Why have knox virus turned on if its based on getting a single RNG hit for you to die ?

[Jalksay]

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[stupid invertebrate dog]

because its a challenge. if you hate the rng just turn infection to saliva only so you only get infected if youre bitten. tbh i think the game does pretty well at making it so if you get hit at all its your own fault

[maviscruet]

You die if you get bitten. Get lacerated or scratched a lot and you die. All those dead people trying to kill you. They lost the RNG battle too. You aren't the main character. You can git gud and learn to avoid getting caught. Or you can switch infection off if you still need the training wheels.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by maviscruet:

You aren't the main character.

You are literally the only character so that's an odd thing to say, did you pick this up from the Forever Winter or something?

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by maviscruet:

You aren't the main character.

You are literally the only character so that's an odd thing to say, did you pick this up from the Forever Winter or something?

It's more the cultural meaning of 'main character' than the literal meaning of 'main character' that he's referring to.

Cultural might not be the right word for it, but I'll try to explain to clarify.

The Literal meaning of main character is just that- The one the story revolves around. They are the primary focus of the experience; And in PZ, that is true, The player character is the Literal 'Main Character' since there is no other character.

But, The Cultural meaning of main character is the one who has plot armor and always manages to get away even if they get roughed up, The one who has unexpected windfalls save their ass, the one who lives a long relatively happy life and dies at the end of old age married to their love interest.


To compare it to other media; Every character in a story is the main character of their own life. Nevertheless, There is undeniably one Main Character whose events sway everything. Side characters die all the time- But never the main character.

In PZ, We are the side characters. The story we are telling through our actions is the one of how we died- Because we weren't the Main Character, We don't have plot armor, Nothing is going to save us from our abysmal fate. There is no heroes sword, There is no mage to pop out of a random crystal ball, We're not going to find a fully furnished fully stocked bunker that will let us live for decades without hardship... We're just an average joe, who while the main character of their own life, is not really anyone particularly special.

[ULTRA]

Well yeah, it'd be pretty hard to have plot armor when there's no plot. But this doesn't stop the player character from killing 40,000 zombies all by themselves through rather absurd means.

[stupid invertebrate dog]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Well yeah, it'd be pretty hard to have plot armor when there's no plot. But this doesn't stop the player character from killing 40,000 zombies all by themselves through rather absurd means.

i think b42 is supposed to lessen that by making combat a lot less viable.

[I know i'm shit but..]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by maviscruet:

You aren't the main character.

You are literally the only character so that's an odd thing to say, did you pick this up from the Forever Winter or something?

Are you dumb? being only doesnt mean main. In this game if you died, you are not main character.

[whiskyplz]

It's a game about how your character died therefore you are the main character. Ripley dies in Alien 3 but she was the main character.

[★Rainmaker★]

Originally posted by whiskyplz:

Ripley dies in Alien 3

YO! Spoilers much? :O Next you're gonna tell me that Vader is Luke's dad or something.

[Phade]

Originally posted by Jalksay:

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Because there are ways to avoid the infection. the more layers of clothing you have the lower chance of getting a bite. also, dying isn't the end, you can make a new char and reclaim all your stuff.

[Beltneck]

Eventually you learn to stop getting hit by something that charges slower than you walk.

[Pripyat Lizard 🦎]

In a few months you'll have it turned on with sprinters and crazy mods to make the game harder.

[maviscruet]

Originally posted by whiskyplz:

It's a game about how your character died therefore you are the main character. Ripley dies in Alien 3 but she was the main character.

Ripley died to kill the alien queen and save humanity. In zomboid you die after growing a few carrots. You aren't the main character anymore than the survivor zombies you bump into now and again are. You're another nobody amongst the thousands of nobodies who dies.

[Kaia]

I don't enjoy the randomness factor of it either. For me it's either every laceration causes infection, or none at all.

I usually play on infection through bites only, with other difficulty rebalances to compensate for it.

The RNG of scratches and lacerations just feels bad to me.

[Estellese]

It is a zombie game, getting bitten is supposed to be a bad thing not just a mild irritation.

If you turn off infection it becomes almost impossible to die. Which is really boring IMO.