Cataclysm FAQ

Hey. It’s a FAQ.

Please point out any mistakes, be it grammar or gameplay. And suggest new stuff to be added here as well.

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- Get items from display racks/trunks/boxes?
You can get items from display racks, trunks, boxes, or any adjacent tiles by examining the tile containing the item.

- Remove/change the batteries in my flashlight/welder/mp3 player?
You should think of your flashlight as a weapon:
-Hold it in your hands;
-Press the reload button.
-If you want to remove the batteries, press Unload.

- Transfer liquids from a container to another?
Once again, think of the container as a weapon:
-Hold the container with liquid in your hands;
-Press Unload;
-Press N when asked if you want to pour the liquid on the ground;
-Choose which container will receive the liquid.

- Remove/Use silencers/extended magazines/gyroscopic stabilizer/enhanced grip?
These items, the gunmods, can be installed by anyone with a firearms skill of at least 1. Here’s how you do it:
-Press use (a);
-Choose the gunmod to install;
-Choose the weapon to modify.
Note that weapons can only have up to 4 gunmods.
To remove gunmods:

  • Press Unload to completely unload your weapon.
  • Press Unload with your weapon already unloaded to remove all gunmods.

- Use spare magazines
-Attach the magazine to a weapon. Note that revolvers and shotguns can’t have spare magazines attached to them for obvious reasons;
-Reload your weapon;
-Press “reload” again to reload the spare magazine. The next time you reload your weapon, it should be much faster.
-Sometimes, your character can’t use spare magazines. I’m not sure of what causes it, but the obvious fix to it is creating another character.

- Repair my vehicle?
You’ll need a welder with 50 charges of battery and some skill in mechanics for this. For the mechanics skill, you have two alternatives: a) start with skills in mechanics and b) read a book called “Under the Hood”, which will take your mechanics skill up to 3. Once you have everything you need to repair the damaged part:

  • examine your vehicle;
  • Find the damaged part;
  • Press repair;

- Refuel my vehicle?
There are mainly two ways of refueling a vehicle: a) using a gas pump and b) using a container with gasoline.
Refueling with a gas pump:

  • Make sure your car is adjacent to you;
  • examine the gas pump;
  • Press Y to pump gas;
  • Press Y to refuel a vehicle;
  • Select the vehicle.
    Refueling with gasoline in a container:
  • examine your car;
  • Find the gasoline tank;
  • Press refill.

- Make rags from clothes
You’ll need scissors or a sharp weapon for this:
-Press use (a).
-Select the scissors/sharp weapon;
-Select the clothes you wish to turn into rags.

Reserved, I suppose.

I’ll be adding more stuff soon. Please leave your suggestions (that is, what gave you a hard time when you started playing Cataclysm)

[quote=“AssassinT90, post:1, topic:58”]- Use spare magazines
I’ll add something here as soon as I figure it out myself.

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you attach it the same way you attach other mods for guns then reload twice. It makes faster to reload

Spare magazine use (from the horse’s mouth):
'a’pply to a compatible gun (pistols, rifles, no single-round reload).
your gun display should change from:
Glock 19 (30)
to
Glock 19 (30+0)

'r’eload again to reload the spare magazine, this gives you:
Glock 19 (30+30)

'f’ire the ammo in the gun.
Glock 19 (29+30)
Glock 19 (28+30)

Glock 19 (0+30)

'r’eload, triggering a “tactical reload”, which will swap the round from the spare magazine into the gun.
Glock 19 (30+0)

Keep shooting :slight_smile:

If you reload while there are still rounds in the gun, it will reload the gun normally, which will take the usual 3 turns or so.
Reloading while the gun is full and the spare magazine is not full will reload the spare magazine.
If you have a gunmod with a firing mode 'a’pplied, the reload priority is like this:

  1. gunmod whose mode is active if not fully loaded
  2. tactical reload if the gun is empty and the spare has rounds
  3. gun if not fully loaded
  4. spare magazine if not fully loaded
  5. non-active gunmods if not fully loaded, in the order they were 'a’pplied

The ammo display is always (gun + spare magazine + gunmods with firing modes in the order they were applied)

Okay, this is why I couldn’t figure it out:
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/2916/cante.png

For some reason, I’ve created a new character and it now works properly. Anyways, thanks.

+1

[quote=“AssassinT90, post:1, topic:58”]- Repair my vehicle?
You’ll need a welder with 50 charges of battery and some skill in mechanics for this. For the mechanics skill, you have two alternatives: a) start with skills in mechanics and b) read a book called “Under the Hood”, which will take your mechanics skill up to 3. Once you have everything you need to repair the damaged part:

  • examine your vehicle;
  • Find the damaged part;
  • Press repair;[/quote]

Don’t forget that welding goggles are also mandatory.