0.C (Cooper)

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0.C (Cooper) is a version of Cataclysm that was released on March 11, 2015.

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Release Thread

Change Log

Highlights

• This release also brings the long-requested DeathCam system, which lets you see the aftermath of the glorious fireball or atrocious trainwreck that was your demise.
• Gun users will notice a new aiming menu, you now spend time to steady your aim, do you take the shot now, or wait until the zombie gets a little closer?
• Tailoring-oriented survivors (and who isn't?) will note the new tailor's kit item, which lets you add insulation or protective patches to your clothes.
• Survivors with gigantic deathmobiles may appreciate the new turret options, including being able to enable/disable individual turrets, and being able to fire some turrets manually.
• Finally, for survivors with, shall we say, "well-stocked" bases, there are massive improvements to performance when there are many thousands of items nearby.

Features

• Infighting! Monsters now have factions assigned and will attack other monsters from opposing factions.
• Meteorology! Featuring all-new thermometer, barometer, and hygrometer, as well as an all-inclusive weather station.
• Now we can finally talk about the weather, as we've always wanted. (disclaimer, you can't chat about the weather with NPCs)
• You can warm yourself up from a nearby fire.
• Change car batteries without any tools, truck batteries with just a wrench, or install swappable storage battery cases and add/remove storage batteries to your heart's content. Electric cars come with cases for their storage batteries by default now.
• Many vehicle parts are now foldable, enabling you to have a more complete folding bicycle (or wheelchair).
• Aiming! You can now spend time when aiming a ranged weapon to improve your accuracy with it.
• The patented DeathCam™! You can now watch what happens after your epic death: is anything left of you after that massive fire burns itself out?
• Rifle straps! Mount one on your gun and just wear it when you're not using it.
• Some cars have alarms now, and you can try to bypass the alarm and unlock the controls.
• Better interactions with worn items, such as auto-retrieving stowed items from them.
• Toggle modes for each vehicle turret individually.
• Manual fire turrets.
• Cameras mountable on vehicles to extend view area.
• New drive-by-wireless system for cars, remote-control full-sized cars!
• Clothing modifications (padding and reinforcing).

Infrastructure

• Diseases are configurable from JSON and applied as relatively generic status effects.
• Pedal/wheelchairs/paddles united as a "fuel type".
• About half of the item types are now composable, for example you can easily make a "wearable gun", or "wearable tool" now.
• Overhaul and simplification of map data handling.
• Simplification of gun and gunmod handling.
• Restored building under MSVC.
• Build performance improvements via removing unecessary includes.
• Simplify handling of vehicle coordinates.
• Visibility checking API cleanup.
• Unified filesystem API.
• Extracted activity handlers from game.cpp
• Sound processing moved to a dedicated module. (in-game hearing, not the game making sound)
• Moved some shared logic from player to character.
• Streamlined obsolete mod handling.

Balance

• Gun mods aren't just a free-for-all when reaching marksmanship level 1 anymore -- instead, they each have different skill requirements to install.
• Canes, cudgels, and umbrellas now work as improvised fencing weapons.
• Gunstores are all locked up.
• Muscle-powered engines can run alternators now.
• Muscle-powered engines cause thirst, hunger and fatigue.
• Split out more layering locations and layers, but made layering penalties harsher.
• Nerfed shrapnel from bombs in general, they are MUCH less effective against armored enemies.
• Monsters with many weapons semi-intelligently choose which ones to use.
• Tuned skilling progression for making archery items to allow bootstrapping.
• Unfletched arrows no longer count as ammunition so they don't clutter your firing menu.
• Some monsters have a small amount of nightvision, Now you will learn why you fear the night.
• Enabled trading with starting NPC at game start.
• Slowed tankbots down so you have a chance of running away from them.
• Zombie master special now picks from every zombie, not just a small list.

Content

• An abandoned farmhouse may spawn in the forest from time to time, with a sad story behind it.
• Tanning with trees! Blackjack oaks now spawn, and can provide tanbark.
• Electric chainsaws and jackhammers now exist in the world.
• Destructible bridges! They can be smashed, they have sidewalks, and are a source of rebar.
• Straw! Get it from the hay in farm barns and make yourself a nice straw hat.
• Battery mods (extended battery, rechargeable battery, etc.) can now be removed by applying a screwdriver.
• Wool and felt are now usable materials.
• Lots of clay and pottery recipes/items.
• Diesel fuel/engines/pumps.
• Lots of comestibles and recipes for them.
• Buildable concrete and brick walls and roofs.
• Flu shot that actually innoculates against flu.
• Metal tank furniture similar to a keg, but easier to make.
• Lots of new clothes and recipes for them.
• Large amounts of chemical and metalurgy additions, lots of bombs and rockets.
• Interior lights for vehicles.
• Fire engine, with a water cannon!
• Occasional mineral drops when tunneling (limestone so far).
• Zombie technician gained a disarm attack.
• Student professions.
• Generic spiritualist content.
• Craftable canned food and recipes.
• More farming content and recipes to make use of them.
• Even more houses!

Inferface

• Butchering can now be used to cut up items, too. Also, you can now salvage _all_ the things (in a tile) in one keypress.
• Item descriptions now tell you what you know you can craft with them. No more wondering what those stupid copper tubes are good for.
• You can now choose to ensure that items you pick up never get wielded, keeping your hands free -- useful when you want to be using a martial arts style that's primarily unarmed.
• Foraging just... happens. Without prompting you (Y/N?) every (Y/N?) time.
• You can now choose to re-roll a random scenario along with your other random character generation things.
• New item action menu, trigger items without rooting around in your inventory!
• Option to merge all cash card charges into one card at an ATM.
• Laser-dot targeting now triggers safe mode.
• Streamlined vehicle construction menu by adding a shape select menu to parts that have multiple symbols.
• Added tabs to vehicle construction menu to help manage all the parts.
• Sound symbols persist until the end of the player turn, and can be examined for a description.
• Warning prompt about activated items when sleeping or waiting.
• Item names now have HP bars displayed with them.
• Add V-menu (nearby items/monsters) to peek command.
• Add filters to advanced inventory.

Performance

• MASSIVE improvement in performance when there are large numbers (thousands) of items nearby.
• Added a clustering algorithm for monster hearing that improves performance when there are many (thousands) of monsters on-map and making noises.
• Iterate across map structures in cache-friendly way.
• Avoid saving/loading sections of map that aren't interesting (like solid rock).

Bugfixes

• Doors and windows no longer hold up the roof! Hopefully preventing collapses from zombies breaking into your shop.
• Solar panels now _just work_ (as long as they're above-ground and it's sunny).
• Fixed dark temple finale by enhancing the dark wyrms that it spawns.
• Fix slow vehicles getting stuck in reverse.
• Fixed free blocks when player had no block techniques.
• Make effects that damage all player bodyparts use the same armor code as other attacks.
• Scale damage to armor based on its coverage so e.g. power armor isn't ridiculously vulnerable to acid.
• Fatigue can no longer go so negative that you don't need to sleep for days.
• Unify vehicle fuel handling.
• Game remembers which mutations you had activated.
• Fixed turrets shooting through doors.
• Fixed bug that was making gun recoil be too low.
• Fixed bashing corpses with blunt objects.