0.A (Kaufman)

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0.A (Kaufman) is a version of Cataclysm that was released on March 02, 2014.

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Release Thread

Change Log

Highlights

• Module manager.
• Fullscreen mode.
• Many mutations, more refined mutation progression.
• Improved view options for driving.
• Improved item handling, including category views, partial stack handling.
• Mouse move and mouselook.
• Fishing.
• Working Refrigerators.

Features

• View item on mouse hover in SDL.
• Mouse move.
• Basic LUA support.
• Vehicles disintegrate into their constituent parts on impact.
• Fuel tanks preserve their contents when removed/installed.
• Vehicle construction and repair using duct tape.
• More distinct mutation trees, including branch thresholds and post-threshold mutations.
• Interact with monsters on stairs.
• Guilt from killing monsters tapers off as you kill more of them.
• Can track vehicles with a GPS module.
• Allow filtering constructions by the ones you can do right now (can toggle).
• Idling for vehicles, can effectively run as generators.
• Minifridge that keeps food fresh longer.
• Clothing pockets and hoods only activate when needed. (for warmth)
• Inventory and crafting menus support listing items by category.
• Expanded underwater combat.
• Item spoilage rate varies based on temperature.
• More info in list monsters menu.
• Rechargeable battery pack mod for tools.
• Gunmods are installed on rails now.
• Better gender handling at character creation.
• Expanded vehicle electrical system.
• Can pick up or drop partial stacks.
• Shove items out of the way when closing a door.
• Radioactive items.
• Mutation friendly clothing.
• Remove prompt to resume task, of course you want to.
• Vehicle facing indicator (option).
• Fullscreen mode.
• Show contents of grabbed vehicle (e.g. your shopping cart) in advanced inventory pane.
• Fishing, find a pole!
• Automatic view shifting when driving (option).
• Zoom mode that dynamically resizes tiles (pretty slow when zoomed unfortunately).
• Search known recipes by output, tool or component.

Infrastructure

• Overmap tiles moved to json.
• Lots of warning cleanup.
• More development of internal json library.
• Mod manager.
• Can define mapgen for tiles in json or LUA.
• Traps moved to json.
• Standalone json checker.
• Refactored monsters and players to have a common parent class.
• Retrieve items from inventory based on location instead of invlet.
• Ammo types moved to json.
• Blacklist and whitelist for including/excluding content.

Balance

• Sleep increases rate of fatigue recovery and healing over time.
• Remove automatic matches and poketknife from player spawn.
• Add skintight flag for underwear-type clothing to negate layering penalties.
• First Aid and bandages take time to apply now.
• Increased city size variability.
• Turrets have finite ammo.
• Reduce rate of damage for "real armor" as opposed to "clothes".
• Zombies spawn at last stand locations.
• Burning ammo only throws shrapnel, no explosion.
• Increased crafting distance to 6 to enable large workshops.
• Progressive difficulty searching for lab notes.
• Progressive difficulty searching for lab notes.
• Large-scale vehicle rebalances.
• Improved code that determines what body part is hit by an attack.
• Water purification methods use one charge per unit of water.
• Buffed water resistant clothing.
• Removed acid puddles from acid rain. (no more melting items).
• Buffed most zombie HP.
• Large nerf to solar panels.
• Effectively remove cap to starting points option (set to 1,000).
• More interesting gun misfire/jam mechanics, guns can take damage now.
• Varied rate of projectile breakage with a flag, more differentiation between arrow types.
• Ammo with special effects (smoke, teargas, explosions) now go off when burned.

Content

• Atomic coffee, energy drink and hypospray, lawn darts, MOLLE pack, fingertip razors.
• Too many mutations to list, including mutagen types and recipes.
• Map types, ammo reloads, vehicle curtains, creepy doll, whiskey barrels.
• Hibernation mutation, lots of cop and fireman gear, IV mutagen, piles of new traits.
• Mutation-themed dreams, cowbell, atomic batteries, dojo and contents,
• vending machines and bank cards.
• Dinocataclysm added as a mod at long last!
• Lots more terrain and furniture is now bashable.
• Several new houses and other buildings.
• Variations of vehicle condition (damaged, blood-splattered, engine running, etc)
• Creatures fling around appropriate fluids and chunks when gibbed.
• Several content packs that allow enabling/disabling different categories of content.
• Shoggoth.

Bugfixes

• Prevent artifact swords from sticking all the time.
• Royal jelly and blood filter heal dermatik infections.
• Make active items (ticking bombs, rotting food) work in vehicle storage.
• Prevent teleportation and stairclimbing from erasing monsters.
• Lots of UI tweaks.
• Fix bug where items couldn't be thrown over water.
• Erase scentmap when we move between floors.
• Handle adjacent overmaps better, including notes.
• Lots of recipes moved fro auto-learn on skill thresholds to being learned from books.
• Fixed vehicle rendering when dragging.
• Can craft from items in vehicle storage.
• Only count loudest vehicle engine for noise generation instead of adding them together.
• Fix weird bug where being too strong made you bad at throwing things.
• Fixed several related vehicle board/unboard bugs.
• Player displayed in correct position when peeking.
• Fixed lots of menu drawing glitches.
• Height/width options make more sense, total instead of based on view width.
• Limit indoor dimly lit areas to the same view distance as outside.
• Fix bug where vehicles and windows projected light at dawn and dusk.
• Targeting defaults to nearest enemy.
• Toggling between enemies includes hostile NPCs.
• Vehicle turrets no longer shoot player or their own vehicle.
• Fixed issue where exploding items could destroy themselves and cause a segfault.
• Check for errors when attempting to write files and take appropriate action.
• Fixed some lab finale features.
• Fixed vehicle workshops being usable as components in recipes.
• Cruise control is now smooth, even the sportscar is driveable.
• Sinkholes don't turn into pits after you step in them.
• Can no longer block attacks in your sleep.
• Translations build and ship with releases.

Performance

• Many overmap generation performance improvements.
• Stop updating scent if player hasn't moved for a while, makes waiting and sleeping go much faster.
• Optimized bitflag methods for very frequently used flags.
• Heavy refactor of crafting menu for more speed.
• Heavy optimization of scent diffusion.
• Declare strings as const to avoid reallocating them all the time.
• Lots of caching of vehicle parts.
• Vision calculation speedups.
• Refactored map loading to chunk up map data into tiny (1KB or so) files, so save/load is nearly instantaneous.