Things fighting other things is unbelievably great

Florin · 2015-01-16T09:45:50.000Z

I love it. I haven’t enjoyed Cataclysm this much in ages. The world feels alive in a way it never did before. Watching zombies go after wildlife, or massive battles unfold between zombie hordes and tank drones, is amazing. Being able to exploit monsters’ hostility towards one another adds a depth of strategy that never existed in the game before. Nothing more to add, just kudos to the people responsible for making this possible.

Valpo · 2015-01-16T09:59:27.000Z

Its a great step in the right direction indeed.

ramesesniblet · 2015-01-16T16:08:17.000Z

It’s definitely interesting but I would love to see it balanced. Right now it’s a bit like turning up to a party when everybody is already drunk.

Closet_Pankin · 2015-01-16T19:13:56.000Z

ramesesniblet:

It’s definitely interesting but I would love to see it balanced. Right now it’s a bit like turning up to a party when everybody is already drunk.

All that needs adding now is roving groups of survivors, instead of randies running around gunning down squirrels.

Also what the hell is going on with your sig? How?

Illogical_Blox · 2015-01-16T19:20:51.000Z

I had a dog (wild!) kill a spitter zombie by accident. Hehehehe.

ramesesniblet · 2015-01-16T22:51:47.000Z

Closet Pankin:

[quote=“ramesesniblet, post:3, topic:8636”]It’s definitely interesting but I would love to see it balanced. Right now it’s a bit like turning up to a party when everybody is already drunk.

All that needs adding now is roving groups of survivors, instead of randies running around gunning down squirrels.

Also what the hell is going on with your sig? How?[/quote]

Haha, try using a mop on the tile you’re on.

Florin · 2015-01-17T00:09:53.000Z

ramesesniblet:

Right now it’s a bit like turning up to a party when everybody is already drunk.

What do you mean?

Coolthulhu · 2015-01-17T00:28:25.000Z

Illogical_Blox:

I had a dog (wild!) kill a spitter zombie by accident. Hehehehe.

They can actually get hostile towards zeds now. This needs some balancing (they often switch into neutral “tracking” mode and die), but zeds accosting bears, dogs and wasps should get rek’t by them now (unless they’re big zeds or have backup).

ramesesniblet:

It’s definitely interesting but I would love to see it balanced. Right now it’s a bit like turning up to a party when everybody is already drunk.

It will look like this for a while. Mapgen doesn’t “understand” infighting yet, so it can spawn zeds next to turrets.
Some day we may have fungal hordes on overmap map assimilating zombie hordes to fight triffid hordes.

Illogical_Blox · 2015-01-17T13:37:44.000Z

Coolthulhu:

[quote=“Illogical_Blox, post:5, topic:8636”]I had a dog (wild!) kill a spitter zombie by accident. Hehehehe.

They can actually get hostile towards zeds now. This needs some balancing (they often switch into neutral “tracking” mode and die), but zeds accosting bears, dogs and wasps should get rek’t by them now (unless they’re big zeds or have backup).[/quote]
Hmm, is there a new experimental out then? Because that’s the only time (even when I found Irradiated Wanderers) that I’ve seen creatures fighting.

Florin · 2015-01-17T13:50:47.000Z

Monster infighting was merged into the main branch maybe a week ago? It’s recent.

Coolthulhu · 2015-01-17T18:41:36.000Z

Illogical_Blox:

Hmm, is there a new experimental out then? Because that’s the only time (even when I found Irradiated Wanderers) that I’ve seen creatures fighting.

New experimentals are released quite fast - often about 4 versions per day.

Nopkar · 2015-01-18T11:55:01.000Z

Coolthulhu:

[quote=“Illogical_Blox, post:9, topic:8636”]Hmm, is there a new experimental out then? Because that’s the only time (even when I found Irradiated Wanderers) that I’ve seen creatures fighting.

New experimentals are released quite fast - often about 4 versions per day.[/quote]

take a week off from testing and it jumps 50 versions. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Bonevomit · 2015-01-18T22:42:25.000Z

It’s all pretty good, there is one funny thing though.

When a zombie scientist sees a Mi-Go in the glass box in the lab, it shoots manhacks out all over the place, and the room becomes an endless fountain of manhacks.

AllisonW · 2015-01-18T23:18:15.000Z

[quote=“Bonevomit, post:13, topic:8636”]It’s all pretty good, there is one funny thing though.

When a zombie scientist sees a Mi-Go in the glass box in the lab, it shoots manhacks out all over the place, and the room becomes an endless fountain of manhacks.[/quote]

You just described a combat knife and electronics scrap farm.

StopSignal · 2015-01-19T00:04:41.000Z

What i want is to leave a lot of chunks of raw meat next to a city border that is next to a forest. Then bears and zombies come. War.

dreamfantasy · 2015-01-19T00:39:54.000Z

Really interesting feature!

Look forward seeing more interactions between Zeds, NPCs, wildlife and the world. For example like wildlife eating fruits, Zeds eating NPC corpse, or NPC make a armed fortress using houses.

AllisonW · 2015-01-19T00:47:58.000Z

Yeah, at a bare minimum zombies should probably start eating what they kill (with no appetite system or checks required, of course; they’re zombies). As it stands they’re doing our hunting for us.

StopSignal · 2015-01-19T02:26:10.000Z

This is going to end up as complex as DF and i love the idea.

Rivet · 2015-01-19T02:58:07.000Z

StopSignal:

This is going to end up as complex as DF and i love the idea.

Implying DDA isn’t already as complex as DF.

iceball3 · 2015-01-19T04:01:03.000Z

[quote=“AllisonW, post:17, topic:8636”]Yeah, at a bare minimum zombies should probably start eating what they kill (with no appetite system or checks required, of course; they’re zombies). As it stands they’re doing our hunting for us.[/quote]CDDA zombies don’t kill to eat. They confirm the kill and move on, a cannibalised corpse is harder for the blob to res, after all.