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Author Topic: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!  (Read 1880460 times)

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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14040 on: October 18, 2014, 05:05:03 pm »

You mean I can finally stop guess and checking my X and Y tiling values, and just maximize? :P
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« Reply #14041 on: October 19, 2014, 12:08:32 am »




Hm...



Active internal furnace?  Either way it's a bug, but different handling is probably warranted.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14042 on: October 19, 2014, 12:47:41 am »

Any tips for surviving early on? I'm trying to get a good game as the Experiment going, I know how to set up stats and such, but what's the best way to survive?

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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14043 on: October 19, 2014, 12:50:23 am »

Dodge, throwing, and being as fast as a mofo with 20kg of pure cocaine in him.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14044 on: October 19, 2014, 12:58:07 am »

Any tips for surviving early on? I'm trying to get a good game as the Experiment going, I know how to set up stats and such, but what's the best way to survive?

Bang rocks together and smash windows until you can make a stone knife and wooden needle, then dissassemble strings for thread. Cut up sheets for rags and tailor the crap out of zombie clothes until you can make a decent suit of clothing/armor for yourself.
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And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
So if baseless speculation is all we have, we might as well treat it like fact.

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« Reply #14045 on: October 19, 2014, 11:38:26 am »

Any tips for surviving early on? I'm trying to get a good game as the Experiment going, I know how to set up stats and such, but what's the best way to survive?

KNIFE SPEAR. Put a point in survival in char gen and you can make KNIFE SPEARS out of the starting shelter, with a little work. KNIFE SPEARS have +1 to hit, block, strike VERY quickly and do decent damage. And they don't get stuck in things easily, having the SPEAR tag.

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With alternate starts, its harder to make the KNIFE SPEAR, but still possible. Smash a car for scrap metal or disassemble a steak knife for the spike. Rags and string come from smashing a window and cutting up the resulting sheet with your pocket knife. Heavy sticks are everywhere.

Things you need very quickly:

Bone/Wooden Needle or Sewing Kit

Something with level 1 cutting and some butchering quality

At least a level 2 hammering tool

A crowbar[Makeshift ones can be made from pipes, which you get from smashing lockers]

KNIFE SPEAR[I may have mentioned this one already]

Storage space[Backpacks are preferable, but a trenchoat or cargo pants work too]

Something to boil water in[Frying pan works best, but you may have to settle for a homemade stone pot]

Matches or a lighter

Digging stick, to make a shallow pit to start fires safely in

A gallon jug for storing impure water in.

Somewhere underground to sleep[Basement of starting shelter works well]

This is the stuff that you should have by the end of the first few days. In the latest experimental, I've been having major problems with cold, so a scarf and gloves are pretty important too.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2014, 11:46:30 am by Arcvasti »
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14046 on: October 19, 2014, 11:51:26 am »

A scarf and gloves? More like 3-4 gloves.
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« Reply #14047 on: October 19, 2014, 03:15:00 pm »

Even with a shower start, I think its still possible to make a knife spear from starting shelter. IIRC

Grab a rock from outside.
Smash lockers for scrap metal
Make two spikes from the scrap
Smash window
Disassemble strings and the sheets/rags from sheet for thread
Make makeshift knife from one spike
Make knife spear with other knife

Though I may be wrong about that.
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« Reply #14048 on: October 19, 2014, 04:41:59 pm »

You can't dissemble sheets, you need to cut them up. So you also have to go through the trouble of making a stone knife if you don't start with a cutting implement. (Grab two rocks, smash a window, dissemble long string, make stone knife).

*Edit* also, despite the name you don't actually use a knife in the construction of a knife spear, so you don't need two knives.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2014, 04:51:54 pm by Sindain »
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« Reply #14049 on: October 19, 2014, 04:48:49 pm »

A scarf and gloves? More like 3-4 gloves.

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It is a rogue-like, after all.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14050 on: October 19, 2014, 04:54:28 pm »

Nah it's really about that cold if you can't find a bed with blankets on the first night.
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And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
So if baseless speculation is all we have, we might as well treat it like fact.

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« Reply #14051 on: October 19, 2014, 04:57:58 pm »

A scarf and gloves? More like 3-4 gloves.

SCREW IMMERSION WE POWERGAMING NOW

It is a rogue-like, after all.

Layers are actually necessary at Winter temps.
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« Reply #14052 on: October 19, 2014, 05:04:29 pm »

I think wearing 3 or 4 pairs of gloves is beyond layering.  I suppose you could wear 3 pairs of gloves in reality, but the inner and outer pairs would have to be very thin and very spacious, respectively.

Why don't we just use nature's pocket?
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« Reply #14053 on: October 19, 2014, 05:31:23 pm »

I think wearing 3 or 4 pairs of gloves is beyond layering.  I suppose you could wear 3 pairs of gloves in reality, but the inner and outer pairs would have to be very thin and very spacious, respectively.

Why don't we just use nature's pocket?

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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A roaming horde appears on the horizon!
« Reply #14054 on: October 19, 2014, 05:34:52 pm »

Did they remove the glass shards from smashing windows?
Did they not give said shards cutting 1?
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