He didn’t actually say a brown pistol could do more damage. He said it may be superior. I think that means other stats are randomized as well, so while the yellow pistol will usually be better, the brown one may sometimes have a combination of stats that is better for some situations and/or play styles.
2D6 would still give you a bell curve. There is nothing about having only 2 dice that would make the rules of statistics change. It would be a very clumpy looking bell curve if you tried to plot it but that is because there are only 11 possible data points on the X axis. Since dice rolls are discrete instead of continuous there is never a smooth "curve". It would always be "lumpy" for lack of a better word. We still just call it a a bell curve because it works the same(ish).
Very true. The most simple UI way to deal with this (without changing the mechanic) would be that you always will build the best quality you have materials for and the color/quality number you would craft is shown on the build menu.
I don't see where the combat system is counter-intuitive right now. Care to explain? EDIT: Nevermind, I guess you mean that you can miss so easy in melee although swinging a weapon (except the spear for example) is almost guaranteed to hit.
thats the spirit
One reason im eagerly waiting for a certain christian themed Game to let my inner Deamon out.
I know there always where. Before the ultra aggressive visual effects that are in right now that was my main indicator that i was bleeding, now my brain doesn't even need the sound effects anymore...Players won't notice sound effects alone and need an obvious visual indicator. Proof: you’re not even sure if there’s a bleeding sound effect in the game now.
Generally speaking guys with beards have higher DHT levels than beardless guys, and DHT causes male pattern baldness. Its rare to see a bald guy who can't grow a decent beard. On the flip side if you can't grow a beard you probably won't go bald. Some people are not susceptible to DHT , it depends if your hair follicles are receptive to it.
The color has a range of how good or bad it could be, so generally speaking they are better. They also dictate value AFAIK, and are used to roll the loot out. You sir get a brown one, you sir get a pink one, etc. It would be rare two colors down is better but still possible, but most likely better in only one stat not every stat.
This looks fairly close, but I don't know the exact ranges.Well, orange is between yellow and brown. So orange, in this fake scenario, would have lets say 15-30 range of damage. So, if you had:BROWN pistol with range of 10-25 and rolled 25
ORANGE pistol with range of 15-30 and rolled 27
YELLOW pistol with range of 20-35 and rolled 20
You have a brown pistol that is better than yellow one but still worse than orange one.
That or i might understand it completely wrong, in which case Madmole needs explain himself
Yes, it's lumpy, but even if you smooth out the lumps 2d6 gives you a triangular distribution, it's not a curve at all.
I had zero problem with this in Ark. I found a really awesome sniper rifle schematic that did 400+ damage but it took 4k of ingots to craft. It helps balance economy because prices radically go up when you craft better quality stuff, so scaling costs are good thing IMO.Please take this as a "consider the following" comment, and not an "oh no, this is the whole picture so the sky must be falling" comment.
Players really don't like feeling penalized for making progress. They hated when upgrading to steel tools wiped out their stamina. They hated when improving block damage meant fewer resources per block. They're not going to like discovering that they can't craft a gun because they bought a perk and now the same materials they had aren't good enough.
It would be nice, then, if you could still make lower quality items if you needed to.
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Since damage IS the most important stat by far, I would guess the stat range might be too big if it were like Shine posted it. The consequence would be that color would loose just too much meaning.
Its a game, without progression it sucks. The game is crack now random stats is the best feature in years. I'm usually bored three weeks into the game and quit by the 4th week for sure. I'm super engaged right now with over 200 books/schematics to find and specialization working nice, and random stat gear to give me micro-progression every session I'm addicted and all my free time is playing 7 days. RIP Skyrim and Minecraft lol.
I disagree, you are overthinking it. Chances are if you find some nice brown high damage weapon, its going to have poor degradation, range, etc leaving the player with an interesting choice of using that rusty piece of crap that breaks down on you frequently, kicks like a mule, but it got its nickname ol' painless for a reason.
True, in Ark it's not a problem because you can still craft the default sniper rifle. the better one is just a schematic. so in Ark you can have infinite different schematics to chose from and still be able to craft the default one.
