Impossible to lose now, you get a sprite marker.
Its way too easy for me at least. But it doesn't take much more work to make something look cool than to look boring.When you build for cool looks on Day 21 you know its too easy
good to hear on the food changes. I do not use many of the str abilities except miner, motherload and 1 level of cooking. I use the hell out of agility. perception tho, salvage and 1 point of lockpick so that I can make em.
Is this serious... ? Why?? Why do you keep cutting things out that don't need cutting? Food and especially water have always been incredibly easy to manage. In A18, it looked like it was finally getting better, but now raw food is perfectly fine to eat and stack in hundreds in your boxes? How does that make sense??? You could've done so many things to make food poisoning fun and engaging, but nope, better cut it out for some reason.
My gut (no pun intended lol) tells me we will have our hands full managing all of the new critical injurys instead. We shall see how the change plays out....
My reaction at first, but you really need to think about the situation with a cool head. Now food is used for absolutely everything related to health + buffs and it is extremely scarce the first few days. Now, raw meat will not give you more health than, say, cat food and the addition of candy inside vending machines will reduce buyable food around a 33%. What did you do before to get rid of food poisoning? Eat. Is it easier without it? No, actually, it should be equal at the very least, but I think it might be a little harder now in a19 due to meat not being that easy to find for a semi-sedentary player.
Food is certainly not "scarce". It's never been. This is why FoodSpoilageGate has been product of debate for pretty much the whole development of the game. You can binge hunt animals and keep boxes and boxes full of their meat, never expiring. You can buy food from all the vending machines. Even if vending machines only had candy, you can still get food from traders. You don't even need to do that if you loot, cause looting POIs will always yield more than enough food. Heck, you can grow your farm and never even look back at food again.
So removing it is the solution? Instead of, like I said, making it work? Infection used to be a big joke too, thank god they decided to make it fun instead of removing it too.
maybe one day there may be more kinds of sickness, like Tapeworms or something to make the game more Survival
They cut things out that they decided didn't work well. Please don't confuse updates with experimental content for DLC's with bonus finished content. The game is still in development and the developers are developing and that means lots of iterations and trials. Will some players fall in love with some of those trials that eventually get cut? Yes. Does that mean that those things never needed cutting? Not necessarily.
This is exactly what they are going to do with consequences of eating bad food-- make it more fun. Currently the consequence is barfing all of your food out. That was a good experiment. Now they want to make it better.
We'll see. A lot of work has been done to prevent things from falling through the world. But there is no amount of work that can compensate for a potato that can't generate the world fast enough to play in it or a poor internet connection with a ping too high to coordinate between your machine and the host. As I said, I haven't lost a single spear and I use spears all the time. Not one has slipped through the world for me and the nav beacon always leads me straight to it. It is impossible to lose given that your rig/network can possibly render/communicate the world in a timely fashion.
maybe the Main spear/pike can have a power attack.
Well, if the dev team is having a hard time announcing features for what the playerbase might say then that's certainly not a good sign, is it? How about instead of looking at any negative outlook on their changes as "tantrums" you look at them as valid negative reactions from players? I know it's easier to just shrug off any negative feedback away, but c'mon. Just because the players who were frustrated by past changes have given up hope or modded their games, doesn't mean the devs haven't made bad changes.It really was inevitable that someone would throw a tantrum about "TFP dumbing the game down" when one feature was removed. (and 6+ new ones added instead, but who's counting?)
And this time Joel was really careful about not saying a peep about it until it was actually in and working the way we wanted.
There is no doubt that there will be another straw fire of over-analysing the patch notes when they come out, predicting doom and gloom (in no particular order) for the game.
Actually playing the game? I predict a very different outcome except for those with prescription rose tinted glasses.
This is a much better response. Thanks Roland, for clarifying.
I agree 100% with this, and is exactly what I thought would happen when madmole talked about the new medical system. I'm really glad this is the case.
Yeah, the thing is that the way it was worded made it seem like the decision was to just get rid of the problem by cutting the feature from the game entirely. If, as you said in your previous response, they have plans to upgrade the whole system in the future much like they did with infection, then it's very different.
