Console [07/11] - Message from the Team - Progress update

You guys didn't understand me. I'm not saying it's a bad product, just saying: why the main focus is PC? You're selling a product for a lot of platforms, you must compromise to keep it with the same quality among every platform without priorizing one above others because you're earning money from every side.
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My post wasn’t specifically aimed at you, although it is stated on the forum in many places (including this thread) how the developers work on the game and how different platforms are updated 🙂

 
We get less news than we used to probably due to the fact every time Clare posts she’s flooded with trolls and complainers. Everyone else don’t bite to them, let them post what they want and ignore it!
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Even if this was meant in jest, I want to make sure players know this is not true. There is no sense in me withholding information from the community simply because of trolls or players who may not be happy with the information. All news is posted as soon as it comes to me, not everyone will be happy, and that's ok, I don't expect to be able to please everyone.

In the past news usually game in two chunks - notes once the patch was in submission with Sony and MS, and once after approval with an estimated release date. I believe the only time this might have been different was for the run up to the large summer updates.

The reason it may seem like less news is there's a much larger gap between this update and the last ones (they were on average about 1 month apart), this update is different in that it contains the upgrade to Unity 2017. This is the first update where details on progress has been shared, and it is shared as fast as my fingers can type and format a post :)

Hope that clears a few bits up.

Also a reminder if you see a post that doesn't adhere to forum rules or looks to be trying to start a flame war, please alert the mods and let them investigate.

 
Unfortunately you can't make everybody be happy. I never forget to remind everyone that new zombies are the most important content in my opinion because it brings back tower defense into the game after it became a joke due to the dynamic horde bull****.

But if you want this, an engine upgrade, better performance, new items, blocks, better AI and anything else at once you have to wait longer or you must be able to miss some of those things if you want to get the update sooner.

Some cry babies don't understand market economy, that things which are meant to be ported have to be mass tested first on the PC. After all 7DTD is a product, not a present. As long as many of us paid about 20$/€ in average more game copies need to be sold to cover all the costs. But as long as the PC is the main platform the PC versions needs to be sold as much as possible before content is tested entirely and ready to be ported.

Besides this there are hardware limits on consoles which make optimization work necessary and this also takes time and money - but the updates have all been for free.

 
Even if this was meant in jest, I want to make sure players know this is not true. There is no sense in me withholding information from the community simply because of trolls or players who may not be happy with the information. All news is posted as soon as it comes to me, not everyone will be happy, and that's ok, I don't expect to be able to please everyone.
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Just to confirm this was in jest.... you are brilliant at sharing the news as soon as you get it my point was you are not going to reply to every rant and rave on here and trying to do so would be futile!

Just trying (probably in vain) to covey it’s pointless ranting demanding refunds and generally complaining without point.

This is a great game and I along with many others really appreciate the work you and the rest of the mods do to genuinely help people as much as you can and keep us all up to date with any news you can, the community here adds tenfold to the enjoyment of the game.

I cannot wait for the next update and hope it solves the problems people are having, as well as the great new features I’m sure it will contain...

Sorry if I didn’t convey my message properly especially if anyone took offence to what I put

Ten blueberry pies for Clare!

Bring on the hype train 🚂 x

 
Just to confirm this was in jest.... you are brilliant at sharing the news as soon as you get it my point was you are not going to reply to every rant and rave on here and trying to do so would be futile!
Just trying (probably in vain) to covey it’s pointless ranting demanding refunds and generally complaining without point.

This is a great game and I along with many others really appreciate the work you and the rest of the mods do to genuinely help people as much as you can and keep us all up to date with any news you can, the community here adds tenfold to the enjoyment of the game.

I cannot wait for the next update and hope it solves the problems people are having, as well as the great new features I’m sure it will contain...

Sorry if I didn’t convey my message properly especially if anyone took offence to what I put

Ten blueberry pies for Clare!

Bring on the hype train 🚂 x
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How cool it would be if there was a real train in the game. A railway through navezgane to get from place A to place B quickly.

 
Be ready.

How cool it would be if there was a real train in the game. A railway through navezgane to get from place A to place B quickly.
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I am fairly certain it would not be making stops better be ready to jump and not miss.

 
How cool it would be if there was a real train in the game. A railway through navezgane to get from place A to place B quickly.
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Have a mounted gatling gun or mounted .50 caliber somewhere on the train as well. How much fun would that be? They could run the train through that small town in the desert and you could roll by, shooting the town & zombies all to hell. Oh what fun.....

 
Have a mounted gatling gun or mounted .50 caliber somewhere on the train as well. How much fun would that be? They could run the train through that small town in the desert and you could roll by, shooting the town & zombies all to hell. Oh what fun.....
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I think it should be possible to have turrets which need to be built of several parts. Place a stand and some additional parts like you do with the minibike. You can shoot 9mm bullets with it which deal 50% bonus damage.

A train would be even cooler of course but this is hard to design and implement. But everybody who played Far Cry 2 and remembers the world map should know how it could look like. Red Dead Redemption is an even better example.

 
How cool it would be if there was a real train in the game. A railway through navezgane to get from place A to place B quickly.
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Just to let you know:

It's been suggested and has some visible player support. At the moment there is no indication that trains are or ever will be part of 7dtD. What we should get - in addition to the mini-bike: a pedal bike, a heavy motorcycle and a jeep. Rafts/boats may or may not be in the future. Some interest was expressed but it doesn't seem it's a priority. Theres been gyrocopter talk too.

there's been talk about modding in trains, but I understood modding in vehicles is really hard. Think only a horse was succesfully implemented by a modder. Trains (+tracks) would be way more complicated I think.

 
Just to let you know:
It's been suggested and has some visible player support. At the moment there is no indication that trains are or ever will be part of 7dtD. What we should get - in addition to the mini-bike: a pedal bike, a heavy motorcycle and a jeep. Rafts/boats may or may not be in the future. Some interest was expressed but it doesn't seem it's a priority. Theres been gyrocopter talk too.

there's been talk about modding in trains, but I understood modding in vehicles is really hard. Think only a horse was succesfully implemented by a modder. Trains (+tracks) would be way more complicated I think.
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Yes, like I have already said it would be very hard to implement. The only way to get that working easily is as follows:

There are several train stops all over the map with small houses which can be entered (for example) from 4 pm to 5 pm (like the trader outposts). When you are inside you have to pay a few tokens and select another train stop on a world map which is pinned on the wall.

After doing that and as soon as it is 5 pm you hear a choo-choo-sound and get teleported to a selected train stop anywhere else on the map. Depending on how far away the other train stop is a certain amount of time has passed by. Not realistic, but much easier to implement.

And of course railway tracks you can't build close to are necessary.

 
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madmole has commented on the trains before. At the time it was said that it wouldn't be possible due to the way the landscape and blocks work.

 
madmole has commented on the trains before. At the time it was said that it wouldn't be possible due to the way the landscape and blocks work.
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Maybe it is a possible thing in the future if they could get it to work anyway but I would never expect this on consoles. Even electricity is not a sure feature.

 
Good luck with trains at the moment it's almost been a month since we got any kind of info about patch 14 it would be nice to something back about it

 
Just to confirm this was in jest.... you are brilliant at sharing the news as soon as you get it my point was you are not going to reply to every rant and rave on here and trying to do so would be futile!
Just trying (probably in vain) to covey it’s pointless ranting demanding refunds and generally complaining without point.

This is a great game and I along with many others really appreciate the work you and the rest of the mods do to genuinely help people as much as you can and keep us all up to date with any news you can, the community here adds tenfold to the enjoyment of the game.

I cannot wait for the next update and hope it solves the problems people are having, as well as the great new features I’m sure it will contain...

Sorry if I didn’t convey my message properly especially if anyone took offence to what I put

Ten blueberry pies for Clare!

Bring on the hype train 🚂 x
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No worries, I just wanted to make sure if wasn't taken the wrong way by a player who didn't realize it was :)

 
Had my day 126 horde recently (insane, 40 minutes per day). Of course my technological standard is way too high to be challenged by the horde anymore but it was much more entertaining than usual.

6 Dogs

5 Feral Wights

6 Cops

2 Spiders

1 Hornet.

On day 133 and 140 I got less enemies for any reason but nice to see that the tough guys haven't left the game completely.

 
Had my day 126 horde recently (insane, 40 minutes per day). Of course my technological standard is way too high to be challenged by the horde anymore but it was much more entertaining than usual.
6 Dogs

5 Feral Wights

6 Cops

2 Spiders

1 Hornet.

On day 133 and 140 I got less enemies for any reason but nice to see that the tough guys haven't left the game completely.
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Day 161:

A few spiders, one dog, 8 cops and 8 feral Wights!

 
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