rp solo tips

[Rick Grimes]

how do you get into character I'm trying it right now but like let's say my family was last seen riverside like I know there obviously not there so how do yall immerse yourself i find it hard sometimes like whats the point of clearing a place out or going out when i have everything at base i love this game to death i just have a hard time finding a resson to leave base when im setup im on build 42 btw

[The early worm deserves the bird]

I usually have a million and one projects going on at any given time, all of them in various stages of completion. I setup an arcade once, went to all the various towns in B41 (Except Louisville) and stole all the arcade machines to build my own place. Steal all the garden gnomes and have them at key locations guarding your base, steal a bunch of hedges and make your own hedge maze, go take on the mall, set fire to a courtroom, clear out a town and wall it off, etc.

[Armagenesis]

Well, if you want to play as yourself, just think what you'd do in that situation and act on it.

I've been using dice rolls lately thanks to the addition of the full set in game

[Jarzzen]

Try to find the Santa or Bunny suit and fill the roll at the local mall or strip club; I'm sure zombies would love to sit on your lap and tell you what they want.
Get a police or ranger outfit and catch any zombies that are violating the rules you've set forth.

[Rick Grimes]

Originally posted by Jarzzen:

Try to find the Santa or Bunny suit and fill the roll at the local mall or strip club; I'm sure zombies would love to sit on your lap and tell you what they want.
Get a police or ranger outfit and catch any zombies that are violating the rules you've set forth.

yeah I mean how do you get into the mindset of finding your family that would be cool but in reality, i know no one will be there

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Rick Grimes:

rp solo tips
how do you get into character I'm trying it right now but like let's say my family was last seen riverside like I know there obviously not there so how do yall immerse yourself i find it hard sometimes like whats the point of clearing a place out or going out when i have everything at base i love this game to death i just have a hard time finding a resson to leave base when im setup im on build 42 btw

I can recommend this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3420587101
Usually I play like:
- first phase aka 1-2 months is waiting for help
- then looking for help
- then despair to look into help

an odysee from Rosewood all the way up to Louisville

depending on the mood restart at any death

[Regent]

Try utilizing the ingame items to help you get some RP kick started. You mention your family in riverside (not sure where that is retaliative to your base). Maybe take a riverside map you have and mark a location on that map... it gives you your target of where to go. Then when you get there, use what is there to continue your story. Like if you find a bunch of zombies inside maybe you pretend it was them, maybe it was strangers in their house and they there was a note left behind or maybe a photograph of where they might of gone.

giving your character some backstory so they have something to react with to a situation. something that gives them more priority then just holding out in a house.

[galactic]

try to separate what you the player knows from what your survivor might know. try to think like he or she would, don't use knowledge you the player has from playing the game unless it fits the cannon of your survivor. like odds are your survivor would know the locations of all the shops and stores in your starting town, unless your survivor just moved there. but would have absolutely no way of knowing that there is actually no alive left on the entire map.

as for why would you ever leave your base once set up? there's a million reasons why a sane person would. I would have to know, are there any other survivors out there? your survivor has survived the initial outbreak, there has to be others somewhere right?

at the end of the world, with manufacturing on a large scale down permanently, can you ever really have too much toilet paper? lighters, ect? (I cant start a fire with 2 sticks to save my keister can you?)

how would your survivor know that there is not the mother of all zombie hordes slowly migrating in the direction of your home?

does your survivor know that there is not a group of baddies eyeballing him and all his
loot. maybe planning to come and kill him and take his stuff?

maybe your survivor had a nemesis before the outbreak, someone who still might be out there... someone who would certainly take advantage of the current lawless situation and do you harm if he finds you? maybe it would be best to try to find him first.

do you have enough supplies and capacity to help another group if you were to find one?

what happens if you live long enough to get old? or sick, or injured? do you have what you need to survive long term if your immobilized for some reason or other?
even if you cant go out on loot runs anymore?

what happens when your current fueling station runs out of gas? or what if your generator blows up? what if your house burns down? what about tornadoes, they are not in game yet but do exist, and do happen in Kentucky, do you have a fall back strategy?

these are just a few, if you think about it im sure you could come up with many more.

I also find keeping a journal of the thoughts and insights of your survivor helps to stay
in character.

the important thing is to eliminate the knowledge that you the player knows that your survivor couldn't possibly know. I do this with all of my survivors, with coming up on near 5000 hours played mostly mod-less it keeps the game exciting, terrifying, and satisfying
like no other game I have ever played.

the more you practice keeping yourself in your survivors head the easier it becomes.
good luck and have fun.

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by Rick Grimes:

yeah I mean how do you get into the mindset of finding your family that would be cool but in reality, i know no one will be there

It's really hard for me because every time my character swings and misses, they look up out of the monitor at me with that WTF glare, like it was my fault or something.
Screw that 4th wall penetration. I duck and point to my kid, "he did it." and keep playing like nothing happened.

[Blackbeard]

Want a cool idea? I have been toying around with AI lately. I built my own AI (can use chat gpt) and gave it some simple prompts like a back story and specified it to run the rest of its prompts as if it were a game master. I then start by saying something like, ok I'm ready to find my family in riverside. Once I made it outside of the building I would ask it what I would find in there.. and so on. After a while you will know what to ask it and you can fine tune the details to get an interesting quest setup.

My last experience was the AI giving me a quest to goto the Louisville gunstore at the mall to retrieve my dad's shotgun that was being worked on. It was his last dying wish to have him buried with it.. Obviously I had to rp a bit, but it was interesting.

[Halla at ya]

I started keeping a journal and writing down my characters thoughts every day. Made things more immersive for sure. The Diary is my favourite new item.

[Jarzzen]

Originally posted by Rick Grimes:

Originally posted by Jarzzen:

Try to find the Santa or Bunny suit and fill the roll at the local mall or strip club; I'm sure zombies would love to sit on your lap and tell you what they want.
Get a police or ranger outfit and catch any zombies that are violating the rules you've set forth.

yeah I mean how do you get into the mindset of finding your family that would be cool but in reality, i know no one will be there

Well, you may see Build 43 in your lifetime, that's when NPCs are slated to be put in.

[Beltneck]

Immersion? Only thing I immerse my character in is blood.

[RDecline]

Originally posted by Blackbeard:

a quest to goto the Louisville gunstore at the mall to retrieve my dad's shotgun that was being worked on. It was his last dying wish to have him buried with it..

Dad going to be out of luck on that one and if he had an ounce of sense he'd understand. Besides, he'll never know.

[ProtecTron]

Originally posted by Halla at ya:

I started keeping a journal and writing down my characters thoughts every day. Made things more immersive for sure. The Diary is my favourite new item.

This

[Rick Grimes]

Originally posted by galactic:

try to separate what you the player knows from what your survivor might know. try to think like he or she would, don't use knowledge you the player has from playing the game unless it fits the cannon of your survivor. like odds are your survivor would know the locations of all the shops and stores in your starting town, unless your survivor just moved there. but would have absolutely no way of knowing that there is actually no alive left on the entire map.

as for why would you ever leave your base once set up? there's a million reasons why a sane person would. I would have to know, are there any other survivors out there? your survivor has survived the initial outbreak, there has to be others somewhere right?

at the end of the world, with manufacturing on a large scale down permanently, can you ever really have too much toilet paper? lighters, ect? (I cant start a fire with 2 sticks to save my keister can you?)

how would your survivor know that there is not the mother of all zombie hordes slowly migrating in the direction of your home?

does your survivor know that there is not a group of baddies eyeballing him and all his
loot. maybe planning to come and kill him and take his stuff?

maybe your survivor had a nemesis before the outbreak, someone who still might be out there... someone who would certainly take advantage of the current lawless situation and do you harm if he finds you? maybe it would be best to try to find him first.

do you have enough supplies and capacity to help another group if you were to find one?

what happens if you live long enough to get old? or sick, or injured? do you have what you need to survive long term if your immobilized for some reason or other?
even if you cant go out on loot runs anymore?

what happens when your current fueling station runs out of gas? or what if your generator blows up? what if your house burns down? what about tornadoes, they are not in game yet but do exist, and do happen in Kentucky, do you have a fall back strategy?

these are just a few, if you think about it im sure you could come up with many more.

I also find keeping a journal of the thoughts and insights of your survivor helps to stay
in character.

the important thing is to eliminate the knowledge that you the player knows that your survivor couldn't possibly know. I do this with all of my survivors, with coming up on near 5000 hours played mostly mod-less it keeps the game exciting, terrifying, and satisfying
like no other game I have ever played.

the more you practice keeping yourself in your survivors head the easier it becomes.
good luck and have fun.

this was very helpful thank you so much also somthing im struggling with is like lets say there's 3 zombies i know I can take the 3 zombies but how should my character be i feel like if I run away I'm just being dumb or maybe I'm just reading to much into my character i want him to feel real ya know