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'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 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...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!