PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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bitmapman
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You're right that the max stamina bar lets you know when you're starting to incur hunger penalties, but I didn't know that as a newbie. I had to google it to understand where my stamina was going, and that I had to check a menu to see my hunger and thirst. Also, you don't know about thirst penalties until it's already kicking in at 75 or whenever the icon appears, meaning you have to keep checking the menu if you want to keep yourself topped off and avoid penalties. They could just put a couple numbers/bars in the corner of your hud under your health/stam bars or something, and immediately all becomes clear and many button presses are saved.
While they're at it, I'd like some kind of indicator to let me know I'm feeling warm/cold before I become hot/cold enough to start incurring penalties. It doesn't have to be the actual temperature, since obviously you don't have the weather channel or a proper thermometer to tell you the exact temp. Instead, it could just be your impression of the temperature, maybe even just a color coded word, like warm -> hot -> sweltering going from yellow -> orange -> red, and then cool -> cold -> freezing going from light blue -> dark blue -> purple or something like that. That way you can see if you're feeling warm or cool before you get so hot or cold that you're taking penalties, giving you the opportunity to do something about it before it's a problem, like changing clothes, drinking coffee, or just leaving the area if it's going to be an issue.
Maybe I'm just an optimizer, though. I like to be able to avoid penalties from things like hunger/thirst/temperature as much as possible, so I'd really like to have an easy way to know about it before it becomes a problem. It's not like the game doesn't provide this information to you already, I just wish it were easier to see instead of requiring you to stop what you're doing and look at a menu.
I know I can just install a mod, it just seems like an odd choice to me to not make this kind of info readily available in a survival game is all.
Take a look at this screenshot: https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1059/images/288/288-1552776709-1828068334.jpeg
There. Simple, easy to read, available on the HUD so you know it's important to keep an eye on, and it only very slightly increases the size of the hud. I would prefer if the temperature were replaced with your character's impression of the temperature instead of the exact number, but the point remains.
I'll be using this mod, so my problem is solved, but I felt it was worthwhile to make it known that this was a little confusing to a newbie like me.
I'll stop harping on it now, thanks for any consideration this receives.
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madmole
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I've yet to use electricity yet. I have done some crazy stuff in Fallout and some basic stuff in MC, so we'll see how it plays out. I might have some polish or changes I want (which happens a lot) once I wrap my mind around something. This is why I feel 18 is so good, I've been playing it for months and tweaking stuff and giving guys improvement tasks.Yeah... but I do genuinly think that you tried your best to salvage it. And hearing how this was another guys doing (for the most part), gives me enough hope to change my review. And it is really really nice to hear.
Now all we need is a electric "grid" system. Where you can connect multiple in and outputs to add up to one bigger grid.
Because not beeing able to make a nice electric fence square, or not beeing able to power a drawbridge from two seperate cameras (how is one camera supposed to see 180°), or not beeing able to wire up cameras and pressure plates to one trap...
I know you stated before that this is not possible based on how you developed electricity... but if oyu could take another look, that'd be great
madmole
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Workbench schematic is probably a quest reward already.I would like to say that i am really glad that books are making a comeback. I do like them in the game.
The first books were ok but very limiting because if you couldn't find what you needed, you were limited to what you could do.
For example: You needed to read a book on forging before you could build a forge. As the only other way to get a forge is to find one (which was rare). Plus you had to do all your forging in that area which was also very limiting.
You needed to read a book on pistols before you could dissemble it or put one together and so on.
Currently in Alpha-17 the only books that are available are ones that give you a temperately boost in your ability's. I only used those to get money from the trader after I max out my bartering skills OFC.
But now I see that they are being used to give the players permanent skills and buffs. It makes it look as if you are learning how to do stuff. Rather than just popping points into your avatar.
The only thing that I would recommend is putting in missions given by the traders to give players skills as an award.
For example: The trader can say "If you go to this place and get me this bag then I will teach you how to make a workbench" as an award option.
madmole
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My issue is 30 zombies from outside come in every time I do a POI. This is a result of me playing solo and the random horde comes for me or near a player (its just me) and they hear me killing stuff and come investigate. At a minimum 5+ guys seem to come from outside and afar when I'm doing a POI. If that didn't happen, I'd love to see lots more zombies outside in cities but when your doing a Tier 3+ and get sandwiched its not cool.
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