0.8 (Romero)

‹———— 0.9   0.7 ————›
0.8 (Romero) is a version of Cataclysm that was released on 2013 September 16.

Downloads

Release Thread

Change Log

Highlights

• Releasing with Russian, Chinese, and bla translations.
• Draggable vehicles, e.g. shopping carts.
• Memorial file listing player history.
• Tiles!
• Basic farming support.
• Support for save backwards compatability.
• Option to adjust city size, make a whole map metropolis!
• Option to adjust monster density, walls of zombies!

Features

• Intelligence dependent skill rust option.
• Uncanny Dodge CBM
• Weight management rework, weight now in grams.
• If the player is overloaded, the strain causes pain.
• Display option for metric vs imperial vehicle speed.
• Beanbag rounds for shotguns and grenade launchers.
• Added headlights that can be aimed at installation time.
• Active bionics.
• Throw single items from stacks instead of whole stack.
• Updated many menus to updated menu system that provides acrolling, filtering and more unified hotkeys.
• Crafting overhaul, crafting no longer trains combat skills and vice versa.
• Reworked rain protection, items now have waterproof flags.
• Crafting recipes you can actually perform bubble to the top of the list.
• New laser weapons.
• Pneumatic weapons.
• Narrow sidebar option.
• Support unicode character names.
• Aim-related gunmods.
• Automatically adjust aim path if the default path is blocked by something.
• Play Now game start for one-click game initiation.
• Rework encumbrance to remove nonsensical negative encumbrance.
• Loosen strictness of encumbrance in general.
• Heated melee weapons.
• Plastic item crafting.
• Option overhaul with new tabbed menu.
• Swimming now makes you wet.
• Wetness can be a good thing when it's hot and you're properly attired.
• Wetness effects asjusted by some mutations.
• Portable Game system now usable, has playable games snake, sokoban, and robotfindskitten.
• Vehicle components, vehicles, mutations and traits are moddable in json.
• fruit bushes spawn in groups.
• Significant rebalance of fire, emits less smoke, and small fires should burn longer.
• Basic farming support.
• Welding rig vehicle component.
• When in a square with clothes and bedding, sleeping players will use them for warmth.
• Corpse-filled pits cause less or no damage.
• Adrenaline shot item.
• Nerfed Adrenaline rush effect, no more bullettime.
• Small vehicles are draggable and pushable. Added shopping carts.
• Funnel now directs rain into container in the same square during rain.
• Mutation dreams.
• Siphon water out of vehicles with water tanks.
• Ice labs.
• Vehicle collisions based on SCIENCE!
• Streamlined selecting same ammo over and over again.
• Blacksmithing.
• Pickling and other food preservation techniques.
• Re-enabled mouth encumbrance.
• Caseless ammunition and guns.
• New heavy weapons.
• More features spawning in houses.
• Significantly reduced map save size.
• Lots of professions.
• Many many items and crafting recipes.
• Energy weapon special effects.
• Scrollbars in many list menus.
• Vehicles can spawn smashed into each other.

Bugfixes

• Mouse cursor hiding.
• Terminal text display fixes.
• Very significant performance improvements.
• Removed input delay.
• Allow exiting from long-term activities like wait.
• All titlebars should use the correct version number.
• Remove busywaitin WinGDI build. (caused 100% CPU usage)
• No more "nothing" map tiles.
• Hand out letters to bionics so more than a few are usable.
• Monsters no longer attack themselves.
• Fatal hunger/thirst/fatigue detected correctly.
• Major monster handling performance improvements to make 50x zombies work.
• Nerfed smoke inhalation.
• Major performance increase in mapgen to make huge cities generate before the heat death of the universe.
• Rain and acid rain doesn't bother you when underwater.
• Batched raycasting optimization.
• Fixed old inventory letter overlapping bug.
• Use shadowcasting algorithm for fast and accurate fov calculation.
• Vehicles no longer spawn floating above water.
• Loaded ammo, such as nails in a nailgun can be used for crafting.
• Light from items more consistent.