When did you start playing cata?

[Inquisitor_Dust]

I can’t remember where I found out about it for the life of me, but it was back when Whales was still developing it. I think around the time the whole dildos/other sexual content in the game came up on the old forums.

Is it weird that’s the “landmark” that I remember?

[i2amroy]

I started on C:DDA around mid-April 2013 after reading the Bay12 thread and becoming intrigued.

[RonniDeWorm]

Switched to linux about a year ago, started looking for native linux games and discovered Dwarf fortress / roguelikes
(i was immediately hooked on the ASCII-‘graphics’).

Then i read this post: http://indiestatik.com/2013/03/08/roguelike-primer/
That’s where I learned about C:DDA.
The first version I played was 0.3 or 0.4 (not sure anymore), haven’t missed a release since.
I had been playing other roguelikes, so i didn’t have much problems with the controls.
I remember that when i first played it I thought: This is exactly what I’m looking for in a game.
(Reading the designdoc was really fun!)

I’ve been following these forums for some time now, haven’t posted much but I have to say:
This community is awesome

[Zireael]

I’ve started around 0.6, found it by accident. Since then, I’m hooked!

[Mrnocamera]

Goes into a mysterious voice.
"Many things have been found while browsing the internet’s many pages. Some good, others… N-"
Loud cough from off-screen.
Fucking around with the internet, randomly put in DDA and it came up with the game.

[system]

I started sometime in march 2013, back when Jefmajor was doing a lets-play of 0.3 i think it was. Took me a week to get into cataclysm because i was on a family vacation back then, but I’ve been in love with it ever since.

[pulsefrequency]

Then i read this post: http://indiestatik.com/2013/03/08/roguelike-primer/

ha, that was a great article. i loved that cata is listed under ‘expert’ lol. also enjoyed the entries for DF and URW

i remember seeing that inventory was managed not only by weight but also arbitrarily by volume as well, sort of like a dynamic Diablo-like system, and i thought that was really excellent design. that, coupled with my general lamenting for the lack of good “survival” (not horror survival) games or sims around, and i was sold on cata from the very beginning. excellent game. the “simulation” of survival needs is really spot on and i appreciate it as a shining light in the darkness where “realism” should be in modern gaming, indie and mainstream alike, where it is erroneously claimed to be

[HunterAlpha1]

I think I originally heard about original Cata a long time ago but couldn’t figure out how to compile it so I forgot about it. Then somewhere around mid June of last year I heard about it from the Rogue: Survivor forum’s “Other Games” thread so I finally took the time to learn how compile it. A short while later I discovered that you could just download and copy it to a folder. Then not much later I discovered DDA, and have been hookered since.

[EnderCrypt]

i played nethack, and wanted more so i googled for free/opensource rougelikes
first version i played was 0.4 i think… or 0.5, something like that
first time i stepped into the game… i remember the shelter, and there was spider web on the north and safe mode keept bugging me about a spider

[StopSignal]

I think I originally heard about original Cata a long time ago but couldn’t figure out how to compile it so I forgot about it. Then somewhere around mid June of last year I heard about it from the Rogue: Survivor forum’s “Other Games” thread so I finally took the time to learn how compile it. A short while later I discovered that you could just download and copy it to a folder. Then not much later I discovered DDA, and have been hookered since.

I remember playing RS too. It was even scary sometimes. Even if it was simplistic and full of gun shops.

[jimboblordofeskimos]

Well, it was early on in the whales days, Im pretty sure I remember being very excited when crafting was put in, so Id say somewhere near the start?

[Perigrin]

I heard about this game on the dayz official forums when i suggested a secession game for dwarf fortress.
the plans for that fell through, and I played this instead, gave up, re discovered it on my hard drive a couple monthes ago, re downloaded it, and have loved it ever since

[pulsefrequency]

rogue survivor was so awesome… i wonder if its still being developed? i havent played that in years

ah, now i remember. instead of continuing development they decided to start a sequel and subsequently epic-fail’d

so much for that

every tried Dead Frontier?

[Nav]

Been playing for about a year now. Since version 0.3.

[HunterAlpha1]

[quote=“pulsefrequency, post:24, topic:5373”]rogue survivor was so awesome… i wonder if its still being developed? i havent played that in years

ah, now i remember. instead of continuing development they decided to start a sequel and subsequently epic-fail’d

so much for that

every tried Dead Frontier?[/quote]DF is pretty neat, they just need to polish it a little more before I’m ready to jump back in. MMOs aren’t really my favorite game type, but DF isn’t bad.

[pulsefrequency]

ive been waiting for them to “polish it a little” since before i started playing cata haha

[AerialK7]

I think I started playing around 0.2-0.3 CDDA…so. Yeah. I found it on some random website of roguelikes and a guy commented “whoever made this list obviously hasnt played cataclysm dark days ahead” outve curiousity I looked it up and, well, my first, and favorite forum I joined. Ive made alot of friends here xD

[FunsizeNinja123]

Yaayyy Aerial.

[StarsonLovett]

I started playing Cata DDA around version 0.8 . It was the first roguelike I ever found that had cars that you can find AND build. That got me hooked. It is probably my faivorite thing about the game. Making a car masterpiece and then accidentaly driving it into a slime pit:). But I found the game when I got bored of the complexity of dwarf fortress and was searching around on youtube for a zombie survival roguelike.

[Lost]

I’ve played the game long enough to remember a time before vehicles were even a mod, and when bows were omnipotent.