u/LostKeys3741

There used to be some command exploit that allowed me to send a swarm across the map where my recon can see the enemy without having my hive frigates getting close and I can keep my hive frigates way out of battle. How to do it? Does anyone remember?

A while back I was struggling with "world building/lore" premise explaination as to why survivors would need to destroy the brain and also burn or incinerate the body from re-growing the brain for my story. Just so I can have a reason why a pyrophile main character is running around with a flaming mace/sword and throwing molotov cocktails and his nemesis is Degan the Diddler (covers himself in Diddy Oil and uses Diddy Oil as a weapon).

1st I want to thank everyone for their participation and time to make their input and feedback.

Anyways, what do u guys think of this concept.

The zombie apocalypse is slowly caused by years of introducing lab grown meat to the populace. Some rich kazillionaire by the name Phil Yates decides to heavily invest research in the Lonestar tick's alpha gal syndrome. He figures out how to mass breed these ticks to spread them all across America and even bio engineers mutations to allow these Lonestar ticks to survive in all the other countries. He secretly introduces this invasive species into every country. Why? So that everyone in the world has some form of Alpha Gal syndrome causing meat allergy.

Why do that? Phil Yates also invested money into researching lab grown meat as an alternative to traditional meat which people with alpha gal syndrome is allergic to. In a way he has a monopoly on the food industry. The plan was to cause everyone to not eat meat from animals, and then sell this meat alternative.

Would it make sense that human meat rather than animal meat does not trigger allergies in people with alpha gal syndrome? I am not a scientist. But what if the secret ingredient that makes nu-meat edible to people infected with alpha gal syndrome was because nu-meat is part human?

Anyways. So they have human lab grown meat being sold as animal lab grown meat. They tried selling animal lab grown meat and people where still having allergic reactions to alpha gal syndrome so they just used human dna to grow the meat and not tell anybody.

This human lab meat is grown with a regenerative cell property like cancer. They basically bio engineered a deformed humonculous human so that they can harvest the limbs and let it grow back again. So imagine a test tube baby, with undeveloped brain but functioning vital organs like heart, respiratory and digestive organs etc... they feed this poor thing in a vat with a tube shoved down its throat. Thats just 1 speciemen, now imagine an entire farm of thousands of these little regenerating human meat clusters. To avoid it being completely human and legaly defined as a human violation, it is a chimera, a splicing of many different animals and small percentage of human dna to let it be FDA approved.

Billions of people eat this human lab grown meat every day for about 1-3 years and finally after 3 years we get outbreaks of people getting prion disease and dying and then re-animating as zombies. Populations have been depending on subsisting on human lab grown meat and will starve without it because vegatables and protien nuts and legumes are not enough.

This kind of zombie virus has people regrowing dead cells and can even regrow the brain even if you shot the head completely off with a shotgun.

Is this believable enough for audience suspension of disbelief? Is this suffucient for a dumb parody story I am about to try and write?

So thats the world building premise back story lore.

The premise of the main story is:

Main Character boy is a parody of Carl Grimes from TWD. His daddy is Mick Pines. Mick Pines, is the leader of a small group of survivors. One day he makes the biggest mistake of his life deciding to ambush a raider group called the Violators. Mick Pines group infiltrates and kills the group of Violators in their sleep at a satallite base.

Degan (Negan Parody), retaliates and gets his soldiers to surround and force Mick Pines group to surrender and do that eeenie meany minie mo bash their face in scene (Glen and Aberiham death scene). Except this is a parody. For a pg 13 description, Degan makes young Jarl Pine watch Degan forcibly drown Mick Pine's head in a bucket of diddy oil and it is rather suggestive and traumatizing to the young boy. He was forced to watch his father die in humiliation like that scene in Berserker pokemon parody. "NO! dont save!"

Spoilers: >! Degan stands over Mick Pine who is kneeling and has the bucket of oil in between himself and Mick. Degan grabs Mick by the hair on back of his head with both hands and forces Dickard's head down into bucket. He bobs his head up and down. From the camera angle it looks very suggestive. Mick with his hands tied behind his back and kneeling struggles to break free and breath, pushing his head up out of the bucket of oil. Degan standing up and having both hands on Mick's head pushing back down into bucket. Mick gasps for air, and Degan breaths heavy. They keep doing this until Mick finally drowns and Degan lets out a loud moan. You know exactly what I am trying to describe here.😉!<

Degan takes over the Pine's group and makes them do that 50% tributary process. A month or 2 in, Jarl Pines escapes and runs away and this begins his story. He grows up on his own to become a man and has vowed vengeance on Degan. Just like Inigo Montoya. Still brainstorming somthing funnier than 6 fingers on left hand. 🤔

He starts off being a naive boy who knows nothing and has to learn how to adapt and survive in a zombie apaocalypse and in that is opportunity for situaltional comedy. This would be the body of the story.

He fights zombies that regrown their brains so he carries a flaming mace/sword and also burns the bodies.

He meets people. People betray him and he betrays people. However there is an inner story. Jarl is haunted by the reuccuring nightmares of being forced to watch his father die in such an odd way. Jarl meets another buddy who he confides in. It turns out this buddy was an older adult studying college psychology before the apocalypse occured. Jarl would talk about the dream but each time the buddy would ask weird questions.

"And are you sure you saw what you saw Jarl? Are you sure that was a bucket of oil? You say you saw your father's face dripping in oil, but are you sure it was oil dripping down his face? You know some times oil can appear like a white glistening liquid but oil slicks, it isnt sticky or clumps or 'dangles' off the chin. You said the oil bucket made a slurping noise, are you sure a bucket was making that sound?"

Spoilers: Jarl was disassociating what actually happened. 🥺

Eventually in the final showdown Jarl Pines as grown man confronts Degan. In this parody fight, we recreate the Lady's Man vs Will Ferril wrestling scene.

Degan, "You want some of oil for the fight?"

Jarl, "What?"

Degan, "Did you get that thang oiled up?"

Jarl, "What?"

Degan, "Did you get it oiled down?"

Jarl, "Hold up, are you talking about an oil change? Bruh just say that. Why you got to be using these terminologies? I had it with your rigamorole."

Degan pours diddy oil all over himself making himself extra slippery as an advantage to winning his fights.

Jarl ignites his flaming weapon.

Degan wide eyes, "oh no my only weakness"

Its supposed to be dumb. Think of Norsemen parodying Vikings. 😅

Additional dumb ideas for comedic sake.

Negan carries a barbed wire bat named Lucile. Degan will carry a plain wooden baseball bat, but also a small pocket sized bottle of diddy oil in his pocket and applies the oil on the bat for suggestive sences such as interrogating people or intimadating people. "What r u going to do with that slippery bat?" 🥺.

Negan wears a black leather jacket and red scarf and jeans. Degan will only wear a red scarf, and his black leather jacket and blue jeans are body painted on so that he can stand with his butt checks out naked for viewers to see.

Negan is played by Jeffery Dean Morgan. My fan casting for Degan is Raymond's brother from Every Body Loves Raymond. 😅

Ok I am very ignorant and not knowledgable on this topic. You can laugh at me.

Not only must you destroy the brain, you must burn it or the brain will regenerate?

Like shooting the brain just drops the zombie as if it were dead but the brain and skull slowly regenerates after a long time. Even if you blow the entire head off, the torso grows a new head with brain after several days.

How do I explain in this universe, cutting a zombie hand off will not grow another zombie from that severed hand, but a zombie missing a skull will grow a new skull and brain? Or explain how a zombie missing limbs will only regenerate those limbs but not sprout more limbs.

Is there existing media or novels similar to what I am trying to conceptualize?

How would I write a story about zombies but not John Carpenter's the Thing or necromorphs? But still have a reason why bullets from guns dont work at killing zombies? Or why people need flaming melee weapons, molotov, or flame throwers to cremate the bodies?

TLDR: I really want to write a zombie story about people having to use a flaming mace to kill zombies. But I need logical reason why do that instead of just using guns.

I am using a PS4 controller on a potato computer to play on Steam and having to use Steam Input override option for the controller.

When there are no enemies, I press the normal and spec attack button and it works perfectly fine. But the moment when I lock on to an enemy and circle strafe it, the entire game lags and or the button inputs dont work at all. I am button mashing the attack button and the character refuses to attack.

I tried circle strafing and blocking. It is intentional you can not attack while blocking with 2 handed weapon so I understand that. But I let go of the block button to attack and the character is just not attacking at all.

Is this problem entirely related to using a PS4 controller on Steam? The PS4 came out in 2013, PS5 came out 2020. I understand that the PS4 controller might not get support for being from 2013 or 13 years old by 2026, but it is nearly the same thing as a PS5 conntroller. Also my PS4 controller from 2013 has been replaced with a newer 2023 version so you can't say the condition os damaged from wear and tear.

Or perhaps it is a blue tooth dongle problem?

"BUY A STEAM CONTROLLER." Well then u send me $70 for steam controller or stfu. Most other games including Outward 1 works okay with my ps4 controller.

Are people using Steam Controller having any latency or button input lag or no response issues?

Are people using XBox Controller having any latency or button input lag or no response issues?

"Just play KB+M." No, I just cant play kb+m at all for this type of game.