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So, what is it like? It's nothing you played before I would say. It's hardcore, threatening and difficult to get started! It's similar to a life- and hiking-simulator, a bit of roleplaying maybe. You will walk much at the beginning until you get your first quad and warm clothes! What you have to expect: My intention was to create a realistic and hazardous environment, where you struggle to survive. This server is nothing for players who want to gear up fast, buy a vehicle after 15 minutes and start building! You will gear up slowly, you have to be very careful and you need to be always on the run. Low temperatures, hunger and thirst will be your biggest enemy at the beginning!
For mental cinema I wrote a short [spoiler=Storyline] In 1982 military patrols discovered an artefact at Object 1 on island Namalsk, which was under study at Object 2 for three months. Scientists extracted an unknown substance with wonderous catalytic properties. The attempt of reproduction at the Sebjan chemical plant led to a contamination of some workers who died a painful death within 2 hours. After a short period the communication to the plant broke down, followed by a huge explosion. Military troups detected radioactivity and got attacked left, right and center by undead workers. After all ground troups were completely drubbed the government decided to retain Namalsk in quarantine. The few survivors were abandoned to their fate...
Present Age...
In reaction to overcrowded jails the government made a top secret decision. It has been decided to cast long-term prisoners without relatives ashore Namalsk, where the dead are still walking! Recon flights confirmed what the power holders expected. Most of them died very soon. Death from exposure was the most and unhurtful death. The unluckier prisoners were torn in pieces by the undead. Only some hard-nosed captives fought their way through the abandoned cities, gathered food and warm clothes, got some weapons and set up a trader camp in the middle of the island to back up their fellow prisoners. Because anybody on the island is on the brink of starvation, they won't sell neither food nor drinks. You are one of the recently abandoned captives! Arm yourself, withstand the perishing cold, survive long enough to collect building materials and fortify yourself in your own camp. Keep your powder dry, you are not alone! Some of the maroons will try to kill you to get your stuff. Other survivors will do you no harm, unless you attack them. But all of you have something in common. One enemy...the walking dead! You have to survive under all circumstances, you are doomed to succeed! [/spoiler]
General Settings Weather: 30% sunny, 50% cloudy, 20% thunderstorm I added all missing surfaces to activate snowfall all over the map. Default snow fall is a bit too much, because snowflakes are pretty huge and this makes it hard to spot enemies and to aim. After endless adjustment I am pleased with the result how snowfall looks like now. It's still not perfect, but hey...it's snow.
Temperature: Is set to -10° of the default Namalsk temperature! When it's overcast, raining or windy the temperature will fall further. This means you will have always degrees below zero. Heatpacks have moderate spawn chances so you should be able to warm up constantly. Freezing will be a huge problem for survivors, so keep that in mind. To make things a bit more interesting I added a small script to define midly and very warm clothing. I separated them in the trader tables so you can easily pick one. You will still loose warmth, but of course much slower. Sitting in a vehicle or at a campfire will warm you up.
Vehicle Spawns: No, you will not find SUV's, Ural's, Hunter's or Zamak's... You will only find bicycles or old tractors! It's an abandoned island and I want players to travel mostly by foot at the beginning...
Trader Camp and non-existing Safezones I created one trader outpost completely new. It's guarded by friendly, heavy armed and high skilled AI. A group of three AI patrol the outside of the camp and are using G3's. Each of them has 33 magazines, so they shouldn't run out of ammo in 4 hours. The entrance is guarded by two Mk30 HMG .50! Inside the camp are 2 other guards, one of them is using the M134 Painless You can try to shoot them, you can try to overrun them, they will not die! Only zeds may kill them and even when they do...their complete gear will be deleted! I'm a bit proud of what I set up here and the guards are doing a good job to kill the few zeds that spawn around the camp. For AI the area is blacklisted, but I got a helicopter and ground patrol around on testruns. The guards laughed and the AI were toast. So, even without a safezone you are pretty safe here and to see how they fight with their tracer ammo at night is very cool. The spot provides warmth sources.
Trading and Russian Roulette Exile 0.9.8 Kiwi provides respect needed for trading. I'm using it, for good stuff you have to be a good survivor! I also removed the good stuff from the loot tables, so earn your stuff! Every item you can buy has a value from 1-6. Respect levels for trading:
New and funny feature is Russian Roulette. You can buy in for 500 pop tabs and it's working so far. Normally you should fall over with the chair when you shot yourself, but this isn't working. Be careful, don't touch any chairs players died on!!! They will kill you!!! I hope I get this clarified asap and can fix it.
Exile and Extended Base Mod Crafting You want to build? Then you have to loot. Almost any items needed can only be looted. Mostly needed is cement and sand. Every recipe which contains cement must be crafted at one of the 3 spots of the map where I placed the new cement mixers! It takes a minute and while you are waiting you have to defend yourself... I spent days to rework all recipes to make them rich in variety. I couldn't test them all, but I think most are fine. It's because items needed for crafting are limited to what you can carry. You should wear the uniform, vest and backpack with the largest capacity for the bigger recipes! All buildings can be removed and placed again. Some are used as storages. I mentioned the capacity in the recipes and categorized all of them.
Respect You will loose respect in case of:
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unlucky = Dying for an unknown reason costs you 1% respect crash = Crashing your vehicle costs you 1% respect suicide = Comitting suicide costs you 2% of your respect friendyFire = Friendly fire costs you 20% of your respect npc = Being killed by an NPC costs you 3% of your respect bambiKill = Killing a bambi costs you 20% of your respect
Building Restrictions Namalsk is a small island, I had to keep in mind that AI and zeds need spots to spawn and players spots to build. Because of the fact that no loot will spawn around player bases, building is not allowed directly at any buildings of the map. All over 150m from a building is okay. Military buildings (200m) and some others are blocked, same for some areas: [spoiler=Building Restrictions] [/spoiler] Minimum distance to spawn zones is 500m. I had to decrease it from 1000m, to get more building space here...
Construction Settings:
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//GENERAL SETTINGS // Remove all territories (and contructions + containers in it) that were not paid after X days territoryLifeTime = 14;
// Remove all containers outside of territories that have not been used for X days // Example: Tents containerLifeTime = 7;
// Remove all constructions outside of territories that are older than X days or not moved for X days // Example: Work Benches constructionLifeTime = 2;
// Remove all vehicles that were not moved/used for X days vehicleLifeTime = 14;
// Set safe as abandoned abandonedTime = 14;
Gameplay settings Zombies: Zeds are spawning when players enter defined areas. I set plenty of triggers around the map. But also when you don't enter triggers, harassing zeds will spawn around you, no matter where you are. They are always slow and only 3 spawn at one time around a player. I give you an advice: Grab all weapons you can, always carry enough ammo with you, watch your back and KEEP MOVING! Some zeds will explode after death (with a chance of 3%). Whenever you read the message: It's a trap!!! RUN! Zombies will have no loot, only military zeds may drop helmets and vests relating to their uniform. I spent much time to tweak the spawns for zeds. In the end almost all of them are only walking. Only at the hospital and the mission "Loot & Death" expect more then walking zeds! When a zombie hits you, you might get infected by a chance of 8%. The grade of the infection will be shown in the statusbar. (biohazard symbol) You will start coughing and loosing slowly your visibility. If the infection reaches 100% you will die. You can stop the infection for 15 minutes using antivirus pills. To cure yourself you need an antivirus injector. This mod does not save the infection to the database (which is the biggest crap and make the whole thing pointless at all) But I like it so much that I want to use it at all costs. Relogging to get cured is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN! You risk a permanent ban, if an admin caughts you in the act breaking this rule!
Stamina and Fatigue Oh god, he really activated it?! Yes, I did, because it's realistic that you only can outrun zeds for a short time. Since the autorun option can be abused to evade stamina, this option is shut off !
AI System and missions The only AI system used here is the DMS one. Together with the Exile Occupation System it provides some nice settings, which are:
Roaming AI may be bandits and/or survivors! (set to 60% survivors)
AI spawning around military buildings and patroling them
Roaming air and land vehicles
A public travel service (heli/land) which moves from one trader to the next
I randomized the chance to spawn a heli or a truck with each restart. Players can hop in for free. The truck will hold when you stand next to the road. The ground transport gets stuck sometimes, shoot the driver (car will explode) and a new will spawn after 5 minutes. The Heli transport may not land always exactly at the marker!
Supply Drops (which spawn directly on the map with a restart and are guarded always by 4 bandits)
Heli Crashsites (unguarded)
This AI system reduces the maximum amount of AI allowed to hold up performance. That way on quieter times you get more AI and on busy times you get less. I think that's a good things together with the zeds. Beside that AI will freeze when no player is near, so that's good for performance as well.
Bandits will always attack you. Survivors won't as long you don't attack them. Survivors will attack bandits and vice versa. Both are attacked by zombies, so they might be helpful in some situations. To distinguish bandits from survivors they will always look like this: I gave survivors a red cap, so they can be distinguished from player bambies. Beside that survivors will only use arifle_MXC_F and bandits hlc_rifle_ak47 I had to give them a lot of magazines, otherwise they would run out of ammo shooting zeds pretty fast...the related ammo selling price is lower at traders
About the missions... ...I said I would rework them. But I threw over that plan. Overall missions don't fit in this setting. Perhaps I take a look later again in some missions that may fit to my likings. Beside that mission AI and roaming AI may interfere and attack each other, as long they don't belong to the same group. So for now there are only 2 missions spawning. Loot & Death: This is a simple mission with one loot box and endless spawning hard zeds around! Loot & Death! Occupation City: Similar to the town invasions on the Altis server, based on DMS. I may add more to other cities, atm it's only one city.
I added 2 own small "missions": At the Sebjan Chemical plant a box will spawn with each restart. Not much inside but worth to have a look. This spot is one of 2 radiation areas and together with the zeds around you will be in trouble to find it. I defined 40 possible spawn spots...
The second box with high loot spawns underground in a bunker at Object 2, also a radiation area. Zeds will follow you underground, you might get in trouble... EDIT: This is shut off atm, due to the Namalsk light bug!
Hunting and Taming: For hunting you need a weapon and a knife to gut the animal. You can hunt goats, sheeps, chickens, rabbits and even dogs, which are spawning randomly around the map with each server restart. They move seldomly. Once gutted you will receive one part of beef.
To tame a dog you need a can of raw dogfood. Use the mouse wheel options and choose tame dog. The taming chance is always 100%. Once it's tamed you can give your new friend orders. Never set your dog to aggressive when you meet the roaming trader. It will attack and kill him! Dogs will attack bandits and zeds as well, but they almost hurt only one and then attack the next enemy.
Roaming Trader: I like this one. I set him to travel by foot and he will hike around the island. When you approach him he will salute you and you trade with him like with other traders. I made him a kind of blackmarket trader. He is the only one who buys/sells the NIArms Weapons and ammunition.
Ground Fog: Spawns only between 7pm and 6am ingame time.
Night & Day: Night starts at 6pm and with it a time acceleration of 16x begins. Day starts at 6am and time acceleration changes back to 4x. This means that nights are shorter then days.
Loot Settings: Another part I spent much time with. Loot tables were completely reworked. Stuff you need high levels of respect won't spawn. For some few buildings I even created new loot spawn points, so stuff is not spawning always on the ground: I think there are a few building with no loot positions I can add of course later on.
Food & Medicals: As part of the survival setting and story above, I removed the food trader, thus all food and drinks. Both having not the best spawn chances, but it isn't too hard at all to find them. Loot or starve...
Medicals are rare. You only can find them at the "old hospital" spot. They can still be bought and sold at the traders, but prices are moderate. Zombie threat at the hospital is much higher then in other areas! You should only go there with enough ammunition... Beside that you have a chance to find some food and medics at supply drops and heli crashsites.
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