One of my characters, a fully mutated alpha with quite a few cbm’s died when I decided to visit a reactor room in a underground lab, I didn’t knew what this green smoke inside was and I figured that my gas mask will keep me safe. I was hit with around 10000 mSv and died shortly after 😢

The biggest threat in CDDA is misclicking.

I've been playing games for about 17 years and i can easily say CDDA is the hardest game out there that you can play but when you get a grasp on it its the best game that you can ever play in your life (probably)

It's like project zomboid if it was dwarf fortress

You can deal with the turrets by simply using the Solid Snake way of using boxes: place the box, crouch, grab the box and move towards the turret, after that you can start shooting blindly or throwing some crap like acid bombs, it's really useful when you select the "Lab" scenario. Anything could be used, even a chair, which makes it more hilarious.

Cataclysm is a game you can sort of “Solve” just by knowing what to make early. Used to be if you built a quarterstaff and kited enemies to poor terrain, you could fight almost every single enemy in the game with minimal damage from day one. Might be different now.

The biggest danger of Cataclysm is on day 1/2, deciding to just jump into metro tunnels--Because you are impatient about finding labs as soon as possible into a new playthrough. Every time I've died in Cataclysm, it was either a ridiculous challenge scenario and I got unlucky with RNGesus, or mostly/somewhat my fault. Even all the way back when I first started playing and instead of perhaps staying out of the way of weird things I'd never seen before I decided; 'Whatever...'---and tried to face check it rather than try to build myself up first. The game has always been amazing ... every experimental build I've ever touched, every stable build I've ever run through--All of it for now seven years going--it's literally as difficult as your brain is willing to make it, or incapable of doing otherwise. Truly, this game comes closest to making *objectively* you being your own filter.

I've been surviving for some time as a NCO and have found an LMOE Shelter, I'm spending most days clearing the cities, reserving my firearms to kill more difficult enemies. In the early game, use hollow point bullets as most enemies are unarmored until they evolve.

honestly i kinda agree. once you get a hold of how to play it really isnt that hard. survival for me has become trivial. it's a bad comparison, but dark souls is harder. if you can beat that, you can "beat" CDDA

The best way to deal with the 10% of threats is with explosives, also you forgot to mention to scan every book you see, and keep copy’s of the memory in case of an emp

I just love how this game rewards logical thinking. It's what makes it the best imo

When I wan't some more difficulty I like to play with the mods "No Hope" and "Secronom". With loot spawns set to 0.50.

you literally described the tactic I've been playing with for the last... idk years, because that's the only viable option for me not to die in a first week and keep playing ... while i do keep dying in stupid ways but that's another story

You certainly made the game easier for yourself by crafting a build with which you don't have to worry about day 0 zombies. I'm really enjoying the newish survivor system for creating custom characters, as it will rank your character on a scale of underpowered to overpowered based on your starting equipment, location and skills. Creating an 'average' character will give you a challenge, yes, but it's incredibly rewarding turning such a character into an powerful freak of the cataclysm. That said, I do use stats through skills world mod; my progression isn't exactly as intended but I believe that after reading advanced texts, smashing zombies skulls, and landing precise shots would realistically increase your intelligence, strength and perception respectively. P.S: health care can be easily increased to 3 with only a bandage and practice, personally I find mechanics to be the most valuable starting skill and with mechanics 3 you could get almost any vehicle started at the very least.

Cataclysm is as easy or difficult as you make it out to be. You can always change your settings. I for example consider this setting easy 😅 after i played them for some time haha. My settings are; -City size 8 -city spacing 6 -loot and npc spawn are normal -0.01 monster evolution speed -200% monster speed -200% monster resilience -5 times more monsters -start day 57 -spawn delay 3 days (3 years worth of zombie evolution) -wandering hordes -everything else normal Starting naked and afraid in the wilderness with no additional stats or skills or anything else, exept imperceptive healer. Also using no hope but with a humidity of 70 (base humidity of the base game), because you would have constant fog otherwise, which makes solarpanels more then 3 times less effective the entire time. And no other mods exept bionic slots.

I cant believe you just went into that spiral and slaughtered all those innocent snail people.

I agree, if you have piano experience it's not hard at all

Steep learning curve and lots of keybinding muscle memory required. Probably my most annoying death during a long playthrough was stepping on a mine hidden under a bush by a bandit cabin which wasn't detected and I was in a rush to leave after carefully clearing it. Instant kill.

Is there any chance you could upload a tutorial on end game goals in Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead? Most of the time I'm stuck trying to figure out my ultimate goals.

Idk if you’re still answering questions but how’d you get audio on your game? There’s none on mine.

The biggest danger in CDDA is not being able to bear the pain of losing a good character to a landmine that kills with a hitkill. 😂

I can’t believe everything has damage points and not realistic stuff

so im BRAND spankin' new to this game, and i spent my first like 3 games just trying to craft things in the evac shelter and getting frustrated and bored. Should I just immediately go out and loot instead?

I like it making CDDA harder with low chance of finding proper and repaired weapons..... but i can see the appeal of making yourself OP.

**NOT THE SNAIL PEOPLE ROOM**

I'm guessing there was an update recently ? Since parkour expert seems to have been deleted, and rolled into the parkour background.

What tile set and sound pack is this?

Bro, what version are you playing? I didn't find some of these traits, I'm playing 0.G Stable

Cool. Now try Innawood naked winter start on default settings. it's the true litmus test for whether you're good at the game

are you ever going to do a playthrough of cdda?

at default difficulty, this game is so easy it's boring I can make a god out of my character in the first in game month

The hardest part is figuring out what you're trying to say.

The game is so easy just be good at it.

can you do guides for magiclysm??? the wiki isn't helping at all

Version?

Cool accent

Idk how anyone gets past the first 30 minutes without it feeling like a mind numbing, boring af slog though a 2d screen.

you should have specced into english

Too bad this game is so ugly it hurts my eyes to look at it. I know very well graphics aren't the most important thing but these devs could at least aim for Project Zomboid level.