When did you start playing cata?

Zireael · 2014-03-11T18:57:41.000Z

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

Mrnocamera · 2014-03-11T19:00:52.000Z

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 · 2014-03-11T20:48:07.000Z

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 · 2014-03-11T21:00:25.000Z

RonniDeWorm:

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 · 2014-03-11T21:30:11.000Z

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 · 2014-03-12T11:20:43.000Z

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 · 2014-03-12T15:51:42.000Z

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.

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

jimboblordofeskimos · 2014-03-12T16:33:12.000Z

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 · 2014-03-12T16:43:45.000Z

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 · 2014-03-12T18:36:51.000Z

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 · 2014-03-12T20:15:20.000Z

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

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-03-13T00:06:08.000Z

[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 · 2014-03-13T06:05:33.000Z

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

AerialK7 · 2014-03-13T09:28:07.000Z

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 · 2014-03-13T12:38:46.000Z

Yaayyy Aerial.

StarsonLovett · 2014-03-13T14:03:23.000Z

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 · 2014-03-13T21:41:48.000Z

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

Gideon · 2014-03-14T01:01:04.000Z

Got in to it fairly recently. Was inspired to play by watching Das24680 play it on his channel.

IsharaComix · 2014-03-14T02:08:38.000Z

Man… this takes me back. Whales was just starting Cata and was looking for playtesters to compile and run the game on the #RGRD IRC Channel. I was up unusually late and decided to give it a shot. It stuck with me for the longest time, though I only recently found out about it again when I saw it on Kickstarter (Hey! I know that game!). Now it’s one of the games I’ve played the longest period of time since starting grad school - it has a certain air about it that keeps me coming back.

I think the two things that kept me hooked when I decided to give it a fresh look was the activity on github and the wiki. It’s awesome to see the open source “mob rule” approach working so well for Cataclysm. I even managed to get my own bugfix in the other day! It’s great that Cata has awesome and dedicated repo maintainers reviewing and QA-ing the pull requests. But the element that absolutely kept me in as a player was being able to read the tutorials on the Wiki and feel like I have enough information to actually survive. I’m about to make it to summer for the first time, and I’m super excited about it! It’s approachable and somewhat intuitive, and it’s been a wonderful experience getting to play it for about 30 minutes each night before bed.

kevin.granade · 2014-03-14T02:10:18.000Z

I first played around Oct of '12
I randomly heard about @xcom, but never got around to playing it because it was closed source, same deal with incursion (right name? the D20 roguelike), then found cataclysm, which wasn’t technically open source (no license), but whales encouraged modding and made the source available at least.
I vividly remember running around totally confused my first game or two, and being rewarded for doing things that made sense, like carefully sneaking into houses, picking clothing based on carrying capacity, and yes kiting zombies into junk to slow them down.
I progressed to surviving for a bit, joined the whalesdev forums, and got hooked on vehicles. I decided any decent apocalypse should have bicycles, and the rest is history.