Cataclysm: The Updated Great Underground Challenge! [WIP]

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-19T20:50:34.000Z

Where did you found the hacksaw? Hmm, I don’t remember adding one did the zombies drop it? Cause I never thought of the possibility of using those to escape.

I think Ill need to “Solidify” the obstacles then hehe.

Yeah the notes kinda get in the way of the immersion.

Will work on both of your suggestions thanks.

Fish · 2014-01-19T23:17:06.000Z

I like the idea of harder, bigger dungeons.
quietly chants Mod! Mod! Mod!

Seranikan · 2014-01-19T23:40:47.000Z

I had a lot of fun playing this, it was a very refreshing change to play in a different way.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T08:41:57.000Z

Seranikan:

I had a lot of fun playing this, it was a very refreshing change to play in a different way.

You finished it right? Would you mind giving me some feedback on the difficulty? Was it easy, average, semi-hard?
I would really appreciate it.

wad67 · 2014-01-20T09:31:34.000Z

I got a little bit stuck in the CHUD camp. There are a bunch of animalskin flaps that open up onto closed metal doors, I can here things moving around on the other side though. Further along there is a corridor blocked by animalskin walls, if you head south, east and then north again you end up in the animalskin wall blockade.

I’m a little confused as to where I am supposed to be going, am I supposed to tear down animalskin walls? I have been s’mashing this thing for about half an hour now, but with no success.

EDIT:

I backtracked and found the way forwards.

I died outside the door I was not supposed to die outside I was not expecting that.

I will reload the map and try again.

EDIT:

The door part is kinda impossible.

My guns don’t have the strength or range to damage the turrets, add molotovs perhaps? or maybe a stray soldier with a few grenades.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T09:37:47.000Z

Yeah you were supposed to smash the walls, but theres a glich with them that makes them indestructible if they dont complete a 3X3 square, I already fixed it for the next release.

If you backtrack a bit, youll find a sewer that froks a small distance before the camp entrance, you can also take that route.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T09:51:24.000Z

Did you found and grab the single barrel shotgun(you can get close enough to blast it with it) or the rifle, if you didn’t, that’s why. Also check your starting equipment.

wad67 · 2014-01-20T09:55:35.000Z

John Candlebury:

Did you found and grab the single barrel shotgun(you can get close enough to blast it with it) or the rifle, if you didn’t, that’s why. Also check your starting equipment.

Yeah I had the single barrel shotgun, but I got shot to pieces by the turrets. I ran out of ammo for the rifle a while back.

You have to be congratulated using the map editor too. Never In my life have I seen a UI so backwards and impossible.
Dwarf fortress is a nice graphical application, that anyone can pick up compared to the “thing” we have for a map editor.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T10:04:05.000Z

Its just rouge likes being rouge likes, then. there are spots were you can shoot them without them shooting back. Anyways that’s technically the boss fight of the dungeon right now the whole thing ends a single map square ahead. ( I already fleshed the settlement a little more but I will at least finish it before an update)

Thanks, you get used to the editor eventually, but its kinda rough on your hands if you have a laptop keyboard (like I do)

Oragepoilu · 2014-01-20T11:44:00.000Z

Funny, i didn’t used gun, not at all. I’v just trow everything i was able to found at the turret - and it worked.

For the hacksaw, iv found it on a mine, so must be from a Z (random drop).

Overall i found this really easy but all part with fish - they oftent hit me one or twice before i kill them, but iv ended full life.
(iv deletd the animalskin wall with the editor, because you’v said that should be destroyed)

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T11:48:31.000Z

Yeah, CHUDs are not half as hard as I remember them being, I think ill reduce the amount of ammo a bit (those 50 9mm rounds at start are god mode)

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T18:50:53.000Z

I dedicated a nice chunk of today expanding the dungeon (to the point thaat i almost duplicated the work I have done past week) so I am releasing an update. I think Ill go with weekly bigger updates unless there’s a bug or something like in the previous version.

What changed:
-Changed your starting equipment to make the game slightly harder.
-Removed the glitched animals skin walls.
-Expanded the dungeon
-More Chuds in the Chud camp
-More awesome weapons!
-More poison gas!
-More zombies!
-Added a still unfinished vehicular part because frankly we all want to drive cars on the subway, right?)
-700% more hulks
-1 0f 10 The Walking Dead references added!
-Multiplied the amount of arachnids by infinite (now a fucking lot, before 0)
-Removed the notes in the map
-Renamed the world

Get it Here!

Lorknis · 2014-01-20T20:31:47.000Z

Played it, loved it, wished all subways in the normal game were like this. One thing I noticed though was that when you have to drive the car through the wall, that the car can get stuck sometimes so I suggest that it made just a tad thinner. Also when you reach the forest? tiles, having a path to follow through would be nice and to tone down the number of spiders so it isn’t freaking impossible.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T20:45:06.000Z

Do You mean The part when your car hits the metal bars? I did that on purpose, the hole dungeon ends there for now: I just decided to be cruel and force you to die :).

Or did you walked through them? Because you are totally not meant to walk through them! Its supposed to be a speed up and hope my engine holds moment! The tunnel keeps going in a straight line though, so you should just try not to hit the walls and you’ll exit the spider nest eventually I guess ill add notes to the map to better symbolize it. Thanks for your time!

Lorknis · 2014-01-20T20:48:19.000Z

I meant the part where you first get the car and there’s a note near the wall that says ‘Bill, drive it through here’ or something along those lines. I’ve had the car break its engine going through or it’ll go through the first time then bury itself in the wall then explode.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-20T20:52:11.000Z

Haha! OK Ill modify the car to have the engine on the back so it wont die as easily perhaps its a little too dependent on luck now

wad67 · 2014-01-21T05:46:27.000Z

I made it a bit further this time around, Got to the car, rammed into the bars a zillion times and then watched the engine break.
It made a tile wide hole in the bars, so I continued after smashing the front panel of the car a thousand times so I could get past.

I eventually made it to the spider forest part and then my game crashed.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-21T09:45:35.000Z

You mean the bars that are immediately in front of the car? Because half of those have a switch to be opened and the other half has to be opened manually. Or do you mean the part where there’s rubble and a graffiti saying “Bill ram it here”

My version of the save didnt have the crash, it seems to be a normal bug of cata, not something related to my dungeon.

Zaweri_Runewright · 2014-01-22T13:04:15.000Z

Became way too easy when I found a pneumatic AR.

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-22T13:21:11.000Z

Well, you are supposed to keep the bearings for later and there are only 25 of them if i recall correctly; and you are not going to get anymore on the whole dungeon, its technically meant to be a boss battle weapon for the later encounters, I am just giving it to you early so that you have more opportunities to waste them, the same applies to bullets and food in general, the current level is filled with them because survivors took refuge in the subways and sewers, but once you get any deeper you just wont find anymore of them.