Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead:Waldo Worthless/No Hope/EP 1: It's hard being this NEET!
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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Waldos Lore:Waldo is a Otaku/Neet not a very successful person by any means nonetheless was living a pretty "quiet" life (For someone with asthma and terrible health due to binge watching shows and reading manga for years and nothing else) enjoying anime/manga/whatever he could binge watch or read and enjoyed a casual smoke and pint from time to time. The world was in a state of political collapse and brink of war almost everything was used in propaganda or preparing for the war effort, sadly Waldo lacked any preparations let alone any IDEA of what was truly going on, too busy into his land of anime but exactly 2 entire months before the cataclysm he had a dream a dream of screams and nightmares and constant chaos telling him to be as physically prepared as possible, just enough time to ready himself physically and mentally it felt so real TOO real to be just a dream maybe there was some merit reading all those manga's after all? Due to food rationing/stamps he wasn't able to stock up on supplies nor water but just enough to keep his short time allocation practicing mainly to use his short nimble body, to get in and out of places as fast as possible and to at least be able to throw a punch and run for more than 15 seconds than he ran as fast as he could to a run down shelter made in the constant lingering fear of atomic war far from a town, alone and as prepared as possible (for a dead beat that is) can Waldo survive? Or will he simply be a nastier meal for the hordes he was warned about by whatever powers that may be...
Waldos Bio: Hes a 22 year old 4/9 FT tall bald unkempt individual with years of consistent low hydration and living off practically junk food for over 15 years, Waldo was as kicked out of his house since he was 19 (Simply costed too much to afford the cost of an adult) and was able to get and keep a mediocre job but at least paid well enough to allow him and keep going due to his health wasn't able to be conscripted(asthma and of course poor health in general) and sadly was kinda forgotten by his family due to just not being able to provide more than himself on top of the constant lack of basics and needs he simply stopped watching the news about the world and dived into comics,manga and anime and movies until one terrible dream..
Extra important info: The "Disable NPC Needs" mod will be removed as soon as a NPC is recruited, just forgot to remove it before hand but luckily it makes no difference if we have no one to feed.
Songs used: None
World settings for this character: 8 city size/4 city spacing/1.50x monster spawning/default carrion spawning/0.70x Item spawn rate/4.00 NPC spawn time/4 Monster evolution scaling/100% monster HP/everything else on default.
Mods in use for this world: Secronom(with it's lore mod), No hope (Because I just hate fun!), Mega fauna(just for some extra spice),Mind over matter(A mod I never used before but looks super fun!),Bombastic perks (since hes a minimum stat character to even things out and have a FORM of progression if all else fails!), Bionic professions, Speedy Dex(see a lot of people using it and it kinda makes sense just never used it myself) and of course stats through skills (Because it would literally be awful otherwise) All these mods now come base game to be selected in the mod selection screen in the world making process!
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead or to most people (including myself) CDDA is a open source rogue-like survival game WITH BUILD ABLE CARS!! (and it's a very flexible complex system that will make you very happy to figure out) that's about honestly well.... We have no idea the world basically just ended in every single way humanly possible we got your normal zombies/aliens coming but we also go literal hell gates spawning horrors you hope to never see, sentient fungal hive minds that are planning on taking over all of life, and every single ai/robot has gone absolutely rogue, it's an absolute mess your goal on the other hand is to SOMEHOW survive these impossible odds and to see how far you can get and don't hope for anything since the ENTIRE GAME is procedurally generated, meaning you have no idea what could be there and where to go everything is based off your risks that YOU are willing take try getting lucky at a military outpost to only find 4 fully automatic M249 armed auto turrets that will make you walk back RIGHT quick it's an amazing game and you're probably thinking damn that's a lot of content how much will it cost? well let me tell you it's absolutely FREE, and is definitely worth your time to try it's a bit of a hassle to learn all the controls but eventually you will be able to keep it all to muscle memory and enjoy an absolute hidden GEM of a game. #CDDA #CunningRat
Bros laughing like cartoon villain
This kinda shit always cracks me the fuck up lmfao
waldo: "I'm Him"
Narrator: "he's a genetic dead-end, pathetic and completely hopeless."
Actually the initial apocalypse did not spare him out of pity, it spared him so it could watch him struggle.
"I need to burn down a building..."
-Worthless "Not a Pyromaniac" Waldo 2024
Rimworld storyteller tries to survive in horrors beyond their imagining
At first I was like "Man this guy is really going full hard mode, I'm surprised he's not using Magiclysm." then I saw Mind Over Matter, "Oh okay. Gotcha".
The monsters MoM add are actually pretty insane Imo but yeah having both would of just be too much wild wasteland vibes and I like a grim survival game lmfao
For those who are wondering when did I get good at drawing it was NOT me my little brother is the one who drew the representation of Waldo hes not open for public commissions yet but I love his art and wanted to get him more into the scene, but if anyone does want his art I will let everyone know asap :D hope you enjoy this series was recorded in the past so sadly no live updates for when I inevitably do something stupid or lose something but you can still laugh at me of course.
amazing drawing TBH, perfectly captures the crusty neet aesthetic
RIGHT!?!? Hes literally how I would see this poor fucking guy lmfao!!! He loved making him too hes a big fan of wacky art so it just made sense.
The art is really good! Your also a sweet older brother
Lord have mercy! A whole new CDDA run by the King Rat himself?
and one I am VERY much looking forward to see how it goes!
Watching you play CDDA with such fluidity made me a lil jealous. This is fun and smooth to watch
I absolutely love playing cdda that's just the effect of a few thousand hours of gameplay and torturing myself with challenges for years I use to play this game before it even had tilesets a cdda boomer dare I say, I just have a lot of experience with movement since well thankfully that has barely changed over the years lmfao but don't worry I still have my face palm moments especially with all the new features
I love it when you post, your videos help me get into this game more and more! Thank you so much!
Only game excluding a few classics to steal huge chunks of my life it's truly an incredible game I am glad to convince others to try or boot it back up it's something Im probably gonna die doing lmfao
Woohoo, 1st comment creds! I'm overjoyed that you started a new Cataclysm series. Looking forward to watching your otaku stumble over the blood and bile in some s***-hole town!
Glory to rng is still on going just been doing more play than editing lmfao
woah he's just like me....
you can always improve and if you are genuinely like him you're much better off than most actual deadbeats good to see what's wrong with oneself but that same person is the only one who can change it :D unless you're talking about the looks than holy fuck I am so sorry
Sweet!!! Always great to see more Cata from you man!
Waldo is probably the worst thing I have made so I am glad someone can enjoy it lmfao
You actually can use the quarterstaff to train up melee
I wish Secronom worked for me instead of crashing me to desktop every time I start a run
It might because youre on a freshly updated version of cdda and the mod needs to be updated (theres a lot and I mean A LOT in secronom even I barely touched the surface my version is months old I heard a lot has changed recently so thats 99% likely the issue had similar stuff in the pass the issue with huge made with love mods)
Hey dude great video, super new to the game but really enjoying your commentary style! Just a question I have, what is the purpose of burning down the buildings? Is it just to create a distraction?
Yes, Burning down a house is a great strategy in this game, the sound of the house being destroyed attracts the zombies attention and burns them too
Hard not to like Waldo when he's put in such a horrid situation, ya gotta root for him. He's a loser, but he's not a bad dude.
Exactly!
Awesome video dude
Unloading your shorts is better than loading them, amirite
This poor poor guy. The cataclysm has it out for him.
"It always was after him"
@@cunningrat_ right?! Enjoying the stream so much!!!!!!!
wooooo new content!!! (that im 12 days late for)
Haha the thumbnail is hilarious! 😆 👌
Realy wish you would have at least doubled the evolution speed with this charackter and start at least 50 days after the cataclysm, to get a littel more fun monster at the start. 😉
Normal zombies are just to weak and predicable in general for most charackters.
27:08 if you do not need to hide, sneak around zombies, to loot stuff, and avoid fighting as much as possible early game to mid game, then maybe your world is not dangerous enough or your charackter not weak enough.😈
Tbf I didn't even think he would last the first episode but with how terrible he is it's fine imo man struggles fighting a single zombie child lmfao!
Really don't see the appeal, never seen a rogue-"thing" be so schizophrenic about its gameplay and mechanics.
And by the gods - i haven't seen combat this bad in a roguelike ever.
Combined with the early game grind just to even get past the first day, it just seems like one of the most insanely tedious and mind numbing rogue experiences ive ever had.
Then i play Qud after and it makes me feel like ive just taken a drink of water after years of roaming a salt desert.
Its why I love it lmfao! Its THE "you're not that guy" game its become more of a *IRL* for everything terrible at once simulator over the years which I prefer but it is by far the most honest rogue like I ever played fair? Absolutely not but it makes it very clear that it is not fair and when you play you must think that way it does not hold your hand it doesnt tell you how good you exactly are, you are just a fragment of an old world clinging to the story as it ends. Youre no hero or demi god you are a teacher a drunkard caught naked with a towel or a fireman in the middle of a city as it burns down having a horde scopes.
The combat is very similar to the design of the entire game you are not a gladitor with years of killing experience, its quite literally 99% of the time the first thing the character ever attacked making it obvious that well they suck lmfao! and funny you mention QUD cause its combat is identical to CDDA you walk into things hope you get good RNG until they die or you get low and run or use mutations from a distance and kite the timers or get stunlocked by a equinx pack and die just its a lot prettier cause its based on fun and fantasy not reality (plus actually amazing sprite art!). Plus it takes months if not years to master certain styles and skills irl, they want to make you unironically practicing for weeks if not months in game (The whole reason for the proficiency skills being so difficult to level but are still insanely fast compared to irl trust me it could be even worse lmfao!) Its not for everyone but it follows the bread and butter principles of combat for rouge likes just well its actually trying to kill you not reward you for success.
And for the tedium I absolutely agree the controls are insane, you have to dedicate a 3rd of your brain for life just to remember and need 7 keyboards to butcher a gopher! But its also what gives you the most creative problem solving abilites Ive ever seen in a game! Instead of secret combos or finds its practical and pragmatic and more immersive way to outsmart the game than knowing meta info for a run in the future. The tedium is designed in mind to prevent meta advantages. best and immserive way to prevent something from happening is to make it a possibilty of it to never happen just like life you think in the moment and see what happens in the future not when you die and know for next time it is a permadeath run afterall. You are very correct but this game wasnt designed for fun nor you nor anyone its peak survival and horror you are a victim to a uncaring, unloving, unfair world if you realize that living past the first day IMO is an achivement for any player since you arent even supposed to live the first second. Like seriously how long could YOU survive the cataclysm I know Id be dead in minutes thats what CDDA was designed to be you are not wrong though and thats exactly why I keep coming back!
@@cunningrat_ Appreciate your response, and i do see your points.
However, Qud is much more forgiving in the sense the mechanics are specifically built to make that style of combat emgaging early game. Everything in the early game is just as weak as you are, with exceptions, you can heal easily, and you can see where your soft limits are power wise quite easily early on.
Qud also gives you a wide variety of options in dealing with threats early game, which comes down to the fact that literally all of your choices equipment and skill/mutation wise will matter at some point during exploration.
The tedium for me doesnt come from the control scheme, but from the gameplay itself, it doesn't feel immersive or engaging that my character literally cannot stand combat with the equivalent of a hostile sack of meat without injury.
@@cunningrat_ CDDA's immersion breaks heavily for me with combat, most dont need combat training to swing a 2x4 and step back so you dont get scratched and grabbed.
The game honestly should start right at the point the cataclysm begins, literally no NPC except a few at the shelter know how they actually got out of the cataclysm, its a collective psychosis most likely from the Blob.
THAT is the point 90% of humanity got game ended, and the massive riots. I couldnt survive the early stages, but i could certainly NOT stand shoulder distance from a Zed and swing a object in grabbing distance.
God you have the most fitting names for characters. 😂
I LOVE making the names fit the theme as much as possible it and to be fair who THE FUCK names thsir kid waldo if they dont look like that lmfao!
This next point isn’t said enough, the drawing/background is awesome.
I know I’d be a bit of an ask but having a different degen background for every episode would be stellar.
@@OfficerC4 I am planning on having changes to it if things happen to him probably about every 10 episodes will be an update or 5 depending on the circumstance for mutations,bionics and his gear if it's worthy of it like for instance chain mail there would rings on his neck etc.
Ayo seriously love your style , can somebody PLEASE check if zombies killed by summoned animated blades add to your bombastic exp ? Gotta check this for balancing reasons
I rarely use magiclym but I do not believe so since that is an individual creature, probably kept simple to reduce lag too so I wouldnt bank on it
@@cunningrat_ thanks bro i just watched the other episode , what seriously game breaking trait you recommend to pick in bombastic traits btw
Honestly having a migo tower that close to the spawning location makes me feel really uneasy but maybe im just way too careful in the game
He's like me frfr
daniel larson ass thumbnail, great vid and great art
What exactly is Secronom? Also, where do you find these mods?
just adds another more terrifying variant of the goo basically a sentient flesh like organism (roaming high tech experiments got awry or hordes of unique monsters) but it's mainly a flavor mod since it adds so many unique and dangerous monsters that are extremely unique in danger and add overall utility to hordes that is lacking currently and provides a more let's say terrible time lmfao
just saw yar twitter mate, STALKER GAMMA bandit iron man when?? that would literally be epic
Ngl that would be more of a live stream thing because I am not good at it enough to do a let's would br a million episode ones lmfao but maybe one day just cannot promise anything
just saying playing with schizophrenia fucking blows. seems fun for the first hour but after that, you are just clicking ignore.
honestly I love it minor inconvenience for it actually getting me damn good sometimes, to the point I have wasted ammo and gotten myself killed cause of a well placed fitting monster that warrants the necessity to not take the chance, I thank secronom for that tbf makes kaluptic 10x worse in actual gameplay danger lmfao!
how do you even get serconom mod?
It's one of the base mods you can install from the cdda launcher itself OR base game it should be right there honestly similar to no hope or even megafauna but if it's not there could be just left over data that magically works on my ends from all the years almost decade of playing
@@cunningrat_ i have catapult launcher on linux there isn't that mod. Even on launcher mod tab, or in game itself 🤔
@@cunningrat_ aaah, all i had to do is click on get Kenen Modpack :C
@@Leverquin OH snap I am very basically knowledge on linux (also congrats on being free from windows for many reasons to why linux should be used but ignore my personal politics) for cdda since I only ever had it on windows BUT it would probably be it's own entire thing knowing the tar process and all but sadly it's more theoretical for my assistance BUT it should have it's own entire catalog for the .tar but other than that I am sadly useless.
@@Leverquin perfectly fine man somedays reality just ain't what it all seems still incredible progress on your own since I already have issues for windows let alone linux or god forbid ubuntu for getting this gem to shin seriously you probably can start a damn good channel showing how to get that stuff working! (obviously no need to follow just well congrats for being a fucking pioneer really lmfao)
how did you get fire to spread?
Placing more than 1 fire source around each other increases the heat and spread chance drastically allowing for faster more wild fires but only do it if not inside or else thats all gg
hi bro what sound pack you using?
Should be the @ sound pack
Your luck is absurd.
what is this tileset
this is the tile set I use might be updated so probably even better now versus the series! github.com/Theawesomeboophis/UndeadPeopleTileset but may have issues as well no clue but this is 100% it
@@cunningrat_ oooh i know this. It was some legal issue with it rao they remove it XD
When you set fire to that house my heart just fell... that was a mage house. There's spell books in a secret room in the basement.
Oh I do not use magicylsm in this run anyways just not in my taste I find it extremely off setting for the world waldo is in and some buildings are very similar do not worry I probably lost a life time supply of goods lmfao!