Let's Play Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Episode 10: Minot

It's been a long time since I had to use a car in this game and I'm not very good at it.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Struggle to survive in a harsh, persistent, procedurally generated world. Scavenge the remnants of a dead civilization for food, equipment, or, if you are lucky, a vehicle with a full tank of gas to get you the hell out of Dodge. Fight to defeat or escape from a wide variety of powerful monstrosities, from zombies to giant insects to killer robots and things far stranger and deadlier, and against the others like yourself, that want what you have…
Gameplay is from Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead's 2023-04-15 experimental release. Experimental builds can be found at cataclysmdda.o...
Music is from CO.AG, packaged with the game's CC-Sounds pack / @co.agmusic

[@lichqueenlilith5694]

The fact that a child zombie was carrying a book titled "Self Esteem for Dummies" is *incredibly depressing*

[@ИгошинНикита]

*Oh no* 😅

[@kernium]

Only 8 and already depressed~! :D

[@GundiMike]

Look, nobody drives cars in cataclysm without accidentially oopsy whoopsy smashing into some bushes, or trees, or maybe into a building, or accidentally over a minefield, or-

[@Leverquin]

NO I AM PERFECT DRIVER.

[@jonathanroberts8855]

since this has started they made more ferals in one of the patches and its made the mall experience way more difficult. the ferals will open the metal utility corridor doors and lead a horde to you.

[@mutantwormgirl]

That sounds terrifying.

[@peterbota1913]

@@mutantwormgirland a good chunk of them are the new “Feral Cop” variant which hits hard, moves fast, and blows a whistle to call more zombies to its position

[@dem-1-2]

Yeah... This forced me to live on the upper floors for a while. But hey at least feral cops drop bandages and good armor.

[@Inglonias]

Oh right because malls weren't difficult enough. Now there are ferals there that can OPEN THE DOORS

[@lordfriedrick7911]

Also some of the zombie mall cop still knows how to use their Beretta... At least they don't know how to reload...

[@sophia_petrillo]

Yours is the only playthrough of this game that hasn't bored me to tears. Really love your RP style and commentary. Congratulations on the sub count, you definitely deserve it!

[@YourPalKindred]

Have you watched Rycon? He has a similar style

[@Wackylemon64]

@@YourPalKindred The little expository cut-ins worm girl does for both gameplay and reference obscura really help keep my attention, versus what I've seen from Rycon, although Rycon does have a nice wealth of content

[@Wackylemon64]

I guess since Rycon's done so many series, it wouldn't make much sense to discuss basic mechanics, though - I do wonder if WG is going to maintain that element in future series I do also wonder how WG is going to handle the first in-series character loss, since Rycon tends to be fairly easy-come easy-go with characters, at least as of recent

[@YourPalKindred]

@@Wackylemon64 that is true. Rycon is definitely more gameplay focused on his main channel

[@griz561]

i was skeptical of "pivot to video" but this ended up being one of my favorite ongoing series

[@patrick1020000]

Poor shark being dragged across the mall's bloody floor

[@Gigas0101]

There once was a gal from Minot Who was quite proficient with the bow there were zombies about but the girl didn't pout she dispatched them with a few arrows

[@Hazel-cv5cj]

The Worm Girl gun nerd segments give me strength, love the vid!

[@gabrote42]

Agreed. Nice Cultsim pfp!

[@perpetualgrimace]

I was not prepared for the way the car looks when turning 😂

[@gwentan6776]

"Lets turn in for the night" *clock shows 9.30 am*

[@SubtleArboreal]

I'll admit, that was not what I thought was about to happen when you said you were going to get "Blow High" given the contents of your inventory.

[@mutantwormgirl]

Mellifera would NEVER

[@kernium]

​@@mutantwormgirlThe cold turkey punk hehe.

[@CairnSeeker]

The SD-card to phone transfer blew my mind to learn, definitely gonna do that from now on so I don't have to carry my tablet around all over the place! Also: Blåhaj Rescued!

[@drakenel]

It's been interesting watching you go from a screenshot lets play to the heights of this channel. But hell, you've done well through all life's thrown at you and still remained a good creator and a chill person. That's worth a few patreon bucks at the absolute least. Congrats to you.

[@cliffs7864]

RIP the smooth bonking stick, you were too pure for this world

[@squeethemog213]

With some close calls and a plushy friend recovered. A watery world of horror awaits us. I can't wait to see what we may find :D

[@dragoneye6229]

Been waiting for this. Not sure if you are running this on a potato or not but I can never get enough of Rycon's videos and you are the ONLY other person that does this, even if you've only done it with CDDA so far. Heck I don't care if it's only CDDA or various other games as well, I just love this and I can never have enough CDDA.

[@boab4]

By this do you mean cdda? or just this style of video, i quite like thom bruce's stuff if its just more cdda you want

[@raioh4747]

Ive been really enjoying this series, and I dont even play cdda, but watching this late at night with some popcorn is pretty chill

[@mattpants6178]

Thanks for the gun and ammo explanations. It’s fun to hear about them.

[@PurpleXVI]

A kayak on the river... I stayed the hell away from water every time I played, but from your CDDA SSLP, I feel like I'd want at least a battleship between myself and the horrors of the black deeps.

[@BM-vj4xu]

Oh man! I just had the thought earlier this morning if you had dropped another playthrough video but I didn’t see anything… I check again later in the day and here it is! Love your content !

[@Calfmax]

40 more minutes of good content, today is a good day

[@gabrote42]

Such a lovely episode on an amazing series! And winter holidays means I can watch and catch back up! 28:33 I remember when that didn't exist. It was SO ANNOYING!

[@SeanJZoning]

This is the best KZbin series I've ever seen in my 15+ odd years of KZbin'ing now. Thank you.

[@007whitespy]

I'm so glad that I stumbled across this channel. You have the great ability to describe disturbing and horrific scenes with the calm and ease of Bob Ross.

[@shawnkerner2923]

I can see Mel jamming out with that Violin :) lucky find with that electric car. No need to be choosy with looting

[@Nerdule]

Oh hell yeah! Every new Cataclysm episode from you is an instant watch from me.

[@Platypus9d6]

One of my favorite series on KZbin right now! Cracked a big smile when I saw you'd uploaded, keep it up!

[@Blarce]

Bruh, a chemistry book and a self-esteem book on a dead kid... poor thing.

[@gadgetpatch9975]

I was activated immediately at hearing the Phantasy Star IV pub theme for the Patreon rollout.

[@mutantwormgirl]

One of my favorite games.

[@Cuthawolf]

I really enjoy these videos, every one is a bright spot in my day.

[@jorionedwards]

11:58 I felt so much pain when I saw the Reddit post. Guess I'll keep camping near rough terrain until staggers and kockdowns replace all the useless stun techniques.

[@emilijadadic3913]

Dont know if you have been told before, but you can use the favorite system to practically automate the inventory tedium. You just favorite the things you want to keep with you, then there is a key to drop all but favorite items. Hope this helps!

[@crimsongrain6163]

Yay new worm girl Time to hug all the wormies

[@YoelFievelBenAvram]

I lost my shit at the part about the combat knife being nerfed to hell. I was like well ackshually and then you cut to the soyjack.

[@siluda9255]

cdda devs try not ruin melee combat challange: impossible

[@TR-ru7wl]

Definitely going to play this game because of you. Best creator!

[@vladatodiresei4931]

Oh hell yeah, exactly what I needed rn

[@DeathByRabbit]

New here. Just binged this playlist over the last few days. Really enjoying it so far. Very helpful information. One thing I wanted to mention about using bow type weapons is you can set up auto loot/pick up for your arrows or bolts so you aren't having to loot corpses every time you kill something.

[@ListlessCraving]

I just recently watched your videos on Fear and Hunger and got caught up on your let’s play! I love your content, and I am doing my own run through of Termina because of your videos. You mentioned that you enjoy Indie games, and I was wondering if you at all played Anatomy, or any other of KittyHorrorShow’s works? Anyway, I look forward to more of your videos!

[@Korayk0ray]

Another Episode? Worm Girl, you are spoiling us. I genuinely enjoy your uploads and like to listen to them while I am playing CDDA myself. Keep it up

[@ravveni]

just as i catch up with the series, a new episode drops!!! what luck :D

[@perryborn2777]

12:03 This was beautiful

[@SomeRandomGuy1098]

Little tip: I'm not sure if I'm just being tricked with how fast you do things but I've noticed you seem to pulp zombies in dangerous situations before catching your breath and checking your surroundings. You have usually around 6 hours (I think it's varied and not a completely set time) before zombies get back up and getting your stamina back is way more immediate. I feel you though, the big symbol over the bodies tells my brain I must smash immediately

[@mutantwormgirl]

Yeah, I actually made a lot of little mistakes in this episode that started to add up. You can see me forgetting to switch back to walking a bunch, and I kept not looking at stamina before lining up a bow shot. Definitely some of my sloppier play, I'll need to be careful.

[@maaalex]

Is sleep without Blahaj really sleep? No; no it is not.

[@MrMarar0]

Another banger as usual! i can highly recommend using shopping carts for item hauling!

[@Mynameistux]

Aww yiss, new worm girl episode just dropped

[@Scooge420]

Critical lack of Blahaj causing massive dammage

[@Gigas0101]

Is it possible to get parts from some of these cars and fix up the forklift? If you could fire the bow and steer with your knees, you'd become a forklift Mongolian menace!

[@YourPalKindred]

RIP every combat knife character. I hope it at least remains viable when paired with martial arts, I hate when things get nerfed so much they become trash.

[@asahearts1]

Every time I hear minot I keep thinking of kylie minogue. Kinda shows my age, I guess. 😅

[@leviathan2647]

You may place glass shards as is or make caltrops out em for security and trapping matters

[@loszhor]

Congratz on 30k subs!

[@maxwellvindman7212]

Mel is like a whirlwind of death

[@user-burner]

That really is how you feel when you get a good weapon set in cdda

[@assaulthetz]

I think I am going for bows than guns for default long range. While I would only use a gun to a mutated monster... since I just realized I have spent most of my 7.62×51mm and any .300 magnum to the standard Zs. And they are So rare that I only find them mostly in Military camps or untouched gun shops. And with silence, I could shoot them far back without drawing the usual horde to me.

[@agentsquibs]

Blahaj will keep us all safe!

[@TwelveGallonBee]

I love these videos. Have you ever played Darkwood? It really seems like something you'd get a kick out of. I'll be throwing some cash into Patreon once my finances settle

[@coolnamebro7363]

RIP Combat Knife my beloved.

[@grianjuju9438]

Wooohooo congrats on the milestone

[@maebemaebenot]

Yay, new worm girl CDDA!

[@andreasostlund4081]

NEW EPISODE LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@AS-rl5vr]

Congrats on the sub count!

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

Do you have a link to your soundpack? As well as tileset?

[@mutantwormgirl]

The tileset comes with the game. The soundpack is the music from cc-sounds and the sfx from @'s soundpack: github.com/damalsk/damalsksoundpack/releases

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

@@mutantwormgirl I'd just download it and put it where exactly!

[@Wackylemon64]

@@AbstractTraitorHero the "catapult" launcher can help you manage soundpacks, mods, and multiple Cataclysm releases, though if you want to work with cataclysm directly without the use of external tools, the folder you want to put the soundpack in is [cataclysm folder]/data/sound, so that you have the path "data/sound/CC-sounds" or "data/sound/@'s soundpack", or similar

[@metalstorm478]

11:54 YEEEEP!!! I feel it too.

[@xXlizamaXx]

holly molly! you made my day!

[@floofiestmuffin6945]

Wooo new vid dropped

[@perpetualgrimace]

Yay it's back!

[@Scourge24]

Weee, more Mellifera!

[@ThiefGameingVideos]

Yay I think I'm the first patron ❤

[@johndoe2431]

Ahh…more Worm!

[@HiraethDesu]

Hey goat have you played Koudelka? Little Horror JRPG game from the psx era that was basically the equivalent to an indie game back in the day. I think you'd probably like it.

[@user-iu6sd8su3e]

Yes more cdda!

[@nickvlahos4547]

good white noise sleep for sleep

[@Leverquin]

i like your music taste

[@mayankshetty34]

Big fan

[@11ict1theodoree.mariano4]

Subscribing now.

[@kingcrimson3039]

Soon I can afford it I sub to your Patreon.

[@siluda9255]

can you do a new combat tutorial for cdda ? since the devs made most of the old strat absolutelly useless now.

[@jeezjacob]

I know this doesnt make much businesses sense but collab with Kruggsmash?

[@jeffjones7108]

I've never wanted to be a shark plushie so much in my life.

[@raygonzales8720]

Lucky for you im alresdy enslaved by your voice lady lol, im going to actually watch this, or well listen to it at least

[@MrGAMESLINGER]

Sharkkkkk

[@yindy7762]

my only support will be here with likes i'm poor :D

[@potatoesstarch2376]

Great Stuff.