- Joined
- Oct 25, 2004
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Remember http://www.urbandead.com? I'm still playing.
First character (civilian): abandoned. He had a lot of guns but very poor luck in choosing safehouses for the night. I got tired of waiting for revives.
Second character (military): Currently level 8 and looking for trouble in Peppardville. Not finding much. Most of my time here is spent scrounging for supplies, helping out at Fort Creedy, and annhilating the occasional zombie that's still standing when I log on. When I do actually see one, half the time they're a Mrh Cow and I can't bring myself to shotgun them. Same story in Pitneybank. All the action's around the Fort, and it doesn't last long. The last time I looked, the Fort Creedy survivors had the zombies outnumbered about 5-to-1. Combat skills are maxed. Next skill: Diagnosis for easy healing XP when the zombies are all on the ground.
Third character (civilian): Level 8 and languishing in Tollyton after being run out of East Becktown. While the levelling was great, the multiple safehouse crashes each day were not, and once I realized that East Becktown was honestly under siege I got the heck out. (And it was a close call.) Between chopping up zombies like kindling and sampling DNA, I'm trying to find some guns. Numerous pistol magazines. No pistols. Next skill: Shopping. It's time to loot the malls. Possibly Bodybuilding instead, in preparation for a conversion to Zombiedom. (As I already have a flak jacket, Necrotech Employment, and Diagnosis; Bodybuilding would make me an official "Super Zombie," and I've even got a crowbar and Hand-to-Hand Combat for when someone has the nerve to combat revive me.)
Fourth character (zombie): Level 8. I got tired of eating noobs caught outside the barricades in Pegton. It was easy levelling but not much fun. Once I had Lurching Gait, I went on a walkabout to Ridleybank and Barrville, the Mecca of zombiedom. After that, I stumbled on up to Darville Heights to assist in the seige of Caiger Mall, as no true zombie can resist the pull of so many brains in one place. The levelling is not as good (only about one level every two or three days) but I can count on taking part in safehouse crashing often and I have at least one fight with a live opponent per night. (And due to Ankle Grab, it only costs me 1 AP to get back up if I lose unless the other guy is Headshooting.) It's also allowed me to practice "zombish" with Death Rattle, and the good folks at the St. Isadore revive point are probably getting tired of me taking swings at them and shouting "GRAB MAH BANANA HARMANZ!" while blocking the revive line. Next skill: Neck Lurch. I'm maxed out on claw attacks but I like the idea of Infecting everyone in a crashed safehouse before I start actually killing survivors, and Neck Lurch is highly desirable for bite attacks.
I'm seriously considering banking a few hundred XP with both of my survivor characters and going completely zombie. Wrecking barricades, chasing revivers, talking trash with Death Rattle and eating brains are far more fun than hiding and ambushing feral zombies. Both of my survivors have Free Running (possibly the most important skill a survivor can have in most suburbs) and may be heading to Caiger, as that seems to be where the action is these days.
How are my fellow zombi...err, other players doing?
First character (civilian): abandoned. He had a lot of guns but very poor luck in choosing safehouses for the night. I got tired of waiting for revives.
Second character (military): Currently level 8 and looking for trouble in Peppardville. Not finding much. Most of my time here is spent scrounging for supplies, helping out at Fort Creedy, and annhilating the occasional zombie that's still standing when I log on. When I do actually see one, half the time they're a Mrh Cow and I can't bring myself to shotgun them. Same story in Pitneybank. All the action's around the Fort, and it doesn't last long. The last time I looked, the Fort Creedy survivors had the zombies outnumbered about 5-to-1. Combat skills are maxed. Next skill: Diagnosis for easy healing XP when the zombies are all on the ground.
Third character (civilian): Level 8 and languishing in Tollyton after being run out of East Becktown. While the levelling was great, the multiple safehouse crashes each day were not, and once I realized that East Becktown was honestly under siege I got the heck out. (And it was a close call.) Between chopping up zombies like kindling and sampling DNA, I'm trying to find some guns. Numerous pistol magazines. No pistols. Next skill: Shopping. It's time to loot the malls. Possibly Bodybuilding instead, in preparation for a conversion to Zombiedom. (As I already have a flak jacket, Necrotech Employment, and Diagnosis; Bodybuilding would make me an official "Super Zombie," and I've even got a crowbar and Hand-to-Hand Combat for when someone has the nerve to combat revive me.)
Fourth character (zombie): Level 8. I got tired of eating noobs caught outside the barricades in Pegton. It was easy levelling but not much fun. Once I had Lurching Gait, I went on a walkabout to Ridleybank and Barrville, the Mecca of zombiedom. After that, I stumbled on up to Darville Heights to assist in the seige of Caiger Mall, as no true zombie can resist the pull of so many brains in one place. The levelling is not as good (only about one level every two or three days) but I can count on taking part in safehouse crashing often and I have at least one fight with a live opponent per night. (And due to Ankle Grab, it only costs me 1 AP to get back up if I lose unless the other guy is Headshooting.) It's also allowed me to practice "zombish" with Death Rattle, and the good folks at the St. Isadore revive point are probably getting tired of me taking swings at them and shouting "GRAB MAH BANANA HARMANZ!" while blocking the revive line. Next skill: Neck Lurch. I'm maxed out on claw attacks but I like the idea of Infecting everyone in a crashed safehouse before I start actually killing survivors, and Neck Lurch is highly desirable for bite attacks.
I'm seriously considering banking a few hundred XP with both of my survivor characters and going completely zombie. Wrecking barricades, chasing revivers, talking trash with Death Rattle and eating brains are far more fun than hiding and ambushing feral zombies. Both of my survivors have Free Running (possibly the most important skill a survivor can have in most suburbs) and may be heading to Caiger, as that seems to be where the action is these days.
How are my fellow zombi...err, other players doing?
