V2.5 Survival Revival Dev Diary

Roland said:
You do know that “Rancher” is the name for a zombie right?. You would actually rather have a zombie work a revolver than that infected bees made a hive in his undead corpse?

Not me. Let’s leave the firearms to the living bandits and keep guns away from the infected. Besides, you haven’t even played with bee swarms yet have you? 2.5 will be your 2.0 no?
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yes...I know the "rancher" is a zombie. It is that He is called "The Rancher"...he is in cowboy clothes...he has nothing that shows him to be a walking beehive...same as what he is replacing...the Egyptian looking Spitter had nothing denoting it was a walking beehive either, they spawned too often, they had cloaking technology. So honestly, It would make as much sense that he summoned a herd of ghost cows to trample you.
So, yeah, to me it would make a lot more sense that the "rancher" would shoot at you with a revolver, then spit bees in the desert, but. again, not a hill I wish to die on.

*side note: you keep assuming I never tried 2.0...I did...I didn't like it...I stopped playing 7 dtd, and have been waiting for them to fix 2.0.
2.5 looks like a big step forward...when it drops I will reinstall. I honestly don't believe that stable will drop before xmas. I hope it will, but, I doubt it. I don't know when TFP go on vacation and I don't know when the console platform approval guys go on vacation, but, the later this launches in exp...the less likely stable before xmas is.
 
meganoth said:
This sounds to me more like the relative frequency of those magazines should be fixed instead. I mean, you seem to say you have to adjust your settings so much because the balance in magazines doesn't work, right? So why not fix this first?
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Well I didn't say how many game days it takes. But you're right - There are issues both with balance between types of magazines and general magazine availability... Even with high scarcity settings.


Roland said:
I do appreciate this comment from someone who is posting critically. Here is a gamer that enjoys difficult settings and unforgiving conditions in his game and they describe the lowest darkness setting as "exceptionally dark at night". That's awesome. It tells me that the inability of some users to get a dark enough night is simply user to monitor error and that the current in game settings are what they should be if only people can figure out their brightness settings.
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Well making nights darker through gamma correction isn't as a silver bullet. It comes with the downside of day time also becoming darker as well, to the point that Nightvision gear or helmet lights ends up needed during daytime (Especially indoors) - But I like the sense of danger it introduces since it makes zombies harder to see in stealth clears.
 
HammerDano said:
have been waiting for them to fix 2.0.
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not to beat a dead horse, but 2.0 was finished ages ago. it was done even before they released 2.1. you know not to be pedantic, but if you would just stop using the '2.0' and just said fixed version 2, you would have gotten basically no pushback on that. people would have tried to convince you how great the new versions were, but no one would have latched onto the 2.0 stuff at all.

You could have said 'i'm waiting till they are done with version 2' 'i'm waiting till i see these issues resolved in version 2' and that would ahve saved you tons of fights.
 
Roland said:
To those of you who think you are eating your jars are you also eating your bowls? Are you cramming the fuel cannisters down into the fuel tanks of your cars? Are you smashing the paint cans against the walls of the base you just painted? Are you eating the wrappers of your candy and the cans of your peas?

There are so many abstractions in the game that you never worry about. Why worry about this one? What are you guys doing after you read your magazines? Stuffing them up your butts?

It's a game. You are taking things too literally.
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Toilet paper, we ran out of it and the coffee filters.
 
Hiding from the storm and seeking shelter in a building with doors is good, but what about the broken windows? Would that not add to the protection? Just curious.




JARS...JARS....JARS
 
HB_H4wk said:
Hiding from the storm and seeking shelter in a building with doors is good, but what about the broken windows? Would that not add to the protection? Just curious.




JARS...JARS....JARS
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Man there have been JARS a few times I was doing a quest, JARS and a biohazard rolled on JARS in. I made a JARS bunch of blocks and plugged every JARS hole i could fine. lol
 
■■■■, this looks like a very solid release, generally I feel very happy with the changes, what a nice Holliday gift!

For future updates, can we get a firearms update? Weapon textures are really outdated, look like from 2010, animations are stiff.

Anyhow, thank you for a massive update!!!
 
Adam the Waster said:
Now this update went from the worst imo 2.0 it had good stuff but was rough to the GOAT update

The only thing I wish we got with it was starter quest in all biomes. Cuz I would love to do a all desert run with no water sources
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Can't you just go in Advance Generation and make the Forest smaller so that all other biomes are closer and easier to get to, so that you could easily go to the Desert biome on day one or two and live there? And also choose for no lakes and rivers so you have no water sources?

Or maybe I don't get the full picture of what you mean exactly? If that's the case then please explain, thanks.
 
Space4Ace said:
Can't you just go in Advance Generation and make the Forest smaller so that all other biomes are closer and easier to get to, so that you could easily go to the Desert biome on day one or two and live there? And also choose for no lakes and rivers so you have no water sources?
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Thats what i do atm but I would like no forest at all. I wanna Role play like im in Nevada or something.

And I know about the no lakes and rivers that's what ima do im just stating my plans
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We will have to see there sandbox mode. GOD IM HYPED FOR THAT
 
Adam the Waster said:
Thats what i do atm but I would like no forest at all. I wanna Role play like im in Nevada or something.

And I know about the no lakes and rivers that's what ima do im just stating my plans
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We will have to see there sandbox mode. GOD IM HYPED FOR THAT
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I know you are on console, but if you have someone on PC host a game or use a server, you could easily have a map with only desert if you wanted. It's a simple thing to do. After you make a map with RWG (or any other way), the biome map is just a PNG image that you can edit in any image editor. Just replace all colors with the color for the desert and voila... all desert map. You'll have to work really hard to get your desert protection as soon as you start unless you turn biome hazards off, though. Once you are on PC, you can do this yourself very easily.
 
Adam the Waster said:
Thats what i do atm but I would like no forest at all. I wanna Role play like im in Nevada or something.

And I know about the no lakes and rivers that's what ima do im just stating my plans
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We will have to see there sandbox mode. GOD IM HYPED FOR THAT
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I was able to create a map in Advanced Generation with 71% Desert and 7-8% for each of the other biomes. This way, it mostly fulfils some of your demands, but it still keeps a small part of all other biomes so that the game still works as intended.

If you want all Desert, then of course you want a Sandbox mode because, you knows, Desert... Sand. 😁
 
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