Urban Dead

Alan_Au · August 26, 2005, 3:07pm

Brilliant! That’s the last place they would expect to find you…

Alan

Graeme_Dice · August 26, 2005, 3:20pm

Well, if you’re looking for other people, it seems that one of the best places to find them is in various police stations. Of course, those same police stations also attract large zombie populations.

Crispus · August 26, 2005, 9:03pm

Well, if you’re looking for other people, it seems that one of the best places to find them is in various police stations. Of course, those same police stations also attract large zombie populations.[/quote]

I’m in one with about 35 other people right now. I have no idea who any of them are, but it’s been that way for about a week now. I’m expecting to log in and see that we’ve all been killed any day now. :?

Twosixteen · August 26, 2005, 10:19pm

gaaarrrrahhhh…

… brains…

Kevin_McGuire · August 27, 2005, 5:16am

I’ve managed to get some Lab Experience, and a few syringes, so if there’s anyone in Pashenton who doesn’t enjoy the life undead, let me know and we can bring you back.

I’ve been going between the PD, the Hospital and a necrotech building, and so far, so good. The zombie population in pashenton is not as bad as I’ve heard elsewhere. The nice thing about staying in a hospital (since I’ve got first aid) is that I can search for first aid kits, there’s a steady stream of wounded, and I don’t have to waste AP going to and from the hospital. On the other hand, I logged in this morning, and the doors were wide open and there was a dead guy snacking on one of my patients.

PS. Dear Angie, please don’t eat me. Thank you.

Anders_Hallin · August 27, 2005, 4:58pm

JAGuarincQto3, you have been revived by yours truly. Please don’t kill me.

Flowers · August 27, 2005, 5:10pm

Necrotechs are exp machines. Yowza.

JAGuarinc · August 27, 2005, 5:34pm

Thanks. Played with my first character and managed to get killed within an hour or so. Then ran around as a zombie before I was killed by… another zombie. Then another. So I read up on survival in their forums, grabbed a new character and managed to go almost six hours without getting killed. Woo-hoo!

At least I have beer now. Although I’d prefer a flamethrower.

Kevin_McGuire · August 28, 2005, 3:56pm

Now that I’ve gotten all the science skills (and yes, necrotech is pretty cool), I’m wondering what skills I should take next. Military costs my scientist 150xp per go, and it seems that I’d need a bunch of skills to strike back effectively at the undead legions. On the consumer side, I’m torn between bodybuilding (for the extra 10 hp) or construction (for barricades). This is assuming that the zombies I tagged today with the DNA sampler don’t have that scent tracking skill and end up eating me for lunch later today.

quatoria · August 28, 2005, 4:23pm

I’m holed up in a temporarily-secure location in whittenside, with a survivor group I’ve put together. Myself, http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=33997 , a necrotech/doctor, and another gunman. Any survivors in the local area are welcome to drop me a private message to get the location. We won’t be there long, of course, but for now, it’s pretty safe.

ElGuapo · August 29, 2005, 5:50am

Good lord, Bren, where have you led me? Yagotown is crawling with zombies. I had to flee that club. Where are you now?

Kalle · August 29, 2005, 6:07am

What makes a zombie lose the scent anyway?

Bren · August 29, 2005, 10:45am

I’m at the Hellyer Building (45, 22). Can I come to you???

Anders_Hallin · August 29, 2005, 11:23am

I’m in that building right now. Not so clever an idea, considering the 8 zombies camped outside. But I’ll have to search it to get a few revivification syringes.

ElGuapo · August 29, 2005, 11:32am

I’m outside of the Pattermore Building just to the south of Yagostown (Shuttlebank). There are zombies on every single side of me and I’m out of AP.

I might as well ask for a revive now… I am certainly dead.

Angie_Gallant · August 29, 2005, 12:14pm

A zombie loses scent when you die or when they die.

I’ve found a cute little police station with about 15 people holed away inside. It’s cute. Less cute when their dead friends decide to play zombie PK instead of getting on with their unlives, but I’m still whittling them down.

Bren · August 29, 2005, 12:37pm

Just to the west is the Stodgell Cinema, which is very strongly barricaded. I’m the only zombie outside it right now.

Kevin_McGuire · August 29, 2005, 1:20pm

Well that’s a bit more disturbing than I thought. The gold mine of xp for DNA sampling begins to look a lot more perilous, as each zombie sampled is a potential tracker. I was hoping that there was some sort of time limit. Looks like hiding in groups is potentially better for me than holing up in a nearby safe house.

Still, I brought my first zombie back from the dead today, and that was pretty cool…

RightWrong · August 29, 2005, 1:27pm

Any advice on how to build XP as a consumer? Ive played for three days now and only earned five points. Oh, and I hope they implement trading soon, because I don’t really need three GPS transmitters.

JAGuarinc · August 29, 2005, 3:32pm

If you haven’t read them already…

Scientist Survival Guide.

Military Survival Guide.

Civilian Survival Guide.

Civilian Survival Guide:

The class of civilian you choose to begin with does a lot to set your early course in the game. A Firefighter can easily level within the first two days of playing, while a Consumer may need to spend as many as two weeks running about in a fight to survive before managing enough experience to reach their next skill. This is mostly due to the starting skills and abilities provided in each starting class - a Firefighter gets the skills and abilities necessary to do a lot of damage very quickly, while the Consumer presently begins with a skill that produces mainly items of little use to a starting character without attack abilities and a phone that currently does not work in the game. This is, obviously, a severe handicap.

At the moment, the only people I reccommend Consumers for are those people who want a challenge. As basically playing a human at all is indicative of someone who wants to risk their entire character in play, I’d say it is a class that presents some unique and realistic limitations to people who wish to play a normal person ingame. If you like the idea of starting from nothing and managing to make it day-to-day by the skin of your teeth, a Consumer is for you. For everyone else, it’s at the moment a mostly-broken class with little going for it. Don’t start a Consumer if you’re looking for active zombie assault early on.

Civilians desperately need to find a Hospital or Mall - healing the wounded is your best bet to obtain the XP necessary to gain access to either the combat or NT experience gain options, or simply Diagnosis for that matter to boost your healing effectiveness. In the meantime, seeking out combat-heavy areas to dash through in healing runs or spending the one AP in large groups to ask for who needs a bit of healing will help you to no small end.

If you’re a Consumer, paranoia is your best bet. To survive, you’d do best to avoid all attention from anyone. People attract zombies, and zombies will kill you. I recognize that this is the exact same as the suggestions I’ve made before, but its value has not decreased - avoid where people are, and you’ll be less likely to be found. No one targets a set of apartment towers without a good reason to do so, so unless you collect a large group and make it obvious you are staying in a location you will generally be ignored.

Consumers
Level One:
Shopping - The Default. Rather worthless for right now.
Level Two:
Diagnosis - No more asking if people need healing, or running directly into harm’s way to get XP. Guarranteed 5 XP per attempted heal from now on, with very little risk.
Level Three:
Free Running - Safety in avoidance, simple as that, and most places you’ll want to be getting into are going to be boarded up more and more. Running to a location with only a few AP left, only to find it locked tight as a drum, means you very well may die. Running to it with Free Running means you’ll probably have a safe space for one night’s rest.

I hope that helped.