Looks like 7DTD is your first and only alpha game. It's more the rule than an exception that the game does not do 180s or 360s like this one.
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Usually there's a roadmap and you already can imagine what it's going to be when it's done. Alpha doesn't mean that you buy an apple seed to see it...
Have 30k iron in your forge. Queue something for 1k iron so you have 29k left. Smelt in 1k iron so you have 30k again. Cancel the queue. Now you have 31k iron in your forge and things will become worse.
It would be cool to see a melee or armor overhaul or buff coming along with this. IMO it's always cool to get more detailed injury system but with the current gun meta on higher game stages melee seems to become even more useless if you put yourself to the risk of losing the functionalty of your...
The moment you're trying to dig out your 4x4 and all you hit is the vehicle itself because: hitboxes.
As most people like to write it like a mantra: "this game is still in alpha" and "maybe if it's gold".
You'll get 'endgame equipment' even with decreasing loot abundance far before reaching endgame gamestages. At this point it's mostly a struggle to get enough ammo - with that brass boost not that much anymore in A18, IMO.
I think it's hard to speak about a learning curve when you reach GS 200...
Sounds sobering. Vehicle update, books and eye candy. The vehicle update seems to be the major part. Maybe it's an unpopular oppinion but I need something with some inventory to get from A to B.
Yea the scale of A19 isn't set but judging the past updates I don't expect any surprises contentwise.