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It used to just require Charisma? I always assumed the Persuasion and Intimidation skills came into play there. :cold_sweat:

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Sorry I mean Persuasion 55*. Good catch! Iā€™m pretty sure intimidation and/or leadership take place with the other choices, since I imagine its hard to be intimidating whilst also being cautious and peaceful.

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Maybe you should consider having more options for the ruthless kind of character - like to execute lyle and jillian for their betrayal or even an option where you dont even speak to the just pop you head out a window shoot them and then loot them. Or the man who is being chased by zombie carrying a handgun a good option there would be to shoot the man and then while the zombies are eating him shoot them to and loot him or in the rural area when those guys rob the people passing through you could kill all them and taking everything (the rednecks weapons and everything in the car) I would suggest the same with the girl who asks to ally with you but that may effect your plans if she will be a main character. I understand im going on a bit but to summarise more options to rob and betray if it does not affect the story like not main characters.

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When you find out that Lyle and Jillian are stealing your gear, or just to decide to kick them out, you have the option to kill them.
You can kill the man being chased by Zombies (Dante), by either letting the Zombies attack him and then killing him, or killing him after you kill the Zombies.

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Eliminating Rachel and looting her would be easy. She isnā€™t even armed.

Oh, and we should do our best to destroy the brains of every human we kill. One less zombie to deal with, eh?

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when you mention persuasion 55 i think you mean 5 thatā€™s as far as that goes. @WolfieGrey

Send me a message if you want to talk about my opinion on choice of game topics :smile_cat:

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their is no point in killing dante if you cant loot him and i mean killing people for the sake of gear

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Iā€™m pretty sure you can loot hisā€¦ handgun, innit? Thatā€™s enough to count as loot, IMO. :joy:

The virus here isnā€™t like The Walking Deadā€™s. You have to be bitten for reanimation to occur. Itā€™s the only way the virus can be transmitted in Jimā€™s 'verse.

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But, in the city, we can destroy the ex-survivorsā€™ brains, even if we killed them. They werenā€™t even bitten yet, nor did they come into contact with infected blood/saliva, right? One of them was shot in the stomach, and the otherā€¦ is dependent on the playerā€™s choices.

I kinda thought theyā€™d come back as zombies since weā€™ve the option to destroy their brains.

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Honestly, I think it might attribute to paranoia more than anything. Misinformation is one hell of thing. The one thing I do know is that Jim had confirmed how it spread a few months back. Let me dig it upā€¦

My memoryā€™s blanking though - who are the ex-survivors? /scritches head/ I havenā€™t done a proper replay in a while. Iā€™ve been meaning toā€¦ :sob:

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can you loot his handgun? my mistake i suppose but the point still stands it would be a nice way to pass the time sitting by the window and shooting anyone who walks by for loot :grinning:

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@Lithophene

This scene, in the city:

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After we fight off the zombies, we have the option to loot them, destroy the brains or go home.

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are you talking about zombie exodus survivors if so they are
River, Starr, Carl, Dave, Javier, Emma, Heather, Candace, Mindy, Tom, Uncle Lou, Jason, Devlin, Eugene, Kelly, Crone, Toby, and Badger.
those are all the survivors of the first one Zombie Exodus
@Lithophene

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Nā€™aw, I was referring to that one scene @NJG posted a screenshot of. I couldnā€™t remember who they were talking about, but seeing the screencap jogged my memory. :sweat_smile:

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No I mean 55. Custom character - charisma 50, persuasion 3, show stats, review skills = persuasion 55

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Since itā€™s a bite Iā€™m assuming it has to be transmitted through saliva, meaning it could also happen if a zombie simply drools into your mouth or an open wound which likely could happen in a hand-to-hand encounter.

Though it also makes me ask whether it would get transmitted through blood or other forms. I would be careful when destroying any heads in case blood splatters in me.

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Typo, first page of Chpt 1.

Sound outsides: hurried footsteps, a gun shot, a growl. You creep along the wall and lean to the side, peeking through the edge of a window.

@WolfieGrey
I think it spreads something more like the HI virus, in that it requires significant fluid exposure to transmit: ingestion wouldnā€™t do much to you, unless you had stomach ulcers, or really back mouth ulcers. This is just based off what I remember from the scientist path in ZE. Ofcourse it could just be explained away by there being massive concentrations of the virus in the mouth of the zombie, which is why you need to have contact with that region to be infected. Iā€™ll need to make another scientist playthrough of ZE to be sure on this.

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I was attempting to find a way to direct message you but couldnā€™t figure it out nevertheless if you are still looking for members Iā€™d be interested.

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@ashestoashes018 thanks for your opinions on IAP. I definitely donā€™t want people to feel the game is pay-to-win.

Oh my, wait for the next update.

@thepatinthehat

I plan to fix this.

That 25k is a big bonus, and I plan to change the store prices soon. It wonā€™t be as big a bonus after that. Also money will be used in other ways soon.

I have added quite a lot, though at this stage of the outbreak, being a complete psychopath is not possible. You can kill a majority of NPCs so far and loot most.

With the Paynes, odds are not in your favor and they are technically your friendly neighbors so I didnā€™t think killing them was realistic.

@Jackrabbit

Me too.

Thatā€™s me in a nutshell.

@Sylfaen

Good idea.

@Kaleolii @cascat07 I am not sure this is possible to code outside of iOS. I donā€™t think save states work with the gameā€™s method of selling IAP or restoring stats.

@WolfieGrey [quote=ā€œWolfieGrey, post:3843, topic:2000ā€]
Does the item you buy/steal actually make a difference?
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Yes, I weigh goods based on difficulty to conceal and build a % chance to steal.

Planting and crafting.

Yes, when planting is implemented.

Darn, I thought this worked. Iā€™ll look into it.

My accountant agrees!

persuasion >= 50

@Lithophene

Soon!

@Lordirish

I find it easier to use my system which breaks things into quarter hours.

Thanks for reading!

@The_Chosen_Plump

Thanks for reading it.

Anything is possible in the zombie apocalypse.

If you travel far.

I canā€™t change something so dramatic at this point.

I am considering adding specialties at some point, maybe chapter 5 or 6.

@Shockbolt

Great idea.

@NJG Some NPCs are off limits for now. Writing NPCs who may or may not be in a group AND make them have distinct impact and personalities is very time consuming.

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Okay, forgive me for being unforgivably lazy, but I really donā€™t want to dig through ~4000 posts to see if my question is addressed.

I swear I played a demo of this when I first finished ZE wherein you go to the high school and have to save your buddy and the two siblings from the party in the high school intro, and you kill people inside the high schoolā€¦I actually remember it pretty clearly

Did I hallucinate this or have you changed the game a lot? I honestly wouldnā€™t surprised if I did dream it, or something, since a few of my medications give me incredibly vivid dreams.

whisper ijustwanttobeassuredimnotgoingcrazy whisper

AND if Iā€™m not going crazy, is there any particular reason you changed the first scenes so much? I seem to recall being railroaded into that choice, so I donā€™t feel like Iā€™ve made any ā€œwrongā€ choices or anything.