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[miauw62]

Are Z-levels still not a thing?

Lazycat was right whales did 9/11 cdda maintainers = lizards confirmed.

[pisskop]

Guys.
zlevels.

Know  what DF-style continuous  zlevels mean?

Caccodemons
it means slow moving clumsy death from plasma that is also slow moving
Does plasma fired from a ball start fire?  could I implement a script to simply fry what it hit?

It also means rooftop sniping and firefights and more compkex scentmaps and LoS.

And no more 100% safe basements.  And grabloid tunnels.  And high jump mechanics.

And somebody make a Enemy Unknown mod

[Akura]

Are Z-levels still not a thing?

Lazycat was right whales did 9/11 cdda maintainers = lizards confirmed.

Experimental z-levels mod is buggy. The real thing can be found in the options. Praise Coolthulhu!

I haven't played in a long while, so I cannot confirm for certain. C:DDA may or may not run well on my netbook(main PC still dead), so I'll give it a shot.

[Aseaheru]

Zlevels, as they currently exist, are not like in DF. Its like what they where when Whales started Cataclysm, but now they also go up.

[BigD145]

Are Z-levels still not a thing?

Lazycat was right whales did 9/11 cdda maintainers = lizards confirmed.

Experimental z-levels mod is buggy. The real thing can be found in the options. Praise Coolthulhu!

I haven't played in a long while, so I cannot confirm for certain. C:DDA may or may not run well on my netbook(main PC still dead), so I'll give it a shot.

Run well? What do you mean? It's turn-based.

[miauw62]

The game can still be laggy (e.g. significant delay before you move)

[Aseaheru]

This just in: Most structures dont have a roof yet with the Z-Levels. Which is... Interesting.

Also, no cross-z-level fighting yet, despite being able to see most of what is on the lower level.

[pisskop]

I understand, Im just imagining all the zombie tropes we can use with it.  And apocolypic tropes in general.

An underwater seadome.
Cthulian monster of the deeps.
Labyrinths that are labyrnthian.
Malls.
Giant mechanized robots rising from the ground after having been long buried.
water flow mechanics.
Journey to the center of the Earth type vehicles and monsters and layers.
Fortified outposts with watchtowers and trenches lined with traps.
WWII mod ^^.  with zombies.

Anyway, I did some minor tweaking to the spawning of zoms.  I reduced the frequency of many special infectected, but also added a chance for them to groupspawn.  I also increased the rate of normal zom spawning, and added smaller groups of normals for 1 multiplier.  I also modded that simple mod to reduce zombie speed.  Its not halfspeed, its 67%.  Tank is still plenty fast, as is feral hunter.  dogs are somewhat lessso.

Ive been keeping a loose log of the events of my character in this new world.  Hes the first, and been alive for a total of 2 weeks now, living in a mansion or out of his car.  Im impressed with how fleshed out the dialogue text with the NPCs is, even if its not as functional as it could be.  Very impressed with how buildings are larger and sometimes seem more sensibly placed.

Sounds fun.

[Aseaheru]

Malls, fortified outposts (atleast pre-cataclysm military ones), and alot of whats needed for WW2 stuff are in right now. I think there may be a multi-level mall currently. There are enough tiles for one, atleast.

[BigD145]

This just in: Most structures dont have a roof yet with the Z-Levels. Which is... Interesting.

They have roofs when you decide to take down load bearing walls (which is all of them).

[Aseaheru]

Its probally better to say they have roofs, but they dont have roofs.

As in, they are sheltered from rain adn the like (the [roof] and the [indoors] tags) but when you go up there is no roof, or even floors.

Which can do odd things like falling down through the open spaces on the second floor down into the first floor.

[BigD145]

So it just has vaulted ceilings with no ceiling, just walls that will happily fall on your head if you lean against them.

[Akura]

Just learned that the graphics version doesn't work on my netbook, but the console one does.

[BigD145]

ASCII EQUAL OPPORTUNITY RACE

Damn fascist graphics version.

[pisskop]

Question:

  I saw a military humvee by an ant mound.  The ants are hostile to me and basically everything in the area; killing moose, zom, and giant spiders.  Nothing is getting to me and the humvee through the ants.

  The ants oc want my blood too; but the difference is they can't smash my car.  I pulled it adjacent to the humvee and began gutting it so that there was no path to me.  However, a spider and now an ant have spawned/gotten inside somehow.  How?

Can critters spawn in plain sight on the ground left as I removed the frame?


pedt:
I cant stand the idea of using a graphics pack.  ASCII


Also here, a visual

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There is zero way they should have gotten in.