PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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AtomicUs5000
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Speaking of which... and on the topic of balancing a potential destruction bonus... if the bonus ever goes back, it should be with some care. Perhaps static amounts would be best where perks and book-learned boosts do not apply. I don't know for certain, but this is probably the balance issue Gazz was thinking about. I picture people leaving trees and other surface resources on their last bits of HP, only to come back to them later when they're all perked up to get more out of them.
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Crater Creator
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But would you still agree that treading water is an unintended way to avoid zombies, and plan to address this in some way before the game goes gold?
Thecolours
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This is what everyone hated about A17.
Blake_
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More questions for Madmole/TFP/GOD itself :
1- Is food spoilage on the radar or is it scraped for good? It would be VERY very nice to have it and to be able to build fridges and stuff late game for preserving stuff forever. I know that putting a timer on stuff strains the bigger stuff, but stuffing stuff in the good stuff shouldn't make the whole stuff worse, but better stuff overall.
2- Torches. Unending torches are simple and work, but they feel unaesthetic and lame along the way for those of us who hate generators. Here's the suggestion:
High tech LED torch that lasts forever without input energy and is made out of a bulb light, electrical parts, iron bar,plastic and a battery? Quite difficult to obtain those ingredients but I would LOVE the luxury of having a fitting eternal lightsource, for a price.
Whadcha think?
NukemDed
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hey madmole.
i cant recall if smell was coming back in a18?
also just faced my first 17.4 horde and they came at me from 3 sides. thats a first for me - was so used to one and a bit fronts that they nearly got in!
ive mentioned it before a long time ago, but with the new framework and all, any possibility of getting a hand held air horn / loud hailer so we can stand in the middle of those big derelict city blocks and call the zds out to play
i cant recall if smell was coming back in a18?
also just faced my first 17.4 horde and they came at me from 3 sides. thats a first for me - was so used to one and a bit fronts that they nearly got in!
ive mentioned it before a long time ago, but with the new framework and all, any possibility of getting a hand held air horn / loud hailer so we can stand in the middle of those big derelict city blocks and call the zds out to play
Xtrakicking
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I was just thinking about this too. Would be great to know, cause if I'm not mistaken, madmole first said they weren't considering it, and then said they might add something like it in the future in another post.
Aldranon
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So make player stats modify everything that could possibly gain from that stat. Then have perks be more weapon system specific.
Example Str: Hi-recoil/automatic weapons are more accurate. Melee weapons/tools do a percentage more damage.
Also Agility could make all weapons more accurate by a percent.
Then if you upgrade the Automictic weapon Perk: Faster reload, less wear and a boost to accuracy. Maybe damage.
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Gazz
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Only for you because you start with the assumption that you can not play the game if you do not have the maximum ability in harvesting.
That is objectively false so... problem solved. =)
Players can pick the strength attribute for the weapons, the easy carry capacity... and the harvesting.
No one but yourself actually forces you to do so.
Gazz
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That sounds like a mod. I expect that when you set it up that way players will complain that you are forcing them to buy all the attributes because clearly they must always be best at everything.
Maybe I'm just old and Generation Candy Crush can no longer imagine a reality where you play a game twice and have completely different characters with completely different strengths and weaknesses simply because you choose them.
And yes, modern AAA titles tend to not do that. It's far easier to make something flashy but shallow with only one progression path and one way to win the game.
Ricowan
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Food spoilage SUCKS in every game that has it. Period. Animals are almost impossible to find in populated servers, so if the 4 meat I manage to save up, simply disappears while waiting for the next boar to never spawn in to make a complete meal, I'd rage quit so fast...
Yeah, anyway, if you don't like chests full of food, stop filling chests up with food for ♥♥♥♥'s sake! This is a damn game, not a real life simulator. It doesn't matter if something in the game doesn't "feel right" to you, it just needs to be a fun game to play.
Simple things like recipe changes can be done via config (this is what XML modlets are, config changes that are applied for you).
Complex things that would require large sections of code change, performance degradation, and/or feature creep are not desirable.
Ezed
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I wouldn't call it a sense of accomplishment. More a sense of relief. Walking along in the dark and I can't take a drink without extinguishing and unequipping my light source? It's a gameplay basic and a glaring omission IMO. Also, you can do it in Skyrim
Since you said a while back it was possible, you might as well go ahead and implement it...'cause you're never going to hear the end of it. Especially after gold and new people start picking up the game.
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