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[Koja]

Dont think that was it. Already deleted the saves, so i'll see if it happens again.

Sidenote: Man, people are way better at this game than me. Havent made it into a lab, the only bionics and stuff i've found has been on scientist corpses.

Questions and observations:
Repeating earlier observations, "What's a Transistor?" seems extremely rare. The robot book is exceedingly more common. How do you guys find it, without dealing with massive zombie horde problems?

Brutes and hulks tear me apart. The only solution i've found is pheromone. Or burning a building down on their heads.

Do items like mushrooms/strawberries/royal jelly respawn randomly? Do fridges/display cases get restocked when a new character enters the zone at day 1?

Does anyone leave caches of stuff for their next incarnation when they know they're gonna die? It seems a bit metagamey, not sure i like the functionality.

Wasps: Fight them or just set the paper walls on fire?

[iceball3]

I personally find Heavy Rain to be a nice song to play to. Gives a sort of atmospheric complimentary to the whole "nearly everyone is dead now, and you walk through the air which is their expanding grave." thing.

[Paul]

I don't get the talk of "What's a transistor?" rarity. I guess im just getting the other end of the randomness, but I see that book everywhere.

I just went in a library and found 3 copies of it. Another library a few tiles away has 1 copy. Two others nearby don't, but they don't have much of anything. The one with 3 copies was loaded with every book BUT the robot one. I think the first copy of 'What's a transistor' I got was from my basement right at the start. Out of like 30 chars I've always found that book before finding the robots one.

Granted, it's not as common as advanced electronics (that one really IS everywhere, must have been 10 copies in that one library).

I had more difficulty finding the robot book on this latest char though, took probably 8 libraries to find it.

[BishopX]

Dont think that was it. Already deleted the saves, so i'll see if it happens again.


Questions and observations:

Brutes and hulks tear me apart. The only solution i've found is pheromone. Or burning a building down on their heads.

Any gun with good armor piercing will handle a brute, usually with a point blank double tap. The alternative is of course a shotgun loaded with 00 or shells. Just be prepared to run. Grenades and Molotovs will also work wonders here. Hulk are tougher, but a few good rounds to the head will usually do the trick. Other exploity things to to with hulks include pit kiting them, dropping a bear trap in front of them and then beating it to death (you need ~5 in melee and a weapon skill here) and pouring a trail of gas out on the ground to set them on fire.

Do items like mushrooms/strawberries/royal jelly respawn randomly? Do fridges/display cases get restocked when a new character enters the zone at day 1?

I don't know about spawning fruits, but the only thing that happens to items when a new character spawns is to reset the roiting counter on all items back to 0.

Does anyone leave caches of stuff for their next incarnation when they know they're gonna die? It seems a bit metagamey, not sure i like the functionality.

I only do this if the dying character was really, really awesome and I screwed up, and then my next character is usually a clone on the first one.

Wasps: Fight them or just set the paper walls on fire?

Fight them. There's good looting in those houses.

[jc6036]

I know, I looted one recently with my ridiculous basement spawning character. I found purifer and an ID card, went to the missle silo on my map, and was killed in one turn by security bots when I failed to hack the computer. I mean, I saw them and was like, "oh shi~ hey, what-in-the--FUCK! How in the hell did I die that quickly?!?

[gimlet]

A few quick thrown weapons definitely help with the brutes too, if you then have the melee skill to finish them off.  And some speed, which I rarely remember to take before there's no time for it

[Redd]

I realize I am late to this discussion, but almost anything by Lustmord would fit very well musically. Lustmord-Black Star

Thanks for the recommendation.

[GlyphGryph]

Ah, the joys of drug abuse.

My Morale is currently +400 (not my experience, my MORALE, mostly due to three types of alcohol)
My Intelligence is currently 26 (started pretty high, Energy Drinks+Adderal+Xanax+Inhaler+cig)
My Speed is 134 (even with leg encumbrance at 4), and I'm wielding a screwdriver (meaning I get three-six attacks, high likelyhood of crippling, for every move the zombies make)

Mwahahah. I am a god.


Heheh, now I'm just romping around with a shotgun dealing 300+ damage a hit, woooh.

Edit:
I lie dead, the victim of perhaps a hundred lower case 'f's. I spent a day crafting, training my tailor skill, and then though to amuse myself by shotgunning the zombie outside the window.

This was clearly a mistake. In no time, windows were broken, doors were broken, and the 'f' flood filled the room, surrounding me and refusing to hit anything but my torso. As deadly as I was, I could only last so long as they wore me down.

Ah, but a pair of scissors... a now useless utility vest... a bottle of whiskey and a lighter... though I die, perhaps...

[Drevlin]

I was thinking: who the hell knows the exact time of the day without a watch? So I made a little mod that adds the wristwatch item. Without it, you only know the phase of the day, like "afternoon", and if you are underground you cannot know the time at all.
I don't know if it's a good idea, if you want to try it to tell your impressions, following this link you find a package with the windows execuable and sources for all platforms. (I also included a little mod that allows the name randomization during the characther creation if you left blank the name field).
More information here

[Shadowgandor]

You should add a perk which allows you to know the time of day regardless of having a watch, as long as you are not underground
Good idea btw! I like it

[Astral]

Where is the A* pathing found in? I'm looking at it as an example for something I need to do in a class, and the fact that its a game I enjoy immensely makes it a better example (especially since it works).

[Whales]

I was thinking: who the hell knows the exact time of the day without a watch? So I made a little mod that adds the wristwatch item. Without it, you only know the phase of the day, like "afternoon", and if you are underground you cannot know the time at all.
I don't know if it's a good idea, if you want to try it to tell your impressions, following this link you find a package with the windows execuable and sources for all platforms. (I also included a little mod that allows the name randomization during the characther creation if you left blank the name field).
More information here

I had this idea for a while, and then I realized that an intrepid player could keep track of their speed and actions, and using a calculator, come up with a very good approximation of the time of day.  I decided to just let the computer do this busy-work for them and display the exact time.

Where is the A* pathing found in? I'm looking at it as an example for something I need to do in a class, and the fact that its a game I enjoy immensely makes it a better example (especially since it works).

map.cpp, line 982: std::vector<point> map::route.  Note the enum astar_list at the top of this file, used to keep track of the A* status of the points in the map.

[areyoua]

With the Cataclysm IRC dying, and no bump in interest expected, I've taken it upon myself to try to revive it with the dark art of posting a link with directions on how to get on. http://cataclysmff.zxq.net/SMF/index.php?topic=84.0

I also found out that ID cards disappear when you use them, and this caused quite a few choice words between me and my computer screen. You'd think that having to have a new ID card every time you want to get in would be a waste of resources. I also think that the ID cards on scientists shouldn't work on the Missile Silos.

[Laedro]

How do i board up windows? Cause I'm trying with a nail gun, nails and two by fours, and I can't seem to get it to work. :/

[The Merchant Of Menace]

You need to apply a hammer towards it, nailgun won't work.