Recent content by Sapient6

I'd say that the new T5 pois Hybrid and Rockworks are not dungeon style POIs. Both have a more or less obvious path that you can follow in order to make sure you get everything, but both make it trivial to subvert that path and don't break if you do them differently.

To be fair, 7 days suites doesn't really offer "choice". There is a very specific path forward, that path just loops on itself after unlocking doors. It also happens to be one of my favorites T5s. It's linear, but it does a good job of hiding it. The new mining POIs, hybrid and rockworks, are...

While I'm wishing for ponies: they should also drop ammo appropriate for the weapon they drop. I think concerns about ammo overabundance from bandits dropping ammo ought to be mitigated by the player feeling the need to use firearms to deal with the bandits. Or to put it another way, bandits...

I like this approach. That, or: the bandits are equipped (and drop) according to loot stage, but only quality 1, and always 1 or 2 tiers lower than loot stage leans toward. So they eventually drop better than pipe, and if that's exciting for you then it's because you've fallen solidly behind...

Can go back quite a bit further than that. Was a solid strategy for dealing with some levels in the original Doom.

It's working in 2.2. Pyro Paints didn't require an update for 2.x, but the OCB library it depends on did.

I kind of hope it is, but not in the way you mean. I hope that firefights with bandits draw zombies, and that zombies and bandits are just as likely to attack each other as they are the player. Having a wave of zombies run right past you because they're all about those noisy bandits over yonder...

Playing solo, which is what I'm doing lately (my game buddy is taking a break from 7days), I don't give gas much thought. Between scavenging and looting I get enough gas to never have to directly consider how to get more. I'll refill my vehicle when I get back to base and put the rest into...

I see this claim from time to time, but it's not really true. Being "introduced" to traders is linear, but you don't need to be introduced to them. They work just fine without taking or completing those "trade route" missions and can be done in any order. 2.0 broke that by locking biome...

A set each of light / med / heavy armor that have no piece or set bonuses, but offer superior stats to their "magical" counterparts would be interesting.

I like this idea, but it doesn't strike me as one that works for 7d2d. By the time I'm in late tier items I'm using the gyroplane, so a road-aware GPS would be unlikely to see any use.

Yeah. When it comes right down to it, Swords and Sorcery is Science Fiction. One could say that Star Wars is a good example of that, but I think the best example is Dragonriders of Pern.

I think the two are meant to be intertwined: limit early glue and force an early game decision of "do I make glue or drinks". But I don't know that this is a survival problem that can be introduced to the game in a meaningful way without making it "too hard" for new players. From time to time I...

It can understandably be interpreted that way, but I like that type of mechanic and the silliness of the implementation didn't bother me at all. Hell, from my point of view the head explosions are a silly implementation. It is funny every time. Especially the continuing hiss of blood spurting...

Not true. There are more play loops than just "mining 24\7" and "do quests". One could do the insanely boring "just run up and down every street looting every mailbox". That works pretty well, but... insanely boring. If I'm looking for magazines, though, I like to mix it with a scavenging run...