Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival game in post-apocalyptic world
Here&#x27;s a dump of notable characters for me:<p>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 &amp; training skills. I didn&#x27;t really have any more books to read through &amp; even completed a mission from a lab style compound.<p>I got ambushed by a really fast mover and was luckily able to shoot it. I retreated back to the town to heal up and foolishly ignored an eye bot. Once I realized what was happening the riot control bots were all over me. I didn&#x27;t have my stuff on me and was away from the car, I tried to run and just got gased bad. I tried going back and submitting to arrest, but the police bot just killed me instead.<p>By the time I was dead I had mostly transformed into a tree &amp; was Very strong (str 14 total). I had tons of ammo &amp; all around was pretty decked out. A really sad and preventable death.<p>Strange bowman:
I started a happy mutant build thinking I&#x27;d go more towards archery &amp; survival, but after getting a bite wound early I needed to seek out antibiotics. I ended up finding a car &amp; driving almost a full day until I found a downed military chopper. This set me with with great clothes, guns, knifes &amp; MREs. I found a small town, Mattamiscontis, just ~20 buildings, to try this out at. I ended up needing an extensive stay as I didn&#x27;t do most of the clearing with the car, but rather methodically worked through using knifes, guns if necessary &amp; developing my archry ability. By the time I cleared the town I had read through most of my books, gotten my skills quite good &amp; was well on my way to mutating to a bee. My tear through the town was seriously slowed down by catching the flu. It&#x27;s hard to find enough vitamins, but I kept fairly free from junk food.<p>After surviving for 28 days I drove too close to a military outpost and was immediately shot in the head.<p>Strange dodger:
I spawned in the outskirts of a city. I was lucky to find a lot of valuable stuff early, two working cars (one of them a semi) a garage with welding gas &amp; even an autodoc! I was training my important skills after clearing much of a block with the semi, and drinking coffee. This threw my sleep schedule off and I ended up feeling tired when I needed to run away from some zombies. It was just 3 normal zombies that were able to surround me. I was able to fight them off, but I suffered 3 bite wounds. I tried to just rely on antibotics that I had on me, but that wasn&#x27;t enough, I got to badly infected and tried to find more antibiotics, but got over whelmed just venturing out.<p>I should have used the semi more &amp; worked to try and treat the bite wounds instead of relying on the anti biotics.<p>Radiation leak
This build is great! It has low amounts of radiation leak as well as radiogenic. This yields a pretty good healing factor for very cheap. I cleared a small town and stumbled upon a great security van in working order. With this I slowly aquired most of my important skills and a lot of small arms &amp; small arm ammo. I even had a couple shotguns, but mostly bird shot. I was feeling decked out enough to start exploring a lab. I ended up save scumming and getting killed by a turret in the lab. It was a one hit kill b&#x2F;c I was walking around without bullet protection &amp; Overburdended.<p>On the save scum I was more careful and never really got far into the lab. I was going around killing almost everything with a fire axe. I had a couple close calls, but got much better about dropping my loaded backpacks before fighting &amp; keeping back up stuff on me.<p>I was heavily mutated in a really good way. I could recover from near death within two days. Unfortunately I was also very ponderous which was a big drawback. I had 17 STR (!)<p>Marti Urban
Spawned as a bionic sniper in a helicrash. I had a bad wound on my arm, and some minor bleeding. Thankfully I was next to a unbelivably tiny town with an apartment building. Clearing it with just a combat knife wasn&#x27;t much of a problem and it gave me plenty of food, fabric &amp; books to get a good base of skills &amp; something to do while healing up. From there I walked to a farm where I found a 4x4 in decent enough shape. That took me to the edge of a large city. I am slowly working my way through the city, developing my archery skill &amp; I even found a pistol w&#x2F; 30 rounds of ammo.<p>While routine looting of a house I went into the basement to find a gigantic naked mole rat. It looked very dangerous and thankfully was far away from the stairs. I ran up the stairs and ignored it. As the clearing &amp; looting when on &amp; I started piling up some salted fish &amp; beef jerky I noticed that the house with the naked mole rat is straight up collapsing. The mole rat appears to be destroying the foundation and whole sections are crashing down on it&#x27;s head. I took advantage of that to lure some zombies into the hole. I went down to watch the fight between the mole rat and the zombies and it didn&#x27;t even take a scratch from the zombies, it was mauling them one by one and it was barely hurt by the building falling on it&#x27;s head. Those things are brutal. I&#x27;ve been luring almost all the zombies within a block into the naked mole rat pit. It&#x27;s been a slaughter. I was enjoying going down there to watch, but after I made a couple pot shots at it with my bow it turned to attack me and I GTFO as fast as possible and haven&#x27;t gone back in to check on it yet. I was able to sneak in and grab an assault rifle from a dead zombie soldier while there though. No ammo for it yet though.<p>Slowly cleaning out ~4 city blocks has yield plenty of gear, I finally made it to a library and have been reading up on lots of skills while healing. I&#x27;ve gotten a pretty good set up and keep on aquring more and more skills. Finally working my way up to compound bow + metal arrows has given me a lot of pretty safe kills, it takes a long time to properly kite the zombies, but as long as there isn&#x27;t too many it&#x27;s worked out very well. I am constantly carrying a pistol, a shotgun, a bow and a combat knife and fall back to whatever is needed to keep myself alive.<p>Just cleaning out a couple blocks has put me all the way through spring. Once they were all cleared out I started working on getting a good crafting set up. I used a quad bike to get around for that, and it took many days, I kept myself amused by using a pickaxe to bust into a bank (they just had precious metals, meh) and into a doctors office (looks like I can use the autodoc here!).<p>After a couple days of crafting I have just about everything I need to make a death mobile. I used this to get a humvee up and running and almsot fully repaired. I had it all set up and decided to drive over ~4 blocks to an electronics shop. I really wasn&#x27;t ready for the number of zombies there were. It was right next to a park and the zombies are getting scarier and scarier. I lost a panel and was focused on just mowing down zombies. I&#x27;ve gone through enough to level up again, but I forgot to keep track of the disel. I ran out of gas! Luckily I wasn&#x27;t in the middle of a swarm, I was able to ditch what I thought was my tools &amp; food pack, but it also had my ammo. I ran as fast as I could with ~40 zombies chasing me. Thankfully there were only a couple zombies that could keep up enough to pay attention to me. They were tough zombies, but I took them out with pistol &amp; bow. It&#x27;ll be hard to get back to my stacked hummvie, but I can go back to the fairly safe area and make a plan. There&#x27;s a safer route to the hummvie as it&#x27;s on the edge of the city. I should get some more ammo, some disel &amp; arrows before going back to try and reclaim it. I&#x27;m already half way through the summer.<p>I had a break to run in and refill the hummve, but it&#x27;s too heavy for it&#x27;s engine! I narrowly jumped back on the quad bike and got out of there. The current plan is to make a ton of arrows and slowly pick off the zombies from the comfort and safety of my moving quadbike. Current kills before the slog: 697<p>It was going really well until I wasn&#x27;t watching where the quadbike was going and got it stuck on a boulder. I was surrounded and overwhelmed. I could have made it out if autopickup&#x2F;pulp wasn&#x27;t on. I got surrounded because I stopped to do that.