Let's Play Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Episode 6: Hunter
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2023
- To deal with an evolving threat, Mellifera must adopt a new strategy or join the billions lost in the Cataclysm.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. 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…
Gameplay is from Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead's 2023-04-03 experimental release. Experimental builds can be found at cataclysmdda.org/experimental/
Faces in the intro are from thispersondoesnotexist.com/
Music is from CO.AG, packaged with the game's CC-Sounds pack / @co.agmusic 
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Type "F" under this comment to pay Respect for those rotten onion rings. They did their job as serving as a nutrition for survivor's of cataclysm.
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Rotting on the table of a food court is pretty punk ✊🚩
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The cake sends its regards! F
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Imagine being in a closed mall backroom with a burning wood fire. That's why Mellifera isn't craving the cigs so badly any longer, she's getting more exciting kinds of carcinogenic smoke.
It'd be funny if this straight up killed your character like in Valheim.
I love how you brought up the dichotomy of gatekeeping what it means to be punk and how fucking with gatekeepers is, itself, a punk act. Punk is a lot of things, but a stickler for the rules is not one of them
Haha yeah, I hope people don't take that whole bit too seriously, I was just having a giggle. Steampunk doesn't feel very punk to me, but making your own rules and doing whatever you want regardless of what some youtuber thinks is much more punk than being gatekeepy about the term.
memories of 90s highschool and the lengthy discussions about sellouts and poseurs on days where we had a sub
@@griz561 Yeah, dude. The punks at my school absolutely HATED Green Day. You could get them going for hours about how they weren't real punk. As for me, I've never been a stickler for genre: if the music sounds good, the music sounds good
@@mutantwormgirlI recomend the "what's up punks" series. It is a guy talking about the various types of media under the punk umbrella. He also talks about if they really are "punk".
I came for Fear and Hunger but you have such a soothingly eerie voice that I’ve become enthralled in your play throughs
i made the urban explorer profession/map in my sole contribution to cdda it was so funky to see u find one
Every little addition has the potential to become a key part of someone's story. I'm glad you got to see yours in action.
You know, given that the zombies are drawn to music, you could probably set up a music player somewhere that zombies can't access, surround the nearby area zombies can access with spike traps, and then just leave until the battery runs out. It'll help draw out any dead in the area and kill them for you. Just an idea for a long-term plan.
It'll take some setting up, but I guarantee you that at some point, we will use punk rock to defeat the zombie hordes.
@@mutantwormgirl On that subject, my definition of the genre "Punk" has always been "Resistance or revolution against an oppressive government/society", with the prefix to punk being what kind of society that story takes place in. The "World Of Darkness" line of TTRPGs uses "Gothic Punk", and as SpeakerD put it in an introductory video to the setting, "What can a setting where Amazon is run by Draculas be except Gothic? And what can a setting that you can smash their heads in with a golf club be except punk?"
@@mutantwormgirl that is the best thing I have ever heard
@@mutantwormgirlhere from the future. Promise made, promise kept. Excellent job.
You know its gonna be a good day when Worm Girl drops a video
One of the best CDDA play throughs I have watched! You have a talent for content making, and a good story teller. Keep up the great work 👍
this game looks like the obtuse nonsense I'd never want to play, but Worm Girl narration is top notch and I look forward to her releases
That backpack pocket trick is fantastic. That's something I've been meaning to look up...sometime. Default inventory storage selections would charitably be described as trolling.
Loving the vibe
Now that Mellifera has adapted to life in the Zombie mall she is shopping around, knows how to take fights, it is like she is stopping to survive and starting to live again.
Also the Mall Music is a nice touch
I was not expecting the lesson about Punk but I welcome it.😂
That little easy-listening tune before the ethnography of punk made my day. Great work setting the ambiance and I love the underlying humor.
This series is fantastic. I don't think I've ever seen as compelling a post-apocalypse narrative as this punk-rock lady turned badass survivor
I enjoyed the history lesson on punk and what it stands for. Also the video was great as always. Can’t wait till the next one!
You've been putting these out at a pretty good pace lately, always happy to see more Worm girl content.
Great series. About shift+V menu. If you press "TAB" in it, you will change it from creatures mode to items mode. It has filter search too, so you can stand in the middle of very big room and check all needed items, don't need to manually check every cell with "x".
I do a lot of things sub-optimally because they're just so ingrained in my muscle memory at this point.
@@mutantwormgirl I just want to help to make stuff easier, play as you want and can, no pressure.
The visceral disappointment of onion rings gone too soon in the Cataclysm. Sometimes it's the little things that get your survivor going and keeps them going.
The last onion rings in the world.
The mall was getting really cozy! It's fun to settle into one specific place, I have a serious problem with jetting around several gigs of terrain in search of rare stuff. But can't stay put forever. Super enjoying this!
Changing inventory pocket priorities and settings is something I need to experiment more with. All I've done before is tweak so that certain items are whitelisted for certain boxes or bags, didn't even know there was a priority option until it was brought up in the video.
I just adore the mix of Rp, adorkable jokes which i like to imagine our stalwart survivor is making in a attempt to stay sane in such nightmare, and just the lecture on punk and the frankly really funny and insightful subtitles ya put! Really makes the time fly by ^^
Finally! I've been waiting for the archery mayhem from the episode #1!
Using a bow without a quiver is a chore. Each arrow takes 350+ moves only to be loaded (because apart from quivers the only other containers long enough to accomodate an arrow are rucksack main compartments or a golf bag, not counting "loop of rope") this tanks rate of fire.
Also, if I am not mistaken (and I am not sure), the "primitive" bow accessories (dampening kit, arrow rest) can only be installed on primitive bows (wooden/bone ones), so a compound hunting bow requires "modern" accessories. Luckily, "bow dampening kit" is craftable. Unluckily, the recipe is locked behind a manual ("Archery for Kids" or "Zen and the Art of Archery").
Thanks for the heads up about the books, that would make sense.
Now that most zombies can't smell you anymore, nighttime archery is waaaay more viable. I still wouldn't want to use a crossbow, but it's pretty easy to just precise shot everything in the darkness.
@@mutantwormgirl Yeah, crossbows sure drew a short stick. Between low damage and long reload times there is really no real reason one would use them apart for "rifles" skill training. Sadly, the "repeating crossbow" just recently has lost its "submachine guns" skill (to "rifles"), so one less appealing factor for crossbows. Oh well…
Thanks for the history of the punk term. It is always interesting to hear how words and usage evolve over time, especially as a non native speaker.
I never in my life expected to think to myself "Oh shit, the New Worm Girl Dropped" but, here we are. Looking forward to seeing how the Mall Arc concludes.
37:38 "But no guns, the officer must have lost hers when she was killed." Being a punk, it is well known to Mellifera that proper firearm handling and cops don't really mix.
Archery is pretty powerfull at higher levels if your strength allows you to wield bigger bows. Great video as always!
She already has the best bow in the game. The "compound hunting bow" is both powerful and accurate (is also easy to use), the only thing that can be done is to "tighten limbs" action, turning it into "compound hunting bow (high)" with a whopping 12 stab damage (and the arrows she is using have 1.75 multiplier making actual base damage 21, nearly as strong as a pistol shot). But that is postponed for now until "Archer's Forms" are learned due to STR requirements.
@@XelexMirror Ah okay i remember that there was some other bow but quess i was wrong.
Another episode, great thing to wake up to!
It feels like you're becoming more powerful now, I mean before it was all the strength you had , even with many guns, to simply kill a few zombies, but now you go bow-hunting for fun LOL
I am very curious to see what this series has in store next
I am loving the amount of worm girl content that's been coming out these past few months! Really love this playthrough that has some cute art displayed from time to time.
Tonight I'm a little gummied up, and that night raid on the mall was incredibly immersive and fun to watch! great pacing and commentary and the edits you do. I'm glad to see people still making LPs!
One of the best CDDA content creators!
Another method of lightweight recipe storage is to scan the books with the e link tablet / smartphone and then send them to a USB drive if you find one and then activating the tablet / phone, going to "manage external storage" and selecting the USB drive so you will just to carry the usb instead of the tablet for recipes
Oh awesome, I didn't realize you could do that! I'll try to show that off soonish.
And another bonus is that the USB isn't affected by EMP pulses like the 2 computers and smart phones are.
As soon as i finished watching last episode you dropped this, great timing. Thanks!
Absolutely love the "shopping" spree and some window "shopping", combined with naming the non-descript stores of the dead mall. Bring a lot of character, to something otherwise a bit boring, the roleplay goes a long way and is always appreciated. Also, I never thought about using a tablet for recipe storage, that indeed saves a lot of space for books that outlive their practical knowledge. The thumbnail regenerator from classic Resident Evil 4 is a nice touch as well. :D
I have been finding that doing this RP LP has given me a lot of time to slow down and think about stuff that I would normally just blaze through without noticing. It has been a ton of fun.
Your videos are the highlight of my day every time there is a new release. Or any time I go back and watch them again. Love it, thank you! Also RIP onion rings.
Punk isn't just a movement, it's also an aesthetic. And genre punk is much more on the aesthetic. Solarpunk isn't very punk, but by saying that, an understanding that solar is referring to solar power, and not sailing on the surface of the sun, you can develop in your mind a sense of what that should look like. Sometimes people don't understand the meaning of the words they use, like stealth, but sometimes the meaning of words just change, or words have more than one meaning. Or sometimes longer words and phrases get shortened into the same word and people forget to differentiate what they mean.
Oh wow. 5:00 hit hard if its what im thinking :P
Pops the chef would do well in the cataclysm.
"Meat IS meat!" - Pops the chef, while cooking rats..
I just found your channel and love the content and the way you roleplay keep up the great work
I didn't know about the SD cars in laptops trick before watching this series, so thanks! Subbed.
Didn't know about the pockets settings either, double thanks.
38:20 you can yeet the water into the fire to boil it if you have a metal container
So happy to see this has become a permanent fixture in my schedule. Always happy to see this series. Thank you. (Also, you taught me the Joy of Traps!)
I have played Cataclysm since it was made by WhalesDev and the only way to play was to compile it yourself on Linux, and I have also yet to find a RUclipsr that makes Cataclysm watchable - I have binged this playlist and am going to be sad when I have caught up.
Good work on these videos, they are really engaging - especially for being stuck in the one location since the beginning!
I can heartily recommend RyconRoleplays for more CDDA content. He's the guy who pioneered this kind of LP as far as I'm concerned.
@@mutantwormgirl I have watched Rycon before but struggle to get into his stuff for some reason, his delivery always comes across as a bit 'extra' and I struggle to get interested lol.
@@Jake-im2lv I like Rycon as well, but generally watch him at 150-175% speed. I'm watching this series at normal speed because it is that good.
Thank you for more videos keep ‘‘em coming
I'm relearning so much from watching you play. It's perfect pacing. Loved seeing the bow do the work
Thks & well done
Another video so fast!!! Awesome!
You are the very first person I've EVER decided to have the notification bell turned on for. I need to know the INSTANT I can watch more.
I love this series so much, like you wouldnt believe
I'm so happy to hear people enjoy it! It's a lot of fun to make, it's really helping me reconnect with the RP side of the game
@@mutantwormgirl omg im so glad you feel that way!!! Im really hyped for more, your content is bonkers good!
I haven't played CDDA and this has been my only exposure to the game.
I knew there were monsters other than zombies, but I kept myself unspoiled as to what so I could be surprised when they started showing up in the playthrough. The hunter easily looks like the most dangerous foe. Faster than you and it's got claws and fangs? Yikes!
Not even remotely as dangerous as it sounds. In terms of danger you are in for a (nasty) surprise. Multiple times. :D
Finally! A channel other than rycon that makes quality CDDA content, I appreciate you!
Do love the image of you cheerfully saying "Welcome to Weinerville, where everyone's a weiner!" before bashing some zombies
Been waiting for this! Thanks for the contents!
I noticed the officer at 37:26 dropped a riot armor suit, which as far as I know is a really strong set of armor against most undead for relatively low encumbrance, even when damaged somewhat - is there a reason to avoid or not bother collecting items of armor like that?
We actually already have a filthy one sitting in our base, we just don't have any soap.
@@mutantwormgirl Oh, sorry, I overlooked that detail! I tried to comb the previous episodes to see if you had one already or not, but I must have not been thorough enough
(Your series has been really helpful for learning strategies and nuances of recent CDDA versions, on top of the roleplay and context bits you put in, and all the effort you put in really shows! thank's)
Love this series. You've been cranking em out pretty quickly lately, which is awesome. Bows are a newfound love of mine. I'm working on a hobo who will be whittling his way into cultivated archery skills. Its not easy without hunter start, or spawning near a hunting supply shop. Gotta find me a duffel, or a golf bag so I can carry arrows...
Also RIP Onion rings. Very sad day when O rings get wasted :<
Keep being awesome. Can't WAIT for the next episode!
Make yourself a birchbark quiver if you must (preferably the large back-placed one, as leg encumberance is too penalising), but please, do not use bags as ad-hoc quivers: 20 moves per arrow extraction versus 300 moves is 15 times faster!
@@XelexMirror do you remember what skill requirements needed to make them?
@@ugib8377 No, I don't. So, I've looked at "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cataclysm" site/database. Small quiver autolearns at tailoring 3 + survival 1 + archery 1, large one at 4+2+2 of the same skills. Also, both recipes are in the "The Fletcher's Friend" manual.
@@XelexMirror Nice. Thanks for that. Will come in handy to be able to craft a quiver
28:04 The way you said, "~🌈But that's okay, we have the Darkness on our side 💖~" gave me life
im loving this series
I can't help but be reminded of sarcastic remark option in fallout 4 when talking to the nuka cola junkie in diamond city as I watch your beautiful storytelling 😂❤
28:34
Random zombie: mmh chocolate … soda
>Worm sees the cake
>snake eater starts playing
Just started watching this series a few days ago and I caught up yesterday (much to my dismay😑). Can't wait for the next exciting episode of the Mall Goblin Chronicles!
Let me put my 5 cents into this "what punk means" debate.
When Cyberpunk was introduced, early works in the ganre were focused on criminal life and "pushing back against the system" usually depicted by those big corporations.
However then some works appeared being set in similar universes, but written from the perspective of those corporations. And not in a way Jhonny Mnemonic is, where the protagonist starts as being part of the corporations, but then gets caught in the crossfire and flips into being underground and resisting the system.
In all fairness this should've been a new genre and called something like "Cybergothic". But in reality they got shoehorned into also being called cyberpunk, despite being very unpunk. And this caused the definition of "cyberpunk" to be stretched into more generic meaning closer to "cyber-themed". However Cyberpunk sounds way cooler so the word got stuck.
And then another genres started appearing. Like ones set in fantasy victoriana times with heavy emphasis on steam power. But "steampunk" also sounds way cooler that "steam-themed" so it also got named this way. And this cemented the use of "something-punk" as equivalent to "something-themed and cool"
Language is not rigid. It evolves. And sometimes changes where recognition takes effort.
>Language is not rigid. It evolves.
As a punk I'll have you know I hate change more than anything!
Wau very cool style you have.
You're right on with the punk thing, but solarpunk is a little bit different as it's used for a movement not some literary genre. I still find it extremely aggravating and Not Punk as it's generally just a bastardization of ecological anarchism, but I have seen it used as a descriptor for ecological activism by people like those who destroyed the Lafarge cement plant back in december.
The book is about diy catalytic cracking, a method for refining petroleum. Saying it's "for solarpunks" is a great joke
Mellifera is like the Mark Watney of zombie survival. Her 'only' super power is a relentless refusal to give up.
Was almost waiting for pictures to pop up when you looked at them on the e-ink tablet. :p
A solarpunk must be someone who hotglues a solar panel to their straw hat and roleplays a Floridian. I mean it is called the sunshine state after all.
That cake never stood a chance.
Damn, those simple traps really did a number on the horde. Nice.
The lack of running water/hygiene still perplexes me (I know nothing about the game)
Good time for more Cataclysm. You sound a bit better this video, though. I don't know if that's intentional for the change in your character's mood or if you were feeling under the weather in a previous video.
Thanks! I think I'm just getting better at narrating and editing. My voice was not used to sustained use like this when I started the channel, and I've never made videos before.
@@mutantwormgirl Finding your stride in narrating checks out. Glad you're getting more comfortable with it all, you've definitely got some talent for story telling.
@@mutantwormgirl You're doing an excellent job for a 'new to content creating' person. Hats off to ya.
I just wanna say RIP Sid Vicious, you was taken too soon, and you deserved better.
If you have a punk outfit and you didn't make it yourself from a jacket, some shit you found and immaculate diy energy, you don't have a punk outfit
Hey @Worm Girl, dunno if you're looking for recommendations for stuff to do videos on, but if you are, you might want to check out a book called "Vermis". It's a guidebook for a game that doesn't exist. Reminded me a lot of Fear and Hunger, seemed like something you might be into. Looking forward to whatever you do next, regardless. 😺
Entertaining and educational
Thank you so much! More is on the way soon. 🪱
I think we can call agree that Punky Brewster was the beginning of the end fo rthe word punk.
After 2 full episode we have clean water !
Vibing to the Kevin mcloud
Maaan I should play this game but it gives me dwarf fortress vibes as in a few sessions will eat HOURS, not that's a bad thing.
so you're telling me that hopepunk is doing crimes hopefully?
that's pretty metal-
9:10 thank you
F for the Onion Rings. Also, I wonder how punk Mellifera would think becoming a martial arts master and going 'No More Heroes' on Zombies would be
I think in a game as bleak as this I think the word that keeps player morale is progress, and I’m quite terrible at thinking of goals of my own, and suffer from analysis paralysis.
When you’ve made good progress to whatever goal you like, I would be glad to hear just how much this character has improved.
100+ zombie body count besides.
The archery now reminds me of Unreal World, difficult to pull off, but very worth the trouble. ^_^
28:32
Cake!
Nomnomnomnom
Am I mistaken or there might be a book shop in the mall? If you are lucky enough you may find advanced skill books or even martial arts books
Crazy how they made a whole game
just for the series
Slavering biter!? I dont think i ever seen this one before :D
An upload from worm girl is what great days are made of!
Hey, I've been loving the content, you may or may not have caused me to start a CDDA run in a mall, I'm not as good at combat as you but I've become an expert in tactical cowardice. Anyway, I feel compelled to mention, and I hope I'm not telling you things that you already know, but solarpunk isn't a genre of fiction like steampunk, it's an anti-establishment, environmentalist, political thing. I'm no expert on the subject, I've seen like one or two videos on it, but it seems pretty punk to me, if you ignore the solarpunk aesthetic that is. Also means that book might have solar and wind power stuff in there, rather than fashion accessories and themed clothing, not too useful while stuck indoors, but maybe if you make it to that electric car?
This game is so interesting. A lot of cool mechanics. Does it run on a potato?
Yep! It's a little processor-heavy but people play it on their phones even.
@@mutantwormgirlwhen your character reaches 8 at cooking, the crafting menu tab now opens with 4 seconds delay on my 10th generation i7... On the plus side, i think ingredients search radius also increased, and it's what probably causes the lag. Also, sleeping or crafting in the populated area (especially with NPCs in the bubble) was always painful. Not sure whether it is fixed for now...
But since it's turn based, it'll still work if you're patient enough.
Who up playin wit dey worm ?
FINALLY someone said it lol
Theres even been a shift in the cyberpunk genre over the last few years, shifting away from its punk roots and turning more to represent a specific kind of retro-future aesthetic. A lot of newer cyberpunk media puts focus on flashy outfits and streetwear to the point that it drowns out a lot of the original intent behind the genre.
To some extent its driven by the commodification of everything, corporations stripping cyberpunk of its anticorporate sentiment, but I don't think that has truly succeeded. At least not yet. The genre is still very punk, just with a layer of commodification over it.
There are a lot of divergent types of Cyberpunk. Ghost in the Shell is just gritty crime noir. Stand Alone Complex completely reinvents the genre, getting rid of the retro tech and grime to portray a world conquered by sterile neoliberalism rather than the slum-world chaos that Gibson imagined. The recent push for retro tech seems to me to be an attempt to re-evaluate what the original works were trying to say as the world has changed too much for slick worlds like MGS2 and Human Revolution to seem especially relevant (though they definitely are). It's like one a them visual metaphors.
The Onion Rings 😭
F for this delicious godness
We weren't fast enough. We could have saved them...😫
As an Irish person, I would argue that roleplaying the British Empire is punk. I personally consider it a vast criminal enterprise 😂
Just kinda realized that this is giving me Stranger Things vibes. I think it might be the mall and your character. Seems like she would fit in with the ST crew. She seems very young at heart even if she is technically older.
Somebody said that she's right out of Night of the Comet, which is an 80s movie that has some ST vibes for sure. I kinda picture Trash from Return of the Living Dead, but with a blonde shag.
Question! What tileset do you use?
MSXOtto+, it comes with the game.
@@mutantwormgirl thank you!
When you make a new character could you do a more mutation focused one? There aren’t any good ones on RUclips and I love your play throughs!
What software do you use to draw your character in the thumbnails?
i have a question
how do i get sounds?
is it like a video thing or can you get them in game?
im stoobid
sound packs i think there is a default one in the settings in the general section
You can go into options to enable CC-Sounds, which comes with the game, or you can get the one I use here: github.com/damalsk/damalsksoundpack/releases
Download this and place it in /data/sounds, then open cataclysm and enable @'s soundpack in the options.
Im gonna have to disagree with you when it comes to solarpunk, the idea of taking back industrial spaces for nature is really cool, sure not all the stuff with the label “solarpunk” is actually solarpunk, but there do be a solarpunk
28:44 me at 4:32am
I wonder if she will ever leave the mall
Hi! If you like cdda you might like Project Zomboid. You can even play with friends.