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My preferred starting character type is a taylor, of all things. Your starting inventory isn’t great but you can craft a coat, backpack and cargo pants from the starting refuge’s courtains. You are effective at repairing your clothing from the start. Great game.
Forgive my ignorance, but it's not jumping out at me: what makes this game special?
I even used it as a table top role playing game, where I was the only one seeing the screen, would describe the situation, and players come up with the actions. There were no action they asked for I couldn't perform in the game.
Just tried this out. After my character died the "quick saves" I'd done prior to them dying seem to have been deleted. eg no way to "quick load" or otherwise load the character :( Guessing this is a permadeath game, though that's not mentioned in the GitHub README nor FAQ. Unless games saves are actually supposed to work?
Perma death and brutally difficult. I’ve had a lot of fun with this game over the years.
That being said, thanks for confirming it's a permadeath game. :)
It's bizarre they don't mention that anywhere.
Forgive my ignorance, but it's not jumping out at me: what makes this game special?
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Perma death and brutally difficult. I’ve had a lot of fun with this game over the years.
Ugh. What's the point of "quick saves" if they get deleted when the character dies? That being said, thanks for confirming it's a permadeath game. :) It's bizarre they don't mention that anywhere.
If you want to play, I recommend getting the newest experimental release from https://cataclysmdda.org/experimental/ instead of the 2-year-old 0.F-3. The experimentals are in good shape right now, as the next major release is very, very near, and will be almost identical to current experimentals.
I would also suggest taking advantage of the open source nature of this game, most of the game lives in json files and they are very receptive of PRs. I personally am why smashing toilets yields wax.
Here's a dump of notable characters for me: Strong unwilling mutant build: Got lucky and got a reinfroced car early, stocked up really well and cleared out a small town just driving through them, that yeiled lots of resources including guns. I even was able to patch up the car. I spent a lot of time clearing out the town, healing up in between & training skills. I didn't really have any more books to read through & e…
That sounds exactly like what I want out of the game. My characters tend to go a little bit more like this: I run outside, and die from a hoarde of zombies. Or: I run outside, and am killed by an automated tank
With that being said, you should be dying pretty often. I think I made about 50 characters before I made it to winter for the first time.
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Perma death and brutally difficult. I’ve had a lot of fun with this game over the years.
Ugh. What's the point of "quick saves" if they get deleted when the character dies? That being said, thanks for confirming it's a permadeath game. :) It's bizarre they don't mention that anywhere.
Not sure if it's still the case, but last time I played (~2 years ago), closing the game window would also work as such "exceptional circumstance", so if you want your quick load, be quick with your ALT+F4 when your character dies :).
(I am not going to elaborate on the reason I know this.)