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Okay, so for shits and giggles, I'm going to try something a little different here. I just started a brand new community with three former survivors from my first ever community in State of Decay 2. As I'm right at the very start of the new game, I'm going to try and do sort of like a journal type thing where you can follow the day to day lives of my survivors and community.
This is where I will list all survivors during the course of the community, all of those alive, dead or exiled, as well as their skills, traits and stats.
Current Survivors: Bree (Brianna Dager), Courtney (Courtney Newman), Juniper (Juniper Barnum), Arsenault (Hannah Arsenault)
Dead Survivors: N/A
Exile Survivors: N/A
Bree
Spoiler: show
Courtney
Spoiler: show
Juniper
Spoiler: show
Arsenault
Spoiler: show
After traveling from town to town, we ran out of gas on the outskirts of Meagher Valley. Instead of foraging for gas and moving on, especially after a close call with a feral the last time we stopped to forage gas, we decided to find a place to call home and settle in here in the valley.
After some brief exploring up the road, we found a small house called Clarington House, which upon clearing of it's former occupants (no longer human), we declared it our home site and settled in.
With limited food, medical and building resources, and zero ammo or gas resources, the immediate first objective was to scavenge the area building for any and all supplies we could find while we build up our new home. What will await us in this unexplored valley remains to be seen.
Well, we survived our first night at The Clarington House. Without power and water to virtually all buildings in the valley, it gets REALLY dark at night. And yet despite the ever present zombies shuffling around and the inability to see farther than a couple feet ahead at a time, Courtney went out by herself and scavenged a couple of the nearby houses and garages.
Our food supply is maxed out so we are in no danger of going hungry. We got a fair supply of medicine built up, a couple construction materials, enough to get started building an infirmary and a small supply of gas. We are still empty on ammo however.
We're not alone in this valley as it turns out. We were contacted via radio by someone named Allison, associated with a group called the Bystanders, asking for us to meet with them. It's a bit of a hike to the place where they are holed up, but as luck would have it, Juniper found a Norma, an older pickup truck, at a garage just across the road from our home site. It even still had 3/4ths of a tank of gas in it!
With the aid of our new vehicle, Juniper headed over to meet with Allison and the Bystanders. Looking to work on a cure for blood plague disease, she asked us to help them find a sample blood plague samples. So it was back into the truck and off to a nearby plague heart to find a horde of blood plague zombies. Since Juniper was by herself, it was easiest, and less dangerous, to just stay in the truck and run the zombies down, rather than get out and fight them by hand.
Along the way to the plague heart, Juniper came across an ambulance and a passenger van, both also with 3/4ths of a tank of gas in them, so we at least had plenty of options for vehicles nearby if our Norma either broke down or ran out of go-go juice. After stopping to do some quick scouting of the nearby town from the top of a cell tower, Juniper also discovered two Road Racer MXs (though both destroyed), a Brogan Sport (also destroyed) and a Pilato in the town behind our home site. While it would take some hiking on foot to reach those four other vehicles, as well as repair kits for the three that were destroyed, there were at least three good vehicles in working condition with gas within a couple miles of home.
After collecting the necessary plague samples, juniper returned to the Bystanders, who became friendly with us upon completion of the task. On the way back, Juniper met Hannah Arsenault, a survivor looking for a home, and welcomed her into The Refuge community. While Arsenault didn't have a special skill, and thus can be trained in a specific skill with the training books that were brought with us, she did have Passive Agressive for a trait, which causes her to annoy irritable community members. If fights start happening, she may find that her new home is just a temporary one.
Upon returning to base, Juniper got a much needed break and rest period as the sun set and night approached once more...
Haha. This is awesome. Well done Smooth. You are making me want to buy this game. We move in mid June and I want a new XBOX 1 X for the living room.
Thanks! I wanted to try something a little different than just random updates every now and then in the SoD2 thread about how my community is doing. I figured make it like a journal of the community, with a new update for each day in-game, sort of a summary of events that happened for that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
I'm waiting before continuing as there is supposed to be a patch or two currently going through the approval process at MS, so I'm waiting for those patches before continuing. The enclaves can get overwhelming with their requests, and will quickly become hostile or leave the map entirely if you don't complete their requests, sometimes as soon as one failed request will cause them to go hostile or up and leave. So I'm hoping the patches that are in the pipeline and eventually should be releasing will tone down the frequency of enclave requests before really diving into my new community.
And I highly recommend the game. Sure, in the long run it'll feel like the first one did, but I'm having a blast, bugs and all. And even though co-op can be buggy right now, it's still fun running with other people. I had fun the times me and bdoughty have caused havoc together. Hopefully we can get JB in at some point and let the three of us loose on some zombies. And if you ever get the game (hint hint ;)), we could get a full four person co-op going!
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It is already relevant to the living room to put xbox X:PQuote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76