PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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Demonoid74
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Now if I could play my Khajiit unarmed killer , punching zombie dragons to death....SOLD!
madmole
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Role playing is a very broad term. It can be as simple as I use an axe and an Ak and I like to use light armor because the heavy stuff slows me down too much.
It can be as advanced as defining fears like maybe you are scared of heights, addictions so you have to have a beer every night, food tastes so maybe your character likes stew. Maybe you love animals and are a vegetarian. If you see an animal get attacked you go into a rage and attack the horde. You can have personality traits, prejudices and role playing your attributes. It can be very in depth and self imposed limits can make a stale game interesting and fun again.
Its a personal choice. A lot of people don't get it, but its a lot of fun once you come up with a solid concept and stop playing as you and stop trying to survive as you. Have some weird quirks like maybe the spider zombie looks like your cousin so you can't kill them. Kiting them to a land mine or spike is the best you can do.
Its probably not quite there yet to role play heavily in 7 days but I hope its somewhat role playable when we're done or in a future sequel or something. I tend to play as myself in games and just have fun on the first play through or two. Then I role play like a director/writer and try to make the toon behave how they would. That creates all these crazy dynamics that you will never see playing as yourself.
I honestly feel like a little kid playing with action figures when I can get a cool role going. Its taken some years to get good at it, as we often stop being a kid for 40 years so getting back into that creative mind set is actually a fun exercise.
Mad thanks for the comments on PvP. Makes me even more excited for the possibilities of this game.
One more for you. Have there been any decisions made concerning high level late game challenges? Especially in regards to the invincibility of some bases?
Maybe some sort of catastrophic event like an earthquake that might weaken all structures in an area? Threat of an old nuke going off in a biome causing tons of damage and irradiating a new area? Would love to see a something like a zombie godzilla that forced everyone on a server to drop everything and start attacking/defending. I know goofy example, but something that really changed the tone of the late stage game without negating all the previous hard work, yet random enough to keep everyone guessing and sweating.
On top of 7 days to die, maybe add a 100 days to annihilation?
One more for you. Have there been any decisions made concerning high level late game challenges? Especially in regards to the invincibility of some bases?
Maybe some sort of catastrophic event like an earthquake that might weaken all structures in an area? Threat of an old nuke going off in a biome causing tons of damage and irradiating a new area? Would love to see a something like a zombie godzilla that forced everyone on a server to drop everything and start attacking/defending. I know goofy example, but something that really changed the tone of the late stage game without negating all the previous hard work, yet random enough to keep everyone guessing and sweating.
On top of 7 days to die, maybe add a 100 days to annihilation?
BadabingbadaBOOMSDAY!
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So yeah, 17.3 this weekend?
RestInPieces
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XP/time is the no1 reason by far, to choose an activity when people want to get levels.
The fastest activity to get XP at early game by far, is killing zombies. So people are inclined towards doing that. Later in the game, the fastest activity becomes mining because the amount of XP depends on block damage (it shouldn't).
Minandreas
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Definitely can't speak to A18 obviously, but I'm hoping for the best!
I can't help but agree with his final piece though. I mostly play with a couple of friends on our own private server. And as far as we've seen it, zombie slaying is really the only game in town for exp. Other activities give it, sure, but at a drastically slower rate than Zombie slaying (with the exception of mining later on). If you've got your eyes on a particular perk you really want to get to and exp becomes a focus, you go zombie hunting. Bust in to a POI, fire a gun to wake everything up, and murderball until they're all dead and you can move to the next building to repeat. It's so much the case that as the team resource gatherer I go out of my way to move my operations to whatever location they are looting for the shared exp. Harvest rocks, trees, dirt, etc. outside of the building. Because if I don't they will outlevel me pronto, at least in the early game. Because zombie killing is just so much faster than anything else.
I don't say this to complain, especially since it sounds like work is being done on a ton of this for A18. I just disagree with the statement that "You get heaps of XP for all activities." That's just not what I've found in game right now. And if what's being done in A18 is coming from a place of believing that, then it might not be getting looked at right?
Either way, still loving my groups weekly 7 days game.
Anthonydevidal
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question on alpha 17.3
Is it delayed?
Is it delayed?
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