Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

YOU ARE THE REAL HERO

Too complicated trying to figure out the controls. I didn’t even get past the setup screens before I got frustrated and uninstalled it.

For some reason stuck in Russian texts. I wish I could read Cyrillic

I don’t know how to play

Some how my screen isn’t big enough or something? Said 80x something and mine is only like 60xsomething but I’m on a iPhone XR…?

After going through the instructions upon the app booting up, I see a black screen with Russian words I don’t understand come up. Nothing I press can get me past this black screen despite the D Pad and other buttons clearly not frozen by lighting up when I press them. Also the keyboard key that comes up when swiping with two fingers is in Chinese. Something seems wrong

CataclysmDDA is a fantastic game. It definitely has a learning curve, and you really need the wiki to learn to play it. You can construct a ton of stuff, and do a ton of stuff. The negative things about this game is that 1. This port is years out of date compared to the far superior PC version. 2. The game is intended to be played with a PC. keyboard. Because of this, the touch controls are klunky. I can’t think of a way to improve or change this though. 3. The font and tilesets are EXTREMELY small on an iPhone. If you have poor eyesight, the game is near unreadable. Everything is way too tiny. I would say that unless you have great eyesight, or don’t mind squinting to read text, or see the graphics, I probably wouldn’t recommend this game on a smaller iPhone. This game would benefit from having some type of screen zooming or magnifying feature. But since this game hasn’t been updated in years, I doubt that anything like this will ever come. This game would obviously look much better on a larger screen, like an iPad. On my iPhone 6s, everything is really too small for me to see. Another problem that I’m constantly running into is that for some reason, the game keeps saying, “External keyboard detected” and it pops up the iphone, on screen, keyboard. And then the keyboard gets stuck on the screen. I can’t get it to go away when this happens. It’s happening so much that it’s making the game unplayable. I’m wondering if this might be the result of an iOS update or something that created some kind of incompatibility with this game. Since the game is abandoned and hasn’t been updated in years, there is a good chance that this is the case. I don’t recall this ever happening before. Six years with no update is a very long time for an app that’s on a system that gets an updated OS every other month.

WHY IS IT IN RUSSIAN

It's a ok alternative for mac play, since you cant normal play on it. But the quality is poor and some proffesions are missing. But its playable, there is also a bug with naming words where you cant delete text and can type over several lines. At least you dont make people pay for a free game.

I have put many hours into this app, and it's been a total blast. It's so nice to be able to play DDA while on the go. Thanks for making this!