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[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

I was playing cataclysm and in the middle of no-where i found a huge pile of rubble with something called "whispering beads" in the middle. What is going on here?

[Akura]

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You found an artifact. These are randomly generated items with randomly generated effects that range from screwing you over to really screwing you over to doing something awesome in the short term but realizing several days later it screwed you over.

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

Spoiler: Is it really a spoiler? (click to show/hide)

You found an artifact. These are randomly generated items with randomly generated effects that range from screwing you over to really screwing you over to doing something awesome in the short term but realizing several days later it screwed you over.

okay, so, I lucked out as long as I don't go anywhere near it.

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

I have another question, how do i remove faulty bionics? The wiki says that you hit -, but that just closes the bionics screen for me. If it's important, I'm using the mac stable build.

[Tawa]

It's experimental only, unfortunately.

People are always talking about how the stable and experimental builds need to be renamed, because "stable" isn't really indicative of what they are. They're more like official releases. Experimental, meanwhile, is more like "latest" or something.

[Aseaheru]

They sometimes do useful things, often with a drawback. For instance, I found one that

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created two friendly giant wasps in return for making tons of noise and only having three charges. Those beads have a number of possible uses, from making you stealthy, putting out fires and/or seeing through walls to making monsters friendly and/or teleportation stuff. Course, it could also summon baddies, make baddies more likely to spawn, make noise, make you addicted to it, make you go crazy, and spawn in baddies passively.

More likely, it does a combination of stuff. Cant tell till you pick it up!

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

Wow,  3 or 4 worlds later, I spawn, do my usual starting stuff, walk outside and BAM: A humming lamp(3). I'm so blessed by the Rng. Course, i died last time from going to a sewage treatment plant going down the stairs, and falling into a giant pit of lava.

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

Same world, Walk into a house. Bam: itchy lamp

[Darkmere]

I had a staff one time that gave me Clairvoyance, basically see everything everything at max sight range like it's daylight. The downside was... it rattled occasionally.

[Egan_BW]

Selling your soul to Cthulu is not like selling it to satan; with satan it's a massive advantage in exchange for a massive disadvantage later. With Cthulhu, what happens doesn't really make sense in terms of good or bad, things just happen.

[Neonivek]

Selling your soul to Cthulu is not like selling it to satan; with satan it's a massive advantage in exchange for a massive disadvantage later. With Cthulhu, what happens doesn't really make sense in terms of good or bad, things just happen.

The Lovecraftian gods bargain. In fact the weirdest thing about them is that they don't always play the bad guy... They can play nice, though usually in alternate forms (my theory is these alternate forms are like entirely different personalities that make up the whole... my second is they don't care about humanity so why not?).

Though one HUUUUUGE difference between Satan and the Lovecraftian gods is simple: Satan has to keep his promise and can only affect you if you agree (so to speak).

Cthulhu can lie and can force you.

[Azated]

I had a staff one time that gave me Clairvoyance, basically see everything everything at max sight range like it's daylight. The downside was... it rattled occasionally.

I had one many versions ago that was a rechargeable staff of fireballs. I don't know what the downside was, but I pretty much beat the game in that playthrough, so it mustn't have been too bad.

[pisskop]

Having some real survival issues recently. I'm in the winter of my second year and the amounts of dangerous zombies has gone insane. I can't fight anything more than a hungry zombie, and zombie horses are guaranteed to splatter me all over the door of my truck before I can start it.

I'd set up camp somewhere to build up weapons (not that I need it, my car is literally a moving lab/factory/5 star restaurant/zombie shredder) but I can't stay anywhere longer than a day. I've had to go days without food because every time I stop to fish or forage, I get overwhelmed by every zombie type imaginable. I'm practically living off multivitamins and aspirin at this point.


Also as a side note: Is asthma meant to actually be dangerous? I was worried that I'd suffocate when my inhaler ran out, but that was almost a year ago. Now it just wakes me up a few times a night and doesn't seem to do much else.

was this supposed to be a bug report or complaint?  im pk of pk_rebalancing.

[pisskop]

Having some real survival issues recently. I'm in the winter of my second year and the amounts of dangerous zombies has gone insane. I can't fight anything more than a hungry zombie, and zombie horses are guaranteed to splatter me all over the door of my truck before I can start it.

I'd set up camp somewhere to build up weapons (not that I need it, my car is literally a moving lab/factory/5 star restaurant/zombie shredder) but I can't stay anywhere longer than a day. I've had to go days without food because every time I stop to fish or forage, I get overwhelmed by every zombie type imaginable. I'm practically living off multivitamins and aspirin at this point.


Also as a side note: Is asthma meant to actually be dangerous? I was worried that I'd suffocate when my inhaler ran out, but that was almost a year ago. Now it just wakes me up a few times a night and doesn't seem to do much else.

was this supposed to be a bug report or complaint?  im pk of pk_rebalancing.

[Azated]

Which part? Most of it was just a comment on the difficulty and the weirdness of asthma.

The difficult is a little extreme but It's not so terrible that I can't play. Spiked plating and a heavy crossbow do most of the work, but camping anywhere except my car is a no-no.

As for the asthma, I read on the wiki could kill you, but I've yet to really see any negative side effects other than the mentioned waking up ten times a night, which happens with an inhaler anyway. Doesn't seem to have any other effect and just goes away on its own without an inhaler.