PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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HerrKingsley
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Yeah but what would be the difference of being able to craft them?
SnowDog1942
Navezgane's Perv
Random weapon stats, i think
Odetta
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Can we get an option to change the size of roaming hordes? As of now they are only scary in the beginning of the game. Later on they pose no threat because they are super small and are not affected by game stage (I think). I know we have a ton of options already and I appreciate it a lot because I can make each play through radically different.
On another note, we have random bloodmoons now, which is awesome. The ideal implementation in my opinion is to have them not only on random days (like we have now) but to also make them happen at random *times* within a day and without warning. Say you're on day 11 and it's 7 in the morning and bam! Bloodmoon out of nowhere. Scary factor X1000.
If all you play is single player or coop, then yes it does not make any sense. If you are playing PvP then if you abandon your base through your escape tunnels then be prepared to come back to an empty crater where your multiple forges/workstations/crates you have spent weeks scavenging for gone. That is what makes PvP the ultimate long game for me. It is absolutely brutal. You are not hiding in your base because you are scared to loot. You must protect the base from total annihilation when raided by other players. Something you will never experience in a single player game so the concept is not obvious. This is not a defense of his desire for "mining" brass, but an attempt to put it in the correct context. Under single player I totally agree with you. In PvP I think the balance for ammo may need to be tweaked somehow.
I don't want to get this aspect of the discussion off the rails though, because this is yet another one of those PvP context type discussions that I think will take place down the road when some other PvP tweaks are made.
Crater Creator
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So you made the claim that "you can exploit that system in some scenarios" before you had any examples, just based on a hunch. I think your claim was unfairly premature, then.I'm at work today so I can't really experiment. Royale Deluxe would be the one to list the exploits, that bugger is great at finding them
Just for the record, I think block HP should affect the pathing but not be the basis of it, a subtle difference in the grand old scheme of things.
It should also be noted that I was against the use of A* for pathfinding in the first place. I'm just trying to make the best result with the tools provided.
And again, this difference you're making between HP affecting pathing and HP being the basis of pathing is too subtle for me. Other than some special cases like doors, what would the basis of path weighting be, if not block HP?
Ti2xGr
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I manage a server where our clients were complaining about cars and such. Easy fix - I fly around the world and restock parking garages and parking lots regularly. I also adjusted the XMLs for ammo specifically. I adjusted the level of ammo specifically that can be looted. Example Instead of 3-8 for count, it has been tweaked to allow upwards of 50 bullets. We technically don't do PVP on our servers but there is no reason I can see that this wouldn't work for you. Admin mode with jet pack with a supply of cars. On a side note, I also hide loot chests in random places with larger loot caches of extra ammo/mods/etc.
Crater Creator
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Are you referring to the fact that a lower gamestage means fewer 'strong' zombies that carry the better loot bags? Or something else?
Roland
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You can make game staging be based on the day for that specific player by basing it on something that advances daily. In A18 that would be player max health and stamina since those advance by one each day automatically. So gamestage could be easily recalculated to be:
(max health + days alive) x difficulty multiplier
instead of the way it is now:
(level + days alive) x difficulty multiplier
This makes the gamestage progress daily independent of what the player does so that all the player wants to do is keep getting stronger without worrying about directly making the gamestage higher as well. Plus, the gamestage would still be low for a new player joining the game on day 100.
In my mod I changed it so the player levels up daily because I can't change the gamestage formula. But it doesn't really matter what you tie it to as long as it progresses daily. It should also be noted that I've had to increase the difficulty multiplier for all difficulty levels because most players do level up at a faster rate than once per day. Add gear and mods and perks from leveling and it will take some balancing to come up with fair but challenging pacing of the gamestage curve to keep things interesting. BUT...I have to say that disconnecting the gamestage from player achievement does make a difference in how the game feels-- for the better, IMO.
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Crater Creator
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It’s a good point, but I’d add that performance in a livestream can be skewed, since most end users won’t be live streaming in addition to running the game.
Well to be totally clear I was not the once originally complaining about ammo. The 30+ player PvP server I play seems to do a very good job attempting to balance resources and my small group seems to do pretty well managing ammo. I am not even saying the complaint about ammo is even valid, but in the multiplayer games I can absolutely see how it would happen. Hell maybe it should. Something to be said for a map running out of resource where everyone is forced to use sticks and stones again.
My main point is that I think there is no point in discussing things such as resource management for the PvP aspect of the game because it is cannot be simply carried over from the single player game without some adjustments. And PvP is definitely not the focus but MM said they may look into some of the issues a few patches from now.
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