Inconspicuous perk is a must in wasteland. You can crouch and in a few seconds they forget where you are. Wasteland in Afterlife requires ya gotta be sneaky. Silencers are needed on heavy hitting weapons like assault rifles and sniper rifles. Get the perk book where silencers do full damage. No headlamp if you need night vision use NVGs. I’ve found that if you stay in one spot and fight enough you can eventually fight them enough where they don’t respawn during the day. Start in mornin clearing a mining site, kick zombie butt until respawn slows, then mine. I had to do that for wasteland buried treasure and it works well. Bring 2-3 stacks of ammo for each gun you use. You need a better pistol like Red nine or Luger to fight with pistol in wasteland
With this perk you will remain fully invisible as long as you don't move with wasd. It's a teensy bit broken as you can fully mine many voxels "without moving". I suspect they are getting targeted so easily because their pickaxe has burning shaft on it. Afaik that's the same effect as a torch on the back-- it maxes visibility even while sneaking. (unless using the mentioned sneak perk)
This is mod is no joke. I can't wait to watch how you faired in wasteland. I got killed twice in a roll in snow biome. But, as people pointed, you should be heavily prepared to venture there in Afterlife. This series rock. Thanks for presenting this mod, which is my favorite!
Wow, that wasteland is something else again! Great horde, the little base worked well. You mentioned tunnelling into the wasteland to get the resources. I did that in DF a few alphas ago and it worked well. You're right, it's grindy and pretty much a crap-shoot, but for me it worked well. I made tunnels I could ride the bicycle in, which helped. I was able to mine through the night, too, down at bedrock. I haven't got as far as you in Afterlife, I'm still starving at the end of that lonely hallway in a desolate wilderness POI, but if I do get as far as you are now I'll do the tunnelling before I try the "smack-bleed-run" strategy that you did today! Loved that bit, the music was spot-on!
I have been playing this pack with two of my friends and it's been really enjoyable. We are taking it slow and we like to take our time without any minmaxing, just surviving and rebuilding. We even turned off horde nights so it really feels like we are just surviving as opposed to having that extra challenge that makes it feel more like a game. I feel like this pack really enhances that part of the game, just the surviving aspect with a group of friends. The challenges we face are so different from what I have noticed solo players face. We dont get to just run around and find enough to drink or eat from looting. We have to have a dedicated player running the water factory (6 campfires). Food is also very difficult and hunting becomes a big part of our routine. Meanwhile other challenges that solo players have with combat like trying to mine those nodes. We just have two of us kiting and fighting while the miner mines. It's super interesting to see how different the same modpack can be played just by how many players or the different playstyles. I really like this series, thank you for taking the time to play it
Even if the bigger backpacks slow you down, it would be a good idea to make one and slap it on after you finish looting to drag stuff home. That's assuming you do the old dump chest in the entrance to a poi trick. Looks like you are gonna need to set up junk turrets or build a defensive wall if you want to mine in the wastelands.
@@IaIaCthulhuFtagn It worked like that in Darkness Falls. The more encumbered you were the stronger you got, and the stronger you got the more you could carry.
For the wasteland, you have to resign yourself to having to kill everyone near a ore node until you get no more new spawns. I try to find a ore node that is near a building ruin that I can then climb up onto and have enough ammo with me to kill everyone off. If you don't have enough athletics to jump two meters, bring chairs to use to nerd pole up onto the ruins. Only once all the rad and whisper zombies in the area are killed that I start the mining of the ore node.
I noticed last time you ate the cake and were trying the base, a few loot bugs glitch through the first lair of ground - sand and they drop down , im pretty sure it happened here again , it happens with the pipe bombs , either the explotion or the particles of the ground that broke moves the bag ! next horde base or with after eating a cake , try to dig at least 1-2 blocks bellow the surface for loot bags , im sure it will work
I kept the stun baton on my bar as it is invaluable for rads and ferals. One power attack locks them up for about five seconds and I bash their heads in without worrying about them getting a jab in. As far as Wasteland goes, ya what other commenters said. I would check the outskirts going into the snow and forest biomes for tiny sections that might have Nickle deposits. Way easier to mine since you have very few "wasteland" spawns. Cheers on your horde base design!! I think the zombies will attack the base legs if you're not directly on the ladders in the middle. Perhaps put some forcefield blocks around them?
My friend and I tried to go into the wasteland several times, only to escape by the skin of our teeth every time. Until we prepared properly, eventually building a line of steel mini-forts by the side of the road, each one providing protection for vehicles, a sniper's perch, and protected by iron spikes at least and batteries of turrets in the bigger ones. First time I've tried the tower walk strategy in an FPS since Battlezone. After that, we decided we'd done everything we wanted in Afterlife :P Also: just tested that to craft a max-level inconel mace, you need to read literally one thousand batter up magazines. Time to build all the chem stations and boil every piece of wood into paper.
How i deal with rads its with a stun baton as second weapon , if you power attack with stun baton you 100% stun rads with first hit , and after smash them with the club or weapon. Works with bears and Wolves but take care the second stun not always works from first hit on these two.
I was zooming along the wasteland/desert border in my dune buggy, scouting for nickle. I launched off of a dune when my game crashed mid-air. When I restarted, I couldn't find my vehicle anywhere. Ran around for about 10 minutes searching the vicinity. I don't know how far I was from my camp, but it took 2 full mega-crushes to run back.
i used to travel through wastelands with my long range sniper and with my 80+ Skill in rifle , my rifle has 30 magazines charges and does 100 dmg raw with all of that i can farm loot bags and nickel ore. Be informed too Tem , in wastelands your loot stage increase incredibly (i got around 1000 loot stage in wastelands as i only have 100 in the desert biome) just think about the loot goblin perk wich is imo the best to invest at all.
Also to answer your question of what happened to the loot bags, they have a health bar when you go up to it. I assume the clusters of pipe bombs kill the loot bags.
29:55 - i remember back in Darkness falls to mine rare materials i used to make vertical tunnel near the border of wasteland that went all they way to the bedrock and then straight towards wasteland where i randomly hit the resources i needed. It worked fine while i was crouching down and mining. But i guess here in this mod will take too much time and effort or maybe its worth a try.
In Darkness Falls I often dig down about 15-20 blocks in the neighboring biome then INTO the wasteland simply to reduce the number of zeds mining draws in while there. Very effective in DF, if you do not use an auger.
In Darkness Falls I used to go near the edge of the pine forest and wasteland, dig down to bedrock then tunnel under the wasteland to find the good ore. Maybe that would work in Afterlife also. It is time consuming tho but safer.
3:08 omg I fell in love with the mod. I don't care who gets ragdolled 🤣 I love it always. Long ago I bought skyrim only because I saw the video of giant slamming the player into orbit. 🤪
U know what I just noticed? On vanilla version and on mods, there is no crash helicopters in the game like how did the military take the crates on roofs when there is no helicopters? That would be cool to see in the game
Fun fact: SOC Mk.1 is actually based on the winner of the US Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program, the SIG Sauer MCX XM7 Spear that is chambered in 6.8x51mm Fury (.277).
I do wish one of the Farming books allowed the planting of cacti. I usually end up setting up shop in the desert biome, and it's always funny when zombies get into fights with them.
You should dig 3 blocks beneath the pillars and replace the sand with storage cubes (the ones you put behind the ladders). Since zombies don't see them as viable paths they shouldn't try as hard to dig into your supports
Just a quick comment for the bloody algae-rythem and to tell you how much I'm enjoying this monster of a playthrough. Best 7Days2Die content maker out there.
I just knew you weren't ready for a mining trip on the wasteland, that place is a nightmare, you should build a little defensive position, kill all the nearby zombies and then do the mining. You need night vision to explore the wasteland, it's a must-have.
The wasteland gets easier once you make the inconel mace. Look into the scrap backpack since i feel that is the best one. It offers armor and a decent boost to what you can carry. I didnt really go into those other biomes till i more or less finished up the forest biome looting since literature fragments are the main goal towards making progress.
When the zombie is one the ground a major tip for clubs don't power attack if the zombie is down use normal attacks and ur stamina won't run out and you can keep the zombie downed
I think at this point tunneling to bedrock and going into the wasteland underground toward the general direction of a mine you found would be the best way to get the resources you want
Wow... nice episode. Ran away with skin of your teeth a couple times, eh? Thank you for drawing my attention to Afterlife... I started my playtrough at Ep2, and I had to restart with .27 version. Was a bummer to start over, but I learned from starting mistakes though. As everyone here is probably shouting, use the better paper recepie, you get a lot more. Also, when I got to the wasteland at first, I nearly crapped... ran away as fast as I could. But came back later to mine... the trick is to use long range sniper to clear the rifraff... once you kill everything in sight, they don't spawn near you (silencer is a must, since if you pull one zed from far away they usually bring their friends you sometimes don't see). Also, I don't know if this is a thing in your version, but when crafting the mace (or anything quality related), you should watch it craft, since the quality thing is a bit fooked up... you might end up with lvl 1 mace. Don't ask me how I know... :( Also, I got the box truck to cruise around the city to wrench cars and stuff for scrap metal, smelt it at lvl5 heat... that way you get a lot of everything in the forge, including nickel, chrome and steel... the trick is to leave the forge running AFTER you smelt the material for it to smelt the scrap inside into metals... otherwise you just get a lot of slag.
Surprisingly good horde night. Some issues with the base support damage, thankfully it is still stable with a leg removed. That pit is going to be trouble though if you leave it stone. The further away from you they drop the harder to kill it will be and the uneven floor from the explosion damages and digging means explosions wont hit everything very well. I really think you should fill it in with stone then add a layer of concrete to help withstand the horde nights longer. It just sucks that everything is such a massive resource drain. But those crafting upgrades though! Finally we get to see what benefit doing 20-40 magazines a day brings. You went from total trash inconel mace that probably could get repaired once then break to a quality higher than your current steel club. Another 100 or so big hitters and you might start seeing it at tier 3 quality lol. God that "mining" expedition was insane. There was just no way to clear the swarms out of the way. It really does sound like darkness falls mine shaft time. It will take longer to setup but going from forest to bedrock then into the wastelands might be your best bet.
To be honest i think author overtuned Wasteland spawns and kinda did a bad thing including feral sense in Wasteland biome Hard zombies and harder than usual level of these IMO is good enough. The best way how Wasteland was a different area was done in Darkness Falls - radiation was an additional danger factor instead of just cranked up spawn rates and magic "i know where are you" ability of zombies
so fun thing to do just to do is you should set up a field goal near your base and when you get a horde of the mini zombies just try to punt them into it. just cause
For the wasteland, I think use the buggy or motorcycle but before getting there transfer to foot or bike. They seem to be following your sound. Maybe use the max distance of your sniper rifle and clear the area, hopefully at max distance it will take a while to find you. I think at night there was a definite😢 increase in the zombies and rad ones than the day. For the horde base what about corner windows to fix blind spots. I think the wood ladder you have from the pit is too close to the cement steps you have leading up into the base. Happy fighting
i have to point out that you can carry logs and use them to nerd pole etc as you can place them and pick them up. They do weigh though so you don't want to carry many.
GNS, in the last episode there was a few loot bags in the pit, under the rubble. Also you could use a door above the ladders instead of two hatches 🤘 The academy is one of my favorit POI’s to do early on, as it’s not too big and because of the demo on the roof… For some reason, the couple of times I’ve done it, the pipe rifle has been very usefull against the demo. A couple of headshots and it’s dead (only happened once) 😅
Maybe u need to make a mini fob base at the mining site, with iron spikes, some walls or junk turrets etc theres some broken buildings u could potentially reinforce quickly and maybe stealth kill them all from a height with iron spikes. also if u use actual wood planks u can make much more paper per unit, considering it takes glue and good water to make
Suppose you went into the wasteland for mining with, say, 200 concrete blocks and some ladders. You could roll up on some ore, build a wall around it, mine away, and then leap from the top of the wall to your vehicle and then scamper.
I’m time traveling a bit from episode 9ish but if you’re having issues still with zombies around your base at night instead of spikes and traps could you turn the visual boundary on for your land claim block and build up a little fence around the boundary to keep any wandering zombies out. As long as they don’t hear you inside your home they shouldn’t attack trying to break in and that way everyone stays out and you get your easy resting in. Again I’m on episode 9 or so so this might be moot but a comment is a comment even if it’s irrelevant lol
Like how we did in Darkness Falls, we did have to tunnel into the Wasteland to find the ore we needed. Didn't dig to bedrock, but a couple blocks down for sure starting in the forest biome
Exactly what i said however you better of go to bedrock to be as far as you can from them, sooner or later they will detect you and start digging, even if you are crouching down and mining only with pickaxe
One thing I'd like this mod to do is, lower your caloric burn rate when you're "resting" aka, haven't run or been in combat because you're just in your base crafting. Sucks to be trying to sit and figure things out and you keep having to eat and drink just for standing looking at things.
Yeah, be REAL careful around vending machines, I've had the explosion hit me even when I hit it with a ranged shot by accident. I'm like "Wtf, are you serious??" (I either missed or shot through a zombie to hit it)
The literature fragments to magazines thing reminds me of that saying where the dictionary contains every book ever written. It’s still a silly mechanic for something that seems to want to drive immersion. The whole crafting quality business is out to lunch, really. I just keep seeing examples of very poor balance in this mod, like the endless proximity spawns in the wasteland. Honestly it gets tedious to even watch, though I appreciate your effort
You might be better off tackling the nukers on foot, they didn't seem to have such a high rate of fire and the range dropped off on the fireballs. Since you found that ore you could try marking it and dig to it from the forest like you thought
Yep you should just make a tunnel into the wasteland from a save area like 10 block down (; And mark a ore close by Or your drive by. With a auger it would be so much easier (;
Hint: The zombies that throw grenades and flame grenades do little damage to dirt blocks. Might want to put those blocks as a barrier around any tower base.
Im using the 50k duke skar-L for the wasteland and its slapping around rads pretty well. with meticulous 5 and 190 club i can craft 37k qual inconel maces
The relentless onslaught of radiated goobers in the wasteland looked so bad. I’m glad I chose to let you play this and I watch instead of going through it myself.
how about stealth? i think it helps a lot when mining in this area - one of the skills gives you 0% visibility after you spend time in one place (even if you do something - just don't move)
I agree, but I'm a little biased because I do EVERYTHING in stealth mode, check out my thunder thighs... 5/5 Would squat again. The trouble is you need to invest pretty heavily into the "inconspicuous" perk to get the time down, especially in the wasteland where you really don't have the luxury of sitting still for a minute. I'm guessing most people don't want to waste precious perk points on a skill they neither have, nor use. Maybe in late game when you have nowhere better to throw perk points. and "late game" in Afterlife is like day 200...
Tbh, I feel like you're sleeping on the Stun Batons. More so, if like others have said that they stun rads 100% with a power attack, and count as a club. I also think that taking the time to go over all the perks might be worthwhile as well. Stealth seems like it would be really useful overall. Your choice of perks sort of push you towards directly fighting the zombies, and that's just not something that's sustainable. And I know crafting is rough- but armor seems like it would help a ton if you could get even a half decent set of it going with bonuses against critical resistances or bonuses to healing critical injuries.
Tem? While you’re trying to mine those nodes, you need some junk turrets to cover your back. The wasteland is absolutely harsh and you have got to put some rad removers on the junk turrets and on your weapons.
This mod looks like it was created to address all of those content creators that claimed Vanilla was boring and that this or that was over powered..."Oh really? Hold my beer" Pretty cool, but daaaamn.
yep lol they are not fucking around, the wasteland is literally deep wilderness even trying to cheese it with drive by mailbox looting is a dangerous game
hey is there a reason you dont wrench down the ATMs ?, they give a small amount of steel. you may wish to try the paper recipe that uses wood not wood waste it gives more paper per
Inconspicuous perk is a must in wasteland. You can crouch and in a few seconds they forget where you are. Wasteland in Afterlife requires ya gotta be sneaky. Silencers are needed on heavy hitting weapons like assault rifles and sniper rifles. Get the perk book where silencers do full damage. No headlamp if you need night vision use NVGs. I’ve found that if you stay in one spot and fight enough you can eventually fight them enough where they don’t respawn during the day. Start in mornin clearing a mining site, kick zombie butt until respawn slows, then mine. I had to do that for wasteland buried treasure and it works well. Bring 2-3 stacks of ammo for each gun you use. You need a better pistol like Red nine or Luger to fight with pistol in wasteland
I was about to say that devs probably overtuned it in wasteland, but reading you comment I can see now how it all suppose to work.
Adding a Higher level Skill set that lets you add a 5x multiplier per skill level for the magazine level ups maybe?
This sounds eminently reasonable!
With this perk you will remain fully invisible as long as you don't move with wasd. It's a teensy bit broken as you can fully mine many voxels "without moving".
I suspect they are getting targeted so easily because their pickaxe has burning shaft on it. Afaik that's the same effect as a torch on the back-- it maxes visibility even while sneaking. (unless using the mentioned sneak perk)
tbh stealth in 7days in broken, ive learned that from his previous series when he want bow+knife and full stealth
Before crafting inconel mace, you shouldn't forget the perk that increase quality of crafted weapon. Thanks for the good episode.
26:24 The way the zombies just get YEETed away in a cartoony way is so hilarious xD
its fekin good xDD
This is mod is no joke. I can't wait to watch how you faired in wasteland. I got killed twice in a roll in snow biome.
But, as people pointed, you should be heavily prepared to venture there in Afterlife. This series rock. Thanks for presenting this mod, which is my favorite!
I loved watching those zombies fly around 26:26
Wow, that wasteland is something else again! Great horde, the little base worked well. You mentioned tunnelling into the wasteland to get the resources. I did that in DF a few alphas ago and it worked well. You're right, it's grindy and pretty much a crap-shoot, but for me it worked well. I made tunnels I could ride the bicycle in, which helped. I was able to mine through the night, too, down at bedrock. I haven't got as far as you in Afterlife, I'm still starving at the end of that lonely hallway in a desolate wilderness POI, but if I do get as far as you are now I'll do the tunnelling before I try the "smack-bleed-run" strategy that you did today! Loved that bit, the music was spot-on!
I have been playing this pack with two of my friends and it's been really enjoyable. We are taking it slow and we like to take our time without any minmaxing, just surviving and rebuilding.
We even turned off horde nights so it really feels like we are just surviving as opposed to having that extra challenge that makes it feel more like a game.
I feel like this pack really enhances that part of the game, just the surviving aspect with a group of friends.
The challenges we face are so different from what I have noticed solo players face. We dont get to just run around and find enough to drink or eat from looting.
We have to have a dedicated player running the water factory (6 campfires). Food is also very difficult and hunting becomes a big part of our routine.
Meanwhile other challenges that solo players have with combat like trying to mine those nodes. We just have two of us kiting and fighting while the miner mines.
It's super interesting to see how different the same modpack can be played just by how many players or the different playstyles.
I really like this series, thank you for taking the time to play it
Even if the bigger backpacks slow you down, it would be a good idea to make one and slap it on after you finish looting to drag stuff home. That's assuming you do the old dump chest in the entrance to a poi trick.
Looks like you are gonna need to set up junk turrets or build a defensive wall if you want to mine in the wastelands.
You do need to carry heavy loads to level up strength easier, And there are ways to speed yourself up.
@@pbsixgun6 Oh nice. That has always been one of my pet peeves. Running around encumbered should build strength. It just makes sense.
@@IaIaCthulhuFtagn It worked like that in Darkness Falls. The more encumbered you were the stronger you got, and the stronger you got the more you could carry.
For the wasteland, you have to resign yourself to having to kill everyone near a ore node until you get no more new spawns. I try to find a ore node that is near a building ruin that I can then climb up onto and have enough ammo with me to kill everyone off. If you don't have enough athletics to jump two meters, bring chairs to use to nerd pole up onto the ruins.
Only once all the rad and whisper zombies in the area are killed that I start the mining of the ore node.
I noticed last time you ate the cake and were trying the base, a few loot bugs glitch through the first lair of ground - sand and they drop down , im pretty sure it happened here again , it happens with the pipe bombs , either the explotion or the particles of the ground that broke moves the bag ! next horde base or with after eating a cake , try to dig at least 1-2 blocks bellow the surface for loot bags , im sure it will work
I kept the stun baton on my bar as it is invaluable for rads and ferals. One power attack locks them up for about five seconds and I bash their heads in without worrying about them getting a jab in. As far as Wasteland goes, ya what other commenters said. I would check the outskirts going into the snow and forest biomes for tiny sections that might have Nickle deposits. Way easier to mine since you have very few "wasteland" spawns. Cheers on your horde base design!! I think the zombies will attack the base legs if you're not directly on the ladders in the middle. Perhaps put some forcefield blocks around them?
My friend and I tried to go into the wasteland several times, only to escape by the skin of our teeth every time.
Until we prepared properly, eventually building a line of steel mini-forts by the side of the road, each one providing protection for vehicles, a sniper's perch, and protected by iron spikes at least and batteries of turrets in the bigger ones. First time I've tried the tower walk strategy in an FPS since Battlezone.
After that, we decided we'd done everything we wanted in Afterlife :P
Also: just tested that to craft a max-level inconel mace, you need to read literally one thousand batter up magazines.
Time to build all the chem stations and boil every piece of wood into paper.
How i deal with rads its with a stun baton as second weapon , if you power attack with stun baton you 100% stun rads with first hit , and after smash them with the club or weapon. Works with bears and Wolves but take care the second stun not always works from first hit on these two.
I know this is a grind... but I like seeing the struggle and extra challenge. Keep this up!
I was zooming along the wasteland/desert border in my dune buggy, scouting for nickle. I launched off of a dune when my game crashed mid-air. When I restarted, I couldn't find my vehicle anywhere. Ran around for about 10 minutes searching the vicinity. I don't know how far I was from my camp, but it took 2 full mega-crushes to run back.
i used to travel through wastelands with my long range sniper and with my 80+ Skill in rifle , my rifle has 30 magazines charges and does 100 dmg raw with all of that i can farm loot bags and nickel ore. Be informed too Tem , in wastelands your loot stage increase incredibly (i got around 1000 loot stage in wastelands as i only have 100 in the desert biome) just think about the loot goblin perk wich is imo the best to invest at all.
Haha I loved when you showed that wondering horde from far away and all you saw was the zombies flying through the air! 😂😂
Also to answer your question of what happened to the loot bags, they have a health bar when you go up to it. I assume the clusters of pipe bombs kill the loot bags.
29:55 - i remember back in Darkness falls to mine rare materials i used to make vertical tunnel near the border of wasteland that went all they way to the bedrock and then straight towards wasteland where i randomly hit the resources i needed. It worked fine while i was crouching down and mining. But i guess here in this mod will take too much time and effort or maybe its worth a try.
how deep the dirt go, because if he got the auger then he can carve out the dirt in 0 time at all but its not good against ores and rocks i think
Same. You make the entrance outside the biome and mine into it.
In Darkness Falls I often dig down about 15-20 blocks in the neighboring biome then INTO the wasteland simply to reduce the number of zeds mining draws in while there. Very effective in DF, if you do not use an auger.
In Darkness Falls I used to go near the edge of the pine forest and wasteland, dig down to bedrock then tunnel under the wasteland to find the good ore. Maybe that would work in Afterlife also. It is time consuming tho but safer.
Always looking forward to a new GN&S episode.
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Right!!! Always exciting when a new video drops!!!
3:08 omg I fell in love with the mod. I don't care who gets ragdolled 🤣 I love it always. Long ago I bought skyrim only because I saw the video of giant slamming the player into orbit. 🤪
Wow ... that mining trip in the wasteland was a real pain. I admit I wouldn´t be able to do this without rage-quitting 😂
U know what I just noticed? On vanilla version and on mods, there is no crash helicopters in the game like how did the military take the crates on roofs when there is no helicopters? That would be cool to see in the game
Fun fact: SOC Mk.1 is actually based on the winner of the US Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program, the SIG Sauer MCX XM7 Spear that is chambered in 6.8x51mm Fury (.277).
I do wish one of the Farming books allowed the planting of cacti. I usually end up setting up shop in the desert biome, and it's always funny when zombies get into fights with them.
You should dig 3 blocks beneath the pillars and replace the sand with storage cubes (the ones you put behind the ladders). Since zombies don't see them as viable paths they shouldn't try as hard to dig into your supports
And also stand on the ladder. Otherwise they will indeed try to dig into walls/pillars instead of just piling up in the center of the pit.
Just a quick comment for the bloody algae-rythem and to tell you how much I'm enjoying this monster of a playthrough. Best 7Days2Die content maker out there.
I just knew you weren't ready for a mining trip on the wasteland, that place is a nightmare, you should build a little defensive position, kill all the nearby zombies and then do the mining. You need night vision to explore the wasteland, it's a must-have.
The wasteland gets easier once you make the inconel mace. Look into the scrap backpack since i feel that is the best one. It offers armor and a decent boost to what you can carry.
I didnt really go into those other biomes till i more or less finished up the forest biome looting since literature fragments are the main goal towards making progress.
scrap pack is a great shout ngl
u think its the best one bro? like theres many better ones, isnt strength capacity very important too?
Oh my god, the anxiety! This wasteland is not joke at all
When the zombie is one the ground a major tip for clubs don't power attack if the zombie is down use normal attacks and ur stamina won't run out and you can keep the zombie downed
You should take one of those ammo boxes and put it in one of your raid bases
Sending the zombies flying always gets me laughing.
I think at this point tunneling to bedrock and going into the wasteland underground toward the general direction of a mine you found would be the best way to get the resources you want
I really been liking the after episode recaps or thoughts regarding the episode. Keep it up Tem!
Wow... nice episode. Ran away with skin of your teeth a couple times, eh? Thank you for drawing my attention to Afterlife... I started my playtrough at Ep2, and I had to restart with .27 version. Was a bummer to start over, but I learned from starting mistakes though. As everyone here is probably shouting, use the better paper recepie, you get a lot more. Also, when I got to the wasteland at first, I nearly crapped... ran away as fast as I could. But came back later to mine... the trick is to use long range sniper to clear the rifraff... once you kill everything in sight, they don't spawn near you (silencer is a must, since if you pull one zed from far away they usually bring their friends you sometimes don't see). Also, I don't know if this is a thing in your version, but when crafting the mace (or anything quality related), you should watch it craft, since the quality thing is a bit fooked up... you might end up with lvl 1 mace. Don't ask me how I know... :( Also, I got the box truck to cruise around the city to wrench cars and stuff for scrap metal, smelt it at lvl5 heat... that way you get a lot of everything in the forge, including nickel, chrome and steel... the trick is to leave the forge running AFTER you smelt the material for it to smelt the scrap inside into metals... otherwise you just get a lot of slag.
Morning! Hoping y’all are having a wonderful Sunday!
For us in Australia, it's 9:50 pm Sunday night as I'm typing. Hope you have a good Sunday though.
Surprisingly good horde night. Some issues with the base support damage, thankfully it is still stable with a leg removed. That pit is going to be trouble though if you leave it stone. The further away from you they drop the harder to kill it will be and the uneven floor from the explosion damages and digging means explosions wont hit everything very well. I really think you should fill it in with stone then add a layer of concrete to help withstand the horde nights longer. It just sucks that everything is such a massive resource drain. But those crafting upgrades though! Finally we get to see what benefit doing 20-40 magazines a day brings. You went from total trash inconel mace that probably could get repaired once then break to a quality higher than your current steel club. Another 100 or so big hitters and you might start seeing it at tier 3 quality lol.
God that "mining" expedition was insane. There was just no way to clear the swarms out of the way. It really does sound like darkness falls mine shaft time. It will take longer to setup but going from forest to bedrock then into the wastelands might be your best bet.
Don't forget the spike mod for your club!
To be honest i think author overtuned Wasteland spawns and kinda did a bad thing including feral sense in Wasteland biome
Hard zombies and harder than usual level of these IMO is good enough. The best way how Wasteland was a different area was done in Darkness Falls - radiation was an additional danger factor instead of just cranked up spawn rates and magic "i know where are you" ability of zombies
so fun thing to do just to do is you should set up a field goal near your base and when you get a horde of the mini zombies just try to punt them into it. just cause
For the wasteland, I think use the buggy or motorcycle but before getting there transfer to foot or bike. They seem to be following your sound. Maybe use the max distance of your sniper rifle and clear the area, hopefully at max distance it will take a while to find you. I think at night there was a definite😢 increase in the zombies and rad ones than the day.
For the horde base what about corner windows to fix blind spots. I think the wood ladder you have from the pit is too close to the cement steps you have leading up into the base.
Happy fighting
i have to point out that you can carry logs and use them to nerd pole etc as you can place them and pick them up. They do weigh though so you don't want to carry many.
I know that you can place just one, if you try to nerd pole on the second, it will pick it automatically. They changed it in the update?
GNS, in the last episode there was a few loot bags in the pit, under the rubble.
Also you could use a door above the ladders instead of two hatches 🤘
The academy is one of my favorit POI’s to do early on, as it’s not too big and because of the demo on the roof… For some reason, the couple of times I’ve done it, the pipe rifle has been very usefull against the demo. A couple of headshots and it’s dead (only happened once) 😅
Maybe u need to make a mini fob base at the mining site, with iron spikes, some walls or junk turrets etc theres some broken buildings u could potentially reinforce quickly and maybe stealth kill them all from a height with iron spikes. also if u use actual wood planks u can make much more paper per unit, considering it takes glue and good water to make
This mod is probably beyond most casual gamers.
It's definitely for the hard-core gamers.
Well, that is one hell of a ride!! That wasteland was no joke....
I don't think you CAN find watches or compasses, I think you HAVE to take the Clockwork Perk skill to get them.
The mining montage was the best part
Suppose you went into the wasteland for mining with, say, 200 concrete blocks and some ladders. You could roll up on some ore, build a wall around it, mine away, and then leap from the top of the wall to your vehicle and then scamper.
Sunday morning anxiety! Awesome episode
I’m time traveling a bit from episode 9ish but if you’re having issues still with zombies around your base at night instead of spikes and traps could you turn the visual boundary on for your land claim block and build up a little fence around the boundary to keep any wandering zombies out. As long as they don’t hear you inside your home they shouldn’t attack trying to break in and that way everyone stays out and you get your easy resting in. Again I’m on episode 9 or so so this might be moot but a comment is a comment even if it’s irrelevant lol
Best horde montages, hands down.
Like how we did in Darkness Falls, we did have to tunnel into the Wasteland to find the ore we needed. Didn't dig to bedrock, but a couple blocks down for sure starting in the forest biome
Exactly what i said however you better of go to bedrock to be as far as you can from them, sooner or later they will detect you and start digging, even if you are crouching down and mining only with pickaxe
Thanks for the series!
Devil’s Advocate, doesn’t the headlight mod and fire mod on the axe draw their attention?
One thing I'd like this mod to do is, lower your caloric burn rate when you're "resting" aka, haven't run or been in combat because you're just in your base crafting. Sucks to be trying to sit and figure things out and you keep having to eat and drink just for standing looking at things.
Yeah, be REAL careful around vending machines, I've had the explosion hit me even when I hit it with a ranged shot by accident. I'm like "Wtf, are you serious??" (I either missed or shot through a zombie to hit it)
The academy is my base in my Afterlife play. I cleared it out on day 5 and 6. Really tough clear but it’s a great base
The literature fragments to magazines thing reminds me of that saying where the dictionary contains every book ever written.
It’s still a silly mechanic for something that seems to want to drive immersion. The whole crafting quality business is out to lunch, really. I just keep seeing examples of very poor balance in this mod, like the endless proximity spawns in the wasteland. Honestly it gets tedious to even watch, though I appreciate your effort
Also how to mine in the wasteland: get high as a kite on fort bites and painkillers and stuff yourself full of medkits XD
"THE TRANSFORMERS ON THE LIGHT POLES GIVE STEEL AND SPRINT WHEN U GET ON THE BIKE TO GO FASTER"
Tem: *sets rabbit loose in the wasteland*
CUE THE BENNY HILL MUSIC! :D
You might be better off tackling the nukers on foot, they didn't seem to have such a high rate of fire and the range dropped off on the fireballs. Since you found that ore you could try marking it and dig to it from the forest like you thought
Yep you should just make a tunnel into the wasteland from a save area like 10 block down (;
And mark a ore close by
Or your drive by. With a auger it would be so much easier (;
auger is not mining tool, its for digging dirt
that was a rough run, horde, wasteland, looking for metal...sooooo crazy
Hint: The zombies that throw grenades and flame grenades do little damage to dirt blocks. Might want to put those blocks as a barrier around any tower base.
If i'm not mistaken the blue eyes zombies works like screamers but with out the scream, they draw nearby zombies to them
He theorised that when he first encountered them and we've seen it every time since.
The sheer mass of zombies in this overhaul seems to be a little excessive.
26:28 zombie cannon!
don't forget to do your skill points before crafting the mace to get better levels :3
What about explosive cross bow bolts for your pit?
Those Spicy Stoners are legit. Whoa 😂
Insane ep mate, thanks cobber, cheers, bless.
Im using the 50k duke skar-L for the wasteland and its slapping around rads pretty well. with meticulous 5 and 190 club i can craft 37k qual inconel maces
26:25 I see we are now in looney toons.
That wasn't a new group, that was a random 'zombies chasing animals' horde.
those zombies flying through the air 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Have you ever tried using the impact driver to upgrade? There was a mod then if you right clicked it upgraded faster then the nail gun
Put a marker on the ore that way you can dig your tunnel straight to it.
The relentless onslaught of radiated goobers in the wasteland looked so bad. I’m glad I chose to let you play this and I watch instead of going through it myself.
how about stealth? i think it helps a lot when mining in this area - one of the skills gives you 0% visibility after you spend time in one place (even if you do something - just don't move)
I agree, but I'm a little biased because I do EVERYTHING in stealth mode, check out my thunder thighs... 5/5 Would squat again.
The trouble is you need to invest pretty heavily into the "inconspicuous" perk to get the time down, especially in the wasteland where you really don't have the luxury of sitting still for a minute. I'm guessing most people don't want to waste precious perk points on a skill they neither have, nor use. Maybe in late game when you have nowhere better to throw perk points. and "late game" in Afterlife is like day 200...
Tbh, I feel like you're sleeping on the Stun Batons. More so, if like others have said that they stun rads 100% with a power attack, and count as a club.
I also think that taking the time to go over all the perks might be worthwhile as well. Stealth seems like it would be really useful overall. Your choice of perks sort of push you towards directly fighting the zombies, and that's just not something that's sustainable.
And I know crafting is rough- but armor seems like it would help a ton if you could get even a half decent set of it going with bonuses against critical resistances or bonuses to healing critical injuries.
Your dedication to the mod is admirable...
Tem? While you’re trying to mine those nodes, you need some junk turrets to cover your back. The wasteland is absolutely harsh and you have got to put some rad removers on the junk turrets and on your weapons.
9:19 yellow loot bag .
This mod looks like it was created to address all of those content creators that claimed Vanilla was boring and that this or that was over powered..."Oh really? Hold my beer" Pretty cool, but daaaamn.
yep lol they are not fucking around, the wasteland is literally deep wilderness even trying to cheese it with drive by mailbox looting is a dangerous game
I'd be interested in seeing you use the creative menu to see what the end-end game looks like in this mod.
Hahahahahah holy moly I thought it's the end of series haah
what about the light of the helmet
Clearly strategies and tactics which serve well in vanilla or even other challenging mods require serious reconsideration in Afterlife!
hey is there a reason you dont wrench down the ATMs ?, they give a small amount of steel. you may wish to try the paper recipe that uses wood not wood waste it gives more paper per
9:19 Is that a yellow lootbag?
that is one wasteland i don't want to live in!!
I crafted a high level desert vulture - 181 dam. So, pistols are not all useless.
how many anti-rads do you have on your weapons? If you don't have one on your club you probably should :P
Afterlife series my beloved
Moltolves might be a good idea