You could also argue that the majority of players are not loud and are quietly enjoying the game the Fun Pimps are in the process of making. A quick reading of the Steam charts indicates that something like 50,000 people play each day, through Steam alone. You are but a drop in the bucket (or jar).
I've reworked the biome challenges for Wasteland. Each one has 9 with various things to be done. Was 8, but I did add the survival gear challenge for each biome that 2.3 added as it makes sense. The final challenge for each was surviving a bloodmoon in each biome.
But farmplots are basically large wooden jars....
I could see that I guess. Maybe have the effects drain your food and water as well as your health. Would be more of a deterrent early game when you don't have the resources to heal/eat/drink constantly.
I never claimed AI or pathing is the primary problem, as someone mentioned before the issue largely stems from collision tests, I also looked and profiled the code, there seems to be collision tests happening every frame which should not be the case. Also rendering didn't exactly show up when I was profiling it, the animations do contribute a bit but if I look away so that no zombies are visible the impact is rather small. I mean you guys have the same tools as I have to profile the code, in this case the built-in Unity profiler, for me it is much harder to change the code to improve than it is for you, it kinda sucks actually if I had to do this either via Harmony or directly patch it in the binary, there is plenty to optimize.
I would have not gotten that from "boundaries, purpose and a good sense of humor".
I am sure I probably moved most (if not all) of it over to cd's and then to dvd's as storage changed. I don't think I would have just left it on floppies as my only back up.
No, we are just mostly a bunch of autists (I don't mean to assume, but I'm kinda getting those vibes reading some of this dialog) that are incredibly bothered with VERY unwelcome change. We make up a really large portion of the people that buy sandboxes. I also want jars back, as well as LBD, my rooftop farm to actually grow, 2-3 layered clothing to come back (I know that will probably need to be a mod), and proper weather effects again; I miss going out in a thunder storm and freezing to death... but getting rid of the stupid linear biome ■■■■ was defiantly a step in the right direction
Well, that's why we say "on case of <insert hazard here> shelter in place" or "find shelter".
Also that 50K is NOT the same people every other day, so the actual total of different people playing the game say, after a week, could mean that three times that number of different people have been playing (maybe more).
Nah, I doubt it. With about 40k players on average lately, I find it hard to believe >20k are unhappy with the game. I believe it is a vocal minority of long-time players who are emotionally invested in how the game used to be. They tend to dominate discussions here on the forum because this is where long-timers hang out and because those who are not happy almost makes more noise.
well yeah we were sold a survival sandbox; that seems to be less of either of those words with every passing update you expect nobody to complain about that?
These very patch notes are changes players asked for to make the game feel more sandbox so I am not sure why you are complaining still.
wait wait... you might be into something here.
It's way more than that. Steamcharts refreshes every 60 minutes I believe. Yesterday's peak was 49K at 8am. I played in the evening for a couple of hours when the number was around 31K. Very few people are playing in 24 hour sessions so even on a daily basis the range of 30K to 50K actually represents hundreds of thousands of people playing daily. And that is just on Steam and doesn't even count Playstation or Xbox.
Personally I would love to sit with a dev and play a old version with them too see there reaction.
But alot of people aren't on just the forums
For the storms that makes sense. But the biome hazards used for biome progression seem almost pointless if buildings completely protect you from them. If the air in the burnt forest is too smokey to breath till you get the survival gear, hiding in a building shouldn't save you. Most buildings have no power and usually holes in the walls. Same in the wasteland, being in a building saves you from radiation? Makes no sense to me.
weirdest resume/job application I've read let us know if you get the job lol