So, faatal did
not have an AI toggle to set zombies upon prime and whoever else was playing (ork?). Or, at least, he didn't use it. Of the three playthrough dev streams so far this is the one I enjoyed the most by far. And we got shutters! Hopefully. No idea whether they are player-craftable. They would be very useful in a lot of different places where I'm presently using hatches, particularly since they come both in "inside" and "outside" orientations, whereas hatches are always "outside".
We also got to see most pipe weapons in action -- the only one still not shown (that I can recall) is the pipe pistol. Oh, and Lathan put an 8x scope on the pipe rifle and the model was just awesome. The sound effects and animations on these pipe weapons has been solid and I hope the other guns got an overhaul otherwise some of them will feel rather lacking.
And the drone! Honestly, we didn't see much more of the drone than on the show-and-tell dev stream, and it mostly served as a flying storage box but, hey, I'll take a flying storage box any time of the day, any day of the week.
Oh, and prime completed the tier 1 of the trader and the rewards looked... interesting. You gotta watch and see it!
Plus it was fun and informative. I'm in awe of Shawn's ability to play, read chat and answer questions from it all at the same time. I'm just watching the stream and I couldn't keep up with the chat as well as him!
Poll time: what was the highlight of the night?
A) Shawn ragdolling a bear with the 4x4 while the others shot at it.
B) Bobblehead Jen.
C) Shutters.
D) Pickable ladders.
E) Other: ____
One negative for me: I wish there was some tweaking done to the progression. I'm not talking about this third playthrough stream in particular, but the three of them taken together and there just seems to be something missing. It's not even that I feel something needs changing, it's just that it feels a bit stale with everything exactly as in alpha 19. (that said, I do feel Agility lacks non-combat related perks)
Oh, and one thing on the wishlist for next week,
@Prime : show us what the shape categories are. So the second one is square blocks, the third one looks to be round blocks by comparison, but what are the rest?
