Day 748 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
Today's game is Project Zomboid. Me and My friends have been playing almost daily on our multiplayer save. The additions made in B42 have been awesome for the immersion in this game. My favorite things right now are the animals. They help make the world feel more alive which i love. I especially like the chickens. It makes me feel like i'm rebuilding something which is something Build 41 felt like it was lacking.
I also went out and found a Step Van to help make gathering logs so so much easier, it can hold 140 in the back so it makes hauling them across the highway easier. Because of that i was able to finish the wall today, and then i also went ahead and dragged home some bricks. My hope is to eventually upgrade the wall to a brick wall so it will last longer. I (assume) a brick wall has more durability than a Wood wall so here's to hoping.
Anyways, our group "Chef" was out today, so Jerry had to fill in and make dinner. I accidentally burnt the Omelette, but that's okay because we had extras. I tried to make a salad and split it into bowls but i guess you can't do that yet, so instead we all just ate a 1/4 and passed it around.
I also wanted to share something extra I made for fun that's relevant. I tried to recreate one of my screenshots (with a little more personality too) in Blender with the Project Zomboid Community rig. I'm sure someone with way more Blender knowledge than me can point out everything i've done wrong, but for having literally no blender knowledge besides like half the Donut Tutorial, i think it turned out well.
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I am still super impressed by your dedication and I honestly do look for your posts. Been active on Lemmy since you started this ritual, and it will be a sad day when its over.
It’s definitely been a challenge some days. I’m young still and even over these last 2 years it’s gotten harder to get out of bed some days lmao. Honestly though these posts sometimes do serve as motivation to get up because I enjoy doing them, especially when I’m really into a game.
I like to think if I ever stop these, I’d still occasionally pop in with a post for a game that’s caught my attention. I’m also me though so it may just be wishful thinking
Know that if you break your streak, no one will be upset. You can post even without it being related to “Day 999 of…”.
Your health and wellbeing always come first. I read these posts every time and I do hope you’re not stressing yourself over them. They’re super fun but you owe the community nothing.
Have fun, enjoy yourself, and don’t worry if/when you miss a day/week/month/year/decade/century.
We’ll all be here to enjoy whatever you share, and if you decide to stop, please just let us know you’re okay since that is all that will be on our minds if you do decide to stop or take a break.
Happy gaming <3
I have actually broken it a few times (though not intentionally). First time was the Cloudflare outage, the second the post just didn’t get posted for some reason. After the second time I just decided it was okay to break the streak.
I do appreciate the support for my mental health though<3
Agreed, op should keep doing this for themselves, and we will keep enjoying the rewards.
That Blender recreation looks pretty good, I first thought it was some game mod that allowed you zoom in or get in 3rd person view where you took the screenshot. So really nice work there.
It was a lot of work. I was up until 6 AM yesterday trying to figure out how to convert the 2D sprites into a 3D model. It was pretty simple in retrospect but I’m really proud of the work I got done.
One of the criticisms of myself I have though is the materials. That’s actually an area I have experience with from doing game development and I feel like I should have made the textures less shiny. It made them a little too plasticky for my taste
I downloaded a mod that adds in some tracked vehicles from the 80s, and while the mod needs a little work for spawns (random houses should not have apcs and tanks lol) I did manage to find a cargo apc at one of the military checkpoints, and have been loading it up with a ton of mechanics stuff and things to grow food. I still have a few days before the water and power start going out, but I'm hoping to find some generators while I'm out. I definitely need to start grabbing every container I can for gas and make my way to some of the gas stations.
I modified the sandbox a bit for this run, because I'm tired of apocalypse games deciding that there's no gas anywhere the day the apocalypse starts. Sorry but people don't just leave cars in their garages with no gas in them. Nobody lets their car run out of gas intentionally. Gas stations aren't constantly at risk of being completely empty. I used to live near a gas station in the middle of nowhere. The kind of place that Still had 80s style pumps in the 00s. I woke up every morning the gas truck drove by and had to shimmy to get the trailer in the right spot. They got filled every other week, sometimes longer.
So I decided for this run, cars almost always have gas, with the occasional completely empty tank. Stations got set between "low" and whatever the one right below full is, with a 12% chance of the station being completely empty. (assuming I understand the spawning stuff for it anyway) I still have to siphon gas from multiple cars to fill one tank of gas completely, but it feels more realistic than "150 cars and only one even had an ounce of gas" that I seemed to be getting before.
Also the number of cars seems very low, I don't remember much of the 90s but I know people had tons of cars still...
Regardless, it's a great game whether you play vanilla or modded.
I really enjoy the "6 months later" type. For those I like to role-play as someone who's been stuck in one place for awhile and comes out to find the world is gone.
This scratches an itch. I'm big excited for when my group finally gets around to playing the update.