How did you get introduced to cataclysm

[StopSignal]

Oh god I totally drew a flaming truck for DYC like more then a year ago.

[TinHeadDays]

A year ago I was play Spess Stations 13, (still do) and I came upon someone talking in ooc about a indie game called Cataclysm DDA, I tried it and loved it.

[Basilisk132mm]

I asked a friend about any game that i could play in windowed mode and pause at any time (totally not to procastinate). He told me to check out “Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead”. I browsed it and checked some pics on google images, at first i was like Wtf is dis shit, but then I saw Pthalocy’s drawings, which made me try it out. In my first game i just knew how to move around and nothing else, got killed my a rabid moose. Learned to love it.

[saltmummy626]

I showed a friend of mine IVAN (http://ivan.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html) so in exchange she told me about this game a friend of hers showed her and she didn’t like but seeing as I liked roguelikes and crafty craft survival games, I might like this one. I played it and was floored by the fact that cataclysm DDA was everything I ever wanted in a video game AND it’s forums are a friendly place not filled to bursting with the standard fare of shitlords, racism, and homophobia I had encountered in most other game forums I visited, excluding the DF forums which I haven’t visited in ages.

[Keyreper]

I was into dwarf fortress when they first added evil mists/rains, they were talking about some of the effects it had which included husks and thralls which were very similar to zombies. So I decided to spend some time googling for a rogue like with zombies in it and C:DDA was one of the first to pop up

[Mr_Epic_Cheese_Man]

My friend an I were playing spessmen and he said this faintly was like spessmen simulator.
Godknows where he got that from.

[Necrucifer]

Well I used to play MUDS 14 years ago, I still do but that got me wondering if any other kind of text based games were out there that were more newer. I did a search for text based as well as ascii games and of course found cata on whales which I did have fun with but then I noticed the development was lacking as it had none in awhile. So I did a search for cataclysm etc and of course found this beauty known as DDA, happy ending.

[gingernuke]

Oooh this takes me back. It was Plump playing the original cata years ago with Deon’s Little Mod, that was a LONG time ago. I remember it took me 3 months to realise that it was no longer being developed xD

[Azrad]

Somehow, wandering around tvtropes.

[IcedPee]

If memory serves, I was on 4chan’s /v/ board, in a topic where people were complaining about the lack of difficulty in video games. At one point one Anon said “all I want is a realistically difficult game where getting even a single wound could potentially kill you if you’re unlucky/don’t treat it right”. Somebody else name-dropped DDA. A bunch of people immediately responded with

playing shitty roguelikes
playing more zombie-filled shit
playing games made by feminist cuckolds

Needless to say, I was intrigued.

[Noodles_of_Doom]

Exploring roguebasin one day where I stumbled across Cataclysm: DDA. I didn’t play anything else for a week…

[King_of_Baboons]

While I was searching for new roguelikes to play I found many lists and top 10s that talked about DDA and DF.

I played DF first because I was fascinated with all the content of the game.

I play Cataclysm because,in my opinion,it is the only game that comes close to DF’s enormous content.

Also this is the only game I know that allows me to become an alcoholic mutant ninja cyborg wizard that wields magical artifacts and lives on a super armored RV with flamethrowers and spikes all over its military armor.That’s why I love it so much.

[Litppunk]

[quote=“King_of_Baboons, post:77, topic:8896”]While I was searching for new roguelikes to play I found many lists and top 10s that talked about DDA and DF.

I played DF first because I was fascinated with all the content of the game.

I play Cataclysm because,in my opinion,it is the only game that comes close to DF’s enormous content.

Also this is the only game I know that allows me to become an alcoholic mutant ninja cyborg wizard that wields magical artifacts and lives on a super armored RV with flamethrowers and spikes all over its military armor.That’s why I love it so much.[/quote]
so eloquently put. Should probably be the tag line.

[Packbat]

[quote=“IcedPee, post:75, topic:8896”]If memory serves, I was on 4chan’s /v/ board, in a topic where people were complaining about the lack of difficulty in video games. At one point one Anon said “all I want is a realistically difficult game where getting even a single wound could potentially kill you if you’re unlucky/don’t treat it right”. Somebody else name-dropped DDA. A bunch of people immediately responded with

playing shitty roguelikes
playing more zombie-filled shit
playing games made by feminist cuckolds

Needless to say, I was intrigued.[/quote]
…“cuckolds”? I new anti-feminism was a reactionary position, but that’s a seriously old-school slur.

[Coolthulhu]

[quote=“IcedPee, post:75, topic:8896”]If memory serves, I was on 4chan’s /v/ board, in a topic where people were complaining about the lack of difficulty in video games. At one point one Anon said “all I want is a realistically difficult game where getting even a single wound could potentially kill you if you’re unlucky/don’t treat it right”. Somebody else name-dropped DDA. A bunch of people immediately responded with

playing shitty roguelikes
playing more zombie-filled shit
playing games made by feminist cuckolds

Needless to say, I was intrigued.[/quote]

Similar here, except /vg/.

…“cuckolds”? I new anti-feminism was a reactionary position, but that’s a seriously old-school slur.

Has its renaissance right now, though it has also became a bit of a buzzword. It is the new default slur against a man, usually one with leftist tendencies.

[Vorchar]

Can’t remember. I think I found cataclysm from roguebasin. Back then darkling wolf had started to mod the game. Game has gone trough a lot while I haven’t been playing it.

Stopped playing before whales quit and did not return until 0.B, did have a look at some versions in between but was quite busy with other stuff.

[Packbat]

Has its renaissance right now, though it has also became a bit of a buzzword. It is the new default slur against a man, usually one with leftist tendencies.

Clearly someone needs to let them know about same-sex marriage.

[Arek_PL]

1 time i was looking for something to play because [shadow=black,left]call of duty[/shadow] was not fun enough to me, saw a[glow=red,2,300] rogue survivor[/glow], graphic was realy good so i played it

game was fun and challenging but construction and end game was limited (and folower ai was stupid) i decided to check other rogue like games like doomrl or gra and even dwar forest ( to complicated for me, will try again later)

after some time inactive of roguejack i started to check comments if he said something and i saw someone mentioning [glow=green,2,300]cata dda[/glow] and its how i started playing this game

[Valpo]

df just has an abysmal ui. It feels like the ui hates you. If you can defeat that you ll soon have a successful fortress.

[JazzGuru]

One of the devs from the Indie Stone (the guys behind Project Zomboid) mentioned it in one of their forum posts. Then I forgot about it for a while, but then he mentioned it again, and I thought to myself ‘Oh, procedurely generated, endless world plus zombies? Sounds awesome!’

Eventually, I looked some Let’s Plays up on YouTube and it looked AMAZING! So I jumped straight in, shortly after the release of the 0.A version.

Since then, it has become one of my all-time favourite games…