Strong unwilling mutant build: Got lucky and got a reinfroced car early, stocked up really well and cleared out a small town just driving through them, that yeiled lots of resources including guns. I even was able to patch up the car. I spent a lot of time clearing out the town, healing up in between & training skills. I didn't really have any more books to read through & even completed a mission from a lab style compound.
I got ambushed by a really fast mover and was luckily able to shoot it. I retreated back to the town to heal up and foolishly ignored an eye bot. Once I realized what was happening the riot control bots were all over me. I didn't have my stuff on me and was away from the car, I tried to run and just got gased bad. I tried going back and submitting to arrest, but the police bot just killed me instead.
By the time I was dead I had mostly transformed into a tree & was Very strong (str 14 total). I had tons of ammo & all around was pretty decked out. A really sad and preventable death.
Strange bowman: I started a happy mutant build thinking I'd go more towards archery & survival, but after getting a bite wound early I needed to seek out antibiotics. I ended up finding a car & driving almost a full day until I found a downed military chopper. This set me with with great clothes, guns, knifes & MREs. I found a small town, Mattamiscontis, just ~20 buildings, to try this out at. I ended up needing an extensive stay as I didn't do most of the clearing with the car, but rather methodically worked through using knifes, guns if necessary & developing my archry ability. By the time I cleared the town I had read through most of my books, gotten my skills quite good & was well on my way to mutating to a bee. My tear through the town was seriously slowed down by catching the flu. It's hard to find enough vitamins, but I kept fairly free from junk food.
After surviving for 28 days I drove too close to a military outpost and was immediately shot in the head.
Strange dodger: I spawned in the outskirts of a city. I was lucky to find a lot of valuable stuff early, two working cars (one of them a semi) a garage with welding gas & even an autodoc! I was training my important skills after clearing much of a block with the semi, and drinking coffee. This threw my sleep schedule off and I ended up feeling tired when I needed to run away from some zombies. It was just 3 normal zombies that were able to surround me. I was able to fight them off, but I suffered 3 bite wounds. I tried to just rely on antibotics that I had on me, but that wasn't enough, I got to badly infected and tried to find more antibiotics, but got over whelmed just venturing out.
I should have used the semi more & worked to try and treat the bite wounds instead of relying on the anti biotics.
Radiation leak This build is great! It has low amounts of radiation leak as well as radiogenic. This yields a pretty good healing factor for very cheap. I cleared a small town and stumbled upon a great security van in working order. With this I slowly aquired most of my important skills and a lot of small arms & small arm ammo. I even had a couple shotguns, but mostly bird shot. I was feeling decked out enough to start exploring a lab. I ended up save scumming and getting killed by a turret in the lab. It was a one hit kill b/c I was walking around without bullet protection & Overburdended.
On the save scum I was more careful and never really got far into the lab. I was going around killing almost everything with a fire axe. I had a couple close calls, but got much better about dropping my loaded backpacks before fighting & keeping back up stuff on me.
I was heavily mutated in a really good way. I could recover from near death within two days. Unfortunately I was also very ponderous which was a big drawback. I had 17 STR (!)
Marti Urban Spawned as a bionic sniper in a helicrash. I had a bad wound on my arm, and some minor bleeding. Thankfully I was next to a unbelivably tiny town with an apartment building. Clearing it with just a combat knife wasn't much of a problem and it gave me plenty of food, fabric & books to get a good base of skills & something to do while healing up. From there I walked to a farm where I found a 4x4 in decent enough shape. That took me to the edge of a large city. I am slowly working my way through the city, developing my archery skill & I even found a pistol w/ 30 rounds of ammo.
While routine looting of a house I went into the basement to find a gigantic naked mole rat. It looked very dangerous and thankfully was far away from the stairs. I ran up the stairs and ignored it. As the clearing & looting when on & I started piling up some salted fish & beef jerky I noticed that the house with the naked mole rat is straight up collapsing. The mole rat appears to be destroying the foundation and whole sections are crashing down on it's head. I took advantage of that to lure some zombies into the hole. I went down to watch the fight between the mole rat and the zombies and it didn't even take a scratch from the zombies, it was mauling them one by one and it was barely hurt by the building falling on it's head. Those things are brutal. I've been luring almost all the zombies within a block into the naked mole rat pit. It's been a slaughter. I was enjoying going down there to watch, but after I made a couple pot shots at it with my bow it turned to attack me and I GTFO as fast as possible and haven't gone back in to check on it yet. I was able to sneak in and grab an assault rifle from a dead zombie soldier while there though. No ammo for it yet though.
Slowly cleaning out ~4 city blocks has yield plenty of gear, I finally made it to a library and have been reading up on lots of skills while healing. I've gotten a pretty good set up and keep on aquring more and more skills. Finally working my way up to compound bow + metal arrows has given me a lot of pretty safe kills, it takes a long time to properly kite the zombies, but as long as there isn't too many it's worked out very well. I am constantly carrying a pistol, a shotgun, a bow and a combat knife and fall back to whatever is needed to keep myself alive.
Just cleaning out a couple blocks has put me all the way through spring. Once they were all cleared out I started working on getting a good crafting set up. I used a quad bike to get around for that, and it took many days, I kept myself amused by using a pickaxe to bust into a bank (they just had precious metals, meh) and into a doctors office (looks like I can use the autodoc here!).
After a couple days of crafting I have just about everything I need to make a death mobile. I used this to get a humvee up and running and almsot fully repaired. I had it all set up and decided to drive over ~4 blocks to an electronics shop. I really wasn't ready for the number of zombies there were. It was right next to a park and the zombies are getting scarier and scarier. I lost a panel and was focused on just mowing down zombies. I've gone through enough to level up again, but I forgot to keep track of the disel. I ran out of gas! Luckily I wasn't in the middle of a swarm, I was able to ditch what I thought was my tools & food pack, but it also had my ammo. I ran as fast as I could with ~40 zombies chasing me. Thankfully there were only a couple zombies that could keep up enough to pay attention to me. They were tough zombies, but I took them out with pistol & bow. It'll be hard to get back to my stacked hummvie, but I can go back to the fairly safe area and make a plan. There's a safer route to the hummvie as it's on the edge of the city. I should get some more ammo, some disel & arrows before going back to try and reclaim it. I'm already half way through the summer.
I had a break to run in and refill the hummve, but it's too heavy for it's engine! I narrowly jumped back on the quad bike and got out of there. The current plan is to make a ton of arrows and slowly pick off the zombies from the comfort and safety of my moving quadbike. Current kills before the slog: 697
It was going really well until I wasn't watching where the quadbike was going and got it stuck on a boulder. I was surrounded and overwhelmed. I could have made it out if autopickup/pulp wasn't on. I got surrounded because I stopped to do that.