PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary
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Kosmic Kerman
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That's unlikely to happen. In the meanwhile, you can go to the profile pages of the various devs and click on the view activity button on the upper right. Here are links for MM, Gazz, and Faatal:
https://community.7daystodie.com/profile/3-madmole/content/
https://community.7daystodie.com/profile/4857-gazz/content/
https://community.7daystodie.com/profile/43564-faatal/content/
Guppys Fur
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Madmole completed the design but it didnt fit in A19 anymore.
Whetever or not its comming for A20 is unknown
madmole
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One of the main designs behind the perk system is replayability. Since hard choices are required at least for a while it allows replays to feel completely different if you try another route. The game was feeling stale to me as a STR build, so I am doing agility now and having a lot of fun "learning the ropes" again. Using padded or leather armor, sneaking, bows... its a completely different feeling. I can't wait to get a desert vulture and SMG.
Adam the Waster
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Laz Man
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Tmodloader
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It really does boost replayability. I don't even feel bad about needing to restart next Alpha because of it.
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Ralathar44
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1. Higher quality stone tools/weapons are very valuable to those who do not have the skills to craft them yet. My pure agility run was very happy to get higher levels of stone axe and shovel. I don't just have a desire to scavenge and hit those safes, they give me important upgrades as well as....
2. Tools/guns =/= all of progression, it's a tiny tiny slice of overall progression. Books, recipes, schematics, dukes, cobblestones, cement, stone, wood, paper, brass, lead, iron, etc. POIs provide all these things and if you don't have miner69er and motherload and you don't have recipes then POIs offer amazing progression.
3. If you decide to take every single "I'll mine it and craft it myself" skill then you've chosen to focus on self reliance instead of scavenging and so the rewards won't be as great for you because of your own choices. Concentrate on playing how you skilled yourself to play. Farm resources, use that trader, and craft your own stuff. Hit the occasional POI when you feel like it but it's supplemental for someone taking those kind of skills. Remember, this isn't A16 and before anymore...you have to make choices about what you are good at and what playstyle you want to have. Everything is a tradeoff.
4. Tying loot to gamestage is tying risk to reward. I don't see a problem with that.
5. There IS a problem with not being able to use your ranged specialization early. TFP is working on it. They have ideas about adding in additional weapons like pipe guns so that there are more T1 ranged weapons. For now the blunderbuss and the primitive bow cover early game ranged weapons until proper firearms but they are definitely looking to improve that.
6. TFP has direct plans to give custom gamestage modifiers to specific POIs. The tech isn't in yet though. The plan is to have something like Shotgun Messaigh be considered a much higher gamestage. That way you can get that better loot early, but you'll face much tougher enemies to do so. It's planned to be risk vs reward.
So they should just remove all other threads, because General discussion and Pimp Dreams aren't needed anymore.
No one follows rules anymore, guess its just fact of life now.
Guppys Fur
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Please dont go Karen, my friend.
If you think General Discussions needs content and People writing there, it would be a good idea to go there and contribute to keeping it alive.
I see a lot of ever-lasting Discussions on here, who are in turn in 83% based on a Fact the Devs brought up.
On a Sidenote: You do realize that you do the very thing you critized in the first place right now?
Vintorez
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Have you guys considered trying to implement "dumb" filler zombie spawns? Basically enemies that have more basic AI and internal mechanics that make them viable to spawn in larger numbers to fill out the world.
I was browsing mods for Rimworld, a game that starts to chug even with just a few dozen colonists/creatures in play, and somebody made a mod called Zombieland that uses very simplified bare-bones entities that can be spawned in the hundreds with little performance impact. Wondered if something similar could be done for 7 days for those who want the zombies to have more of a presence in the day-to-day play.
Could be like desecrated zombies whose bodies are barely functional anymore. Low health, little to no xp value, basic pathing to approach the player and attack when in range, weak senses make them easy to stealth past and aren't too much of a nuisance to bases. Could give the game a whole new feel between horde nights and POI looting.
I was browsing mods for Rimworld, a game that starts to chug even with just a few dozen colonists/creatures in play, and somebody made a mod called Zombieland that uses very simplified bare-bones entities that can be spawned in the hundreds with little performance impact. Wondered if something similar could be done for 7 days for those who want the zombies to have more of a presence in the day-to-day play.
Could be like desecrated zombies whose bodies are barely functional anymore. Low health, little to no xp value, basic pathing to approach the player and attack when in range, weak senses make them easy to stealth past and aren't too much of a nuisance to bases. Could give the game a whole new feel between horde nights and POI looting.
beHypE
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The thing is, this is the only thread that the devs read on a consistent basis. It's only natural people voice their concerns here. General Discussion isn't dead to be fair, but since no-one from the dev team ever chimes in to speak about future plans or even state they are aware of a problem, it's mostly people arguing until one of them quits.
If you only want to read the answers of the team members, then you should probably check their profiles every now and then. I used to use the dev tracker on 7d2d.rocks but it broke and never got updated ever since the forums changed.
If you only want to read the answers of the team members, then you should probably check their profiles every now and then. I used to use the dev tracker on 7d2d.rocks but it broke and never got updated ever since the forums changed.
Laz Man
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Adam the Waster
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not really.
general discussion is where you talk about "Almost" everything for 7DTD. the Pimp dreams is for ideas, the dev diary is to talk about (said alpha), and like everything, people go off topic, alot of people are guilty to that! (me especially).
where else are people suppose to put art? or Videos, or you're opinion on why Sham is tasty!
madmole
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Jarod_Silverstar
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Because the Pimps have not added copper and tin to the game yet in order to make bronze?
madmole
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We have talked about it, but what we really need to do is just optimize what is there.
Because tech 1 iron is cooler than tech 0.5 bronze.
Jay_ombie
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Copper actually used to be in. But thats my question, why did such get missed out and for us to go straight to Iron ?
Yeah I see what you mean, but with your A19 direction change it would have added that needed variety to early tools, so its not all stone stone stone stone...
Then Iron as it is now comes in later down the line with Steel very later following.
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