All my PZ challenges so far :)

[Koester]

Hello everyone!

I've seen a lot of misinformation in the community regarding my content and I decided to make a post to present all of it, with links to the official guides.

I'm sure all of you are familiar with my One Painful Year Challenge. It quickly became the most popular challenge played by the PZ community. Some popular figures like Cromulent Archer, Ambiguous Amphibian and many other streamed and recorded series playing it. OPYC is for experienced players . It helps you develop flexibility and longevity. I have enjoying watching other people play it, even though no one knows I am its creator lol.

You can find the guide here.

Since then, I have created 2 other challenges : Gunslinger and Scrubs.

Gunslinger is for expert players . It focuses on gun play and stealth. The challenge has you embarking on a quest to loot towns, capture specific buildings and sends you out on a final task. It is very difficult and quite restrictive. Not everyone's cup of tea but if you feel like you cannot be beaten, it might give you a good reality check. I have beaten it once in testing and have been trying to beat it officially on stream since then. I'm currently on a small hiatus so that I could release another challenge.

You can find the guide here.

Scrubs is for average players . You're playing as a clean freak stockpiling cleaning material in your bathrooms across Knox Country. The challenge tests your base-building skills, creativity and inventory management skills. The challenge is point-based and has no failure condition. My highscore is 1940 points, if you want to try your hands at defeating me.

You can find the guide here.

I will be posting every single one of my challenges on my subreddit. It is meant to become a compendium of all the content I come up with. I have a lot of ideas.

If you have questions, you can either pm me on here, pm me on reddit, ask me a question during a livestream or join my discord.

Cheers,
-Koester

[katsuragi]

never heard of you

[Greb]

Originally posted by katsuragi:

never heard of you

Same.

Hey if you're the "challenge guy" you should make a challenge involving collecting one each of all the decorative stuff or whatever around the map and then putting it in a large building I.E the Country Club as a kind of Zomboid Museum. That'd probably be neat to watch. Collecting all the paintings, all the various objects that go unused like toilets, street and shop signs, pay phones, etc. Maybe even mannequins with clean and whole themed clothing sets like Police, Ranger, Firefighter, Military and Spiffo Mascot etc, outfits as well. Compile a list, design the most ideal world settings for them, and then see who can achieve it in the shortest amount of time. Assuming you haven't designed a challenge like that already.

I'd probably watch something like that, anyway

Me and my friend have a challenge going on amongst ourselves, in both of our campaigns we've set a goal to be the first one to fill a duffelbag completely to capacity with money, as well as source a full suit ensemble plus surgical gloves that aren't mostly ruined or covered in blood. If we can do that, then we're prepared to walk away from the outbreak in style, at least how we imagine it lol. Unofficially I refer to it as the Payday challenge. It's probably already been done, though.

[Koester]

Originally posted by katsuragi:

never heard of you

That's because many don't have the decency to give credit when due. I've had Cromulent Archer correct that unintentional mistake but, at the same time, I cannot blame them for only caring about their own success and not taking a second to properly link the guides. Actually, at the time, the rules were only clearly explained on my discord. I made the official guide after the insistence of the community. Initially, the challenge was meant to be only between a few streamers, but many took interest in it and wanted to be part of it. Hence the particular circumstances.

Due to my critical nature, I have had a fallout with the project zomboid developers and I'm banned from using their reddit platform, which I have never really used before. That's probably why you don't know of me. Everyone thinks Cromulent Archer came up with this. If you're doubtful of me, you can ask him. He will confirm it.

[Koester]

Originally posted by Greb:

Originally posted by katsuragi:

never heard of you

Same.

Hey if you're the "challenge guy" you should make a challenge involving collecting one each of all the decorative stuff or whatever around the map and then putting it in a large building I.E the Country Club as a kind of Zomboid Museum. That'd probably be neat to watch. Collecting all the paintings, all the various objects that go unused like toilets, street and shop signs, pay phones, etc. Maybe even mannequins with clean and whole themed clothing sets like Police, Ranger, Firefighter, Military and Spiffo Mascot etc, outfits as well. Compile a list, design the most ideal world settings for them, and then see who can achieve it in the shortest amount of time. Assuming you haven't designed a challenge like that already.

I'd probably watch something like that, anyway :evilhero:

Me and my friend have a challenge going on amongst ourselves, in both of our campaigns we've set a goal to be the first one to fill a duffelbag completely to capacity with money, as well as source a full suit ensemble plus surgical gloves that aren't mostly ruined or covered in blood. If we can do that, then we're prepared to walk away from the outbreak in style, at least how we imagine it lol. Unofficially I refer to it as the Payday challenge. It's probably already been done, though.

I thought of doing that but someone already made it. It's called the Spiffo challenge. I didn't want to just copy it. My challenges aim to improve the players, as many think of OPYC as the ultimate test but it really isn't. It's not that hard. I don't really see what I could be helping you improve with a quest to gather specific decorative items. That sounds like a lot of fun, though!

Don't worry, I have more challenges ready to be revealed. Some are pretty unique.

[Koester]

Originally posted by katsuragi:

never heard of you

Here, I can even prove my claims with a picture.

Here's a picture of my discord [gyazo.com] showing that Cromulent Archer is part of it, including some of the other participants.

The official leaderboard (had someone colourblind make it) can be looked at here. [cdn.discordapp.com]

Cromulent Archer asked me permission to air it on Youtube, which I have granted at the request that I was properly represented but that part was omitted in his first video. He briefly mentions me and butchers my name. I reprimanded him and he corrected that mistake a few videos later. I believe that information can easily be verified.

[katsuragi]

never heard of Cromulent Archer either. Honestly Josh Strife Hayes is the only gamer I watch. Most of my youtube times is spent on Astronomy and Physics videos

[sanguine]

Originally posted by Koester:

Cromulent Archer asked me permission to air it on Youtube, which I have granted at the request that I was properly represented but that part was omitted in his first video. He briefly mentions me and butchers my name. I reprimanded him and he corrected that mistake a few videos later. I believe that information can easily be verified.

Do you wear oversized diapers or does your ego fit into the standard ones

[Silverbird]

OPYC link is broken.

Originally posted by Koester:

That's because many don't have the decency to give credit when due. I've had Cromulent Archer correct that unintentional mistake but, at the same time, I cannot blame them for only caring about their own success and not taking a second to properly link the guides.

The irony lmfao

[Stone Cold Steve Harvey]

Originally posted by Koester:

Originally posted by katsuragi:

never heard of you

That's because many don't have the decency to give credit when due. I've had Cromulent Archer correct that unintentional mistake but, at the same time, I cannot blame them for only caring about their own success and not taking a second to properly link the guides. Actually, at the time, the rules were only clearly explained on my discord. I made the official guide after the insistence of the community. Initially, the challenge was meant to be only between a few streamers, but many took interest in it and wanted to be part of it. Hence the particular circumstances.

Due to my critical nature, I have had a fallout with the project zomboid developers and I'm banned from using their reddit platform, which I have never really used before. That's probably why you don't know of me. Everyone thinks Cromulent Archer came up with this. If you're doubtful of me, you can ask him. He will confirm it.

Not going to lie, this sounds like you're being a bit of an attention-seeker. You're just really desperate to make sure that everybody knows that you made this challenge. Just be happy that this challenge was popular.

Whenever somebody suggests this challenge, do you think they're always going to mention that it was created by you? I can't think of anybody who does that when they mention a challenge idea. They just want the details of how to do the challenge.

Plus, if one guy forgets the name and starts telling other people about it, everybody else forgets the creator's name anyway and that's not really their fault. You're making it sound like all of these people are self-centered jerks who've wronged you.

What's wrong with people putting their own spin on the challenge as well? Make it more fun for themselves. It's also how you can get cool new challenge hybrid ideas.

[Koester]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Originally posted by Koester:

That's because many don't have the decency to give credit when due. I've had Cromulent Archer correct that unintentional mistake but, at the same time, I cannot blame them for only caring about their own success and not taking a second to properly link the guides. Actually, at the time, the rules were only clearly explained on my discord. I made the official guide after the insistence of the community. Initially, the challenge was meant to be only between a few streamers, but many took interest in it and wanted to be part of it. Hence the particular circumstances.

Due to my critical nature, I have had a fallout with the project zomboid developers and I'm banned from using their reddit platform, which I have never really used before. That's probably why you don't know of me. Everyone thinks Cromulent Archer came up with this. If you're doubtful of me, you can ask him. He will confirm it.

Not going to lie, this sounds like you're being a bit of an attention-seeker. You're just really desperate to make sure that everybody knows that you made this challenge. Just be happy that this challenge was popular.

Whenever somebody suggests this challenge, do you think they're always going to mention that it was created by you? I can't think of anybody who does that when they mention a challenge idea. They just want the details of how to do the challenge.

Plus, if one guy forgets the name and starts telling other people about it, everybody else forgets the creator's name anyway and that's not really their fault. You're making it sound like all of these people are self-centered jerks who've wronged you.

What's wrong with people putting their own spin on the challenge as well? Make it more fun for themselves. It's also how you can get cool new challenge hybrid ideas.

Okay. I'm mostly just sharing my challenges. You commented that you had never heard of me, which suggested that you doubted the veracity of my claims. I gave you an explanation. I'm not interested in getting an argument with you on the topic. Feel free to try out the challenges!

[Koester]

Originally posted by Silverbird:

OPYC link is broken.

Originally posted by Koester:

That's because many don't have the decency to give credit when due. I've had Cromulent Archer correct that unintentional mistake but, at the same time, I cannot blame them for only caring about their own success and not taking a second to properly link the guides.

The irony lmfao

My apologies. I have fixed it. Thank you for pointing that out.

[Koester]

Originally posted by stefaan:

Originally posted by Koester:

Cromulent Archer asked me permission to air it on Youtube, which I have granted at the request that I was properly represented but that part was omitted in his first video. He briefly mentions me and butchers my name. I reprimanded him and he corrected that mistake a few videos later. I believe that information can easily be verified.

Do you wear oversized diapers or does your ego fit into the standard ones

Ego? Why? Wouldn't you want to be proud of what you made? Wouldn't you be upset if someone else got the credit for what you made? How is that ego?

[Mrpoke]

Wait I thought Planet Algol made One Painful Year. What?

[Koester]

Originally posted by Mrpoke:

Wait I thought Planet Algol made One Painful Year. What?

No sir lol.

[shark]

Originally posted by Mrpoke:

Wait I thought Planet Algol made One Painful Year. What?

Yeah, he did.