Project Zomboid Nomad - Initiation Rite // EP1

greetings fellow zombie survivors rodomont here thank you for tuning in to the very first episode of project zomboid nomad there's a lot of complex settings rules and goals of this series and that can be found in the description of this video as well as the overview i will give in just a minute this is episode 1 initiation right before i start there is a lot of ground to cover because this series has a lot more mods and a lot more rules than any of the other series previous so i'm going to disappear for a second so the lord let me cover that uh ten years have passed since the start of the apocalypse the vast majority of the civilization has collapsed there's barely any governmental presence anymore just the rare aircraft sighting our community relies very heavily on the emergency broadcast network for advanced warnings about roaming hordes raiders and supply drops but the network is failing the nomads are an experienced group of scouts who are dispatched to regions ripe with supplies and with broadcast networks that require maintenance our hero is a nomad in training parachuted into unfamiliar territory and forced to survive as an initiation right there are also some basic rules no sleeping in cities cities are ripe targets for raiders and sleeping cities is forbidden no permanent housing so we won't be setting up permanent houses we will be using houses to hide from raiders and the like but we're not using them as a base of operation so no man training forbids the use of houses for long-term shelter and then no uncontrolled fires large fires will signal raiders do not set uncontrolled fires so no mass burning of zombies or anything like that the goals find and upgrade a long-range vehicle find an upgraded scout vehicle maintain the emergency broadcast network and prepare for the trip home by stockpiling food fuel water tools weapons ammo etc [Music] all of the server settings the rules the goals the traits all that stuff mod list etc can all be found in commands in the series in the title or if you're on youtube in the description and let's start so i did poll ahead of time for some basic parameters i put up the poll on discord and the poll helped me to determine um some of the settings that this series will take so we're going to be custom sandbox here and starting in west point west point was and i was kind of surprised overwhelmingly the majority um between the four starting setups all right as for rules uh there is a lot of settings here and all the settings can be found in the settings command but i have a preset called july and i'll cover the biggest changes of this uh zombie total count is lower there's fewer zombies in the world uh water and electricity are start off so there will no no uh there won't be any electricity and there won't be running water house alarms don't happen and locked houses are extremely rare because it has been 12 months since the start of the apocalypse so what this means is that the majority of the zombies are gonna have tattered clothing and look a lot more ragged you know food fresh food is already going to be spoiled so there's really no way for me to make certain recipes that require fresh produce then helicopters happen often and meta events often so zombies get shuffled around uh but the helicopter event is a little bit different i'll cover that in a second uh the xp multiplier is higher so that the things that my hero has to do i don't have to grind for as harshly uh so it should be a lot easier to level up crafting skills than the like and i do start off with 15 free trade points the reason being in the lore of this series we're supposed to be an experienced uh scout and therefore we're starting a little bit stronger than a base character but don't worry it's plenty hard uh rear vulnerability is low and weapon multihit is on many maps are allowed vehicles uh recent survivor vehicles what this is is like a vehicle where the it was cared for by a survivor uh that is raised up a little bit and it's extremely rare for cars to be locked now here is a big change um the lore of the zombies so the zombies are not shamblers they're sprinters uh you can barely out sprint them when they are going full tilt but they're only sprinting during the day so during the day zombies cannot be outrun outsprinted no way during the night they're slower and their cognition is raised which means that they understand how to go around walls and through doors and the like they can't open doors but they'll understand that bashing on a door is going to get them to you faster so zombies are a lot stronger than a normal game population of course is lowered uh vehicles can be recycled for the expanded helicopter events it's not just the random helicopter that kind of follows you around there's different types of events jets that fly by police helicopters survivors military raiders etc uh i didn't change anything in the more traits mod and then there's the skill recovery journal and i didn't change any of those settings either the skill recovery journal allows you to journal your experience and then if you die you can recover your journal to regain the experience that you had lost from death and that was of course voted on by all of you as well or by the ones that chose to vote as far as the character goes this is nomad high thirst slow healer hearty appetite smoker weak stomach slow reader dexterous outdoorsman expert driver which means vehicles move faster make less noise and handle more efficiently the concept here is we're supposed to be a very capable driver as that's part of the main occupation of being a nomad organized so the containers that we have can include more including car seats and the like a restful sleeper there is no penalty for sleeping on bad furniture or even on the ground and you automatically wake up when you're fully rested pack mule you carry more and athletic and strong and then our hero here is james exits uh who's yeah looks like this so we're gonna be kicking this off if you have any questions let me know and i also have a goals overlay that will flash up every now and then so here is our big goals that we have uh obtaining a long-range vehicle and a scout vehicle and maintaining the broadcast network and let's hope that we make progress and you can see my current priority is to find a weapon food and transportation and i'll be explaining the scout vehicle and the long range vehicle as well so a scout vehicle is a daily driver one that you take for errands and a long-range vehicle would be something with a lot more storage so a sedan versus a giant truck or something like that and you guys actually will be deciding uh what sort of vehicles that i use but there is a preset type of vehicle that will be allowed and you this will make sense also what do you mean by maintain the network so the emergency broadcast system in this uh scenario we'll go down and need repairs so that you'll stop getting weather in helicopter reports and things like that unless you maintain the emergency broadcast system so here we are in west point and right at the start uh it's obviously going to be early morning and i think it's probably important for me to note that uh zombies are stupidly fast and will absolutely murder me immediately if i am not careful so let's be as careful as i can and grab hopefully oh man there is not a lot here oh melted ice cream that will be good okay first books so we have cooking one fishing one trapping three cooking one oh i can't write on my mouse pad can i cooking one fishing one trapping three and i don't think i'm going to leave these here because the starter home is really only a starter room so i'm going to be moving around a lot oh a meta event already hearing people scream look at my beautiful skills over here and i'm just reading the electronics magazine for motion sensors so i can throw it away it's too bad i'm a slow reader am i playing with sprinters i am i am playing with spinners if you uh if you want to see the full settings you can do exclamation mark uh details and it will show you all of the settings but yeah outside there are sprinters uh a 9 mil pistol i'm gonna carry that for now but that's probably going to be one of the first things i toss by the wayside because uh they're they're you know way a lot and drop zombies in oh and i already have the emergency broadcast system frequency which is 886 nice turn that on lower the volume actually i'm going to fully grab it bring that with me [Music] i don't know what time it is and i only get broadcast top of the hour [Music] and as you can see here the world uh due to the mods that i'm using it is 10 years later so the world is overgrown and ruined windows are some of them are boarded up a lot of the doors are broken down it's not a typical uh experience at all [Music] yeah looks very different okay so i must be what building is this is this a school i think i'm across the street from the school one of the mods that i have here uh gives a map legend so the maple legend mod shows you what there is residences and then community services is probably a school i think this is the school the school is likely completely overrun by sprinters so that is not even something i'm going to consider entering until night time [Music] and we have some more books so mechanics three that's going to be really helpful uh the skills that i'm going to have to mostly focus on in this series is going to be mechanics and metalwork uh to be able to upgrade and maintain vehicles and then we also have the uh how to make dadge uh parts which is a type of car that is included i'm also gonna grab this comic book because comic books are pretty powerful [Music] it would be great oh hand torch and screwdriver [Music] oh and there's something hidden unfortunately the hidden floorboards has nothing in it but at least i knew to check it more canned goods i'll leave the dog food alone oh a meat cleaver yep this is a brand new series saucepan with water that's convenient empty cooking pot i'm gonna grab so the empty cooking pot is uh something that's on my uh items to loot list that i get to check off [Music] and then another thing i'm gonna have to do regularly until i find a container to store water is to just drink everywhere that i can so we've got metalwork one uh [Music] tailoring one oh man these books are amazing uh farming two cooking two feeling playing bingo and then this is for indium immediate mechanics and then that's trapping one farming magazine which is awesome and the the weather service uh registry so i'll show you what that looks like in just a second i don't believe any of these vhs tapes are things i need though so let me show you the registry while i'm in this room so if you read the map the registry shows you where the weather stations are so i am in west point uh so there should be a weather station west p88 here there's one in muldra one in rosewood and run in riverside and there's also a fifth one that is not on this map a secret weather station [Music] uh here is a derumba van blueprint for parts and i'm gonna take the journal so i'm taking the journal because one of the mods that i have included allows you to journal your experiences and if you journal your experiences it allows you to retain experience post death post but i don't have all the materials to craft one not yet earbuds is good a spare long sleeve t-shirt and spare jeans so the reason i'm grabbing spare clothing is the clothing that are going to be found on zombies are mostly going to be completely torn to shreds because it has been 10 years so clothing i'm gonna have to treat a lot more carefully uh one of the reasons for earbuds is i can hook earbuds up to the radio that i'm holding and listen to the weather reports without it actually producing noise which is uh pretty handy so drag the earbuds over here and then if i turn this on only i hear it no one else does i do hear some zombies around uh let me grab the pencil as well sarah thank you for the bits and i'm glad you're excited i wanted to get back to some pz so i'm pretty sure there's a zombie oh there it is so as you can see yeah you're not gonna really be able to easily outrun these things they are fast and this dude had a watch so if you take a look at the clothing shredded uh shredded you know there's not a lot of clothing they'll be able to grab from these zombies that won't be destroyed in some way oh boy that was two with the settings that i have it becomes very difficult to try to kill any more than two zombies standing on one and shoving the other three zombies is somewhat fatal now at this point uh everybody that's left alive basically has immunity so these zombies can't kill me with just one bite but i can get outnumbered and overrun and dragged down and killed in that way so i'm gonna be very careful also my carry weight is starting to max out so i'm hoping to find uh some method of carrying things and if i am where i think i oh there's a zombie right across the street if i am where i think i am in west point and this is the school no this isn't the school where am i the trouble is the pz map online um looks very different because everything is so extraordinarily decayed in this series [Music] just got to be very careful oh uh yeah this is an on emergency broadcast thank you for that there we go it's not going to play for another 40 minutes though look at you move one of the funny things about these zombies that sprint around is sometimes they move so fast they just fall down on their own all right so this was my starting house i'm gonna pop back in there and start marking down the maps [Music] wow this symbol is way too big uh oh well let's try the house that's just north of me reminds you of 28 days later zombies yeah they're very fast and very mean and honestly just doing any exploration during the day is a bad idea but at the start of the game it's not like i have a lot of choice so which door is getting i think is this one nope a leash i'll check the juice box i'll take that i'll check the uh bookshelf later the ice cream there's a lot of stuff that i'd like to have that i just don't have carry weight for not yet at least oh man uh all right so map i'm going to want to return to here can opener i'm going to take that so let's mark down can openers is as obtained you know what how is can opener not on my list of things to grab okay well i wrote it down and crossed it off that's felt a little weird sarah thanks for even more bits where'd my food go i think what i'm gonna do is probably ditch the this is an empty magazine i'm gonna ditch the gun and start ditching things that are absolutely not necessary for me to carry around yeah this gun doesn't even have bolts in it so it wouldn't be helpful anyway where is this dude maybe he's behind this door oh this is so creepy i can hear one moving around too i think there is one outside that window i'm gonna slowly leave that uh the house i'd rather fight them outside i think they were bashing up against a barricaded window yeah oh you have a hunting knife in you i will take that [Applause] thank you and let's favorite that with how fast they are i don't think that um i don't think that uh using melee weapons that aren't really powerful are going to be better than just shoving them to the ground though all right i can hear a zombie around here i might try to whisper to it i think it's bashing on that door now now these zombies are smarter than vanilla zombies so they are better at pathing to me then in default uh zomboid we're gonna be very mindful of that yep there's two of them come on out is this a cop no i don't think so i'm glad all four of those didn't try to jump me at once oh look at that it's a textureless salad yep let's leave that alone alright so didn't mark this uh area to come back to you i think what i'm gonna do is mark down the books that are here and then leave all my books here so that uh i come back so foraging one farming one metalwork three and first aid three because at some point these skill books are just going to become too cumbersome so i'll probably just read uh tailoring one that's probably the first one i want and let me get through these magazines too go into room with no vision man i can't even reach this curtain i guess not that room there we go so i read intermediate mechanics farming magazine hunting magazine the dodge car and the the rumba van done all right we're looking pretty good and what i might end up doing is just keeping oh mechanics too nice i might just keep everything that i don't need on my person on this bookshelf here for later even putting the canned goods away just to build up a supply of stuff it's not a base it's just storage all right i'm favoring what i need to favorite so there's another building to my west hey yoda they want me to pet you then i'm gonna head over to you so if you're wondering when nighttime formally starts it's 8 p.m that's when the zombies are going to slow down and then at 9am they speed back up again so when it's dark out the around dawn and dusk is probably the best times to hunt because my visibility won't be hindered but their movement speed will be you just fall over thank you but i heard another one maybe not yeah i can hear another one is it possible to change my hud so i can you can see in game time and condition oh yeah uh good call all right let me um i might be able to change that right now give me one second i don't know why i left that there i'm not entirely sure if that will carry over to the other scenes yeah it didn't uh one sec just got a little do a little uh interface rebuilding here you know how it'd be tested but not verified we go all right i'm being stalked maple syrup and pickles and mustard peas oh a water bottle that's gonna be helpful let's get that favorited chili and it is a officially cigarette o'clock quite a departure from homestead oh i know now i'm uh complete lack of a home ooh mech one i like that so now i have mick one two and three which is really nice [Music] and before i leave this house i think i can officially cross it off whoa they really don't give you a lot of time to react at times like you have to be so careful so where am i this is okay i know where i am um i am just north of the school yeah so the sweet shop is actually not too far from me what i really want to do is try to find a proper weapon uh food i have been fighting and then a vehicle would be phenomenal because the only way to outrun a sprinter is to have a vehicle i should probably start pulling curtains in this room if i'm going to treat this as my um [Music] sort of suited temporary base helps that uh zombies don't come and go freely in this place [Laughter] all right here we go i'm probably going to dump the other shelf oh i missed this magazine [Music] that's a real helpful magazine that's the advanced magazine uh those magazines come in help handy later when you're trying to tune cars to armor them up and make them powerful and protected and all that those are the magazines that are that are required all right so it's 5 p.m i have three more hours until night time oh this is an annotated registry so it has the low possible location of yet another weather station um looking like it's uh northwest of rosewood or so west of rosewood something like that i should probably keep the annotated one with me instead of the regular one here we go brev thank you for uh answering that so gifted subs are just ways for people to support the channel where they gift out a sub to someone else and they'll have that sub for a month and they'll have all the benefits of the sub and there are some benefits like being able to propose games for me to play and that kind of thing out on discord i feel very vulnerable in about uh 30 in-game minutes i want to turn on my well just turn it on now so you can see what the emergency broadcast systems looks like with this mod enabled the mod is called save our station where the weather stations oh hello diving out the windows [Applause] alright and there's you come on she fell i hear more in the book yep there's another one you can see the trees wiggling [Music] [Applause] and here is a broadcast so you'll see how it's different at the end of it so we've got the typical weather information now forage five all right some tea storms on the horizon and then emergency broadcast integrity so that is the integrity of the infrastructure of the emergency broadcast system or in other words how damaged is it and doesn't need repair uh farming two i already have first aid five i will never use but i'll grab anyway fishing two i did need metalwork five i did need trapping four okay oh yes canned goods can't go wrong with that for melted ice cream hello okay i hear someone trying to break out upstairs ebony i'm glad that you could join me i'm happy to keep you entertained oh wow just like that huh i'm glad they didn't choose to jump me as a transition from bottom floor to top floor that would've been scary as heck a fresh leather jacket wow wow that is a good find i don't think fingerless gloves uh no they do cover they just need a bit of um tailoring neat didn't know that long denim shorts are also pretty good for armor but i do have spare jeans already we got vitamins nice so typically in project zomboid you are alone unless you're playing multiplayer in this series i'm role playing as if there's other people but there aren't actual physical well no that's not exactly true um you'll never see another person but you will hear them scream hear their gunshots or see them as they fly by in airplanes and the like [Music] padded pants those are really warm aren't they they're like uh snow pants why someone in kentucky has snow pants i have no idea but uh i'll take it [Music] now where's my mushroom soup here it is i hear some pretty creepy noises coming from the west but i'm gonna say that this house is cleared pretty soon here uh i will how should i spend the early night time seeking out weapons heading to the school for bags and books seeking out a car i'll let you all vote how do you think i should spend it when the zombies get slower as it hits 8 o'clock what do i do you can vote [Music] i'd really like a door here but i don't have a hammer yet so that's impossible to uh to get just yet i'll keep the vitamins on me just in case i need an extra boost of vitality [Music] so if it hasn't occurred to you already my character is more or less going to be nocturnal as these zombies are a lot harder to kill during or a lot faster in the day it's best if i'm active at night and it is officially that time so let me pop this can of peaches open and then i will demonstrate how they're a little bit easier to deal with at night they're not weaker they're just slower yeah kind of like i am legend exactly exactly and it looks like uh heading to the school is currently winning but of course you could always change your mind or tip the scales with voting so this is a sweet shop oh there's a car right there let me head over and check out the cars because i'm standing right here so this is one of the modded cars and it's very cool i'll just tell you ahead of time you can armor them up and equip mods on them all sorts of really cool things and the short long-term vehicles that i have are going to be up to you but they're going to be required to be this style of vehicle this is a jeep it's a locked jeep oh with broken locks trunks open though so here because it's nighttime you can see the um the zombies are back to their sort of normal shambling self i mean still easy to get overwhelmed and outnumbered especially at night when it's dark and you can't see where you're going and at the moment there we go yeah i'm not making any progress here without a melee a proper melee weapon it's hard to separate them out and to kill them as the shove and stop method only really works when you have like two most all right let me bounce out of that um well the hunting knife isn't gonna do me any favors oh this car is open come on oh one's already crawler look at that [Applause] splat i hate when you have an opportunity to uh shove one over and the stupid zombies won't fall hey chris thank you for the resub [Applause] here you chase me there we go no stop ah i hate you there we go okay finally uh let's see if the sweet shops has anything you know what i don't think i can get in yeah i can [Music] one of these windows wasn't barricaded up peanut butter marinara hot sauce all right it looks like you guys want me to head to the school so i'll update that as soon as um [Music] i finish up in here i'll head over that way you know there's actually more stuff that i won't even have space for what i really want to do is to see if there's here i'll grab a few canned goods so that i can feed myself oh look at all this candy man rock candy i hadn't thought of rock candy in like so long i wanted to check if there was a weapon or something back here in the tool cabinet more canned goods so there's a lot of food in here um so i'm obviously not gonna mark this as cleared are there nocturnal moodlets like in room world um there are in mods yes without mods uh no the what this disincentivizes you to be out at night in project zomboid in under normal circumstances is the fact that it's dark so your [Music] your cone of vision is a lot lowered and therefore it's just a lot easier for zombies to sneak up on you and gank you there is a water cooler there that i'm going to want to go back for at some point and i'm starting to get drowsy as well i'm not going to lay into my um oh yeah here we go i'm not gonna lay into my uh my vitamins just yet to combat the drowsiness i'm just gonna be drowsy it's fine what i eventually want to get on is a night owl schedule so that i can more easily search at night so those scissors are going to be really helpful let me mark those off i don't have a needle yet but scissors are really helpful for getting thread and leather stripping for tailoring so this here is the library oh boy come on yeah see how it's getting darker and darker darker let me make sure there's no zombies in here before i start poking around the bookshelves yeah i'm good so we've got carpentry one electric one electric two let me grab those before i start moving down the list first aid two fishing two i don't need fishing too so first day two i already read that mech one i have it and then metalwork two i need it next shelf uh let's see carp four got it elect three mecha metal work i already have fishing one no that'll work for no wait no metalwork four yes and then this is the for fjord mustang blueprint magazine okay next shelf carp ii and antique collectors mince corpse into fertilizer delicious [Music] all right forge one and two i did need forge two the diadox manual is gonna be really important for me to have tailoring two awesome and tailoring five so the only beginner book that i don't have so far is first aid so that's what i'm looking for electricity five some engineering magazines taylor one trap to trap two i need and herbalist which is really good really really good to have our next shelf oh i already read that oh well farming five first aid one and none of these other books i need now i am getting encumbered so i got to be careful about that not to get over encumbered because then i can get chased down pretty easily especially during the day don't need any of those books electricity4 got it i have all electricity books now and that's another fjord mustang already read that mech one registry hunting magazine i think i just grabbed one but they don't weigh very much trap for i have already so none of these books i need either uh so there is the truck magazine nice and then taylor three i needed as well [Music] cook five got it [Music] and that's it didn't i have a flashlight i must have put it away because i am not seeing very much right now oops i didn't need two copies of that so first aid don't need it fishing for probably yep forge three yep and a medical magazine to improvise painkillers that's great next shelf and i'm almost done taylor 4 i did need and that means i have all tailoring and none of these are the books i need okay mac four is a yes and that's it from here [Music] yeah i'm not feeling like an abundance of safety uh in the dark like this but you know you just gotta you gotta take the risks sometimes oh i also have all metal work don't i herbalist some of these magazines are duplicates but they don't weigh anything so it doesn't really matter or they wait very little um oh there's the jeep magazine and none of these i need except for carpentry volume 3. thank you for tuning in to project zomboid nomad which originally streamed live on twitch july 5th if you have any feedback or questions for me let me know in the comments below if you would like to catch a live stream of mine rodemont.com has my stream schedule and countdown timers to upcoming streams if you'd like to join my gaming community broadmont.com or the description of this video have a link to discord thank you so very much for watching a special thank you to my patreon patrons twitch subscribers and viewers like you that support the channel i'll catch you next episode or an upcoming stream stay safe out there my fellow zombie slayers

Channel: Rhadamant

Views: 144,924

Keywords: Project Zomboid, Apocalypse, Nomad, 10 Years Later, Sprinters, Hard Mode, Nomadic, Roleplay, Twitch

Id: 62YiQYfC4iE

Length: 51min 0sec (3060 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 06 2022