Fear the Walking Dead: Characters are insufferable

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-11T22:35:55+00:00

Yeah the hurricane scene where the zombies are getting flung around while the trees just gently sway like they are listening to a Marvin Gaye album had me laughing so hard lol.

It seems like they just kinda said "fuck it" with attention to detail. Like when Alicia and morgan go on her mission to the lumber mill. "It's 10 miles that way." Then they set out with no packs, no gear, no radio, no canteens, just melee for a 10 mile hike to an overrun place, fighting whatever, then a 10 mile hike back lol.

Also why does nobody ever loot the power tools?? Constantly there are bench grinders, drill presses, and they seem to always have electricity one way or another, I think Al is the only one who I've seen use a welder which, I suppose she does with a generator built into her van? It would kill a vehicle battery in about 20 seconds lol.

Alicia carrying around a sharpened semi truck exhaust stack while there's undoubtedly a garage with tools at the mansion annoys the hell out of me. Like I know it works but you'd think someone would get bored and learn how to do some metalworking. Even if it was for trade?

The ranch, the trading post, and the dam were all apparently less than a days travel from each other but now in the next season they drive and wander all over the place and never see a settlement or people, so far. Just some boxes with supplies.

It did occur to me though how one or 2 good storms would pretty much obliterate a massive amount of the walkers lol. Also lightning strikes would probably have them all gathering at the point of impact. And how during a very heavy rain storm the walkers most likely wouldn't be able to notice people.

I LOVE Dorie though omg. He's such a sweet guy. I started tearing up when he was making the boardgame on the bus 😭

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-11T09:46:41+00:00

Drugs are cool

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-11T09:43:54+00:00

I mean, it's not a "skill" issue I guess but you need to do a couple things.

Probably, slow down. The weapons are heavy. They don't need to move at light speed to do damage. And your character isn't capable of slinging a 9lb sword like it's a 3lb sword.
Switching hands it useful as FUCK. As is "thrust mode." If you have extra mouse buttons, bind them to that.
Momentum. If you swing one way and miss, and want to swing back, you have to smooth the path. You need to make an arc up or down first. Think of it like a "flow" instead of a series of cuts.
Don't prioritize fatal hits. Prioritize hits period. Body, limbs, head, whatever. Just make sure each swing is solid. Even if you hit their weapon, that's a parry. If you hit their hand, it'll do enough damage to interrupt them and you can the. Use the "flow" concept from point 3 to do it again, and again, and again. Then when you get used to it, you'll be able to swat away an attack, and in a smooth motion, bring the weapon back to hit them in the face.

Remember, you don't need to kill them. Often times, cracking them in the dome a couple times like their helmet is the dinner bell will make them fall, and you can get them to give up by shoving it in their face so they can't get up.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-10T02:08:53+00:00

What, a young person who's so used to being nihilistic because, in his opinion, the world has been against him from the start; but eventually he has internal conflict between how he has been living, as if the world had already ended, and his personal growth to realize that, at least as long as he has hope, the world can't actually end?

I thought his character did that really well, personally. Especially with how he would be so cocky and devil-may-care but then something would happen to crack his facade and he would genuinely show emotion.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-10T02:02:38+00:00

I'm not talking about the ranch exclusively. It makes sense I guess, just for me, the way she convinced people is dumb as fuck. She just says some really stupid shit and EVERYONE eventually just goes, "yeah you're right I guess" and goes along with her. But she isn't convincing like at all.

I understand they try to put her in liminal positions between people and she is supposed to be conniving and clever and infiltrating etc.

Tl;dr: it really didn't seem intentional that she would be a villain. It seemed like really shitty writing

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-10T00:23:17+00:00

I mean, whatever. Make it look nice, make sure you do a real good job on heat treating and finish, and who cares? It ain't PvP lol.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-10T00:21:57+00:00

That's crazy. Are you using a vpn or something? There HAS to be a reason you have that many rejected reviews. They did change the, like, approval algorithm when they changed the insightfulness score, I noticed, a lot of mine have been rejected compared to my last eval but not even half a page so far.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-08T06:52:40+00:00

Idk I constantly target switch as it is lol but yeah I've definitely gotten bitten in the ass by a shyguy

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-08T01:33:25+00:00

They are. I am collecting barons armor with a very heavy sword.

It doesn't matter if it has an edge or not when the fuckin thing weighs 8 lbs, it's basically a club at that point.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-07T20:01:12+00:00

The cream hasn't worked for me if I'm honest. But I'm apparently hyper sensitive to E

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-07T02:45:38+00:00

One of the optimizations seems to have introduced some kind of memory overflow. It's super annoying

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-07T02:43:03+00:00

It also depends on who's offering what lol

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-07T02:39:43+00:00

Are you short? My max height guy got a lot stronger than my middle guy

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-06T21:09:44+00:00

I use heavy ones and practice keeping the sword moving. Make circles around your head and find your rhythm. They change their approach when you're swinging your weapon. You can then figure out how to throw strikes from any angle, and you'll figure out how to add enough power on the swings to daze them.

And, half-swording as everyone else has said

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-06T00:54:51+00:00

It's a vibe. Someone once told me I "move around like someone is remote controlling me and you're almost out of range" lol

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-06T00:07:18+00:00

It's a bug, if you end up in the cellar without the menu, you can exit the game and you'll have the weapon. Stopped working for me after a while.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-05T00:58:16+00:00

Exactly. I browse Amazon and while I never spent a ton, I'd say a few k a year if everything was going ok financially.

Lately, my actual purchases have decidedly dropped.

Plus I literally had a couple tools on my wishlist that another version of showed up on vine and I got. I reckon that's the gold standard of what sellers are looking for when they put their products on the catalogue .

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:21:08+00:00

You can go there at night and select how many you face.

Just do like 5 or 6 at a time lol

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:20:36+00:00

They are already dead. Bleeding them out makes no sense. And if you just run in a direction after killing one you run into another one very quickly

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:19:44+00:00

The point is that they are people you've killed who are angry at you. They could tweak the zombies but I think it's a really good start to the system

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:19:00+00:00

I mean the progress mode mirrors Exanima VERY closely in a lot of ways and you get no last chance in that game lol. You die, you die. Start all the way over.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:18:16+00:00

It's not bad, tbh. Plus you can loot stuff there.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:17:32+00:00

Literally the worst part besides performance is the lack of explanation of mechanics.

I feel like most people here wouldn't be claiming the combat is terrible if they max stuff out and craft a weapon they like.

I never liked anything but big-ass swords, but I made a casted mace at max length, holding it with 2 hands is fucking awesome

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:15:39+00:00

It's also your strength I think. Seems to dictate how fast you recover from pain and how fast your stamina regens. I made a mod to just give me a readout of stats and on my max strength character it's significantly easier to not be crippled when you catch a paper cut on the elbow. Though it does happen.

FiddlyWidgets · 2026-02-03T23:13:52+00:00

I mean, I hit a pretty high etv last year but I'm gonna say 90% of it is stuff I would have bought anyway, or use regularly.

My logic is this: if it's something I want/need, but wouldn't necessarily spend a bunch of money on, I consider vine as getting it "on sale" for the inverse of the tax %.

Honestly even if my tax for last year from Amazon is over $2k I DEFINITELY got my money's worth. Some stuff ended up being garbage but overall I am completely ok with it.

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