What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[Rutilant]

Japan, the land where gelled hair is a deadly weapon.

[Lost]

What’s wrong with furries/otakus? I’m technically both.

[ComputerWarrior]

After a while of not playing in a serious manner, methought it would be best to turn on static spawn, and try to cleanse the town of the zombies. Armed with a pipe, he ventured into the town and killed the few zombies he saw. Yeah baby, yeah! That excitement was short-lived as just behind a house were a frigging horde of specials. Shaking off the fear, he valiantly fought against the green former humans.

Everything was going great, until the thing a few tiles that he thought was a zombie cop was actually a Hulk. Fuck. Needless to say, he got punched badly a few times before managing to make a quick getaway using bushes and a bar. A day later and many of the former zombies had died and the entire town is clean now.

Where did the Hulk go? :S Not that I am interested in being in its presence, but it is still a bit weird that every zombie I killed was either a normal green or a necromancer. All of them, save for that one boomer. Anyway, regardless, how do I kill blobs? The entire town is clean from hostile enemies and they are the only threat to my empire humanity! I don’t want them to multiply, and multiply again every time I hit 'em. Also, how do I destroy their pits? Is it even possible?

What’s wrong with furries/otakus? I’m technically both.

Nothing is wrong with either. A healthy interest in anime, manga, or the… furries is okay, wonderful even.

[Augur]

I’m playing CZS right now, and finally have had one character with a stroke of luck.

I just found a LMOE shelter with an unlimited supply of water so I don’t have to find a river, a wood stove that won’t burn the place down, and a bunch of ammo and tools. Unfortunately I’m still short a pot and a wood axe, as well as any guns, but I haven’t gotten sick from the unboiled water yet, and I’ve been getting enough food on the table with my adventures that involve rampant wolf-crowbarring. The only thing that has me worried is that there’s a cannibal that I’ve seen stalking around the area, most recently that northern cabin that I was heading towards to look for tools in. So currently I’m running south, crowbarring cougars and wolves wherever they jump out of the forest from, towards an evac shelter I saw him at before. Hopefully he isn’t waiting outside my safehouse when I return.

[Jihelu]

[quote=“ComputerWarrior, post:363, topic:47”]After a while of not playing in a serious manner, methought it would be best to turn on static spawn, and try to cleanse the town of the zombies. Armed with a pipe, he ventured into the town and killed the few zombies he saw. Yeah baby, yeah! That excitement was short-lived as just behind a house were a frigging horde of specials. Shaking off the fear, he valiantly fought against the green former humans.

Everything was going great, until the thing a few tiles that he thought was a zombie cop was actually a Hulk. Fuck. Needless to say, he got punched badly a few times before managing to make a quick getaway using bushes and a bar. A day later and many of the former zombies had died and the entire town is clean now.

Where did the Hulk go? :S Not that I am interested in being in its presence, but it is still a bit weird that every zombie I killed was either a normal green or a necromancer. All of them, save for that one boomer. Anyway, regardless, how do I kill blobs? The entire town is clean from hostile enemies and they are the only threat to my empire humanity! I don’t want them to multiply, and multiply again every time I hit 'em. Also, how do I destroy their pits? Is it even possible?

What’s wrong with furries/otakus? I’m technically both.

Nothing is wrong with either. A healthy interest in anime, manga, or the… furries is okay, wonderful even. :)[/quote]
Unless you will put on a wolf suit as I prance around the room and masterbate with a free hand, something is wrong with it.

[Lost]

Preview of the next Apocalypse Log entry. Want to see how badass my character is?

[AseaHeru]

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[KA101]

[quote=“Iosyn, post:360, topic:47”]There isn’t that much really. About 95% of those icons are SHMUPs The other five is profit.
Any folders are usually for roguelikes, work stuff and Aurora. (it’s the 4x version of dorf fort. Make a 45kt battleship sporting a few hundred launchers? Expensive. Forgetting to put Magazine space into the design for missile storage? Priceless.)

Nah, I kid-- I went off the deep end a long time ago.[/quote]
I recognize Trans & UQM. Good taste.

And lset this be mistaken for OT: first Autumn; day 2. Massive recon sweeps found a Strange Temple but I haven’t got an eye for it. There are mines around but the one I’ve checked so far only has this huge-ass cavern of toxic gas and spawn bleed-through from the Lab next door (I could jacqueshammer through if I wanted, but since I live on the surface of that particular Lab, I’d rather not.) No idea where to look for the Mine finale.

(I do have a gas mask, which seems to be working OK despite my having taken a face shot. Presuming that if it’s not yet “ripped” it’s still airtight.) Found two Cars & a Bicycle in the town up north and the next major project will probably be clearing out the crowds so I can bring it home and get crafting. Crash site 10 yards from the lab, so no shortage of spare metal. At this rate, I don’t feel compelled to change versions anytime soon.

[ComputerWarrior]

Ah, ain’t it great being a “city boy”? The entire city is now devoid of the two hundred or so zombies that once populated it. The blobs, however, still are strong and there is not a single vehicle in sight to run them over save for a bicycle. I am not going to charge a horde of blobs with a bicycle.

Just asking, can molotovs burn blobs alive? If not, is there any way to kill them and preferably destroy their slime pits? To summarize my situation, there is a blob pit just a hundred tiles south-west of me, the only vehicle in town is a bicycle, I have a few molotovs courtesy of the only bar here, there are no guns save for HK 45 one and a single magazine of .45, and my best melee weapons are a wood ax and a pipe. The wood ax didn’t work very well in killing the blobs…

[WCG]

Presuming that if it’s not yet “ripped” it’s still airtight.

Hmm,… you were talking about a gas mask, but I wonder if that’s the problem I had with my raincoat? I thought a raincoat would protect my character from acid rain, but that was definitely not the case! However, the raincoat was damaged. I don’t remember how badly it was damaged, but it could have been “ripped.” Was that my problem? Or don’t raincoats ever protect from acid rain?

Oh, well, I can’t play Cataclysm anyway. I get to Day 2 or 3 and that’s it. The game will do nothing but crash after that. I’ve tried a different character on a different map, but it’s the same thing. It works fine until it suddenly stops working entirely.

PS. I saw the question about blobs, but I don’t have a clue, myself. You could try sneaking up at night and lobbing a Molotov cocktail on the pit itself, I suppose. With luck, that slime might be flammable.

[Lost]

There are more productive things you can do with a molotov. They’re invaluable early on for taking out Hulks and Brutes, and in my recent entry in the Apocalypse Log, I demonstrated how effective they are in taking out Fungal Spires.

[Lost]

…oh for fuck’s sake.

The game crashed while I was saving. Everything I stored up has been erased, except for whatever was on my character. That includes the world I was spawned in. Going forward, this is going to be a bit strange continuing the Apocalypse Log, so to write around the huge crash issue, I’m going to have to get a little creative.

[KA101]

[quote=“KA101, post:368, topic:47”]Presuming that if it’s not yet “ripped” it’s still airtight.

Hmm,… you were talking about a gas mask, but I wonder if that’s the problem I had with my raincoat? I thought a raincoat would protect my character from acid rain, but that was definitely not the case! However, the raincoat was damaged. I don’t remember how badly it was damaged, but it could have been “ripped.” Was that my problem? Or don’t raincoats ever protect from acid rain?

Oh, well, I can’t play Cataclysm anyway. I get to Day 2 or 3 and that’s it. The game will do nothing but crash after that. I’ve tried a different character on a different map, but it’s the same thing. It works fine until it suddenly stops working entirely.

PS. I saw the question about blobs, but I don’t have a clue, myself. You could try sneaking up at night and lobbing a Molotov cocktail on the pit itself, I suppose. With luck, that slime might be flammable.[/quote]
I get the impression that “inside” is the only thing that protects from Acid Rain. Raincoat protects from the morale effects of Rain & Drizzle. (IMO, Trenchcoat/Lab Coat/Peacoat really ought to halve those, as they keep you somewhat dry too. Probably a balance issue.) Haven’t yet used a molotov but am thinking that I’ll trench around the triffid grove first. No sense burning the entire forest if one doesn’t need to do so.

[kenoxite]

Only roofs protect you from acid, be it from a static structure or a vehicle.

[ComputerWarrior]

@Lost & @WCG:
For !!SCIENCE!! methinks its necessary! As the town has a boat load of alcohol, molotovs are plentiful. Luckily I don’t need 'em for hulks right now, because the entire town is clean (thanks for the advise, though, Lost.). But considering I have tried it now, it would probably be noteworthy to anybody dealing with blobs as well that molotovs are completely and utterly useless against slime. Whilst they can turn some of the slime into ashes, it’ll take at least dozens of molotovs to take out the entire pit thing.

Weirdly enough, even before I did anything about it, the blobs just… ceased spawning. Guess they spawned out of the slime for a while and, during the two days my char was at least 20 map tiles away, depopulated. If it is indeed so, I probably wasted that cocktail.

[Augur]

Okay. Well, I’ve always hated him and his movies and now he’s decided to rear his ugly head at my safehouse the day that I finally find a wood axe and fell a tree to use to cook the pile of wolf meat that I have. We face off, spaghetti western style, and I draw the crossbow I made the night before and slam a bolt through his chest. Then I saunter up and critically one-hit him with my blood-stained crowbar +2 for massive damage with the guns that you get when you’re running around chopping trees down and judo-chopping local fauna. And then the game crashes. Fuck.

I reload, and luckily I had only recently started playing again, so I still have my axe and everything. He shows up again, I critically strike him with the crossbow. Flop, crash.

Is there any way to manually take him out of the game, preferably without having to make a new world or character? I can certainly outrun him and lose him in the forest, and have done so before, but he’s just become so frustratingly annoying because the only thing stopping me from killing him and dumping his body in his well-deserved sewage-filled grave is a bit of code that has his items all screwy: monster.cpp[629]: Type Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf has item_chance 40 but no items assigned!

[Lost]

Wait, that’s an actual thing?! I’ve never encountered him. Of course, he wouldn’t stand a chance against my character. Does he dropped bugged items, or does the game just crash if you kill him?

[Augur]

It crashes, but doesn’t make cataclysm have a “This program is not responding” popup appear. Everything just stops and I have to close the window.

[AseaHeru]

I have set up camp in my evac shelter, killed some things then run a bit due to a necro. After killing it I notice many, many frogs and centipedes, kill them and butcher them. Now I am wondering, do fires burn down underground areas?

[system]

He has no items assigned to spawn, should be simple to fix. And in fact i did when making a custom monster for my own modded version of cataclysm.

It was a new item dropped by dead humans: bones.

That somehow fixed it.