Don't forget Rycon, you can activate things like MOLLE vests, belts, packs, etc in order to hook other MOLLE stuff on them like holsters, sheaths, bags, ammo pouches and the like. Very handy for expanding storage and keeping things quickly on hand. I only mention it because that warehouse is filled to the brim with MOLLE gear.
The whole bit with the bilious soldier really shows that the Z-level LOS feature is an experimental one (as well as how creatures that shoot are way to capable of just shooting the torso.)
Kind of curious to see something like this play out. Normally CDDA is all about a run of the mill person trying to survive but a soldier trying to find any form of command still left is a rather interesting idea.
And it's not impossible to find some remnants of the government The Old Guard is a faction of what remains of the government that operates from oil rigs and cruisers
The vanilla settings of cdda are more about a absolute super universal allrounder genie trying to be a god, in a world where everyone else is stupid enough to be overrun by slow and weak early game zombies.😂 To have a more believe able survival experience i just double the zombie stats and have 5 times more zombies, as well as fully advanced zombies right from the start. Now you have to actually survive and use that god like abilitys of your charackter to master everything in just a matter of weeks to months.😂
This military base is just packed with loot to the brim. You probably can wait till the darkness and use your night vision to sneak past zombies into the armory. Find a .50 rifle, perch yourself on a tower and just pop them as they come. This place is definitely clearable. I did it using an AR15 and no fancy bionics. Though 4 kevlar hulks were no fun to deal with. Especially one in the underground level. Also you might want to scout out the minefields and lure some hard targets on the mines.
I kinda doubt that such a big and secure military base can be overrun by zombies, some random guy with an AR can take out without any problems. 😂 I only play with 5 times as many advanced zombies, with 200% higher stats, to let the entire apocalypse feel a littel more believeable, while having a more realistic survival feeling.😅
@@ottovonbismarck6600 from what I know of the lore of cata, zombies were problematic, but not the cause of societal collapse. a war was going on, zombie virus, portal storms, and mi-go invasion simultaneously. plus some other random stuff all at the same time. there was mass panic and confusion with things breaking apart world wide. we dont know what killed most of the soldiers or what caused the initial spread of the zombie plague, but its not from getting bitten.
@@edwxx20001 even if all that stuff happend at the same time it would still not be enough to destroy almost the entire world, while random civilians are more likely to live, than entire military bases with the best gear avaible and the highest chances of survival and even the labs, which are supposed to have very high security and also a lot of stuff to have a high survival chance and so on. It does not realy ad up. But yeah your right every person is able to master and learn anything in a matter of weeks to months 😆! I do understand that this has to be, because realisticly normal civilians would have almost no chance of survival in a actuall apocalypse, so you need to be superhuman to make the gameplay easier.
@@ottovonbismarck6600 well ya, the survivors are all superhuman in their own way. likewise the cataclysm is intentionally generic in the way it plays with multiple apocalypse tropes. so as it usually goes in such stories, the survivor has to wake up after the first wave, with no memory or no idea what happened. what we don't know, because the lore isn't written, can fill volumes. How could locked down labs, fully staffed military bases, and nuclear power plants all fall seemingly simultaneously? my best guess is that some idiot in a lab was playing with some crystal he found on the mi-go homeworld and caused the global portal storm (resonance cascade). also zombies.
@@edwxx20001 whatever happend, that something like this could happen, i just can not buy it. But i do not have to because the game is highly customizeable, which is i realy like. Also why will there be no Hygiene, digestion system be added? Like you know we are no robots, who can eat stuff and use it to 100%, without pooping stuff out that is literaly toxic or unusable to us? Our digestion and immunsystem is very important. We would literaly die without pooping and peeing! And we would only need to implement it to do it once or twice a day! This could also make finaly different food qualitys a thing, where you have a higher chance to poisen yourself by eating cooked flesh from some random animal, in comparision to actuall processed modern food, which would have a low chance to poisen you depending on the food typ and quality. You could then slowly recover though your digestion system and poop the crap you did eat out again. If Cdda want to be realistic, than this needs to be in there as well, because its a mayor part of a human or animal in general.
You could spend a week in there just reading or longer. But when you come out the kevlar zombies will likely be hulks. There is a 50 cal machine gun in the base though.
@@fajile5109 I mean if you get on the roof and just shoot all the zombies that come you can probably just chill. That looks like enough MRE's for actual months as well tbh maybe more.
One shot, one kill. Snipers are always fun, same with cyborg soldiers, and clearing the base with one could be wild. Excellent episode as always, looking forward to the next!
The m4 that was on one of the zombie soldiers had an underbarrel grenade launcher!) And the bionic that you have can be used to draw water from air for drinking. Great episode as always!)
That rurel house is a great find providing the triffids ain't too bothered with you been near, I think this is a cool idea would love to see her make the house secure and more like a base. I can imagine she still believes there are some people alive in the base and is staying close at least for a few weeks incase she gets orders. Would love to see fortifying the house and maybe even makeing a few security traps/pits as she plans to find a way to get back into the base and hord some supplies. Maybe even have a goal where she wants to find survivors and make a colony. Anyway always fun to see these small series without it we would never have got hilma.
Been a while. My buddy stumbled upon your channel and shared with me. I owe him one for the reminder. This series is looking great. Glad to be back, thanks for having us, I'm glad to see you're still making the top tier CDDA content. 😗👌 o7
Going back into the military base and systematcally bringing down every zombie could be a really good goal... But, there's the probelm of being a military base filled with zombies decked out in combat gear and mutating in horrors beyond human comprehension...
After that detailed intro I was waiting for her to fall down some stairs, break her neck, and the rest of the video was just you crying in the background.
Pretty epic! I did this challenge by staying quiet in the warehouse and picking the lock to the armory. From there, I got into the garage and piloted the Humvee out. But I liked your escape better.
Yeah, LOS is pretty much still a WIP that isn't being worked on for 'experimental Z-Levels' There is ZERO 'angled LOS nullification. it assumes you can see EVERYTHING, and everything can see YOU.
Rycon, it would be epic to see you slowly clear that base and eventually take down those Kevlar hulks This chick is a professional and she knows those supplies are invaluable.
I ened up discovering a pretty trivial way into the armory right out of the gate, and at least in that build it was ludicrously well stocked. I cleared the base with all that firepower and turned the warehouse into a home.
Just wanted Dr.Dong to know that though the short survival series continues and moves on, so (against insane odds!) does he - and his fans eagerly await further word of him!
I don't know what a snipers next goal would be after climb the highest tower, but since she has no squad anymore, "enlist" 3 people ranger style & fill out a new one. Ideally a CQC expert, a medic, & a driver.
A cog in the Imperialist war machine, a woman who has allowed her body to be enhanced for murder. A member of an organization that has committed numerous crimes both before the cataclysm & certainly numerous more during. A nice villain protagonist without a doubt, interested to see how this goes.
@@AbstractTraitorHero Yeah I assume you were referring to the character from the mansion start as the villain as they're a hit woman. I didn't realize you meant the CDDA military though I don't think they were fully involved in the lab experiments
@@zacharyweaver276 The CDDA military is the U.S Military, don't need to read much about it to know it's certainly one of the bad guys. In CDDA it certainly seems a lot worse than it is now considering bionic soldiers. Peoples bodies themselves turned into weapons. But yeah, she is clearly an active & in service member of the U.S military, one loyal enough and committed enough to undergo such massive transformation of her body. So I would probably say she's a villain protagonist.
@@AbstractTraitorHero I wouldn't also turning people into weapons isn't evil on its own unless they get their humanity taken away. I know the CDDA setting was a bit of a dystopia before the Cataclysm happened but I don't recall anything about the military being outright evil
I do wonder, why do you stop aiming when you get hurt? Is it better to cancel and start again? I always try to keep aiming even when I get hurt, at least if something like that is coming at me and I know the source.
I used the explosives like mad, and the c4 to blow up the walls, when i finally decided to bail with the armored truck filled to the brim with all the firepower and food i got my hands on. I was set for life, until a terrifying mutant ended me( thy looked the same on older versions of msxotto tileset ).
Late to the party of watching this because my brother died... but Rycon you missed a golden opportunity with that start & using the Halligan bar to go downstairs to get into the armory.
I'm going to be honest Melvinas cool but I feel almost like she didn't really have to struggle to escape like the others did. I feel like she'd lose out on the test for who to start the next series with if she doesn't pull off something remarkable? Maybe have her end goal be to take back the base she started in from the zombies? What do y'all think?
An intersting mechanic with the ferals could be making them bleed makes the zombies around them start attacking them thus turning the surrounding ferals hostile against the zombies also, I think something like that would be really cool.
I have a couple questions. 1 (not relevant to this run afaik), how is it you got the same location so frequently on some of your other runs? 2, How do you put pressure on a wound, I cant find that command.
It's pure chance where we spawn but some locations are super unique so we are bound to spawn there with a given scenario. As for the wounds just make sure you don't have anything in your hands then past time with period
You need a weapon with Reach to hit down from say a rooftop but if someone is just below you or above you if you hit tab you strike the closest creature to you, even if you don't know what direction they're in. Think that's your best bet
Rycon, is there a way to support you asside from Patreon? I am finally able to do so after many years of enjoying your content for "free," but I can't use Patreon due to it only allowing credit cards. And I will never ever in my life have any credit cards anymore. TH-cam Membership or something else?
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Don't forget Rycon, you can activate things like MOLLE vests, belts, packs, etc in order to hook other MOLLE stuff on them like holsters, sheaths, bags, ammo pouches and the like. Very handy for expanding storage and keeping things quickly on hand. I only mention it because that warehouse is filled to the brim with MOLLE gear.
The whole bit with the bilious soldier really shows that the Z-level LOS feature is an experimental one (as well as how creatures that shoot are way to capable of just shooting the torso.)
Z-levels have been "experimental" for years, the devs need to either actually work on them or disable the feature.
It is disabled by default.
Try bright nights. That entire part 20:00 wouldnt happen.
My assumption is that bile follows hooked ballistics, like grenades.
@@fajile5109 honestly, so much shit in bright nights is just objectively better imo.
Kind of curious to see something like this play out. Normally CDDA is all about a run of the mill person trying to survive but a soldier trying to find any form of command still left is a rather interesting idea.
And it's not impossible to find some remnants of the government
The Old Guard is a faction of what remains of the government that operates from oil rigs and cruisers
@Lord Friedrick That's interesting, never knew that, thank you.
The vanilla settings of cdda are more about a absolute super universal allrounder genie trying to be a god, in a world where everyone else is stupid enough to be overrun by slow and weak early game zombies.😂
To have a more believe able survival experience i just double the zombie stats and have 5 times more zombies, as well as fully advanced zombies right from the start.
Now you have to actually survive and use that god like abilitys of your charackter to master everything in just a matter of weeks to months.😂
This military base is just packed with loot to the brim.
You probably can wait till the darkness and use your night vision to sneak past zombies into the armory. Find a .50 rifle, perch yourself on a tower and just pop them as they come.
This place is definitely clearable. I did it using an AR15 and no fancy bionics. Though 4 kevlar hulks were no fun to deal with. Especially one in the underground level.
Also you might want to scout out the minefields and lure some hard targets on the mines.
I kinda doubt that such a big and secure military base can be overrun by zombies, some random guy with an AR can take out without any problems. 😂
I only play with 5 times as many advanced zombies, with 200% higher stats, to let the entire apocalypse feel a littel more believeable, while having a more realistic survival feeling.😅
@@ottovonbismarck6600 from what I know of the lore of cata, zombies were problematic, but not the cause of societal collapse. a war was going on, zombie virus, portal storms, and mi-go invasion simultaneously. plus some other random stuff all at the same time. there was mass panic and confusion with things breaking apart world wide. we dont know what killed most of the soldiers or what caused the initial spread of the zombie plague, but its not from getting bitten.
@@edwxx20001 even if all that stuff happend at the same time it would still not be enough to destroy almost the entire world, while random civilians are more likely to live, than entire military bases with the best gear avaible and the highest chances of survival and even the labs, which are supposed to have very high security and also a lot of stuff to have a high survival chance and so on.
It does not realy ad up. But yeah your right every person is able to master and learn anything in a matter of weeks to months 😆!
I do understand that this has to be, because realisticly normal civilians would have almost no chance of survival in a actuall apocalypse, so you need to be superhuman to make the gameplay easier.
@@ottovonbismarck6600 well ya, the survivors are all superhuman in their own way. likewise the cataclysm is intentionally generic in the way it plays with multiple apocalypse tropes. so as it usually goes in such stories, the survivor has to wake up after the first wave, with no memory or no idea what happened.
what we don't know, because the lore isn't written, can fill volumes. How could locked down labs, fully staffed military bases, and nuclear power plants all fall seemingly simultaneously?
my best guess is that some idiot in a lab was playing with some crystal he found on the mi-go homeworld and caused the global portal storm (resonance cascade). also zombies.
@@edwxx20001 whatever happend, that something like this could happen, i just can not buy it.
But i do not have to because the game is highly customizeable, which is i realy like.
Also why will there be no Hygiene, digestion system be added? Like you know we are no robots, who can eat stuff and use it to 100%, without pooping stuff out that is literaly toxic or unusable to us? Our digestion and immunsystem is very important. We would literaly die without pooping and peeing!
And we would only need to implement it to do it once or twice a day!
This could also make finaly different food qualitys a thing, where you have
a higher chance to poisen yourself by eating cooked flesh from some random animal, in comparision to actuall processed modern food, which would have a low chance to poisen you depending on the food typ and quality.
You could then slowly recover though your digestion system and poop the crap you did eat out again.
If Cdda want to be realistic, than this needs to be in there as well, because its a mayor part of a human or animal in general.
Gosh seeing all that food makes my brain go...maybe just stay inside the warehouse as long as possible.
You could spend a week in there just reading or longer. But when you come out the kevlar zombies will likely be hulks. There is a 50 cal machine gun in the base though.
@@fajile5109 I mean if you get on the roof and just shoot all the zombies that come you can probably just chill. That looks like enough MRE's for actual months as well tbh maybe more.
One shot, one kill. Snipers are always fun, same with cyborg soldiers, and clearing the base with one could be wild. Excellent episode as always, looking forward to the next!
A super powerful character with what seems like a wild volume of supplies. Let's hope she can clear the deadly horde in her starting location.
The M4 you left behind had 4 attachments. It might be worth pulling those off, as you've got the skills to reattach them.
The m4 that was on one of the zombie soldiers had an underbarrel grenade launcher!) And the bionic that you have can be used to draw water from air for drinking. Great episode as always!)
That rurel house is a great find providing the triffids ain't too bothered with you been near, I think this is a cool idea would love to see her make the house secure and more like a base. I can imagine she still believes there are some people alive in the base and is staying close at least for a few weeks incase she gets orders. Would love to see fortifying the house and maybe even makeing a few security traps/pits as she plans to find a way to get back into the base and hord some supplies. Maybe even have a goal where she wants to find survivors and make a colony. Anyway always fun to see these small series without it we would never have got hilma.
Bright nights already fixed the sight lines. Like you would be able to see the zombies down there. It looks so good when you fly a helicopter.
Regarding the "get higher to boost signal" - military base has a radio tower on the side far from entry.
Clearing the military base of the dead and securing/retaking it seem like a logical end goal
that dart shooting zombie really gave you trouble lol
probably my favorite start location, I do love myself an opportunity to show up with guns blazing all the way through
Been a while. My buddy stumbled upon your channel and shared with me. I owe him one for the reminder. This series is looking great. Glad to be back, thanks for having us, I'm glad to see you're still making the top tier CDDA content. 😗👌
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Wind turbine? If i found any, i'd be living there already... or walking dead somewhere around
For such a stacked character a major challenge like clearing the starting base seems appropriate
18:00 Thinking to myself: "I wonder if there are any grenades or molotov making materials in that warehouse? lol
Exactly my thought. A _huge_ group of enemies, heavily armored, with limited ammo? That's just _begging_ for splash damage.
I love the overun scenario. Finding warehouse full of goodies and clearing a military base is pure catharsis.
Going back into the military base and systematcally bringing down every zombie could be a really good goal...
But, there's the probelm of being a military base filled with zombies decked out in combat gear and mutating in horrors beyond human comprehension...
After that detailed intro I was waiting for her to fall down some stairs, break her neck, and the rest of the video was just you crying in the background.
LOL.
Pretty epic! I did this challenge by staying quiet in the warehouse and picking the lock to the armory. From there, I got into the garage and piloted the Humvee out. But I liked your escape better.
Since this is going to be a short story maybe a cool radiation based character would be cool
Yeah, LOS is pretty much still a WIP that isn't being worked on for 'experimental Z-Levels' There is ZERO 'angled LOS nullification. it assumes you can see EVERYTHING, and everything can see YOU.
Even when it makes NO sense at all.
CDDA is my favorite game because you will never find a zombie that can spit out heat-seeking darts anywhere else.
Rycon, it would be epic to see you slowly clear that base and eventually take down those Kevlar hulks
This chick is a professional and she knows those supplies are invaluable.
I'm so happy for a new cataclysm playthrough of rycon
Well that was quick, when I did it I went down in the tunnels and made it to the armory and proceeded to kill every unliving thing on the base.
This is a hard start. Can have Kevlar hulks before evolution.
This is an interesting start oddly I never considered starting in a military base. Also surprised Rycon hadn't done the start before
nice a slightly powerful start for once. it's a nice change from your usual starts and I'm all for it.
I'd hit up that dump for a bicycle.
This is a pretty cool starting character
Oh my, those acid soldiers are nuts. It should be nerfed for sure! Make them accuracy-based, and aimed not only on torso
A mohawk?
*cries in Dong*
I ened up discovering a pretty trivial way into the armory right out of the gate, and at least in that build it was ludicrously well stocked. I cleared the base with all that firepower and turned the warehouse into a home.
I dont think I've ever seen someone make a turn based game feel so active
great episode thank you
Absolutely inspiring job.
Just wanted Dr.Dong to know that though the short survival series continues and moves on,
so (against insane odds!) does he - and his fans eagerly await further word of him!
Finally, mate! Though I was suggesting a machine gunner, since bionic sniper is definitely an overkill. ;-)
I don't know what a snipers next goal would be after climb the highest tower, but since she has no squad anymore, "enlist" 3 people ranger style & fill out a new one.
Ideally a CQC expert, a medic, & a driver.
I completely forgot about the "Old Guard" faction liaison. That would be a good target as well.
A cog in the Imperialist war machine, a woman who has allowed her body to be enhanced for murder. A member of an organization that has committed numerous crimes both before the cataclysm & certainly numerous more during. A nice villain protagonist without a doubt, interested to see how this goes.
And don't forget the doctor
@@zacharyweaver276 Doctor Dong is an innocent good boy.
@@AbstractTraitorHero Yeah I assume you were referring to the character from the mansion start as the villain as they're a hit woman. I didn't realize you meant the CDDA military though I don't think they were fully involved in the lab experiments
@@zacharyweaver276 The CDDA military is the U.S Military, don't need to read much about it to know it's certainly one of the bad guys. In CDDA it certainly seems a lot worse than it is now considering bionic soldiers. Peoples bodies themselves turned into weapons.
But yeah, she is clearly an active & in service member of the U.S military, one loyal enough and committed enough to undergo such massive transformation of her body.
So I would probably say she's a villain protagonist.
@@AbstractTraitorHero I wouldn't also turning people into weapons isn't evil on its own unless they get their humanity taken away. I know the CDDA setting was a bit of a dystopia before the Cataclysm happened but I don't recall anything about the military being outright evil
I guess they fire their darts in an arc? It's a bit bullshit, but funny to see you're still being terrorized by corrosive enemies.
Always my bane
New CDDA?!
YESSSSSSS!
Hyped to see the new run!
This one was a good one Rycon!
I do wonder, why do you stop aiming when you get hurt? Is it better to cancel and start again? I always try to keep aiming even when I get hurt, at least if something like that is coming at me and I know the source.
This series looks HYPE
I miss Dr Dong already
A woman getting lost on the way to somewhere; color me not-shocked. In all seriousness, though, these are great shows you put on.
i wonder if those darts were guided, like a drone dart or something?
I used the explosives like mad, and the c4 to blow up the walls, when i finally decided to bail with the armored truck filled to the brim with all the firepower and food i got my hands on. I was set for life, until a terrifying mutant ended me( thy looked the same on older versions of msxotto tileset ).
Its rifle time!
Late to the party of watching this because my brother died... but Rycon you missed a golden opportunity with that start & using the Halligan bar to go downstairs to get into the armory.
So so sorry to hear about your loss Brett
“She has proficiency in shake and bake.”
Best wishes
xD i am currently searching one in my game ^^ but yeah she has all the tools available to become really really strong
new cdda rycon. aww shizz
I'm going to be honest Melvinas cool but I feel almost like she didn't really have to struggle to escape like the others did. I feel like she'd lose out on the test for who to start the next series with if she doesn't pull off something remarkable? Maybe have her end goal be to take back the base she started in from the zombies?
What do y'all think?
Oh that's certainly going to be the goal 😊
An intersting mechanic with the ferals could be making them bleed makes the zombies around them start attacking them thus turning the surrounding ferals hostile against the zombies also, I think something like that would be really cool.
Feral are just early stage infected so wouldn't make sense plus there are already plenty of mutants and other creatures who are hostile to zombies
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Dang she reminds me of Brand.
when are you bringing back a skyrim playthrough and LS4 is fully out so would love to see some vids
I have a couple questions. 1 (not relevant to this run afaik), how is it you got the same location so frequently on some of your other runs? 2, How do you put pressure on a wound, I cant find that command.
It's pure chance where we spawn but some locations are super unique so we are bound to spawn there with a given scenario. As for the wounds just make sure you don't have anything in your hands then past time with period
@@ryconplays another question, how do you dismember the acid zombies?
5 out of 5 stuff
18:35 do you have any explosives?
Will we ever have a new long term game?
Totally once we've played through the latest challenge starts
@@ryconplays dope
cool
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I think a series with a transhumanist character would be cool. Transhumanism of any kind, biological or mechanical.
look in the playlist their is already one
Question how did attack does zomebies from a diffrent z level? i cant ask reddit rn for some reson it's in private mode
You need a weapon with Reach to hit down from say a rooftop but if someone is just below you or above you if you hit tab you strike the closest creature to you, even if you don't know what direction they're in. Think that's your best bet
a lot of US soldiers call themselves "humanitarians"
Rycon, is there a way to support you asside from Patreon? I am finally able to do so after many years of enjoying your content for "free," but I can't use Patreon due to it only allowing credit cards. And I will never ever in my life have any credit cards anymore.
TH-cam Membership or something else?
Last time Rycon played a character with bionics, it was too easy. Hopefully this character will have some difficulty.
Until he got oneshot by a turret
Nother great beginning🦚
I can't wait to see the shenanigans this one gets into.
She at least has to make it to the armory last orders and all.