How often do you consume some post-apocalyptic media and people slog it on empty highways or whatever for miles and miles on foot or revert back to fucking horses for some reason? Like I can suspend my disbelief that somehow there's just shittons of fuel laying around everywhere that magically doesn't spoil for decades but even then there's so many scenes where the characters are struggling to walk a distance or take forever and you could literally do it in a quarter of the time on a bike.

They're comparably easy to fix, they don't require keeping a whole ass horse alive, they're fairly abundant everywhere and the fuel is you. It just fucks with my disbelief. What, do these people walk through what remains of the suburbs, looting houses for supplies and just ignore every bike they see?

  • nohaybanda [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If you've ever played CDDA, finding a bike in early game is always a joyful treat. Doing circles around the zombies so I can go and steal some books from the local library is great.

    :comfy-cool:

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Oh neat, didn't know it had that. Good to know, anything bicycling is just insanely rare in vidya. I'm genuinely looking forward to Bicycle Mechanic Simulator even though it's all gonna be wrenching on pristine 5000€ bikes and not jury rigging some bullshit together

    • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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      3 years ago

      I've been playing 7 Days to Die and rushing quest so you can get your bike as early as possible is the best way to play.

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      yeah bikes are kind of the best in cataclysm

      enough speed to avoid any reasonable threat, it's a vehicle so you can put extra storage on it, no fuel