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This was the nightly that I downloaded on Wednesday, the 30th. New world generated, new character. quote:game.cpp[3158]: 6 radio towers That's all the debug log has. Middle of Nowhere is the world generated with a city size of 1. The artifact was a slimy tetrahedron, the game was doing fine after I removed it from my inventory and put it on a counter in a sewage plant. Trying to save the game caused the crash.
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Nov 1, 2013 06:36
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I can't go anywhere without finding a horde nowadays.  
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Nov 2, 2013 10:39
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Is it possible to disable the Halloween special features? I'd just like to play some cataclysm without having to contend with murderous monsters and terminators from the onset.
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Nov 2, 2013 10:45
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Is it possible to disable the Halloween special features? I'd just like to play some cataclysm without having to contend with murderous monsters and terminators from the onset. I would think there'd be an option in git to download an older revision.
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Nov 2, 2013 11:24
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Is it possible to disable the Halloween special features? I'd just like to play some cataclysm without having to contend with murderous monsters and terminators from the onset. The special release has already ended, so downloading a new version now should allow you to play in a world that's halloween free.
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Nov 2, 2013 15:14
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Are we going to see a "repair everything" option on vehicles any time soon? I like to keep my cars in good condition, but manually going through every tile is kind of tedious.
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Nov 2, 2013 16:03
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  All of those were in one horde I had found. I was trying to find tools to build a vehicle. What exactly am I supposed to do to grind up skills? Books are kind of hard to come by. My current goals in game are A.) Mutate into something cool and B.) Build something awesome. I've been trying like hell to do both of those but I'm having serious issues surviving / finding what I need. I end up getting bored, rush too far into a place, then get swarmed and die.
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Nov 3, 2013 07:01
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Turtlicious posted:
Most vehicles are either wrecked with gas or have no gas and work otherwise. So just get a rubber hose and siphon some gas into the working vehicles.
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Nov 3, 2013 07:06
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I'm the opposite; I've got a mutated death-god loaded down with assault rifles, grenades and bionics, but no super monsters to obliterate. Best advice I can give is generally ignore hordes as best you can, find a vehicle for when things get hairy (smash a fridge to get a hose to siphon some gas), and if you must fight melee, always put some piece of cover between you and them. Bushes and shopping trollies work well. Contemplating whether or not I should detonate a nuclear missile silo.
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Nov 3, 2013 07:44
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Spaceking posted:I'm the opposite; I've got a mutated death-god loaded down with assault rifles, grenades and bionics, but no super monsters to obliterate. Best advice I can give is generally ignore hordes as best you can, find a vehicle for when things get hairy (smash a fridge to get a hose to siphon some gas), and if you must fight melee, always put some piece of cover between you and them. Bushes and shopping trollies work well. Couldn't you go into a cave? I thought those had crazy poo poo in them.
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Nov 3, 2013 07:59
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The most you find in a cave is a ton of sewer rats/the rat king and that's not much of a challenge for even a moderately well-off character with the right weaponry. Maybe you're thinking of mines? I hope they implement the nether-realm soon, that sounds like a pretty good high-end area. Inadequately fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Nov 3, 2013 |
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Nov 3, 2013 09:45
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Turtlicious posted:
I have the same problem. I survive the first day or so no worries, then I need food so I go scavenging. I'll find a car that works and decide to run down every zombie near an interesting building, usually making my car break and getting me swarmed.
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Nov 3, 2013 11:12
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Turtlicious posted:Couldn't you go into a cave? I thought those had crazy poo poo in them. Most I've found in the caves I explored were some wolves, a bear, plutonium and a power armour helmet. The latter of which I can't wear due to stylish antennae.
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Nov 3, 2013 11:45
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After a long series of disappointing first-day-death abortions I've finally gotten the hang of surviving. Schizophrenic Survivalist Chase Adams walks the earth dispensing one-hit justice with his trusty broadsword against enemies real and imagined. He even went toe-to-toe against a Zombie Hulk and went full Beowulf on it. His mother would be proud of him if she weren't trying to kill him while he slept. Two questions though: If I use rotten food in a crafting recipe does it count as normal? How do I disassemble bullets? I assume I need to break them down for gunpowder etc. and the Wiki isn't all that helpful with how to acquire components in general.
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Nov 3, 2013 21:38
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Junkfist posted:If I use rotten food in a crafting recipe does it count as normal? quote:How do I disassemble bullets? I assume I need to break them down for gunpowder etc. and the Wiki isn't all that helpful with how to acquire components in general.
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Nov 3, 2013 21:48
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Public works are generally a good place to find obscure tools like the bullet puller. Be careful though, they tend to have a few shock zombies.
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Nov 4, 2013 02:05
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Spaceking posted:Public works are generally a good place to find obscure tools like the bullet puller. Be careful though, they tend to have a few shock zombies. Alternatively: Public works often come with an ample supply of interesting CBMs which glow in the dark for easy visibility.
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Nov 4, 2013 02:13
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Is there a way to repair broken consoles? I got into a Hazardous Waste Sarcophagus and there's a working military cargo truck here in the garage, but the console that opens the door is busted.
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Nov 4, 2013 07:46
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Broken consoles, as far as I know, are simply placeholders for future content. If I have the crafting skills, I always craft and carry a jackhammer. Most useful item in the game, in my opinion.
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Nov 4, 2013 08:03
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I'm really hoping computers get a lot more fleshed out in the future. They really could be so much more than electronic door locks. Home computers with some flavor emails/documents would be really cool. So I cleared this place out and decided to make a large base as sort of a megaproject. I'm planning to build a solar powered workshop with that vehicle frame that goes outside, and build a bedroom with actual walls and a door instead of a cot surrounded by display racks. Eventually I'm going to make a giant palisade gate that goes across the entrance. The workshop, loot shelves, palisade gate, and bedroom will take up the bottom 3 map tiles of the megamart, anyone got any good ideas of things I could build to fill the other 6 map squares of the store with?
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Nov 4, 2013 17:25
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Build tiny rooms with palisade gates, go out, collect a bunch of zombie corpses and make a zombie zoo. Alternatively, put all the rooms at the side and leave the center three squares for an absolutely colossal vehicle.
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Nov 4, 2013 18:10
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Inadequately posted:Build tiny rooms with palisade gates, go out, collect a bunch of zombie corpses and make a zombie zoo. I like the zoo idea, maybe I'll make a maze too and see if they can find their way out. Did they remove the size limit on vehicles recently? I noticed that the display on the vehicle screen scrolls now. If they did I'll scrap all the shelves and try to make a massive mobile fortress with all the amenities and covered in spikes. poo poo, that sounds like an amazing megaproject. So I recently went on a sewer mapping expedition and came across 5 flasks of mutagen. I decided now was as good a time as any to start messing with mutations so I chugged em down.  I acquired bad back, beak, deft, full night vision, heat dependant, light bones, light eater, rough skin, and weak stomach. My carry weight is now 60 pounds and I can no longer wear mouth gear, but I'm faster, better in melee, eat less, have a cool beak, and have full night vision, which is absolutely loving amazing. Even the carry weight is kind of cool since now I actually have to seriously worry about pain and have to pack light. I gotta say, mutation is pretty fun. There's different animal based branches for mutation right? Edit:raided the rest of the sewers 
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Nov 4, 2013 18:30
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How do you have such nice smooth color scheme in your game?
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Nov 4, 2013 23:13
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Jack Trades posted:How do you have such nice smooth color scheme in your game? I'm pretty sure it's because I'm on Ubuntu. My old laptop with Windows 7 looked like everyone else's. It can be troublesome though since certain stacks of items just show up as blank, black squares.
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Nov 4, 2013 23:45
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Yeah, if you play in a terminal window you can set the background color to just about anything you want. I still prefer black, though, for the contrast. Colour-on-gray makes my eyes hurt.
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Nov 4, 2013 23:47
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So I know you guys had some pretty strong opinions about "unlockables", and I was wondering what your take would be on the following system: There are some unlockable scenarios and professions in the game, tied to a specific World (we can have multiple worlds now, remember), and are usually unlocked by encountering, exploring, or acquiring something. Examples being the Cloning Lab scenario mentioned previously. However - When you create a world, you have the options of whether or not you want things these things unlocked or whether you want to acquired through gameplay, or you could choose to start with some (maybe because you already unlocked them in a previous world or version of the game) while leaving the others as they are. So in a way it would sort of be a less extreme version of the Kerbal Campaign Mode vs Sandbox Mode system, where it's a completely optional locking of certain elements of the game for those players who prefer to avoid seeing things in advance of discovering them or otherwise want some sense of progression between horrible and gruesome deaths. This is, in some ways, a bit more expansive than the previous system I mentioned as it would surely encourage a few more things to be locked than a mandatory system, but its also a bit less so since it would also contain a pretty basic opt out for those who don't care in the least about it. Any interest in that sort of system? See parts of it you don't like or think it would be bad for the game somehow?
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Nov 5, 2013 22:30
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I would like to see an unlockable system that is generally as described. I'd really like a list of 'challenges' to aim for with each character to unlock new things for the next guy with persistence between worlds. But definitely make it optional with a simple opt-out, there's no reason to make it mandatory.
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Nov 5, 2013 23:37
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I'm currently having the best round of Cataclysm ever. It's not even the third day, I already have a Glock 19, a ton of bullets, an RV, and am raiding my first science lab. I can't wait to install all these CBM's (what skill does that use?) and I'm really looking forward to making my dude a Freaky Mutant (I just got Full Night Vision from a flask.) I'm actually having a lot of fun now.
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Nov 6, 2013 02:44
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I'm against tying things to worlds. I almost always delete and restart between deaths, since its really not that fun picking through recognisable areas that I know I've looted. There has to be a better way of leaving behind a character legacy that doesn't encourage remembering where your last guy died with all his sweet kit. Maybe look at something like DoomRL's metagame unlocks, with the option to just go ahead and play with all the content anyway? Tiered recognition tied to in-game actions that you can track across multiple lives and put in the memorial files could be neat. Also, bionics use electronics, first aid and mechanics. Have fun!
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Nov 6, 2013 03:11
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Anticheese posted:Also, bionics use electronics, first aid and mechanics. Have fun!  I have books for all those things. I'm going to become a mutant cyborg!
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Nov 6, 2013 05:02
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They ALSO use just straight intelligence too, so make sure to boost that with drugs when you actually install.
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Nov 6, 2013 05:13
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GlyphGryph posted:So I know you guys had some pretty strong opinions about "unlockables", and I was wondering what your take would be on the following system: I would be fine with it except for the idea of it being tied to a world, as I like to recreate my world every time I die, so there'd be no point in the system for me. I'd prefer it to be tied to simply the game folder, or the executable or something, more like ToME or similar.
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Nov 6, 2013 08:25
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If that's the route it would take, how feasible would it be to do a kind of light reset of the map where items and monsters are regenerated randomly? That's usually the main reason I reset my map, since it's no fun spawning back near a city that I've already cleared out.
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Nov 6, 2013 09:05
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Anticheese posted:I'm against tying things to worlds. I almost always delete and restart between deaths, since its really not that fun picking through recognisable areas that I know I've looted. There has to be a better way of leaving behind a character legacy that doesn't encourage remembering where your last guy died with all his sweet kit. While I'm not a Delete on Death guy all the time, I think it would be better to tie the unlocks to the install folder. If there is a file that tracks what is unlocked, people who want to have everything from the get go can just edit the file and set all the unlocks to '1'. Although at some point in the future you might want to fold that into a menu in the options.
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Nov 6, 2013 10:19
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Anticheese posted:I'm against tying things to worlds. I almost always delete and restart between deaths, since its really not that fun picking through recognisable areas that I know I've looted. There has to be a better way of leaving behind a character legacy that doesn't encourage remembering where your last guy died with all his sweet kit.
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Nov 6, 2013 10:31
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The main problem with NOT tying it to worlds, is that mods are tied to worlds - if we want to be able to have mods introduce new scenarios (and this will be doubly important for any mods that have non-vanilla creatures and locations that play a role in those scenarios), it would require them to be world locked. I do think the need to reset worlds will be a lot less pressing once we get our expanded spawn system in (basically, ever new character will appear in a new and different section of the overworld, so no more showing up again and again in the same shelter you already started in), but for now. You guys know you can already regenerate a world without destroying it, right? It will keep all your settings and metadata, but regenerate the world anew. This would also keep any unlocks you've acquired unlocked, in my hypothetical case. I guess the primary issue is we really need to add the "Regenerate World on Death" option above "Delete World on Death", but another setting is easy enough.
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Nov 6, 2013 14:23
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I only remake a world on each new build, personally I haven't run into my old characters that often and you can keep moving to new section of map to explore if you don't want familiarity. Then again I don't die very often, and if I do it will be in the first few days so there isn't too much overlap. Regenerating rather than deleting on death seems like it would allay some of the fears people have currently.
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Nov 6, 2013 14:40
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If regenerating on death isn't enough for people, though - I've got some technical hurdles to work out how to overcome. Gonna spend a good chunk of today thinking about other ways to handle this, anyway.
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GlyphGryph posted:The main problem with NOT tying it to worlds, is that mods are tied to worlds - if we want to be able to have mods introduce new scenarios (and this will be doubly important for any mods that have non-vanilla creatures and locations that play a role in those scenarios), it would require them to be world locked. If those two changes are made then I have no issue with the proposed system. My main gripe with using the same world is it very visibly feels used, all the stuff is gone and I know where my body is, it's a bit silly, really. If you could fix that in some way then there's no reason to reset the world, certainly. Refresh the loot, randomise the buildings, respawn the enemies, and get rid of my old character. That's basically all I reset the world for.
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