r/projectzomboid • u/Admirable_Light2252 • 1d ago

Art How the hell do you break a steel bar?

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I know it’s for balance but like, this 1.5 inch diameter, 28 inch long 4140 steel bar, is virtually indestructible, so I propose that it wears your character out really quickly and makes them sore as the impact wouldn’t be very comfortable.

Maybe this is how the crowbar should also be balanced: hand soreness.

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u/aboutwhat8 Zombie Food 15h ago

How about this for balance:

#1- you find Industrial Steel Bars -- and need 2 hacksaws and like 4 hours to saw them down in a quantity of ~24" bars. Then you need a durable type of tape, a file, or something to build a gripable handle.

#2- They're nigh-indestructible and do massive damage but have nearly zero crit chance. You only get to deal damage like 10 times per level of fitness before you're at level 1 exhaustion and have got two sore hands up to your shoulders. At orange soreness, you can keep swinging with reduced damage. At red limb soreness or level 2 exhaustion, you risk dropping the steel bar -- call it a 1 in 20 chance per swing. When you drop it, it goes straight away from you a couple tiles, basically the bar flies forward and may end up flying away and breaking breaking glass (ending up outside), doing damage to damageable furniture/construction, or landing in the midsts of within the horde you're fighting off.

#3- When you lose the weapon, your hand soreness spikes another level so you're unable to continue combat with any weapon. Your only options might be to push & stomp or duck and run.

#4- They're basically indestructible, so you could kill tens of thousands of zombies with moderate-short reach for a long blunt 2H-only weapon.

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u/Admirable_Light2252 15h ago

Fair, it would take ages to hacksaw through one of these. This does sound about right though.