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Did you get the Graphical version? http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ \/ Oh, Mac only seems to have Curses. Can you run the Linux version?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Are you using an old version, perhaps? Not sure how to check that (I'm on OSX), MOTD sez "v.0.C Cooper"?
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Jun 12, 2015 22:59
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The Lone Badger posted:Did you get the Graphical version? Maybe? I tried installing other versions before, and of course it was conflict madness hell with whatever stuff OSX ships with.
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Jun 12, 2015 23:05
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You need to download the new version that has TILES in it.
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Jun 12, 2015 23:10
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So in my current game I've hit a wall. I've gotten pretty much all the supplies and equipment I can from residential sources and I'm currently trying to see what I can do next. I tried getting stuff from a lab but got stopped dead by the turrets in there - they nearly killed me instantly. Right now I'm driving around looking for a mall or a military outpost or something I can raid for better equipment - is there anything in particular I should be looking out for?
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Jun 12, 2015 23:32
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I've watched 4 or 5 zombies try to endlessly kill a Riot Control Bot for 4 days straight now. I've made my home in a garage and the zombies are just swinging away.
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Jun 13, 2015 00:03
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President Ark posted:So in my current game I've hit a wall. I've gotten pretty much all the supplies and equipment I can from residential sources and I'm currently trying to see what I can do next. I tried getting stuff from a lab but got stopped dead by the turrets in there - they nearly killed me instantly. Right now I'm driving around looking for a mall or a military outpost or something I can raid for better equipment - is there anything in particular I should be looking out for? What kind of stuff are you looking for? Guns? Armor? Tools? I'll say this though, work on getting your survival, tailoring, and fabrication skills up. Using those you can craft all sorts of useful stuff.
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Jun 13, 2015 00:06
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President Ark posted:So in my current game I've hit a wall. I've gotten pretty much all the supplies and equipment I can from residential sources and I'm currently trying to see what I can do next. I tried getting stuff from a lab but got stopped dead by the turrets in there - they nearly killed me instantly. Right now I'm driving around looking for a mall or a military outpost or something I can raid for better equipment - is there anything in particular I should be looking out for? What are you doing with the turrets? They have a limited light range around them and can't see in the dark, approach them in the dark and shoot them from outside their light range.
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Jun 13, 2015 00:10
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Galaga Galaxian posted:What kind of stuff are you looking for? Guns? Armor? Tools? Armor, mostly. I have a trunk full of guns and ammo in my trunk. OwlFancier posted:What are you doing with the turrets? They have a limited light range around them and can't see in the dark, approach them in the dark and shoot them from outside their light range. Walking around with a flashlight, of course. 
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Jun 13, 2015 00:22
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Well, with decent tailoring skill you can reinforce your clothing with leather and kevlar patches. Otherwise keep an eye out for wreckage and dig through it, I frequently find MBR or Kevlar vests in them you can use for body armor or cut up for Kevlar patches. Otherwise if you have a rifle with decent range (Such as a .223) and accuracy you could head to a military outpost. They'll be protected by turrets, but a decent rifle should outrange them and you can just potshot the things to bits and then loot the dead soldiers/zombie soldiers that're usually found at bases. With high survival and fabrication skills alongside tailoring you can craft Survivor armor or Nomad gear. In fact Nomad gear isn't a bad start (though you'll fry in Summer).   Needs Tailoring 5 and maybe some survival or fabrication? I'm not sure. Anyways, once you make it sturdy (which also slightly increases defenses) and add kevlar/leather reinforcement it should have 15-16ish defense, which isn't to start with. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jun 13, 2015 00:52
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While in newer versions there's an encumbrance penalty for it, you can use a tailoring kit to fuse Kevlar/Leather on everything you're wearing to bulk out your damage resistance.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:24
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I recently picked the game back up again, did they remove burning zombie corpses to stop them from reanimating? I cleared off a little area and threw all the corpses into a pile and set that fucker on fire, all the corpses were called "burnt corpse" so I assumed I did it right. Few hours later they all jump out of the pile. Should I of kept burning them until the corpses became ash?
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Jun 13, 2015 01:36
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Leal posted:I recently picked the game back up again, did they remove burning zombie corpses to stop them from reanimating? I cleared off a little area and threw all the corpses into a pile and set that fucker on fire, all the corpses were called "burnt corpse" so I assumed I did it right. Few hours later they all jump out of the pile. Should I of kept burning them until the corpses became ash? Yeah you have to burn them away for that to work. You can still butcher them or 's'mash them to keep it from happening.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:56
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girth brooks part 2 posted:Yeah you have to burn them away for that to work. You can still butcher them or 's'mash them to keep it from happening. Which is a lot faster and easier.
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Jun 13, 2015 02:35
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Do "pulped" corpses resurrect?
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Jun 13, 2015 02:49
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Do "pulped" corpses resurrect? I don't think so, but I'm unsure if they can be turned into skeletons.
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Jun 13, 2015 02:52
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Fat Samurai posted:Wait, you can unassign keys from wearable equipment? I'm mostly using poo poo like ! and * to manage the inventory of my fashionable character. I think if you select the item and then hit space it'll assign the item you chose a blank.
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Jun 13, 2015 03:19
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How should I raise electronics from 3 to 4 without reading skill books? Also, is there a site that details all the crafting recipes you get from just leveling up skills?
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Jun 13, 2015 03:29
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If you got a good bow and arrow or enough ammo for it, trip an alarm at a bank or gun store, get a bunch of pictures taken by an eyebot and then dismantle the resulting police bots and salvage their tazers until you can put them back together, and grind. Of course this is presuming the info online is correct, I recently killed off my last character and didn't bother to grind the new one up much in the meantime.
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Jun 13, 2015 03:35
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Artificer posted:It was a school. Do you suppose that some of the mall zombies might've gotten attracted to the school? The two are sort of close to each other. Oh, I misread your question entirely. Scout out the place from max visual distance and note the location of any hulks. Go in at night, cut through the courtyard at the back and raid the library, grab anything you want. If you pick up a zombie entourage, set fire to the place and run for it. Otherwise, go back out the way you came - the fence should interfere with any zombies trying to follow your scent trail.
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Jun 13, 2015 04:03
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Do "pulped" corpses resurrect? No. 's'mashing corpses is a legit way of stopping them coming back up, though I just play with zombie revivification off.
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Jun 13, 2015 04:41
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I leave my shelter and find a pile of science IDs (and accompanying dead scientists). I check my map and find two labs within 10 tiles of my shelter. Both are ice labs. 
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Jun 13, 2015 05:19
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Tehan posted:Oh, I misread your question entirely. Scout out the place from max visual distance and note the location of any hulks. Go in at night, cut through the courtyard at the back and raid the library, grab anything you want. If you pick up a zombie entourage, set fire to the place and run for it. Otherwise, go back out the way you came - the fence should interfere with any zombies trying to follow your scent trail. Is the library in a set location? And classrooms and lockers can also have more books in them spread out through the school right? Because if all the books are only in one location that is set then hell yes that would be awesome.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:28
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Grimman007 posted:How should I raise electronics from 3 to 4 without reading skill books? The Cataclysm DDA item browser As I understand it, it gets its information straight from github, so it's not outdated like the wiki. skills/electronics/3"]Items that primarily take electronics 3 to craft, although it does not include items that take electronics as a secondary skill
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Artificer posted:Is the library in a set location? And classrooms and lockers can also have more books in them spread out through the school right? IIRC schools are an upside-down horseshoe shape, or maybe a letter H shape. The library is in the middle; the cafeteria is in one of the corners. Not sure if they change layouts. Classrooms can have books in the desk, but I don't recall ever finding a high-level book there (only in the library). Schools have an incredible amount of food though, both junk-food in the classrooms, and the bounty in the cafeteria itself. Also, they have  .
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Jun 13, 2015 07:32
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Well, I just applied liberal amounts of molotovs to a fungal bloom after mag dumping my FAL into the spire. gently caress this fungal poo poo. I went around exterminating every Fungaloid and Fungal zombie I could find. I hope it stays dead.   Afterwards I rooted around in my parts bin and realized I had a bunch of useful gun mods I had forgotten about. My FAL is now absolutely ridiculous. I took my knife and named it Coffinmaker, 
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Jun 13, 2015 08:25
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I am extremely inaccurate with guns. Even without encumbrance. What gives? I've upgraded my hunting rifle with as many mods as my skills allow and I have 2/3 in the relevant skills. My relevant stats are 10/11 which are a bit low as I've said before. Am I just supposed to go full auto with assault rifles in that case? I don't have enough ammo for that... 
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Jun 13, 2015 09:24
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Are you just pushing "f" to bring up the fire menu and then "f" again to fire? There are options for aiming in the fire menu. You can push "." to aim for one unit of time, "a" for a quick aim, "c" for a careful aim, and "p" for precise aiming (I think these are just predefined amount of aim) The longer you spend aiming the better your chances of hitting and it helps reduce recoil (which'll kill your accuracy if you just rapidly fire off rounds with heavier guns). There are two stat/bars in the aiming menu, Confidence and Steadiness. AFAIK Steadiness is related to recoil and effects dispersion while Confidence is a vague indicator of how likely you are to hit, the fuller the bar the better in each case.
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Jun 13, 2015 09:28
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Are you just pushing "f" to bring up the fire menu and then "f" again to fire? There are options for aiming in the fire menu. You can push "." to aim for one unit of time, "a" for a quick aim, "c" for a careful aim, and "p" for precise aiming (I think these are just predefined amount of aim) The longer you spend aiming the better your chances of hitting and it helps reduce recoil (which'll kill your accuracy if you just rapidly fire off rounds with heavier guns). Steadiness is just a "how much time you have waited" bar. When it's full, you've steadied your aim as much as you can and waiting longer won't give you any benefit.
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I think rifles have some kind of retarded penalty to hit unless you are standing like 2 miles from your target. With pistols and shotguns you just get up close to things and burst fire and things get hit and die. e: I had an insane heavy rail rifle with huge damage and range and penetration and shooting at a fat zombie the rail bounced off its body and also "failed to penetrate its tough skin". Why yes a spike the size of your forearm travelling at railgun speeds will totally bounce off the dude's stomach. Must've been eating adamantium armor plating or something. nftyw fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jun 13, 2015 12:05
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Is the pnuematic assualt rifle better than the the pnuematic bolt thrower? It takes a bit long ot reload the bolt thrower for my taste.
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Jun 13, 2015 12:15
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Carcer posted:Is the pnuematic assualt rifle better than the the pnuematic bolt thrower? It takes a bit long ot reload the bolt thrower for my taste. Assault rifle gives you 3 bursts, bolt driver gives you 8 shots. The bolt driver goes longer between reloads than the rifle, but you do need to retrieve spent ammo.
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Jun 13, 2015 12:26
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Except the rifle can be fired in single-shot mode and can drop normal zombies with a 1-2 good shots. So maybe 8 shots?
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Jun 13, 2015 12:35
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At high skill levels you probably will find the assault rifle easier to use, as you'll get lots of criticals and headshots which apply big multipliers to your damage. So the bigger clip and lighter ammo will become more of an advantage.
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Anticheese posted:No. 's'mashing corpses is a legit way of stopping them coming back up, though I just play with zombie revivification off. I do the same. I'm fine with the occasional special zombie that can get a corpse shambling again, but smashing every zombie corpse you make is just boring, annoying, repetitive busywork. Do they still come back with full health? I might like zombie revival if instead of just coming back, a corpse generated a weaker version of the zombie it was made from. I think a zombie that revives over time or from a master/necromancer should be a damaged, crippled version that's noticeably weaker than the original, and if it gets resurrected again it's even weaker. In return, necromancers and masters should probably get some kind of buff. I vaguely remember seeing something in this thread where someone had an idea where they could do something fun with a pile of corpses, like meld them together into a single stronger zombie of some kind. Carcer posted:Is the pnuematic assualt rifle better than the the pnuematic bolt thrower? It takes a bit long ot reload the bolt thrower for my taste. I find the assault rifle much better than the bolt thrower. The only time I really liked the bolt thrower was when I made explosive bolts, and in those cases I'd probably have been better off just loading them into a crossbow. Pebbles are weak and take up a lot of volume, but you can make bearings which do more damage, are easier to make in bulk and take up FAR less space.
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Slime posted:I might like zombie revival if instead of just coming back, a corpse generated a weaker version of the zombie it was made from. I think a zombie that revives over time or from a master/necromancer should be a damaged, crippled version that's noticeably weaker than the original, and if it gets resurrected again it's even weaker. In return, necromancers and masters should probably get some kind of buff. While this might be better from a gameplay standpoint, it directly contradicts the ingame lore that "if you don't kill a zombie the weird alien substance in it will make it come back stronger", and thus it'll never happen.
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Jun 13, 2015 12:44
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What does "it layers easily" mean, exactly? Does it mean it does not add any encumbrance for wearing multiple items in the same body slot?
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Jun 13, 2015 13:39
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Fat Samurai posted:What does "it layers easily" mean, exactly? Does it mean it does not add any encumbrance for wearing multiple items in the same body slot? You normally get a penalty if you wear two pieces of clothing in the same layer of the same body slot - the layers are close to skin/normal/outer/strapped/waist. If something layers easily, you can have one other thing in that slot without the penalty kicking in.
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nftyw posted:I think rifles have some kind of retarded penalty to hit unless you are standing like 2 miles from your target. With pistols and shotguns you just get up close to things and burst fire and things get hit and die. Really? I haven't noticed. I don't seem to have any trouble blowing away stuff only a few squares from me using my FAL, even with minimal aiming. Then again it has been modified to have 0 dispersion and aim sight dispersion, so maybe that is it.
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