Recent content by ColdSteelRain

If you want to attract screamers, you can put a bunch of torches around your base. Keep them in the same chunk for best effect, but they generate a lot of "heat", and you don't have to keep feeding them wood.

Honestly, no, I can't. Probably because I can't understand why people who are worrying about the progress of the game enough to post about it don't bother to look at the very first pinned thread on the Steam Community forums to find out. Or do a quick search on youtube. Or on these forums...

I think a zombie controlled by a player would be more challenging than the AI, and could be reasonably balanced. Maybe player zombies can sprint, and have some level of regen, but maybe a player controlled zombie is smart enough to back up and flank instead of coming straight at you. Or could...

I'm not a PvP player, but my son likes having the additional threat of other people. The couple of times we've played PvP, though, the server was so empty (I think just a couple of other people on it), we played for several hours and never saw any sign of anyone. But how about this: Allow...

Actually, yes. Don't ask me how I know...

I get your point, but keep in mind that you're only seeing the community feedback cycle, not the internal one. Another factor to consider here is that A17 is on a different version of Unity. It's entirely likely that a lot of what they've been working on can't just be copied over to the A16...

I think you missed my point. Underground bases aren't an exploit, and aren't any different than a stilt or mushroom base, or constantly running. They all use the game mechanics properly. Everyone who plays is deliberately evading the title of the game. The name may be "7 days to die", but...

...and a lot of us are OK with that. It isn't finished, but it's finished enough for me to get hundreds of hours of play out of it, which is something I can't say for most finished games I've bought.

No worries. My point was that if I don't know how many hours of work need to be done and how many people I have to do it with, I can't tell if getting finished in a year is too long or really quick. And frankly, predicting how many hours it'll take to program something is a Dark Art in itself...

I get the impression that some people cry, "exploit!" whenever they see gameplay that they don't agree with. To me, an exploit is taking advantage of a bug or cheat, like poor clipping on a FPS. Using underground/stilt/mushroom bases isn't some glitch in the code, it's the way the game works...

I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, but since you don't know how many people are working on this game, and you don't know what the feature/change list is for A17, how can you make any judgement as to if it's taking too long to develop? Everyone would like to have been playing A17 for months...

There really isn't much to see in a screen shot. For the early hordes, there's no damage to the base, and the bodies are easy to loot and clean up between waves, so by the time the BM is done, there's hardly any time spent in repair or cleanup.

If that were in a desktop machine, you should be able to run at high to ultra settings, but you can still expect stuttering and slowdowns when you enter a large city or when a horde spawns. Generally speaking, those are good specs for a gaming laptop. On a laptop, you have to be careful with...

I think you could lock threads with no new posts in the last 30 days and be fine. The info is still there and searchable, you can link to it, and it doesn't risk any errors from missing records in the database. This should be something simple to implement as a scheduled database task, even if...

Tried this using flagstone plates, and the zeds were only able to hit the blocks from below, so hardly any damage at all. The spiders and dogs will crawl underneath, so the inverted spikes are really handy.