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Adam the Waster
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MechanicalLens
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The Civillian said:
I'm pretty sure madmole said a while back that the apparel helmet mods (cowboy hat, baseball cap, etc.) will be removed in A21 once the outfits are introduced.
Fanatical_Meat
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I found a bug too!
You have an awfully wrong shaped body if when looking down you only see the wrist to fingers of your hands. Perspective makes it seem like you eyes are in your chest.
come on man
Blake_
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That's to be expected, I mean making such a random pile of rubble seamless would be tough . Tweaking the placement is the easiest way to avoid the clipping.
Call me crazy but .. wouldn't it be way more resource efficient (for artists) to make a couple basic zombie models based off the player model (naked or with underwear) and dress them in randomly generated vanilla cloths that already work on player models and that already exist in the game? That would give much more randomization.
Jost Amman
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Not a mod, a feature of Unity. TFP were working with it some years ago to do exactly what you're describing, it was even in a few public builds IIRC. It turned out to be super-inefficient and a big resource hog, unfortunately, something to do with how the engine is written (that is, Unity has to fix it. And not a quick fix either.)
MechanicalLens
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Oh my god you're right! This is awful, an absolute tragedy! Completely unacceptable and immersion breaking, look at it! How was this overlooked?! Nope, they've gotta redesign this entire deco piece. It has to be redone from the ground up.
:heh: 
Laz Man
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Looks perfectly normal to me?
IzPrebuilt
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Games are meant to in some way challenge you. Meaning that if something is mechanically difficult (pressing the correct key while under pressure) then it creates a skill division between people who can keep their calm and press the right keys and the people who can't. Which is player skill progression where you learn to not panic and stay cool. they shouldn't remove a feature just because it depends on an IRL skill. Panicking is a real thing you have to contend with in games (and in real life lol) where you die quickly. If the pressure of the game is really SOOOO crushing that you just start punching the left side of your keyboard whenever you see a zombie moving towards you then I would like to point out that you can re-map almost every key in the game and move the keys away from each other.FranticDan said:
bachgaman
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Sure, but there is also the thing that you might not be aware whether you are crouched or not. You can argue about both being about skill. But also those are very artificial skills because in reality you always know if you are crouched or not and you never need to press specific keys to stand up.
I hit the wrong keys from time to time even when I'm not under pressure and it is the question whether that should be an important skill check in the game.
A disadvantage of the proposed change though is that running while being stealthed is probably a much used mode while traversing medium distances in POIs.
I would propose a more conspicuous display of stealth mode. My main problem with all those icons on the lower left side (including the very important health and stamina bars) is that I can't keep them in view and 4-5 years of "training" has not improved the situation one bit. My dream would be that stealth mode paints a timeline display showing your noise over time directly above the toolbelt. Hard to miss and shows the most critical information to a stealther.
