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Type: desktop-application
ID: org.cataclysmdda.CataclysmDDA
Package: cataclysm-dda-sdl
ProjectLicense: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Name:
C: 'Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead'
Summary:
C: A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
Description:
C: >-
<p>
Struggle to survive in a harsh, persistent, procedurally
generated world. Scavenge the remnants of a dead civilization
for food, equipment, or, if you are lucky, a vehicle with a full
tank of gas to get you the hell out of Dodge. Fight to defeat or
escape from a wide variety of powerful monstrosities, from
zombies to giant insects to killer robots and things far
stranger and deadlier, and against the others like yourself,
that want what you have...
</p>
<p>
As your game begins, you awaken with hazy memories of violence
and terror from when the world suddenly unraveled around
you. Now you need to explore your surroundings, and secure food,
water and safety. After that, who knows? Long term survival will
mean tapping abilities you haven’t used before, learning to
survive in this new environment and developing new skills.
</p>
Categories:
- Game
- RolePlaying
Keywords:
C:
- zombie
- survival
- game
- tiles
- dda
- cdda
Url:
homepage: https://www.cataclysmdda.org
bugtracker: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues
translate: https://www.transifex.com/cataclysm-dda-translators/cataclysm-dda/
vcs-browser: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/
contribute: https://cataclysmdda.org/contributions/
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Launchable:
desktop-id:
- org.cataclysmdda.CataclysmDDA.desktop
Provides:
binaries:
- cataclysm-tiles
Releases:
- version: 0.F Frank
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1625184000
description:
C: >-
<p>
After a long and anticlimactic buildup, we are pleased to
announce the release of stable version 0.F "Frank" of
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! Like our previous stable
versions, this release features an expansive range of
bugfixes, code and content additions, and new features.
4,500 new game entities were added, 123,162 lines of source
code were inserted, and 77,727 lines were deleted.
</p>
<p>
The goal was to have a smaller and more manageable release
this cycle, which was an utter failure, as it took well over
a year and by several measures was even larger than the 0.E
cycle.
</p>
<p>
We'd overall characterize 0.F as a release with a lot of
content and polish. Compared to 0.E, you may find it a
little more difficult (the pendulum swings ever back and
forth), but we think also more rewarding.
</p>
<p>
The most obvious feature of 0.F is the addition of nested
inventory, the ability to store items in containers and
have them behave as you'd expect. This is probably the most
long awaited and highly requested feature of the past five
years of development.
</p>
<p>
Besides pockets, 0.F features the addition of achievements
for fun and bragging rights, a proficiency system to
represent more refined skill knowledge, blood loss mechanics
for you and your enemies, weariness that builds as you push
yourself to your limits, vehicles that can drive up and down
z-levels (and bridges that are above rivers, enabling more
navigable rivers, as a result), and a vast host of new
content from new monsters and evolutions to new quests and items.
</p>
<p>
On the mod side, Magiclysm, Aftershock, and Dinomod have all
grown expansively, including new artifact and enchantment
systems that have impacted content in the main game.
And much more, too much to list here.
</p>
<p>
Players coming from the last stable will notice a switch
towards encouraging looting over crafting, especially in
the early game, and will have to be cautious about
overextending themselves in the beginning of their survival
effort. As usual, you'll want to avoid getting into combat
with multiple zombies in an open area. However, you can also
have 'grab bags' of useful gear and tools, allowing you to
toss your loot sack to the floor to engage in an
unencumbered melee battle with zombies!
</p>
<p>
All in all, as usual, we're deeply excited about this new
version, and look forward to continuing to make your
survival difficult in the months to come.
</p>
<ul>
<li>Nested Containers rationalize inventory management and enable dropping and retrieving go-bags during fights.</li>
<li>Achievements track your deeds and misdeeds across games.</li>
<li>Proficiencies better represent deeper knowledge required for various endeavors, mostly crafting.</li>
<li>Bleeding added to both the player and monsters as the first step toward a more comprehensive wound and wound treatment
system.</li>
<li>Weariness tracking added to represent longer-term physical exhaustion.</li>
<li>Elevated bridges over navigable rivers added, allowing better navigability while using boats.</li>
<li>Large-scale audit of weapon and armor values for better representativeness and consistency.</li>
<li>Improved armor handling by separating ballistic damage into its own damage type.</li>
<li>Pervasive performance enhancements throughout the game.</li>
<li>Tileset vehicle support for more cohesive vehicle rendering.</li>
<li>Aftershock changes direction to a total conversion mod with a new far-future setting on a frozen world.</li>
<li>Dinomod added 238 dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, and dino-related NPCs with missions and dino locations.</li>
<li>Added many dino features, including zombie, fungal, evolved, bionic, baby, and mutant dino variants.</li>
<li>Dinomod added many dino interactions, including farming, riding, butchering, cooking, and special attacks.</li>
<li>Magiclysm added a huge content update including many new traits called Attunements that switch up gameplay at
the endgame.</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/0.F/data/changelog.txt
- version: 0.E Ellison
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1585699200
description:
C: >-
<p>
The Ellison release adds a huge number of features and content
that make the world feel more alive. From being able to climb
onto building rooftops or hide behind cars, to building a camp
for your followers in the wilderness, to exploring the new
river and lake systems on a boat or raft, everything is more
immersive and consistent. Also more STUFF. I didn’t think we
would ever double the number of game entities with a release
again, but we did.
</p>
<p>
We aimed at a 6 month release cycle, and ended up spending 9
months adding features at a breakneck pace and 3 months
putting the brakes on and stabilizing. I can’t honestly say
that’s a huge disappointment, though toward the end the rest
of the development team was really chomping at the bit to get
back to feature work, so we’ll need to continue to adjust.
</p>
<p>
We built a huge amount of infrastructure for having the game
check its own consistency, which has and is going to continue
to contribute to the amazing pace of feature and content
additions we are experiencing. The development team is also
larger and at the same time more cohesive than it has ever
been before.
</p>
<p>
Explore all the new features with the attached release
archives. Speaking of exploring, the list of available
tilesets has shuffled a bit, so this is a great time to find
your new favorite.
</p>
<ul>
<li>Long distance automove feature for walking, driving and boating.</li>
<li>Extensive bugfixes to inter-level interactivity, on by default.</li>
<li>Riding animals and animal-pulled vehicles.</li>
<li>More flexible Basecamp construction options.</li>
<li>Default starting date changed to mid-spring for better survivability.</li>
<li>Time advancement is rationalized, a turn is now one second.</li>
<li>Extensive river and lake systems, and boat support for navigating them.</li>
<li>Expanded NPC usefulness and interactivity.</li>
<li>Massive increases in location variety and consistency, especially rooftops.</li>
<li>Expansion of mi-go faction with new enemies and locations.</li>
<li>Batteries now store charge instead of being pseudo-items.</li>
<li>Overhaul and rebalance of martial arts.</li>
<li>Zombie grabbing and biting more manageable and predictable.</li>
<li>Overhauled stamina and damage recovery for grittier gameplay.</li>
<li>Crouching movement mode allows hiding.</li>
<li>Magiclysm and Aftershock mods have first class support within the game.</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/0.E/data/changelog.txt
- version: 0.D Danny
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1552003200
description:
C: >-
<p>
The Danny release is characterized by MORE. More UI polish,
more features, more content, more long-asked-for
changes. It’s the longest-lived and largest in every way
release we’ve ever done, and we hope to never do it
again. Future releases are planned for roughly 6-month
intervals. This release is made up of 37,604 commits
authored by over 700 contributors, and it roughly doubled
the number of everything in the game, items, monsters, map
buildings, you name it, we doubled it.
</p>
<p>
It’s honestly way too huge to summarize in any meaningful
way, but here are the absolute biggest changes, and you’ll
just have to dig into the changelog or the game itself for
more detail.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Many quality of life enhancements such as auto-pulp,
autopickup, batch actions, interacting with adjacent items
and improved long-action handling.
</li>
<li>
Pixel minimap for tiles mode.
</li>
<li>
Guns accept magazines when appropriate.
</li>
<li>
Player stamina stat that is burned by running and other
physical exertion.
</li>
<li>
Player faction base that allows incremental growth and
autonomous work by NPCs.
</li>
<li>
The player remembers terrain and furniture they have seen.
</li>
<li>
Carrying racks for small vehicles.
</li>
<li>
Vehicle system (speed, fuel consumption, terrain effects)
overhaul.
</li>
<li>
Overhauled nutrition, food spoilage and food state changes
(freezing).
</li>
<li>
Overhauled bomb fragment handling.
</li>
<li>
NPC dialogue support, group commands, tactical
instructions and backstories.
</li>
<li>
Dynamic Lighting.
</li>
<li>
Roughly DOUBLED the amount of in-game content.
</li>
<li>
Unheard-of levels of bugfixing.
</li>
<li>
Full translations for Chinese, German, Japanese, Polish
and Russian.
</li>
</ul>
- version: 0.C Cooper
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1425859200
description:
C: >-
<p>
The Cooper release is named in honor of the new monster
infighting system. Now you can sit back and watch as your
enemies tear each other to pieces! Don’t get too close though,
they’re still out for your blood.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
This release also brings the long-requested DeathCam system,
which lets you see the aftermath of the glorious fireball or
atrocious train wreck that was your demise.
</li>
<li>
Gun users will notice a new aiming menu: you can now spend
time to steady your aim. Do you take the shot now, or wait
until the zombie gets a little closer?
</li>
<li>
Tailoring-oriented survivors (and who isn’t?) will note the
new tailor’s kit item, which lets you add insulation or
protective patches to your clothes.
</li>
<li>
Survivors with gigantic death-mobiles may appreciate the new
turret options, including being able to enable/disable
individual turrets, and being able to fire some turrets
manually.
</li>
<li>
Finally, for survivors with, shall we say, “well-stocked”
bases, there are massive improvements to performance when
there are many thousands of items nearby.
</li>
</ul>
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violence-fantasy: intense
violence-bloodshed: intense
violence-sexual: intense
violence-desecration: intense
violence-slavery: intense
violence-worship: intense
drugs-alcohol: moderate
drugs-narcotics: moderate
drugs-tobacco: moderate
sex-nudity: intense
sex-themes: intense
sex-homosexuality: intense
sex-prostitution: intense
sex-adultery: intense
sex-appearance: intense
language-profanity: moderate
language-humor: mild
language-discrimination: intense
