Recent content by johnperkins21

Need to lower the number of enemy animal spawns on the first couple of days. I just started a new game and on my first visit to the trader, it was being guarded by a bear. I was able to run in and get a quest, but when I returned to turn in the quest, bear was still there. Tried to kill it, but...

Not a great answer, but you can mod the damage that the zombies do. That's my answer until it's balanced better. Chances are there will be a mod available that can give you more of that feeling as it's really just the damage setting keeping you from doing that.

It's also a building/crafting game, and people would like the building part of it to mean something. Most of the criticisms I see are quite fair. Zombie spawning and hearing is broken. They're waaaay overpowered, and base building is a pointless endeavor.

Like I said in another post, I think the best solution to this is to greatly reduce the amount of damage they can do to the tops of blocks. Sand and dirt they should be able to dig better than they can beat on a wood wall, but beating on wood/rock/concrete should be far more effective than...

What? I've some defensiveness from the devs, but you'd be somewhat defensive of something you worked your ass on as well. I haven't seen any critical threads get removed. This is kind of a lame way to start a post. That's what an alpha is. Throw some mechanics at the wall and see what works...

Agreed. Though now that I've modified my bacon and eggs recipe to take two meat and two eggs, I've got a good amount of food available.

I agree with the digging down thing, but only because I think the block damage done by zombies is way too high. They're dead and rotting, so it should take much, much longer for them to break an iron door or concrete blocks than it does me with a stone axe, but one zed can break down a concrete...

Yeah, I've modded a few xml files and am enjoying the experience a bit more. I'll want to keep playing with them to slightly decrease the spawn rates of sleepers, but I played for another couple of hours today with a few modifications and had a better time. Still a couple of zombies seemed to...

That's fine, and I don't think it's too difficult to deal with a bunch of them (assuming they don't spawn behind you or just outside the building and beeline to you which seems to happen), but the problem I see is that it changes the game dramatically. Instead of being a building/crafting game...

Agree with much of this, though I don't find the encumbrance thing quite as annoying and haven't found a mini-dungeon yet. I also think the perks system is a decent idea, I think it just needs some major tweaking. The other thing you didn't mention that I think is absolutely stupid is the...

In the thread HIREDGUN linked to: Per Giltirn: For the time being, casuals like myself who don't want an entire playsession ruined by a ninja dog, hit F1 and type 'debuff buffNearDeathTrauma' and it goes away. You can also modify buffs.xml in SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\7 Days To...

I just modified the SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\Data\Config\sounds.xml file to greatly reduce the range of sounds. Seemed to help quite a bit. I lowered all of the ranges to a max of 10, and most are 6 or below. That's probably a bit of overkill, but it was mainly a test. I'll...

In the patch notes it was stated that this was done to help recognize zombies that aren't "dead" yet. When knocked down before, you might think they're dead as they stay down for a while before getting back up. This hasn't really bothered me all that much, but I've only had a couple of single...

Exactly my issue. Turns it into an action game instead of a building/crafting game. Which is fine, but incredibly different from what I signed up for. Even if they don't "fix" this issue, I still got my money's worth out of the game, so I'm not mad, just kind of bummed out that they took away...

Glad I'm not the only one. Hadn't really seen this addressed anywhere else. Also, I don't want to just complain. I think the terrain generation and POIs look much better. The smarter AI is definitely noticeable and appreciated. One of the reasons this particular issue is frustrating me so much...