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Don't be jealous Nighthawk. I began vomiting thick grey goo and died of dehydration.
Not sure why. XD I had a teleportation module installed on my body, and it said that using it could have unsavory side effects. I only used it once, but once was enough.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Don't be jealous Nighthawk. I began vomiting thick grey goo and died of dehydration.
Not sure why. XD I had a teleportation module installed on my body, and it said that using it could have unsavory side effects. I only used it once, but once was enough.

Yeah. Teleportation's really not worth it.
I think you can get similar effects from a floating eye, so avoid those too.

[Nighthawk]

Hmm... did you make sure your character didn't have the Gets Spacetimesick trait? It's a hundred times worse than getting airsick or seasick, believe me - I know.

[Recherche]

Hmmmm... Nope, no Gets SpaceTimeSick trait. XD Although if that existed, it'd be the strangest thing ever.
I have yet to see a floating eye.

[Nighthawk]

I met a floating eye once. It smashed straight through 20 walls with its laser-vision madness, then stared at me while I beat the crap out of it. Some time during the battle, my shoes exploded, and I had hooves... which was pretty awesome.

So yeah, I'm guessing floating eyes have an irradiating effect which causes a random mutation or status.

[SomeStupidGuy]

I met a floating eye once. It smashed straight through 20 walls with its laser-vision madness, then stared at me while I beat the crap out of it. Some time during the battle, my shoes exploded, and I had hooves... which was pretty awesome.

So yeah, I'm guessing floating eyes have an irradiating effect which causes a random mutation or status.

That's one effect. You got lucky, to be honest.
Occasionally you can get teleportitus or even a fungal infection.

[Neonivek]

Here is a question

Did Global warming also destroy the world in Cataclysm?

[Recherche]

I'm not the creator of the game- nor have I gotten far enough to consider myself as "winning" the game- but I believe the developer wants to leave what created the apocalypse up to you. Like a mystery, except at some point the game does state that you can find out more about what caused these events.

[Neonivek]

I'm not the creator of the game- nor have I gotten far enough to consider myself as "winning" the game- but I believe the developer wants to leave what created the apocalypse up to you. Like a mystery, except at some point the game does state that you can find out more about what caused these events.

I don't know... my theory is EVERYTHING happened.

This is a world where everything that could end the world happened all at once.

Which the game seems to support. Which is funny it tried so hard to be a "You chose what actually happened" that it kinda becomes "It seems more reasonable to assume everything happened"

[Flying Dice]

Just going by the evidence present, that's the most likely situation. Just about every unnatural Class 1-4 Apocalypse scenario, all taking place at the same time. Just off the top of my head, you've got zombies, nuclear/conventional war, rogue robots, Triffids, fungaloids, interdimensional rifts, Graboids, mutated animals, and the blobs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Actually, I seem to recall hearing at some point that everything was caused by the blobs.

[GalenEvil]

If you read through the Lab Notes file in the Data directory you get a decent sequence of events that supports the blob theory

[Recherche]

Don't forget the craters that dot the landscape- those could be evidence of bombs or asteroids. I think it's fun to imagine a nuclear war, some kind of zombie virus, the rise of the machines AND frequent meteor showers, because Mother Nature says "Screw you."

[Greiger]

My understanding of what happened:

Spoiler: Yes actual spoilers within.  If you read the lab notes this pretty much is a summary of that and some post Whales made some time ago. (click to show/hide)

Scientists were experimenting with teleportation, ended up finding alternate dimensions as a side effect.  At the same time there seemed to be a second cold war brewing.

Government increased funding of the labs, and began turning blind eyes to their immoral experiments hoping they could create a new superweapon. 

Scientists began opening portals to the alternate dimensions, for !!SCIENCE!! but found that it was much easier to open portals to a 'lower' realm so they started there. (At this point my speculation makes me think the scientists discovered heaven and hell)

Scientists extracted ooze from the lower realm.  They found that folks contaminated by the stuff while living become zombies after death.  It also effects stuff like insects, amphibians and all kinds of stuff mutating them to be huge.   Of course, the stuff escaped and got into the water supply.  "Oops, our bad."

Folks started becoming zombies, mass hysteria ensues, Evil Global superpower sees the perfect time to strike, and the bombs drop.  And the invasion starts. (Notice how not all the downed choppers and soldiers are using United States standard issue gear)  The ooze spreads to the rest of the world quickly.

Dosn't explain all the stuff like graboids, and elder god monsters, but it explains most of it.

EDIT: Oh yea, Fungaloids are from the lower realm as well.  I assume spores that made it through the portals and went unnoticed.  Trifflids may also be from there...maybe.  They are more of a mystery, but they do seem strongly opposed to fungaloids in style.  Or they are just another monster from some other media added with no explanation that we aren't supposed to think about.

As for builds I love night vision and animal empathy.  Everything else just kinda depends on mood.

[GalenEvil]

I haven't tried Animal Empathy yet, but I guess it might help with my hunting attempts. Right now during hunting I just make a lot of wooden spears and throw them at things until they die, or they are close enough for me to hatchet to death

[debvon]

I really don't like animal empathy that much. Perhaps I don't fully understand it? Sure, being able to stab a deer with your ring finger while it sits there and grazes is nice early on, but over time hunting for food becomes very, very easy. And, even when I do take animal empathy, wolves still run up to me at the same distance. Maybe they hesitate for a longer period before deciding to attack? But.. that matters little. It seems like once I catch the attention of a wolf, it'll eventually come down to killing it. And animal empathy doesn't seem to effect that eventuality.

Again I might be misunderstanding the skill, but it seems very sub-par.