet

 

[Kenadian]

Ah ok, didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification Shilka.

 

[Kitlope]

If you don't want to engage with the chopper take your ranged weapons out of the hotbar and taking off all but 2 items of clothing seems to help keep it from attacking. Not sure if this has changed with a patch though...

 

[Kenadian]

Actually I've never seen the chopper before but now that I know what to expect I can be a bit more effective the next time I come across one.

 

[Shilka]

If you don't want to engage with the chopper take your ranged weapons out of the hotbar and taking off all but 2 items of clothing seems to help keep it from attacking. Not sure if this has changed with a patch though...

Oh no no no, you definately need to be all naked, and also insert a pickaxe from behind, broad side first, as you can see in the patch notes here.

 

[Kenadian]

Fucking Rick Rolled, what a dick!

 

[little P]

Ban him. Ban him NAOW


Also, Shilka, Zac was correct. Request denied.

 

[ElektroVodka]

Explains why we weren't attacked earlier... we we're running a miniature nudist camp (miniature doesn't refer to the size of the campgrounds)

 

[Skid_Marc_]

rofl :lol:

Have you given anymore thought to picking it up?

Anything that will happen won't happen 'til next Thursday, but no, I'm still not sure.