Recent content by GrumpyGringo

Change your settings to sprint during the day and walk at night. Daytime becomes almost exclusively base building/hunting and you raid POI's at night with torches. Its the most fun I've had with the game probably ever. The mining helmet is overrated. I don't even look for one anymore. Although...

We have seen some performance gains with B221 from the previous build. But I think we are still seeing the big performance hits when we enter POI's. Lighting still seems to contribute to fps drops too. On the upside, when we are in a big fight outside with a bunch of zeds, it runs pretty...

I like this idea. Maybe the leveling could be in stages, rather than skill trees. But the skill trees still exist, so you can still climb the trees independently to specialize. So "stone age" is lvl 1 - 30? As you climb, the stone age stuff unlocks at the bottom of the trees. The forge is...

Want! Having torch timers with this play style would be epic. Having zeds drop from attics and falling though floors during the day is pretty spooky. Running the dungeon POIs at night with a 5 min torch is a whole new level of spooky. Ban the mining helm and gun flashlights! Or put 5 min...

I like the current system, but I'm not against books that could maybe drop an extra point here or there, or maybe unlock something thats gated. Just make the book drops very rare. Or add libraries to the traders and make the good ones rare. With some of the stuff that's gated, it feels very...

Currently playing with all the different settings. I've always wanted a way to tweak walk/run for day/night. We've been playing stock for so long, changing any of this would change the entire mood of the game. Our current settings: - Walk at night - Sprint during day (run/jog seems to make...

Random blood moon added as a toggle choice like walk/run would be awesome 😁

We are playing with everything on stock except drop backpack on death and 200% loot and I have yet to find any vehicle parts. I'm finding hundreds of arrows and lots of food, but nothing game breaking or too easy. We sold our extra food and extra arrows and barely had enough dukes to buy an anvil.

I love how the pimps have built the game around stats. Its all just numbers and percentages, buffs, ect. This is all pretty easy to change in the xml to suit your tastes. If you think the Z's do too much block damage, its not hard to change I'm sure. I thought a cool feature would be block...

I like meele alot now too. In previous alphas, I refused to melee unless it was absolutely necessary. Now I can drop multiple zeds with a knife no problem. I only pull out my bow if I'm getting surrounded and I need to pop a few in the knee so they can become stumbling skyrim zeds.

I am curious about what may be causing this? For us, the results are completely opposite. The current build runs very well for us compared to the last 2 builds. The only thing that takes along time is the first time random world generation. I'm running an older i7 with a 1060 and I'm getting 60...

Agreed. The gun parts setup was redundant. Ended up with piles of unusable gunparts in chests and was wondering to myself what @$$() was going around the apocalypse and taking all the guns apart like the biggest troll of all time.

Just listing some fun observations of Alpha 17. I'm running a local game with 200% loot and cheat mode. (I only used cheats to give myself a motorcycle, some crappy clothes, a handgun, maybe 20 rounds and a knife. I didn't even give myself a cooking pot. My wife won't play without cheats, she...

Good to know. I still get a slowdown when the chunks load too but I think we're use to that now. Its always done that on the previous alphas. With both mine and the wives systems we both have the i7 2600. I have a 1060 and she has a 960. Our systems are very similar so I wonder if it has...

I have a microstutter with b199 that is reoccurring around a minute apart. You could set a timer to it. I've been playing with the graphics settings to try and get rid of it, but haven't tracked it down yet. So far both mine and the wife's system seems to do it. Does anyone else have the...