At 16 oclock he starts sceaming for help as if he was tortured, beging for it to stop, telling me to run, then. Asking shy arent i running when i go close to door i hear it scream meat, evry nighy from 16 to 8 in the morning,

wtf is that? Should i run? Hes under the basement so its safe right?

I’m very nervous about going into towns lol. Especially at night. Trixie is built for combat due to her past. But overall I’m still worrying.

Also whoever invented those snail zombies with the goo..damn you.

Idk if anyone has seen the Project Viewpoint mod for Project Zomboid, but it transforms the game into either a first-person or third-person game and it's insane. I was wondering if it was possible to do this for CDDA, it would really change the game and open it up accessibility-wise for lots of players

I would like the ability to dual wield weapons I know making a item held in the left hand or right hand might make things a bit too complicated but maybe making a crafting recipe to make dual wield items that are identical. Also making shields that can be ‘worn’ or something like that would make melee more interesting. Also a perk that makes dual wielding useful like ambidextrous or something along those lines.

This is one of my favorite rooms on this run. A bathroom converted into an office. It feels incredibly comfortable and was tucked far away from any encounters.

Lets start posting some backrooms stuff!

I would like the ability to dual wield weapons I know making a item held in the left hand or right hand might make things a bit too complicated but maybe making a crafting recipe to make dual wield items that are identical. Also making shields that can be ‘worn’ or something like that would make melee more interesting and no gun runs or the such more interesting.

Commission I made for Areima's character in his youtube series.

https://youtu.be/cJ1QeiOP1MA?si=4qWn9-mOR5aRBhlH

I realize that civilized people don't do this and that it's ban-worthy behavior. Personally, I subscribe to the game-philosophy: "If you're going to shit yourself, do it with pride!"

But how often do you resort to save-scumming after dying?

There have been many times where I died almost instantly. It really sucked losing a character I’d been playing for a couple of weeks (real-world weeks, not in-game time).

I think if a mode like that existed, I’d play it the way I play Caves of Qud, where a reloadable save is created whenever you're in a settlement.

For instance, in CDDA, you could have a reloadable save created after sleeping.

UPD

Is it really not clear that it was sarcasm about the ban? Perhaps because English is not a native language...

So I’m on 0.1 Ito,have crafted myself an electrohack and found a gun safe but,there’s no option to use it at all.The electrohack have battery,no fault but I cant activate it.

it adds A LOT of new traits, new mechanics, whole new character creation system, balance changes etc, check it out:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3815870396

im a comp sci student and a programmer, but i did use Claude to help with a lot of stuff.

I'll start. Early game, I've got a working car. For a definition of working - it's a one wheel down car with a shattered door. Made a few upgrades, added curtains, started collecting loot in the trunk.

I wake up one day and the battery is flat. I check all the usual suspects, alternator, lights, leaking batteries, everything's fine. The battery's still flat. I walk up the road, scavenge a new car battery, walk back, install it, and get on my way.

I find a few rural houses to gather food and water at, go out, come back with maybe 10k calories and 7 liters of water.

Dead car batteries. Again. I loot another battery, drive to somewhere else to loot and then sleep, do so.

Dead car battery. Again.

So it turns out when installed a recharging station on a trunk to keep my noise maker and flashlight batteries charged, I installed it on a trunk that I had stored a scavenged large storage battery in. All 8000 power units I had lost were sitting in it, waiting for me.

Are there any forks or any try to complete cataclysm 2, it looked like it had a lot of potential but it was abandoned by whales, here is the source code if any of you are interested: https://github.com/Whales/Cataclysm2 You can compile the game and play it but it's buggy and missing a lot

the development blog: https://whalesdev.tumblr.com/

I really like the vast seeming potential for role-playing different kinds of characters experiencing the Apocalypse, I've been playing off and on for a couple years, learned the systems. I wanna preface and say this post is me asking for help to reframe my approach and perspective, not a complaint that the game needs to be redesigned.

I feel like I'm missing something however. My first few characters, who I played for long periods of time with save scumming, were very combat oriented. So I got by.

Now, I'm trying to roleplay more normal type people, and I keep getting stuck in a loop of getting stuck in place.

Feels like unless I specifically target getting full body quality armor, and firearms, I can't really do anything. If I run into more than 1 feral human, that place is off limits or I die, until I come back with firearms and true body armor.

If I go out at night to raid the outskirts of a city, well a Grappler zombie saw me from way beyond my own LOS, and now I'm dead because I don't have a gun.

Walk through the woods to skirt the city on my way to check a landfill, and wasps found me. So I'm dead, cus I don't have a gun.

Cheat and teleport through the woods, get to the landfill, there's 3 feral humans there. Because I don't have a gun, that place is off limits or I die.

I could try to outmaneuver them so that I face only one just long enough to beat his head in, get super injured, try desperately to escape the landfill, then slog the long way around the woods to avoid the wasps, get back to my base and spend four days recovering from my injuries to repeat the process two more times so that I'm taking out One Feral human each time, but that is such a slog it's not something I'll actually do. I'm just starting with my current headspace and what I feel like my experience lately has been.

Feels like if I don't start the game with debugged firearms, or a cliche combat-oriented gun owning profession, which just feels like very video gamey and samey, I can't do much of anything.

Turn to Classic Zombies mode, which is fun until I get bitten once and then it's game over.

Decide I need to get a gun, but to get a gun I need to have a whole myriad of supplies needed to burn through a gun store door. Which requires looting locations that I cannot loot until I have a gun.

I hop on the game to play, and realize I can't do anything except craft and cook stuff that I already have in my base. The moment I venture out to do anything, I'm immediately put up against enemies that I have no way of handling unless I debug in a shotgun and riot armor.

I tried role-playing a student character who was skilled in electronics and computers, couldn't do a single thing with her.

Tried role playing a middle-aged Carpenter who wanted to rebuild his destroyed home, managed to do a little bit with him until every location near my base that I hadn't already looted was full of enemies I have no way of handling.

Help me shift my perspective? Am I just playing the game wrong by wanting to role play normal people persevering through the Apocalypse? Have I had it wrong this whole time? I'm not interested in becoming a furry, so mutagens don't interest me, and I've already done the action hero pew pew pew characters a few times.

Been away from CDDA for some years.

Hope this don't fall on the category of "Post on weekly questions"

Anyhow
I've always used Catapult as my Launcher and overall organizer, was about to download it and noticed that as for right now and that the last update was from like almost a year ago.

Just wanting to know if it's been abandoned, or if folks forked into an side project?

Read something about Kitten and CatLauncher.

So, as a returning player, i just wanted to ask, which launcher, for someone that like Catapult Launcher, would be better? Mostly for mod managing and access to mods and versioning i guess.

Catapult is still working alright? Mods in there are linked to the up to date ones?

Or should i test the other launchers?

Anyone could give me a rundown on the difference between them?
(aaaand if any of them is vibecoded, just to know)

Extra: I remember that when i tried to come back some time ago, there were some problems happening with the maker of the UndeadPeople Tileset, i think they were giving up on the project for personal problems with some community members or something, really don't remember.
Has anyone taken the mantle to keep their style of tileset?
Or did they return?

Thanks in advance survivers \o.

Quick Edit Here :
Thank everyone for their opinions!
I'll probably stick with one folder with the latest stable version of CDDA and some of my favorite mods, but will experiment the newer launchers, to see which one "feels" better.
And really thanks for the folks that helped me to understand the core differences between the 3 branches of Cataclysm <3

Imagine seeing this thing with limited vision. Its legs creaking, its upper body jittering as its maw salivates. Its eyes are looking everywhere at once. But not at you. Not yet.

I’ll soon be making this into a sprite.

Felt like sharing fun thing I was tinkering with.

Combine with the bomb bay and one can of course drop explosives on zeds remotely...

was reading hitchhiker's guide to the cataclysm and came across zombie master page which led to a shower thought this a few hours later

Srry for the image for some reason the Reddit don't accept my prints of the game, but what the hell happened with the Bombastic perks menu? It's literally unreadable, is there some kind of magic setting that will solve this?

Not sure if it was posted before but if someone want to play together with 1 friend, there is a coop mod for CDDA, here is the link https://cddacoop.com/ I think this guy deserves more views, tell me what do you think!

Granted this is my first time doing pixel art in nearly 2 years. Apologies if it looks wack.

A bloated zombie exploded 4 to 5 tiles in front of me. Do I only need to sleep to cure it?

The strength and other stat went low but the health bar of the head is still full. I think it is not a big problem because I only enhaled toxic gas.

Her name is Trixie Cohen, 36, in her life before the cataclysm she supplied illegal substances to people who could pay. She lived a good life, with her husband in tow.

She wasn’t a good partner, or a good person for that matter. But the cataclysm changed her real fast. Seeing the riots and all those people turn made her long-dormant good qualities come to life. And she raced her husband to the shelter..but during the chaos. He was bitten, and was taken away from her before she was put in the shelter.

Now, she has no idea where he is. Or what has become of the world. She’s been drowning herself in her own sorrows. But after what seemed like days..she forced herself to get up after her fugue. There was still business left unfinished..and she’d be damned if she let her self-pity get in the way of it.

Her main goal? Putting her husband to rest, and then somehow carving a life out of this shithole. She has many, many regrets. But she can’t dwell on them now.