Recent content by Archael

If I were a Kickstarter baker, I would request some kind of reparation for defrauding my donations. But legal things aside, would be difficult (but lawyer said it's not impossible) to actually get something. Right now Devs can change some things to make game more sandboxy, to at least make a...

The sad thing is, that this pattern was already discovered and failed multiple times. Take something unique, something people loved for what it originally was. Fallout was a dark, witty, isometric RPG about choices, consequences, and survival in a cruel post-nuclear world. Star Wars was a...

This is just adorable. After all the backlash the game received, to the point that the devs even announced a “meeting hall” to backtrack on some of their decisions… I’m trying to show the actual source of frustration. Because it’s not just the jars. Recent changes have simply crossed the line...

The problem is not solely that one role should be enough. Problem is in the discrepancy of playstyles. While there are different playstyles in a game, everything boils down to looting, for parts, schematics, magazines. And with looting, traders allow for even more efficient poi clearance...

Selling? So traders? ... I have nothing more to add here

The biggest culprit are magazines, which forces players to only one playstyle - looting. It's not about combat, one can disable zombie spawns and still run tons of quests, and gather magazines just by that. Looting is only progress in the game. And as much as I agree it should be part of the...

We’re comparing playstyles — not just STR vs. INT, but “trader-focused” vs. “everything else.” The claim was that interacting with traders isn’t mandatory. Maybe technically it’s not… but as we’ve seen, a trader-focused INT build is often more effective at strength-based activities than a STR...

With books, cofeine buzz, armor set, full moded weapon, strength bonuses from mods (I lied, I put some skillpoints into miner69er and motherlode, but only those provided by increased lvl of strength, or I put two points in Strength to get one more tier... I don't remember). I was regenerating...

No, listen: This is what i gathered in less than 10minutes in default settings and spending skillpoints into intelligence, not strenght. This should never happened. using skillpoints into strenght should relate to strenght based activities, like wood harvesting, being more profitable than going...

Without magazines, and sticked with stone tools and wooden club? I doubt You can "finish" game in 1000+ days. Unless You are going to pois. But point remains. Currently game have one and only playstyle and this is a problem. Traders are not "mandatory" but are essential to game progress...

So... You are interacting with traders then? And how many magazines did you get in the meantime? How long is taking to gather stone and clay for those 500 cobblestone? Using stone tools... More than doing one quest. More than doing three quests. Bags with clay and cobblestone in POIs are much...

You haven't answered all the questions. But what you are saying is that not doing quests is crippling You. Stone axe to get 6x7k wood? Steel axe is chopping 1600 wood in one chop, stone axe needs how many? 50 chops? And all this time, You were only chopping wood. When You gather stone and clay...

1. 5 stacks tof wood to make base frames is a little extreme. 1a) How did you gather this wood? using stone axe? If not, then where did you get magazines? How many more would you get with doing quests? How much more wood would You get with better tool from quest reward/found in...

No. But not going to traders cripples your progress. It's like not interacting with mailboxes and other book delivering storages. Will it decrease your stats, or make you sick? No. But will it slow your character progression? Hell yeah. You can play without traders, but they more than doubles...

Not to mention magazines that are replenished every time a POI is reset for a quest, magazines from quest rewards, and the traders’ constantly refreshed stock. But this argument holds literally zero merit. Traders break immersion, and the devs have made them mandatory, which is the core concern...