Wondered this myself. They just remove stuff for no apparent reason like removing the ability to hook up POI lights to a generator or a battery. Can't even make some of the lights myself found at POI's. No wonder people love A-16.
In snow biome, i see a mountain lion or two(record was 3) every 2 minutes, and unless i bring an AK, i can't deal with them, they take like 15-25 bullets for them to die, it's like a early feral that will shred you in seconds, not to mention lumberjacks everywhere. Trying to kill a mountain lion...
1. More texture variety for builders. Currently - 170 textures is not enough. Also, clean versions of them.
2. In A16, you could wire POI lights, you can't do that anymore. Whats the point of this change?
3. Return the different types of soil. Can't make a green oasis in the middle of the...
I think the best solution is to just revert to A16 weapon parts(1-600) while keeping weapon mods too(they are awesome). I found a AK on day one, ammo is easy enough to get, just build wood blocks to POI chest... I don't even use any melee weapons and Bow/Crossbow(except the explosive...
50% performance boost!
Saw the "gfx pp enable 0" command, tried, i instantly got 50% more FPS... had like 20, now average is 30, sometimes 35-40. Make sure you try it! still far from my 60 FPS in Alpha 16...
A15 - 60 FPS 1920x1080 High, A16 - 60 FPS 1388x768 Medium, A17 - 30 FPS 1024x578 Potato. Yeah, now am playing at a year 2000 resolution because TFP don't care about performance, they just test on their High-end 5k PC's and ♥♥♥♥ everyone else.
I was at solid 60 FPS in Alpha 16. Just installed A17, after the 10 minute wait to generate the map, im greeted with lovely 15 FPS!!! not to mention the holes in the world(visual bugs). Can't even begin to imagine when horde night comes... 1 FPS max. So, this is what we waited 1 year+? yet...