Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - (Open World Apocalypse Survival) [Free Game] 

Well there already was a form of the 'Kitchen buddy' and with the Forge buddy you only really needed those 2 for most things.

@@pbsixgun6 yeah, it kinda threw me off when I saw meth vans with kitchen units until I realized the only thing installed on them was a chemistry set.

"Upvote" ok chud.

I started in the evac shelter one time, walked out to pick up a rock, and a cougar killed me. I lasted about 15 seconds in the game.

Instead, you will lose if you don't know what that specific monster/item/status does. But that's the good side of the game :)

Strange, the full stream VOD or the highlight?

The full stream. It could have just been a Twitch thing but I switched to a live stream and it was fine.@@Nookrium

Try Bright Nights. There is less content but more QoL things.

I played Bright Nights last year: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LamSr1LlSUo.htmlsi=T_CoVCOs22w2KEET

The Bright Nights fork focuses on gameplay over tedium. It also has LUA modding support and Kenan's giant mod repository, so the content is different and more customizable, but not lesser.

Dark days ahead is more realistic Bright nights is more cute safe and easier, also more SCF-FI based

@@Fallout3131 DDA is more "realismic", not realistic. It punishes the player with realism as an excuse. Like taking days to stitch up a pair of gloves because you sdon't have button holing proficiency or whatever. Complete LOL on the "realism".

its not quite abandoned its just that they are waiting for the next stable version to push to steam.

​​@@underscorecow-gaming4486lol stable version is just a name, some experimental ones are more stable and have less bugs. Also they could have had experimental branch on steam as a separate branch, but whoever put it there is too lazy for that, he just wanted a quick buck

@@mw00295 stable isnt just about stability, its about systems being fully fleshed out and finished before being put on stable, like the reworks to how you obtain bionics and mutations.

Experimental is exactly what it's name implies, it's full of incomplete ideas and is often not compatible with mods. It's a workspace and can break saves randomly, hence why stable is called stable.

Also the Steam version exists solely for the purpose to be able to contribute financially. Not all devs do this for a quick buck, this allows people to have the money for daily life freeing up time and hopefully getting a better quality game, it is true that this tactic is popular amongst money greedy people but that's not what it's intended for.

I repeat this again. Don't buy the game on Steam. All the money goes to just one person - Korgent, who published it on Steam, and who is no longer working on the game. Active and former contributors to the game do not receive a percentage of the profits. If you REALLY want to help the game, the best thing you can do is simply recommend it to your friends, look for bugs, and if you have experience in programming, then directly help develop the game further.

@@knyaz770 So what license is the game on and who OWNs the license for the game? If the game was published in the Open Source license then the active developers should be able to get the game taken down on steam. As that would violate the license. Or at very least whom ever group is running the original Cataclysm site where they are publishing the game. So that begs the question why are they allowing a random old dev to sell it on steam?

@@kernsanders3973 Because the “main developers” of the game decided so. And they allowed Korgent to sell it on Steam. I didn’t delve too deeply into this situation, but what I understood is that the game’s license allows ABSOLUTELY anyone to sell this game. As long as it credits the original authors. I know it sounds pretty crazy, but it's true. And Korgent (the one who sells this game on Steam) has not released a single update for half a year, not only for the Steam version, but also for the game in general. Basically, he just posted it to get money from people who just want to support this wonderful game... but they don't understand that the money won't go to the team, but to a person who doesn't even work on the game anymore. It's just crazy.

@@kernsanders3973 because Korgent has explicit permission from (most of) the lead dev team, plus the license explicitly allows repacking the game for commercial use - another person tried putting the game on steam in the past, but couldn't pay the publishing fees (or something like that) iirc. when you buy the game on steam you are paying for the "convienience" of auto-updates between stable versions and the work put into listing the game + steam achievements. IMHO, @knyaz770 has it right.

​@@kernsanders3973The license allows this legally, and the "inner circle" of older devs gave their blessing to the steam publishing. It caused some major fuss at the time because the development is made by a lot of contributors, and those didn't have a say in this decision. But anyway, the steam release is technically legal.

nvm just saw someone said it lol

Death Race 2000 to be specific

@@Nookrium ..With David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone etc. Mid 70s IIRC

If you buy a game on Steam, you are not supporting the current development team, but one person (Korgent) who is no longer even working on the game. So the best thing I can advise you is to continue playing the current version of the game and not buy it on Steam.

@@knyaz770 How can one person sell a game on Steam that he doesn't even own? Steam has _some_ restrictions on that, right? I know developers have to jump through hoops in order to sell on Steam (though I don't know what those hoops actually are). On the other hand, anyone can say anything in a RU-vid comment. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that I have no reason to believe that, since I don't even know you. And if someone is selling a game on Steam that they don't own and aren't developing, Steam needs to know about that, I'd think.

@@Bill_Garthright Well, this will probably sound surprising, but the CDDA license allows you to sell this game to anyone, anywhere, and for as much as you want. The only condition you must comply with is to indicate all past and present authors who contributed to this game. Understand me, I’m not against CDDA on Steam, perhaps I’m even for this idea! But not in the implementation that we have now.

@@knyaz770 That _is_ surprising. So,... anyone want to buy a game? :) Seriously, thanks for the info.

@@Bill_Garthright Don't just take anyone on RU-vid's word for it, look into yourself

what views?

@@popereptillianlord6174 they dont allow homophobia and stuff

I dont get it

I don't know who would use tilesets when we have beautiful ASCII

Lol undead is dead and the original creator is a whiny snowflake. Ultica is being constantly updated and worked on.

UndeadPeople is the default for the Bright Nights fork, aka the best version.

@@CC-qx7hk What do you mean by UPT is dead? The tileset is still actively developed by the community, both for DDA and BN. It also has tiles for the most popular mods.

@@JBloodthornew a BN user

The steam profits go to a single senior dev, who hasn't contributed to the project in quite some time.

Check the link in the description, it’ll take you to the free version that I’m playing here. You’re looking at the $20 Steam version

Can you tell me what it's like back in 1985 where Google hasn't been invented yet? Lmao, dude went straight to Steam, went nowhere else, and then came to bitch.

Title is FAR from misleading. If you pay $20 to give money to ONE dev then that I'd your problem. It's a free game. Period.

You are a goofy goober of the highest caliber

1000+ people worked on this free game. Steam money goes to ONE person who barely contributed these past years...