basically what title implies im curious to see if there are colonists more pathetically underwhelming out in the universe than my zug.
basically he came we saved him from raiders he was just kind of okay at everything and had no combat skills he could fight he was just shit at it he was pretty much our hauler for a while.
and then he wandered into the forest found some wild mechanoids id willingly freed picked a fight with one and just kind of well......died I buried him out our fort to stop the colonists whining.
personally I consider that quite pathetic others might disagree and see that as simply underwhelming but I stand by my opinion.
Dying to my own steel deadfall traps.. head torn clean off after rearming it
I was trying to level my the medicine skill of my doctor and decided to use force powers (Using the Star Wars force mod) to cause minor damage to one of my pawns. I drafted my Sith colonist and got her to use force drain on my hauler/janitor. I had used this ability before and it had always inflicted only minor burns on the body of enemies, before or since this incident. First use on my colonist instantly creates a brain burn and permanent brain damage. The injured pawn later died during a plague epidemic, not because he had the disease, but because my only doctor didn't get around to feeding him in time.
my colonist decides to sleep outside in a cold snap. I didn't notice.
Heart attack...
The thing is that i wasted time looking for the best medicine, the pawn died waiting on bed.
I let the game run after all my colonists got into space once, not only wondering how long the bunker's defensive perimeter would last on Randy Extreme (Nearly a full year before the third and final Vulcan Cannon was destroyed.), but to see if anyone could inhabit the bunker. (Which was claimed by insects within the first season of its abandonment.)
One particular colonist that tried to take shelter in the massive bunker was a pyromaniac and, as they do, went on a fire starting spree eventually. He walked into the industrial freezer that the bunker had, and set the forgotten rations on fire, trapping himself inside. The temp quickly elevated to around 20k Fahrenheit and he and the contents of the freezer melted in about 10 minutes.
Quote from: Nithydux on July 03, 2017, 01:26:45 PM
I let the game run after all my colonists got into space once, not only wondering how long the bunker's defensive perimeter would last on Randy Extreme (Nearly a full year before the third and final Vulcan Cannon was destroyed.), but to see if anyone could inhabit the bunker. (Which was claimed by insects within the first season of its abandonment.)
One particular colonist that tried to take shelter in the massive bunker was a pyromaniac and, as they do, went on a fire starting spree eventually. He walked into the industrial freezer that the bunker had, and set the forgotten rations on fire, trapping himself inside. The temp quickly elevated to around 20k Fahrenheit and he and the contents of the freezer melted in about 10 minutes.
now that is truly what I call a truly pathetic death................but I think the fact that you've left a massive sprawling ruin which generations to come will wonder about on that planet is truly the raddest thing ever!.
Death by roof collapse. Well kinda. I had my Bob the Builder tearing down an old building to make room for something new and I forgot to tell him to pull down the roof first. It collapsed and caused a permanent brain injury. After about a season of the good doc caring for him I had her go ahead and put him to rest.
I know this isn't pathetic or anything but i still wanted to share this. I got a mod that lets you customize your colonists so i made the entire mass effect crew Shepard, Garrus, Tali, Joker etc.. I also got a nuke mod, So a huge wave of mechs were coming and the crew i had could not defend against it so i did something very reminiscent of the mass effect 3 ending and i had Shepard grab the nuke and run up to the mechs and detonate it. Shepard didn't live but the rest of them did. I cried for 10 minutes.
Quote from: Griffy on July 04, 2017, 04:28:44 AM
I know this isn't pathetic or anything but i still wanted to share this. I got a mod that lets you customize your colonists so i made the entire mass effect crew Shepard, Garrus, Tali, Joker etc.. I also got a nuke mod, So a huge wave of mechs were coming and the crew i had could not defend against it so i did something very reminiscent of the mass effect 3 ending and i had Shepard grab the nuke and run up to the mechs and detonate it. Shepard didn't live but the rest of them did. I cried for 10 minutes.
tuttuttut how dare you! corrupt this thread with a pawn who not only did not die pathetically but could even be considered heroic sacrifice!.
this is the place for those who died for nothing! and will be forgotten by the generations to come!.
chastising aside that's actually pretty cool way cool to be included here you should probably put the whole experience up as its own separate story thread so more people notice it.
Walked in front of someone hunting, shot in the head, head was removed.
Died smoking a joint. *sigh*
Weed is life I guess.
Quote from: Rimrue on July 04, 2017, 11:43:32 AM
Died smoking a joint. *sigh*
Similar, had a guy who was partway through detoxing from 2 different addictions go on a beer binge and died from the hangover.
Death by snu snu
Death by sniper rifle headshot, from a guy with 0 shooting skill, trigger happy and at (close to) maximum range ...
Doing a rich explorer colony on Randy Rough with a number of mods, including the Call of Cthulhu Cults mod. A few days in, my lone pawn decides to investigate the eerie tree, which, like an idiot, I had kept on auto investigate. The resultant mood loss put my pawn on an extreme break risk for two entire days, leading to my pawn having a tantrum (psychology mod). Apparently, a tantrum on the rimworlds means punching walls until you completely destroy both your hands and you bleed to death helplessly. The End.
i had the furnace mod, and since high heat transfers between rooms i was disposing of a few hundred bodies from a few raids
because i bunked everyone up in one room as i didn't have separate housing i accidentally slow cooked them overnight
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it was time to harvest all the potatoes from the fields in front of the main base, hydroponics were very power hungry at the time so i didn't bother
so of course randy random decided to throw a raid and i forget to take my colonists inside so of course my auto mortars shell the **** out off my farmers
Drafted two colonists to hunt a raccoon, one held a gun, the other held a knife. The colonist with the knife ended up with permanent brain damage (1/10).
How about springing two wooden traps at once "by accident"? Right when she was rearming one, it springs, and heading to the medical bed, there goes the other one
Lumi, you were such a klutz ::)
Zombies? Yeah I'm not worried. I'mma just go out there an pull up that steel flooring 'cuz we need it.
nom nom nom.
Mmmm brainnnnnzzz
Drank a beer - died of liver damage (instantly).
Fully geared (good quality power armor) pawn with plasteel sword getting killed by ~3-4 squirrels. (not actually killed, by dawned and then bled to death)
(http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/4208000/ngbbs41eee5c8eaf7f.gif)
Walling himself inside a wall and dying out of starvation. I didn't notice him for way too long (had some other matters to take care off, if I remember correctly).
I was shelling an enemy base while sending a small shotgun squad of 3 to go take cover and get ready to cleanup anyone who scattered out of their building/complex/fort.
The shell missed the target by like a long shot, and instead of hitting the middle of their base, it hit my shotgun-sqaud while they were 4/5 of the way to taking cover.
So basically, my arty-man had such a bad day that he decided that it'd be cool for him to get a triple-kill on his own team-mates, because he was complaining about not having a nice table to eat on.
one of my colonist ran into a group of Raiders (he was a wimp) they shot him, he ran......straight into a dead fall trap, decapitating him FML
8 colonists killed (3 instantly) in a single shot by a rocket launcher from another of my colonists .-. That was the first and the last time I ever used a f***** rocket launcher :(
Two of my colonists were crushed under a psychic ship during their wedding.
Quote from: Names are for the Weak on July 18, 2017, 05:32:26 AM
Two of my colonists were crushed under a psychic ship during their wedding.
Thats pretty sad. Didnt know psychic ship can crush colonists :o
For me, the most pathetic death was probably that one raider I used for training purposes. I chopped of his legs, put him on the floor in a small dark cave, and wuld repeatedly hit him with incidiery launcher and then heal him. Once my doctor became lvl 20 I planned to use him for training melee, but it was too much micromanaging, so I set him on fire one last time. First time I kinda felt sorry for a raider. But at least he wasnt freezing like everyone else ;D
This is more like a prisoner death to be honest.
My prison cells in my extreme desert map (Just started) Each had their own corpse in them to serve as "Food", the walls and doors are made of stone, and they each hold one prisoner.
This was around the time when we were starving to death, so I couldn't give prisoners food.
The prisoner was a pyromaniac, and went berserk, and started setting things on fire. The only flammable thing in that room was himself, and the corpse.
Essentially what happened was he cooked himself alive, using the corpse as fuel, and I didn't even notice since I hadn't set home-areas yet for that cell.
sucidial prisoners op
Quote from: Names are for the Weak on July 18, 2017, 05:32:26 AM
Two of my colonists were crushed under a psychic ship during their wedding.
Holy crap. Imagine if you could get a large sculpture made depicting that in game too.
Colony got hit by a load of mechanoids, there were around eight centipedes and I think six scyhters, two of which had those god-awful railguns.
Didn't have access to any armor, just some sniper rifles and such, funneled em as one does and won without any casualties. Several of the centipedes were downed but not dead so I sent a colonist to shoot at one of the downed mechanoids in hopes of leveling her up.
She had a heart attack and dropped dead on the spot.
Quote from: Ekarus on July 20, 2017, 06:00:59 AM
Colony got hit by a load of mechanoids, there were around eight centipedes and I think six scyhters, two of which had those god-awful railguns.
Didn't have access to any armor, just some sniper rifles and such, funneled em as one does and won without any casualties. Several of the centipedes were downed but not dead so I sent a colonist to shoot at one of the downed mechanoids in hopes of leveling her up.
She had a heart attack and dropped dead on the spot.
lul Rip
Alpha 14 or so, my original colonist, my favorite colonist who was an expert shooter, grower, crafter, suffered a brain injury and became a vegetable. I had so much of an attachment to him, that I kept him in bed rest and kept him fed for about a year until I found a cyro sleep pod in an ancient ruins. After some internal struggle, I hauled him into that sleep pod hoping that one day, many years from now, it would be possible to un-vegetable him. He's not technically dead, just rotting in some sleep pod until the end of time.
Quote from: shaw357 on July 28, 2017, 03:23:23 PM
Alpha 14 or so, my original colonist, my favorite colonist who was an expert shooter, grower, crafter, suffered a brain injury and became a vegetable. I had so much of an attachment to him, that I kept him in bed rest and kept him fed for about a year until I found a cyro sleep pod in an ancient ruins. After some internal struggle, I hauled him into that sleep pod hoping that one day, many years from now, it would be possible to un-vegetable him. He's not technically dead, just rotting in some sleep pod until the end of time.
well that doesn't technically count as a death nor can I judge weather its truly pathetic without any detail on what caused said injury.
however I gotta say that's really freaking sad one of my colonists got brain damage during a battle but he isn't brain damaged he's just a bit slower and worse at everything than he used to be.
My perfectly carfully prepared Space Marine got crushed by a Shippart from Crashlanding Mod while trying to put out a fire from another crashed part.
He burned to death, his powerarmor and equipment burned with him.
Thinky 3, my (3rd) researcher. She survived malaria, infestations, poison ships, even a frag grenade to the face during a sapper raid...
Went for a walk and got eaten by a cougar.
This is more a player failure than a pawn failure.
During my third attempt at Rhadament's Tribal Survival Challenge, I forgot to check my pawn's skills closely enough. Turns out, both of them were incapable of Caring. Both pawns died to infections from the first Mad Animal...which was a rat. One colonist got hit by the rat itself, the other was accidentally shot by their comrade with an awful shortbow. Both wounds festered. RIP.
I got tired of save-scumming like a sissy and gave up after cassandra gave me back-to-back disasters killing 10+ colonists in a few days...
Quote from: ruddthree on August 05, 2017, 07:33:29 PM
I got tired of save-scumming like a sissy and gave up after cassandra gave me back-to-back disasters killing 10+ colonists in a few days...
I think you misunderstood the thread and its title .. cheer up ..
Today I killed 4 colonists and set my base on fire, because I ordered close air support ...
which proved Maxim 5. 15. and 20.
5.Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart
15. Only you can prevent friendly fire.
20. If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win.
===== EDIT =====
Okay .. the most pathetic thing I have seen in Rimworld is this item stash.
Guarded by five turrets, two enemies and a fire-mortar.
I got into minimum range of the mortar, and hid behind the rock in the lower left ..
one enemie attacked me and got killed, the other I sniped from cover ..
then it started raining and all the outside batteries went Zzzzt ...
so take comfort in the knowledge that the rng not only screws your base, but every base :)
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Cold snap
Mental daze
Walked outside
Attacks by bear
Leg torn off
Walks back
Heals self up
Gets infection
Has to amputate other leg
All good
Go's outside
Angry squirrels attack her
Dies
Quote from: SpaceDorf on August 05, 2017, 08:02:16 PM
Quote from: ruddthree on August 05, 2017, 07:33:29 PM
I got tired of save-scumming like a sissy and gave up after cassandra gave me back-to-back disasters killing 10+ colonists in a few days...
I think you misunderstood the thread and its title .. cheer up ..
Oh, well I thought it was pathetic. I was referring to the deaths themselves, not the fact that I let them happen, but I suppose I could've reworded that differently.
Quote from: Jumpingeal on August 06, 2017, 10:24:44 PM
Cold snap
Mental daze
Walked outside
Attacks by bear
Leg torn off
Walks back
Heals self up
Gets infection
Has to amputate other leg
All good
Go's outside
Angry squirrels attack her
Dies
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Rimworld in a nutshell.
I somehow designated a timber wolf to be tamed by accident....and my only decent animal handler was incapable of violence....now she is incapable of everything but taking dirt naps
Sadly I only lose animals, while bo colonists fall. Pretty weird huh?
I think mine was when I had only just survived a raid by mechanoids, and I had two colonists left. One was in a medical bed, and the other was putting out fires. The one fighting fires went into a mental daze, and the one in the medical bed was consequently burned alive.
Then the one with the mental break wandered off the map and it was the end of the colony too.
Quote from: squippy on September 02, 2017, 09:36:22 AM
I think mine was when I had only just survived a raid by mechanoids, and I had two colonists left. One was in a medical bed, and the other was putting out fires. The one fighting fires went into a mental daze, and the one in the medical bed was consequently burned alive.
Then the one with the mental break wandered off the map and it was the end of the colony too.
eh? I didn't know colonists having mental breaks could wander of the edge of the map?.
1. Sent hunter to hunt with frag grenade, die with screen shake.
2. Try to havest heart from prisoner but accidently click on other colonist info without notice, the doc perform his job without fail.
3. Some colonist got plague while missing right kidney. Doc try to install right kidney to the colonist to faster the immunity gain speed. A cute animal nuzzle Doc while surgery.
4. Zzzzt event with 50k Watts. The colonist got 1 new spacious interior bed room mood buff. And colonist die debuff.
5. Their was a warg in one of my colonist try to hunt the Doe. Turn them to manhunter pack and RIP miner colonist nearby in the process.
While not one of my colonists, I did rescue a woman who crash landed. However, she was in a hurry to get out of my colony, even though she was married to somebody in my colony.
I take her to the hospital and patch her up. As soon as she can walk she wanders off, slowly as she can't move fast, and ends up getting eaten by a cougar.
I had a couple of deaths last night that were kind of silly. But it'll require a story!
A trade caravan had just showed up on the map, and was wandering towards our base when I got the "manhunter pack incoming!" warning. I looked over at it, and ... it was about 25 labradors. Luckily, they were on the opposite side of the map from the caravan, and seemed content to just run around in circles barking at the wall between two big hills.
So I kept an eye on them, and went back to work. Traded some stuff with the caravan, and then they started to head out. Apparently at that point the giant dog-pack decided "hey guys, there's more stuff over there! We can go AROUND this wall!" So the whole pack starts running along, barking madly, straight for the caravan. Shit.
The colonists grab their weapons and start sprinting out to try and help the caravan, who gets cornered in a valley near the exit of the map, and just SWARMED by the dogs. They all get savaged horribly, while my colonists try to shoot the dogs and save the caravan. Unfortunately there were just too many dogs, and several colonists suffered heavy injuries as well, though no deaths. Yet.
We dragged the wounded (including two members of the caravan who didn't die) back to the base to patch them up. Blood EVERYWHERE. I'm frantically trying to find beds for everyone, as the hospital wasn't set up for that many wounded at once (silly me, thinking 6 hospital beds would be fine for a colony of only 12 people). It's like herding cats, as people keep getting up and wandering around, despite their massive injuries.
Then I see a "colonist needs rescue" message pop up. Crap, did someone pass out? I click on it, and see the colony's geologist passed out about a half-mile from the colony. Apparently, despite massive bleeding, she decided "hey, you know what? I'm going to go pick up that random boulder on the far side of the map, even though it's not marked to be hauled!"
So I grab the janitor (she's not good at anything except dumb labor, but she's got jogger, so she's quick) and have her sprint to try and collect our wayward geologist. She gets there before she bleeds out, grabs her, and starts hauling ass back to the colony. The geologist is going to bleed to death in about 3 hours. It's a good 90m or so run back to the base, so it's going to be really close.
I kick some of the other colonists in the ass to get them to finish fixing people up (because, you know, having a snack is clearly WAY more important than putting a bandaid on your friend who's gushing blood), and then see the game drop into combat time. Oh what the hell NOW!?
I look around, and then with dawning horror realize that the janitor, who was dragging the geologist back to the base, is under attack by a wolf. Apparently all that blood made it smell like lunch time. So the poor janitor is staggering along, getting repeatedly mauled, while two other colonists start running out to save her. They manage to get there and kill the wolf before it kills the janitor, though she's bleeding and down. So the two of them grab the geologist and the janitor and start running back towards the base again. The geologist has about an hour before she bleeds out, which MIGHT be enough time to get her into the medbay and patch her up quickly if we do it fast.
Just as they're getting to the tunnel that leads into the colony...
RAID!
4 drop pods land right at the front door, and out spill some mechanoids. Right in front of the two that were carrying the janitor and the geologist back to the base.
Explosions, pulse fire, and a few metallic "ping!"s later, all four of them were lying dead on the ground. The victims of a horrible conflux of random events.
So I sighed, shook my head, and reloaded the last save. Hmph. :)
Oh the best horrible death I ever had is when my colonists where out mining a large mineral chunk and I made sent some pods to resupply them with the essentials more food and peno. So once the pods are full i launch them aiming them right outside the makeshift home i contributed since they would be there for a couple weeks. Only one of my colonists was inside my soldier/hunter who was there for protection. The damn drop pod crashes through the rough and decapitates him and makes me facepalm as i stare at his lifeless body.
One of my colonist starved to death even if we had full of food, because he was binging with alchool.
I let a wimpy pyromaniac get trapped and die helplessly by a squirrel
But the worst unintentional death was caused by roof collapsing during a event of toxic fallout, my lone character collapsed in need of rescue..
In open fight, I can survive raids of pirates with pistols, shotguns and assault rifles. I can even survive mechanoid waves. But I've already lost 3 shooters as they got shot with nothing else but great bows throughout tribal raids.
I like to solo raid tribals
Using my Glitter World Soldier Colonist with 15 in shooting and melee with modded godlike power armor, using a laser sword to cut through the lowly peasants bodies as their arrows hit my shield belt's force field. Their puny weapons bounce off my armor as I kill their woman and sickly while I laugh at their absurd gods. I lead them on a wild goose chase as I revel in my invincibility, OH NO THEY HAVE A CATAPULT!!! The catapult launches a barrel of explosives at me as a laugh in the face of death, for I am what they call god! I am unharmed by the blast. Their bodies pile around m-some guy just hit me in the neck and killed me instantly.
Turns out that mod forgot to include the neck.
Although not a colonist death;
Im playing with the Combat expanded mod
I hade taken upon me the task of clearing a raider hideout for one of my neighbours, without going into details of the raid itself (and the embarrasing long time it took me to realize that there was a door in the rock wall), the reward was delivered to my colony... pr. droppod... right through the roof... of my ammunitions depot... killing one of my tame boomalopes... setting fire to the remaining ammunition... causing bullets to fly everywhere killing my chief's pet hen (he was rather upset) and shattering the shin of the cook.
That was when i decided to put my ammunition outside of the livingarea and build it out of more sturdy materials than wood
"Scythers? Do not worry my friends, I can handle this!"
- is what he would have said, if the first shot the Scyther fired didn't completely obliterate his heart from this plane of existence, that seemed pretty unlikely, kinda unfair.
With him dead, his buddy went to take his revenge. I hope he liked that fancy meal he had for breakfast, 'cuz the second shot that Scyther fired through a set of sandbags took-out his stomach, dead instantly.
Just landed in a desert, two of my colonists are diligently hauling supplies into our makeshift shelter. The third guy was a medieval lordling or something like that, and deemed manual labor to be a task unfit for one of his stature. He spends the first two days being completely useless - couldn't haul, couldn't cook, couldn't do anything really except hunt and tame animals. I am frankly fed up with him at this point, and I imagine my other two colonists are too. Then fate delivers us all some relief.
The lordling goes out for a morning stroll and is promptly mauled by a mountain lion. If I didn't know better, I could have sworn the mood buff from New Colony Optimism actually increased.
One pathetic and probably most memorable for me was an innocent pacifist that decided to join the wrong colony . Our poor colonists was recovering from a rather vicious squirrel maiming and decided she was good enough to leave her hospital bed and brace the mess hall. Sitting down in her usual seat she started on her muffalo meat meal. Shouts and sirens start to blaze as the report of an enemy mortar team nearby sounds. The team gets their mortal set and fire , the rest of the colonists arm themselves with assault rifles , clubs and a sniper rifle. Animal and colonist alike charge toward the enemy all except our lone pacifist who continues to enjoy her meal. The first mortar launches over my colonists heads and sails , sails , sails into the heart of my base landing right on that delicious muffalo meal . The shell explodes and my poor pacifist becomes the first victim in the siege. I've never made a shot like that and never have seen one hit so perfectly! RIP
I had another one it was after a raid on an enemy encampment . The battle was bloody , no casualties on our side but sickness. Everyone e gets inside and it starts to rain. My doctor is running around in and out of the building getting meds and treating the wlunddd. The rain turns to a thunderstorm and as my doctor steps out into the storm ZAP!! Bolt of lightning to the head killing the wounded good doctor.
Implemented a misfire mod, gun explodes, shooter dies. The explosion knocks out everyone else, raiders kidnap everyone.
So I got a big raid and didn't realised one of them had doomsday rocket launcher, lost 5 colonist instantly .
Recently I had a hard time at my fort, which left every colonist in a very stressed shape. Some might say this was caused by massive human butchering, but nobody knows for sure.
One fine day, My doctor was gathering chunks or something in the wild, while he was struck by a small cave-in caused by some reckless biker miner (yes his name was biker... riker.. striker something).
Whist he got a very though heart damage for some reason (his head was okay, so I think it was an emotional roof), but had no problem treating himself on the spot. Now, having 3/20 heart left or so, he went for the cook, which hat some rat bites with multiple infections and was sitting hospital.
As my Doctor fed the cook, his own meal, he got food poison, which instantly caused him start raging. He punched the doctor at his heart, who instantly died.
Whilst this the third colonist turned pyromanic and warmed up the situation.
As this happend, old bro rikerstrikerbiker cam for extinguisingment, but couldnt event enter the rooms, as a single bed and table were too hot to enter, so i had to draft him and watch the scene.
Colony was refunded, but rikerbiker was never the same again...
Well, it was just a normal day in the colony, when a thrumbo event ocurred. Then, well, i decided to hunt him. Things were going just fine, my colonists wounded the thrumbo several times in the legs before going mad.
But then... Right before the thrumbo goes mad, a colonist designed to mine some steel walked near the thrumbo. When it got manhunter, it decided to follow the colonist. Just close enough to hit him and cut his head off clean.
One of my colonists died to a manhunter rat.
Noting to smoke, went berserk. Was my only doctor.
I lost a whole colony, back in α7, to a pack of manhunting squirrels.
Yeah, you heard me. Squirrels.
It was nuts.
Thought I paused the game and went to eat dinner. Came back and everyone is dead. Loaded the earliest auto save, still missing one pawn who is one of the most important one.
I will never find out what happened to her.
Is dropping roof on someone applicable? Right on its head?
Welcome to the mountain kingdom, a solid wall of mountain to the south of the region with a small alcove cut into it made the perfect starting point. The alcove served as a killing field for my turrets which I had naively set up in two 5 long, 2 thick lines either side of the path into the mountain halls.
A raid was coming, the largest I had seen so far (second colony). They were taking their time setting up so I rallied my colonists and had them wait behind the second
Defence #1: whilst they were preparing a trade caravan rocked up and made their way to the colony. Stopping halfway through the sandbag wall and deciding that was a perfect place to mill about.
The raid came and a few were caught in the crossfire, but it wasn't until the guy with the grenades got in close and was torn apart by the turrets that things hit the fan. Stray rounds flew everywhere, some catching a trader. They took that as hostile intensions and set about slaughtering my colonists. After the first two were outright killed by shotgun blasts to the face I called it quits and reloaded.
Defence #2: the autosave brought me back to just after the arrival of the raid. No traders this time, just a short wait for the raiders to head in. A hail of bullets later and the guy with the grenades made it to his maximum range.
Bang. Oh there goes a turret.
Phizzzzzz. What's that?
Boom. Oh turrets explode?
BoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoomBoom. @&#£!
New red carpet went down in a split second as my colonists firing over the turrets are vaporised.
Defence 3: build mortar to deal with them at range. Don't have mortar shells.
Reload.
Defence 4: rare thrumbo joins the party stands where the traders stood during the first raid, have turrets and colonists fire upon it before raid begins.
Favourite colonists all but cut clean in half.
Reload.
Defence 5: no extras, just a good old fire fight between me and the baddies. Even kill the grenade guy with a headshot before he makes it through the alcove bottleneck.
Mental break. Snobby colonist too good for hauling wanders out into field of fire and gets torn to pieces by the last raider's final volley.
I count that as a sacrifice I'm willing to make and carry on.
Moments later everyone important is struck down with malaria and the barely useful colonists struggle to keep things running. Even run out of meds after patching up all the war wounds accumulated.
Give up.
Build new colony.
My personal favourite -
Another faction comes to offer military assistance and arrives by drop pod.
Right through a roofed area of my mountain base.
The resulting roof collapse kills my best medic.
There was no actual raid happening, only some as yet undiscovered ancient danger.
They hung around for a bit and then left.
Errr... thanks guys.
Not really a pathetic death but...
Well i think i remember the name... Sam, she was one of the original three.
She was good shot and was one of the main builders of the colony. So i gave her the bolt-action rifle or the survival rifle? ( Can't remember if i was playing in A15 or in A16. )
In a few days a thrumbo has arrived but it wasn't the real cause of her demise. In the same day we were attacked by raiders and they were outnumbering us. 7v3 are you kidding me! ( I think i had a pacifist so that makes us 4 but she doesn't count. ) But however the thrumbo is still around near my colony.
So i send sam to shot the thrumbo to enrage it. it worked, as the angry thrumbo tries to attack the raiding party but it wasn't doing a good job.
One of those taffers with a pistol was near our colony but she was not well equiped unlike her brother and sisters fighting the thrumbo with rifles.
but she was close so i send sam to put down that raider with the pistol.
Sam missed with her rifle. but the raider... she looked back and fired her sidearm... and the bullet pierced through sam's skull... and hitting the brain...
I panicked but sam wasn't dead. She was still alive... i send her friends to save her. ( including her rifle. ) But it was a close call...
The raiders fled. But that son of a hag was still alive, who shot sam. And the thrumbo was still alive but heavily wounded by the raiders and still angry.
However friendly tribals have came to dispatch the thrumbo. ( I think called with the comms. can't remember my memory is fuzzy. ) They did kill the thrumbo with their bows and spears.
Sam was cured of her wounds but she was put in a coma... permanently...
She had a pet yorkshire but we sold it to traders.
While the colony has grown to support more people. Sam was sleeping in her bed for many days. Her friends regularly enter her room try to cheer her up and feed her food.
It was a sad day for Sam. Bedridden for her entire life... put into a coma by a raider from a bullet through the brain and somehow survived but barely breathing nor moving. We built her a crytosleep casket for her, but it felt like a tomb for her. It was kind of sad, while everyone was happy. She wasn't even though her mood meter cannot go up or down...
And that's the story of Sam.
Quote from: Kirby23590 on November 13, 2017, 08:38:46 PM
Not really a pathetic death but...
Well i think i remember the name... Sam, she was one of the original three.
She was good shot and was one of the main builders of the colony. So i gave her the bolt-action rifle or the survival rifle? ( Can't remember if i was playing in A15 or in A16. )
In a few days a thrumbo has arrived but it wasn't the real cause of her demise. In the same day we were attacked by raiders and they were outnumbering us. 7v3 are you kidding me! ( I think i had a pacifist so that makes us 4 but she doesn't count. ) But however the thrumbo is still around near my colony.
So i send sam to shot the thrumbo to enrage it. it worked, as the angry thrumbo tries to attack the raiding party but it wasn't doing a good job.
One of those taffers with a pistol was near our colony but she was not well equiped unlike her brother and sisters fighting the thrumbo with rifles.
but she was close so i send sam to put down that raider with the pistol.
Sam missed with her rifle. but the raider... she looked back and fired her sidearm... and the bullet pierced through sam's skull... and hitting the brain...
I panicked but sam wasn't dead. She was still alive... i send her friends to save her. ( including her rifle. ) But it was a close call...
The raiders fled. But that son of a hag was still alive, who shot sam. And the thrumbo was still alive but heavily wounded by the raiders and still angry.
However friendly tribals have came to dispatch the thrumbo. ( I think called with the comms. can't remember my memory is fuzzy. ) They did kill the thrumbo with their bows and spears.
Sam was cured of her wounds but she was put in a coma... permanently...
She had a pet yorkshire but we sold it to traders.
While the colony has grown to support more people. Sam was sleeping in her bed for many days. Her friends regularly enter her room try to cheer her up and feed her food.
It was a sad day for Sam. Bedridden for her entire life... put into a coma by a raider from a bullet through the brain and somehow survived but barely breathing nor moving. We built her a crytosleep casket for her, but it felt like a tomb for her. It was kind of sad, while everyone was happy. She wasn't even though her mood meter cannot go up or down...
And that's the story of Sam.
It was an insane idea to do such thing. You gotta just hit and run inside, watching the bloodbath in the field. Then, wait til Manhunting goes off ;)
Quote from: kubolek01 on November 14, 2017, 01:45:31 AM
It was an insane idea to do such thing. You gotta just hit and run inside, watching the bloodbath in the field. Then, wait til Manhunting goes off ;)
Thank you for listening to my story... I learned many mistakes from playing and learning, i could had the left the thrumbo doing its work. it can survived many gunshots from assault rifles and machine pistols.
But i still remember that freaking raider that i will gladly harvest her organs. I can't remember her name since i was playing in A15 or was A16?
But i know how she looked like! she had a pink shirt, a gray tuque and a hulk body size.
And some of the fragments of the map before the incident. (Sorry i don't have the screenshot. i deleted it from my steam screenshot folder :()
S = Sam
R = Raider
O = Wall
+ = Door
O
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O
S O
O
O
+ O
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O
R O O
O O
O O
O O
But if i ever see a pink shirt and a gray tuque with a hulk body raider in my game in A17 or in A18. I will kill that son of a hagraven and harvest it's organs and butcher it's corpse and wear it's human leather hat in the name for Sam! >:(
EDIT: Replaced walls with O
Quote from: Slimy_Slider on July 01, 2017, 09:01:15 PM
I was trying to level my the medicine skill of my doctor and decided to use force powers (Using the Star Wars force mod) to cause minor damage to one of my pawns. I drafted my Sith colonist and got her to use force drain on my hauler/janitor. I had used this ability before and it had always inflicted only minor burns on the body of enemies, before or since this incident. First use on my colonist instantly creates a brain burn and permanent brain damage. The injured pawn later died during a plague epidemic, not because he had the disease, but because my only doctor didn't get around to feeding him in time.
Yea thats pretty pathetic
Quote from: crazyroosterman on September 02, 2017, 01:29:46 PM
eh? I didn't know colonists having mental breaks could wander of the edge of the map?.
They don't any more, this was a few versions back.
A pyromaniac thought it was a good idea to ignite the artillery shells.
Spoiler alert: it was, because it rid me of one pyromaniac.
I had a massive man hunter pack of squirls attack, they flooded the bunkers and swarmed my pawns. We were victorious; however, it was bittersweet. The infections that followed wiped out enough of the colony that it could no longer function. The colony did not last another quadrum.
Quote from: Forrest on December 01, 2017, 12:25:18 PM
I had a massive man hunter pack of squirls attack, they flooded the bunkers and swarmed my pawns. We were victorious; however, it was bittersweet. The infections that followed wiped out enough of the colony that it could no longer function. The colony did not last another quadrum.
Why many fall from this s**t?!