PC V3.0 Dead Hot Summer Dev Diary

[Grandpa Minion]

You’re holding me to a post I made 10 years ago?

i think its more of the fact you begged the pvp community not to go play rust or counterstrike, than turned your back on pvp players, where im from thats called alot of things.

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i think its more of the fact you begged the pvp community not to go play rust or counterstrike, than turned your back on the pvp community, where im from thats called alot of things.

 

[theFlu]

i think its more of the fact you begged the pvp community not to go play rust or counterstrike, than turned your back on pvp players, where im from thats called alot of things.

That's called a complete misread of what's being said. The part you highlight there is part of "please don't turn this into a fight over whether this game is fit for pvp" .. nothing to do with "asking people to stay in this game, instead of Rust", everything to do with "asking people not to start a pointless flame war on the forum".

 

[Roland]

i think its more of the fact you begged the pvp community not to go play rust or counterstrike, than turned your back on pvp players, where im from thats called alot of things.
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That’s not what I was doing. I was setting rules for discussion because one of the common tactics of anti-PVP forum members whenever discussions came up 10 years ago was to tell PVP players “to go away and play Rust”. I wanted the discussion to stay on topic and not devolve into such unproductive posts. In no way was I begging for people to stay with this game.

Next spin?

 

[JohnnyD]

i think its more of the fact you begged the pvp community not to go play rust or counterstrike, than turned your back on pvp players, where im from thats called alot of things.
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bro just go play Rust or Minecraft at this point. It is more suited to PVP than 7DTD.

 

[Ostentatio]

If bandits could yoink your vehicles if you leave them unlocked, that would be a comical prank to follow up on the place-vehicles-unlocked change. Realism!
If bandits could pillage your drone storage if you forgot you told it to wait somewhere a la new-DOOM upgrade drones, that'd be unpleasantly entertaining. Same for vehicle storage, too, if it's unlocked as above.
If bandits could raid your campfire (or base storages) and steal your food like a significant other with an unattended plate, that'd be fine, too. Make locking things a factor?
If bandits could go in the in-game chat and apply insults about my gameplay and/or mother in the middle of a fight, that'd be amusing - probably moreso than if they just had mocking voicelines, because it's easy to miss audio as things are happening. (Possible AI intertwining for unique chat insults?)
If I spot a bandit with a rocket launcher within eyesight of my pure, innocent puppy of a base, I rather think I should feel a twinge of panic about whether he's loaded with frag or HE rockets, because there's a bit more at stake in 7DtD than if I saw a schmoe with a Fat Man in Fallout.

Certainly, these are things that could easily happen in a PvP environment - but just because I might enjoy something that vaguely emulates people, that doesn't mean I want to actually deal with people. A NPC bandit is vastly less likely to hold a petty grudge than YOLORizzomancerbarelyevenknowher443, and giving character to things is rarely ever a downside.

inb4 'AI vaguely emulates people'

 

[HammerDano]

Hey TFP...maybe now would be a good time to put out that updated road map Joel said you would...back in December.

 

[SnowDog1942]

Honest question. Why do people who dont like this game spend time posting on the forums. Cant they just play a game they like or join another forum of something they like?

There are many games I dont like, I simply dont play them or post on their forums.

 

[HammerDano]

Honest question. Why do people who dont like this game spend time posting on the forums. Cant they just play a game they like or join another forum of something they like?

There are many games I dont like, I simply dont play them or post on their forums.

where are the people who don't like the game? or do you take complaints to mean people don't like the game?

I don't know if that was meant as a general statement or an indirect comment at me...or if you just genuinely don't understand the difference between not liking the management vs not liking the game?

care to clarify?

 

[Adam the Waster]

Honest question. Why do people who dont like this game spend time posting on the forums. Cant they just play a game they like or join another forum of something they like?

There are many games I dont like, I simply dont play them or post on their forums.

Because people wanna complain but some do it out of love

 

[bdubyah]

Because people wanna complain but some do it out of love

But mostly to complain.

 

[Adam the Waster]

But mostly to complain.

mine is out of love

 

[HammerDano]

Part of the community has been unhappy with us working on RPG elements (which broke and sometimes causes the removal of systems like smell and weather) so we brought back a lot of much needed survival elements. That said, me and 1-2 programmers can knock out the new gun and skill system while 98 other pimps work on bandits first, then story last. Not everyone works on one feature, so just because I say we're doing this or that doesn't mean the bandit progress meter flatlines or goes back to zero. Bandits are required for the main story, so they will come in a couple phases, then the story after that.

We are working on bandits and will start previewing some stuff real soon. We'll announce an updated roadmap too. I think we might even start putting previews of what's coming in the news launcher so anyone playing the game will know everything that's coming without getting on social media.

So...are we going to see some of that Bandit preview "stuff" soon?

or just more silence?

You have several outlets to communicate on but seemingly default to silent mode when you just don't want to answer questions or to answer for your own words or actions.

 

[Roland]

So...are we going to see some of that Bandit preview "stuff" soon?

or just more silence?

You have several outlets to communicate on but seemingly default to silent mode when you just don't want to answer questions or to answer for your own words or actions.

Since you answered his post from December 2025 today, maybe he’ll answers yours in February of 2027.

Maybe….

 

[beerfly]

Since you answered his post from December 2025 today, maybe he’ll answers yours in February of 2027.

Maybe….

Don`t tell him about A15

 

[HammerDano]

Since you answered his post from December 2025 today, maybe he’ll answers yours in February of 2027.

Maybe….

You know ■■■■ well I keep reposting his response from then. It's not asking "too much" for them to follow thru on their own words.

I must admit You and Grandpa are why I am going to keep on doing it.

Once apon a time this game did have PVP...it still has achievements for PVP. Then, for reason of their own, they changed their scope, and PVP went by the way side. Did they ever come right out and say that? or did they just ignore it for years and act like everyone should have figured it out on their own?

 

[Professor-Pip]

mine is out of love

Yeah, but you probably have an equal amount of complaints vs praise posts. You clearly enjoy the game but would like it to change in the direction you prefer. Other people seem to post only complaints. Often big walls of text to justify why their way is the only way the game should be and if anyone disagrees then out comes the insults and name-calling. Those are the people I don't understand.