If clients "own" Actors, it might very well be that the server delegates calculation costs (pathfinding being probably the most costly) to clients that have them in their local area. This allows for a lot larger client numbers (and zombies for that matter) in the end.I can only deduce from Fataals info that damage is calculated at the server (good) and the animation to show at the client (standing up versus lying down)
Just having a game use data definitions in XML does not equal quality modding support. 7D2D is so far behind the curve of other games for modding support.can we get XML to explore for modding during the weekend?
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note: I also miss LBD so much. Rick answered about it during a previous stream, very unlikely to come back. Maybe we can get a few modding improvements in the future so we can add it like before
The Pimps do have true modding support as a goal for the game, but at this time they are still making a lot of major code changes and such that make mods frequently outdated. They are making steps toward the mod support but the level of support you are suggesting is not a priority currently in the face of the other work they are doing.
So while you wait you could just play the most games that spend 1-2 years alpha, right? =P
And those of us that have been with the game for a while (5+ years for me) have bacisally received mutliple games over the years for their patience.
I'd agree. It's more of a polishing thing to me. It'd be near the bottom of my priority list for sure.
All the Early Access games I own have spent a lot longer than that in Early Access. I'd rather devs not rush the final release of an EA title and withhold release until they are satisfied. No good comes from pushing out an EA title too soon. I've also gotten way more for my money from EA titles with multiple years of alpha releases because they frequently alter game play enough that they are worth replaying.
alpha/beta/gamma, they are just all labels that are not part of enforced standard in the gaming industry. Also, whats the hurry?
No, it addresses the actual stated problem, that being "people were just spamming stone axes to get points". It's not semantics, it's exact. If the problem is "people were just spamming stone axes to get points", then that would be what is needed to fix.That's semantics. You have a different ideas of the fixes that should have been applied so you call them changes instead of fixes. Good, you know how to use a thesaurus
Your fix would still have resulted in people cranking out stone axes (until they found a fire axe), just by far not that many. But then they would have built lots of fire axes (until they found a steel fire axe). Now I'm sure you have a fix in mind to fix this some more and after lots of iteration we might arrive at something you might have arrived at as lead designer. But would TFP have liked that as well?
