Recent content by zztong

Perhaps I'm not reading this question as you intended, but: Night time, Fog, Zombie facing the other way, Distance, Camouflage, Concealment. Of course moving in the open is what tends to get noticed by predators with front-facing eyes, so stealth while moving in the open in full daylight should...

I don't think there's a right and wrong way to play. I tend to look at Dukes as a means to an end. Either I need ammo or I need to eventually buy solar cells. Otherwise I take the game as it comes and don't really care about Dukes.

Perhaps some kind of future option will affect stacking, otherwise Mods would be an option for PC users. I'm probably weird in that I'd like a number of things to stack smaller, not larger, so as to force more choices about what to carry and reward planning. I wouldn't ever get to 3 chests of...

I'm probably remembering the state of things back to A20/A21 when I was learning to make POIs. Player blocks were a problem, so I learned to avoid them.

It would help if there were non-player alternatives of some player blocks. Then the export or import could perhaps translate those blocks, instead of relying on a manual effort in the Prefab Editor. For instance, look at the Blade Trap. It's a player block that needs electricity. POIs don't have...

I agree that stealth is useless during a horde night and we could come up with suggestions to make it useful. Part of me has some sympathy for a counter argument of "cooking is useless on a horde night, farming is useless on a horde night, etc." The thing is those have indirect benefits on a...

You didn't do anything wrong. The mesh and jpg files aren't strictly required, but they can be useful. The Prefab Editor can make those for a POI. My observation is that exporting something player made from a world generally gets you to a point where you can bring it into the Prefab Editor and...

I think there's a good chance it explains some of the differences in our observations. By the time I'm doing Tier 5s, I'm willing to poke holes in block walls and bullet-proof glass to spot zombies and create exits. I take out locked doors. I'm willing to rebuild stairs to avoid using a ladder...

I've done Hybrid Mining recently, probably during 2.5. It was quite stealthable, again depending on your expectations. It will certainly activate a bunch of zombies, but you can be outdoors, break contact, and then be dropping them at very long distance. That's one that I want to revisit with a...

Yes, the stealth meter is pretty responsive. If I fire the bow my stealth meter will go up. Harder to tell is if the arrow hitting the wall affects my stealth meter, to be perceived by the zombie at my distance from the zombie, or if the arrow hitting the wall is its own noise event that can be...

It's hard to quantify our experiences since we don't see the game's variables or code. What I would say is I believe being distant from things you're interacting with seems to help. That is, I think your manipulating and destroying things does affect your stealth meter (as you can visually see)...

I don't know the World Editor very well at all. What I have done is take player's bases and turn them into POIs rigged to work with RWG. Players doing this have a habit of including player-only blocks. I don't think that stops the base from being placed, but used to lead to some exceptions. I...

I hate to play 20 questions, but stealth involves a number of little details. What was the distance from players to zombies? What are the character levels? Any idea what kind of zombie volume? (Or, a POI Tier number can lead to some generalization.) What were the current stealth values...

I don't know how to feel about this. Part of me thinks most zombies should be unintentionally making a modest amount of noise just by walking around without attempting to be quiet. And, if they cross a noise block (trash, glass, etc.) it should make the same noise players make when crossing...

From my observations it certainly isn't always. I wouldn't even say it is common. A question comes to mind: are the zombies that are waking up near the target, near you, or both? Tier 5 or another tier? I'm finding Stealth is a weird thing to discuss. Folks have different expectations, but...