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A16 - Tin'sMod: The Dying Lands.
- Thread starter Tin
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Initial thoughts after a couple hours of play:
-The Zs seem too quiet. I walked out of my day one campsite and was mobbed by 3 of em that I couldn't hear coming.
-Their sight range is ridiculous when combined with them all running. Once one zeroes in on you it seems impossible to escape.
-I like that you can get infighting going (I'm assuming you did that anyway), I had two zombies fighting, then saw a zombie fight a boar.
-I like the increased animal spawns, I almost never find animals in vanilla.
-The world gen looks cool, you should make that a separate mod.
-I can't see my own feet and my own movement sounds seem to be half-missing (as in half of the sound seem silent, might be imagining that).
-I do not like the lack of looting on the corpses, it just feels off. It looks like the loot goes straight into your inventory (how else would have I picked up that rifle), but there's no indication that I noticed on the HUD.
I'll try a few more days in-game, but I'm on the fence on whether I like this or not.
-The Zs seem too quiet. I walked out of my day one campsite and was mobbed by 3 of em that I couldn't hear coming.
-Their sight range is ridiculous when combined with them all running. Once one zeroes in on you it seems impossible to escape.
-I like that you can get infighting going (I'm assuming you did that anyway), I had two zombies fighting, then saw a zombie fight a boar.
-I like the increased animal spawns, I almost never find animals in vanilla.
-The world gen looks cool, you should make that a separate mod.
-I can't see my own feet and my own movement sounds seem to be half-missing (as in half of the sound seem silent, might be imagining that).
-I do not like the lack of looting on the corpses, it just feels off. It looks like the loot goes straight into your inventory (how else would have I picked up that rifle), but there's no indication that I noticed on the HUD.
I'll try a few more days in-game, but I'm on the fence on whether I like this or not.
The grey ones that you find in the biomes I call ghouls and are more stealthy than the vanilla zombies and yep I made them fight zeds and vice versa.
The sight range of zeds is higher on purpose in this mod is for those that like fighting a lot plus it also helps to boost skill gain
The increased animals are so you can have food more readily available so you can heal yourself since everything is a lot more aggressive and you tend to get hit more often.
Thanks! Maybe I should just have a world gen mod
As for not being able to see your feet I can't do anything about since that's a vanilla thing.
The initial lack of loot on the zeds is to promote looting in pois more so than relying on the bodies to give you everything but as you harvesting skills get better you'll start gaining more loot from them.
So getting better at using knives and a better quality = more and better loot. Eventually you can get everything the zed is wearing and depending on the zed books! Plus as you get better you'll be able 1shot the goreblocks and it becomes faster over all.
Yeah, it's definitely not a mod for everyone and just provides a different feel to the game. So whether you end up liking it or not, Thanks for trying it.
Edit: OH! and one of the reasons I went with the looting the goreblocks like that is because it's less demanding on system resources and i can get more zeds in the game without it crushing ppl rigs
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69WithAzombie
Refugee
Hello forgive me if this is a silly question but can someone give me advice on if this mod would work well with the combo pack mod? Also if so is there any editing or things I need to do to make them work well together? The more detail the better, thanks!!
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?28057-Compo-Pack-for-Random-Gen
forgive me if this is a silly question but can someone give me advice on if this mod would work well with the combo pack mod? Also if so is there any editing or things I need to do to make them work well together? The more detail the better, thanks!!https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?28057-Compo-Pack-for-Random-Gen
Kinda hard to say but if you're just looking to add the compo pack pois to the mod then:Hello
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?28057-Compo-Pack-for-Random-Gen
Merger the prefab folders together.
1) Copy everything from the compo pack prefab folder into TDL prefab folder.
2) Then go about adding those specific compo pack prefabs into TDL prefab list.
3) Go through all the compo pack prefabs in the prefab folder and make sure the sleepervolumes groups match with TDL.
Compo pack has a unique way of adding prefabs to the wilderness but I would just place all of those in TDL wilderness list.
Make sure you give all the prefabs a max_count="#" value from the compo pack (which I think most have them anyhow). This is just making sure you limit how many prefabs are going to be in the hub and will provide a better variety.
That's the easiest way I can think of going about this.
.. And it's not a silly question and it should work just fine with the mod since it's just adding prefabs
69WithAzombie
Refugee
Thank you Tim but I don't think I would be able to to that 100% correctly! Honestly would be down to paypal someone to do it correctly SO I don't end up messing it up and wasting time on a playthrough. Message me if anyone is interested! Thx!
69WithAzombie
Refugee
Also tim, how would I go about using just your landscape/city improvements? Your mod is cool but being chased non stop right when you start the game gets a little too challenging. I usually play at 6 difficulty but this is like a whole new level lol
Here's the easy way to survive:
Don't go out of the starting zone in the beginning and you'll be safe till noon game time.
Do all the tutorial quest.
Make about 10 wooden spikes before setting out, ton's of wood you can gather in my world so you should never want for wood
Wooden spikes are your best friend in the beginning and even later in the game as they do high damage quickly.
*Wooden spikes are your best weapon* They do high damage AND slow the zeds n ghouls.
Have a lot of ghouls on you?
If you see an animal, run towards it till the ghouls sniff them out and go after them instead.
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Run towards a poi and let the zeds and ghouls fight it out and then pick off the winners
Have a lot of Zeds on you?
While they won't fight another zed, they will damage each other because they like to swing at everything so round them up in a group.
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Gather a couple ghouls from the area to assist you.
Once you clear out an area:
Take some time to gather resources before moving on. Make more wooden spikes
Don't enter a town/city till you're ready.
Work from the outside in, one poi at a time. This will limit the amount of oops! accidental sleeper triggers of other zeds from other poi's.
Did I say Always have wooden spikes on you and use them?! xD
Eventually, You'll get to the point that you'll actively go find ghouls just to conquer clearing out a poi in no time!
There really is no easy way to unravel this mod. Well, it's not hard just tedious and time consuming. I have modified just about every area and most of those areas require multiple files in order to just get the world to function. srry I also just don't have the extra time without it taking days atm and by the time I get something out who knows when A17 will drop.
A17 is going to break every mod.. At least from what I understand from all the tid bits/videos/posts that have been given from MM, Kinyajuu, Gazz, Fataal and so on.
So all I can give you, is tips, on how to survive in this world.
