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I've played and run a couple games of this in PbP format.  Much like Paranoia, it loses a great deal of the appeal that way.  :x

The seduction mechanics are pretty weird and I don't like them mechanically.  :x  I prefer to ignore them.

Jeeeez.  I didn't know I could want a game this hard.

Wait a tick, was that spoilered article talking about Season Pass-style DLC.

I thought half the point of static spawns was to make towns and all the delicious delicious swag in them be harder to access by virtue of being overrun with teeming hordes of zambies?  Having a 'newbie town' filled with just regular zambies seems like it would sorta counteract the design change.

You don't delve deep into the town, pick the outskirts, and never stop running.  A couple molotovs or a big-ass gun should be practically your first priority, because without them you don't have a fighting chance if found by brutes or hulks.  If you ARE, then you can technically still duck and weave through houses - unless you're doing so at night, or something (in which case, perhaps make Brutes and Hulks occasionally make noise noticeable from far off?).  Maneuvering so they don't catch you out in the open and scavenging for necessary swag are parts of the game, aren't they?


Though, to be fair, with the character I've been playing, in my multiple runs through the town, I don't think I've -ever- seen a Hulk, thank god.  I think a Brute gave me the jump once, but I had a molotov ready for him.


Speaking of molotovs, has anything been done with those yet, regarding their crafting?  Specifically, regarding how you basically need to have an extra glass bottle to make them, due to not being able to use a bottle of booze if there's too much inside.  Or even if there's any, period - I can't remember if it was specifically because of being too much, or if it was because it wasn't empty.

I prefer ASCII, personally, but having tilesets for other dudes is cool, too.  ASCII usually just looks cleaner, to me.

What I'm not too sure on is tileset-vehicles.  That seems like it'd get weird.

A question I kept forgetting to ask:  Can/does Cataclysm support more than just the one world, or can it only do just the one?  You know, like how DF can generate and hold several different worldgens.

If it can't, how hard would something like be to code in?

Taking from L4D, I would imagine climber/leaper zombies that could zombie-parkour over moats and walls and stuff would at least threaten a player in their safehouses.  Perhaps Chargers as well, who could do more damage to structures?  Maybe it wouldn't be as dangerous to the player as it was in L4D - no grab, and it could just trample and/or knock back a player instead of carrying them through the charge, or something.

I would also imagine the later stages would be made more difficult with NPCs - either bandits, or trying to keep the ones you've gathered to you stocked on ammo, food, medicine, and whatever other stuff?