Gameplay trumps realism, sorry.
If a realism element doesn't add to a game (or if it doesn't fit into the game), it doesn't belong in that game and, no offense, but I can see a lot of people disliking this change if it was implement. Like, A LOT of people. Cool for a mod, probably not for vanilla. (I'm not trying to shut down the conversation here, that's not my intention. Just giving my opinion.)Did a bit of testing on Insane/Nightmare run.I don't really know if a 5% boost is enough for the average fast ones to catch you. I just guessed and moved on, so might need another 5% or 10%. You will find out.
It's not broken, it just adds variety. If you found a purple AK and that was the best AK you were ever going to get, for example, the lifespan of looting would be shortened a lot.
The point is that there is the potential for quality 2 to be better. The range for quality one, for example, could be 10-15 and the range for quality 2 could be 13-18. This is not an unusual concept in games, it's also used in The Division 1&2 and the Borderlands series and many ARPG's.
Yeh a mate of mine got flooded with screamers to every few minutes in current patch.
Same, I had to take down all of my (20+) torches; got 1-2 screamers every few minutes.
Madmole, i feel the one thing really missing in your perk system is a bit of sync between attributes. I think it's a missed opportunity to only tie the benefits to a subset of weapons instead of generally helping out. For example, perception gives headshot damage bonus across the board, agility could be swing/reload speed. Things like that where you could start to gain bonuses from one attribute to help with another.
So, I can understand what they mean after playing Ark. Ark allows you to easily switch back to hands for harvesting at any time without it being a dedicated inventory slot and it's rather convenient. It'd be nice to have that here, but usually I just switch to my melee weapon for it's faster swing speed to harvest. HOWEVER, if I was to be wielding a slow speed melee weapon like a sledgehammer it'd be worth it for me to unequip something on my hotbar to get hands to then have to equip something into my hotbar again when I'm done harvesting whatever I was using hands for. A minor annoyance to be sure, but an annoyance I can at least recognize.
Well I haven't seen it that extreme and I don't know what the ranges are in game to know whether that's possible or not. However, if that is true it seems that it's just bad luck and I still say the variety is a positive thing. Next time the odds are the tier 5 item will be way better.
Lol, it is possible that the stat ranges are different for crafted versus looted gear i suppose. You've certainly made me curious to find out so I will investigate further.Test it in creative mode...get the mats and spam craft t5 to see and believe
Basic unupgraded wood log spikes were weak and a single row or two unsupported was weak. However you upgraded them, eventually to steel, and you made many rows of them or put a couple rows against a wall. The end result was incredibly powerful defenses with almost no maintenance. A proper log spike moat would kill entire hordes on it's own and when people started placing them upside down it also resulted in being able to easily headshot the zombies too, not that you needed to. Many base designs were based around how broken they were.
consider other factors too like
<passive_effect name="EntityDamage" operation="perc_add" value="-.15,.15"/> <!-- random rng --> <passive_effect name="BlockDamage" operation="perc_add" value="-.15,.15"/> <!-- random BlockDmg -->
<passive_effect name="AttacksPerMinute" operation="perc_add" value="-.05,.05"/> <!-- random APM -->
<passive_effect name="StaminaLoss" operation="perc_add" value="-.05,.05"/> <!-- random StamLoss -->
