(OT) Cata things that used to be

[TheWumpus]

God no, the last thing we need again is acid rain. Seems like 3 times a day it’d be pouring caustic chemicals from the sky on my chars.

[chevil]

Acid rain would be interesting thing to bring back but only if its rarer than it used to be.

I have a nice memory of putting on power armor and punching spitters while other zombies were melting in the acid rain.

[John_Candlebury]

I miss throwable karate, even though it wasn’t very effective…

[Belteshazzar]

As I recall there’s plans to re-do acid rain, and other cataclysmic weather in connection to a revamped portal/anomaly/biome system.

Still, it was a FANTASTIC source of batteries and acid grenades back in the day and I usually didn’t mind the rain itself so much, crafting raincoats out of plastic bags and keeping in cover (a great time to read or craft while waiting for rain to collect) and munching aspirin when forced to wander around usually kept the pain manageable.

Finding cooking pots though… I remember tearing apart most of a small town looking for a single bloody cooking pot.

[TonicEngine]

Finding cooking pots though… I remember tearing apart most of a small town looking for a single bloody cooking pot.

I usually ended up making a stone pot (http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Stone_pot), something that never made a bit of sense. Three stones, a hammer, and a piece of string. Twenty minutes later, poof, you’ve a pot. Is it like… three stones tied together at the… bottom? Like a three-petaled flower?

A large stone, roughly hollowed out into a pot.

What? How? And what happened to the other two stones? And the string!

Forget the creepy backwoods temple and the goo, this is one of the great mysteries of Cataclysm.

[vache]

I remember back then there was no stone pot, a lot of the survival based recipes weren’t in. I kinda miss the focus on scavenging instead of crafting.

[Pageman]

I believe acid rains were removed because they would basically kill all the nearby spawning wild life, leaving countless of dead corpses lying around, also because the weather was unpredictable and could change drastically in a matter of turns.

[Taraq]

I remember back then there was no stone pot, a lot of the survival based recipes weren’t in. I kinda miss the focus on scavenging instead of crafting.

Definitely get this. There’s just something a little off with tailors being ungodly killing machines by virtue of encumbrance. And I miss the scarcity (it seemed) of loot in the older versions, when there weren’t assault rifles and katanas in every third basement.

[BigLie]

The loot in the middle of nowhere surrounded by traps sounds a little nonsensical though

Why? As a bait to lure a naive survivor and get more loot, seems somewhat reasonable to me.

Aw, I thought you were going to talk about how it used to melt your clothes off your skin and kill you within minutes. ^^’

I’m lucky. The worst it had done to me is causing 50-80 points of pain.

Oh and how are the triffids? Haven’t seen these fibrous buggers for a while too.

[lootpack]

These giant purple worms that would dig up the ground around the base, haven’t seen one of those in a while.

[pencho123]

The acid rain was awesome.

[Soyweiser]

• Acid rain
  Was removed from the game iirc. It sucked. Animals could not deal with it. And you were forced in your home for a long time.
• Purple worms
  Still in, annoying buggers make it harder to drive my car around.
• Triffids
  ’Haven’t seen’ Good reference to the original story there ;).
  But they are also still in the game.

I remember being able to find cars in parking lots. Now it’s all shopping carts and ice cream vendors. Not that there’s a dearth of cars, it’s just odd.

I found a parking lot with normal cars in it. Just random bad luck I guess. (Or good luck).

[lootpack]

Thanks for keeping the purple worms in, looks like none have spawned yet for me.

I really think Acid Rain would be fine if it was a very rare event, like once or twice a year. In the older versions it was a bit ridiculous like the default spawn rate, i remember the reality bubble around the base was full of dead animals killed by acid rain. As a very rare catastrophic event it should be fine though!

[BigLie]

These giant purple worms that would dig up the ground around the base, haven’t seen one of those in a while.

A-plenty in my world. I’d even say a bit too many of them.

[kevin.granade]

The system that spawns worms is probably riddled with bugs, that’s probably why they’re much rarer than they used to be.

Something I do not miss is GHOST CAR, there was a bug in the game for months where any vehicle you found would leave an image that would follow you around until the next time you exited the game.

Also starting the game on fire, it was funny the first few times, but got old really quick.

[vache]

Worms spawn in 0-3 groups per overmap, distributed randomly, with a radius of about 10-20 overmap tiles.

[chevil]

Something I do not miss is GHOST CAR, there was a bug in the game for months where any vehicle you found would leave an image that would follow you around until the next time you exited the game.

I haven’t experienced the horror that is the GHOST CAR but from the way you describe it it sounds a lot like a feature and not a bug.

[Rot]

In my opinion turrets were easier to deal with, I could just go behind a wall after it detected me and wait for it to run out of bullets shooting the wall I was behind.

[IcedPee]

I miss the None.

…Said nobody ever.

[John_Candlebury]

What about that glitch when hallucinatory monsters became real after saving/loading.