PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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Roland
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Seems to me that if found guns could have the possibility of 1-2 random mods already installed, that would give all the variety in guns that you would need. Crafted guns would always be empty of mods of course so there is your bottom of the stat range.
There was a short time when guns that were looted had a mod pre-installed and that was pretty exciting.
There was a short time when guns that were looted had a mod pre-installed and that was pretty exciting.
Perlin_Worm
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Random stat on looted guns would add to the fun of scavenging immeasurably
The random stat would have to be low enough to not make a weapon better than one of a higher quality. So for example if the stat were damage, the bonus probably would be between 0 and 5 (where another installed mod in a better-quality weapon would add 6 damage).
NOW, the decision if you hunt for the best weapon with such a small difference is completely up to you. The penalty for ignoring it is on average 2.5 points of damage per gun. If you are that compulsive that you need the help of TFP to ignore it, you might need psychological help :cocksure:
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Gareee
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@MadMole:
For a18 are we getting more biomes again? We lost a lot of diversity when they were consolidated to the a17 versions. When you consolodated them, we ended up with a lot more wasteland as a result.
I'd like to see radiation zones with working radiation gear and increased quality loot chances (and maybe a higher irradiated possibility) Pine Forests at higher elevations (like in real life) and maybe Swamp around larger bodies of water.
RWG is the meat and potatoes of high play hour gameplay, and with so few biomes in a17, things got a bit too "same-ish".
I was never a big fan of the plains biome, but consolidating so many diverse ones into so few was a big step backwards in diversity and exploration for uniqueness. Swamps could have cypress and cypress knees, and also return of the old crickey/frog sounds.
Hopefully the limited number of biomes was just a placeholder for a higher biome number and return to more diverse biomes in a18.
For a18 are we getting more biomes again? We lost a lot of diversity when they were consolidated to the a17 versions. When you consolodated them, we ended up with a lot more wasteland as a result.
I'd like to see radiation zones with working radiation gear and increased quality loot chances (and maybe a higher irradiated possibility) Pine Forests at higher elevations (like in real life) and maybe Swamp around larger bodies of water.
RWG is the meat and potatoes of high play hour gameplay, and with so few biomes in a17, things got a bit too "same-ish".
I was never a big fan of the plains biome, but consolidating so many diverse ones into so few was a big step backwards in diversity and exploration for uniqueness. Swamps could have cypress and cypress knees, and also return of the old crickey/frog sounds.
Hopefully the limited number of biomes was just a placeholder for a higher biome number and return to more diverse biomes in a18.
I disagree
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Roland
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What suboptimal choice is being made? If every mod adds to the damage of the gun in addition to adding a special effect then every mod is useful even if you don't particularly care about the special effect because DPS is of interest to everyone. The only problem right now is that guns are being found and/or crafted that have more slots than the mods we have available to put into them-- but that will change.
In A18 you will only be able to craft up to a certain level of quality and you will only be able to craft lower class weapons. So being able to craft an SMG up to poor quality will make finding a good quality SMG a happy event since you can't craft one and there will be more mods so you'll be able to fill those slots and have an SMG that is more powerful damage-wise than the one you crafted could ever be. In addition, finding an AK-47 will be a more powerful base weapon than the SMG and since you won't be able to craft an AK-47 at all that will be a really exciting find.
Making the quality level add damage and the mods add damage would be too OP. taking the damage off the mods and keeping it with the base weapon would make the mods less exciting and many would be seen as completely useless by those who don't particularly care about the effect they give. Keeping the damage increase on the mods means every mod is useful in a way that is important to the player and with the re-organization of weapons and changing which are craftable and which are not and at which quality-- that will return the fun of scavenging for weapons. And once we have more mods in our storage chests when we do find that gun with 6 mod slots we will be very excited to run back to base and plug all those slots in and watch that damage value go up and up and up and up and up and up.
If anything, I think there should be a weighted random damage range applied to the mods instead of the base weapons. I like what Madmole said about possibly making the base weapons more of a rare loot find and making the mods more common.
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madmole
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A19 might see proper radiated game play and we would delete biomes before adding any more. To me its rather immersion breaking changing biomes too frequently. I hope to have a global precipitation system for A19 right now you can just leave the biome and avoid the weather and its kind of immersion breaking its raining in one biome and not the other. It would snow in the snow biome.
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