PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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Guppys Fur said:
I dont like to jump on a hate-train before i layed Hands on A19 before it is out, but this really sounds like BS.

If you want increase Gas Usage, but 60% more Food Drain?

Cmon Guys...

Yes i read your Story with your vacation Fataal, but Gamewise this doesnt make ANY sense considering you guys took out food Poisening "because it made no fun and felt cheesy"
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60% of a very tiny amount is still a small amount. It was the same as being AFK before which made food a non issue once you got a vehicle. No matter how active you are 80% of calories burned IRL come from base metabolism and not moving around and working. Yep just sitting on your @%$*#! breathing, thinking, uses 80% of the calories you take in. 20% from activity, roughly speaking. Do you not get hungry sitting on your @%$*#! driving somewhere? Its not going to drain your food meter dry, its actually going to burn a bit like it should. Was broken before. I wanted to just bump the base metaboliism but we want players to be able to idle and not get screwed so we added some to vehicles.

I hope that makes sense. Food should be an ongoing concern. Its way way cheaper than sprinting somewhere yet, but its using more than being AFK or idle.

 
Khalagar said:
People get hung up on the dumbest things. Had to argue with one dude about why a "junk drone" isn't any more nonsensical than zombies, autonomous junk turrets that can differentiate between friend and foe...
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As soon as you bring in zombies any notion of realism in your game falls off a cliff.

Plausibility? Sure. That can be valid. But it's plausible on a scale from silly to crazy.

 
Damocles said:
How about implementing a more logic solution, and using more gas instead of food?

You know, like any normal person would expect those mechanics to work?

If you need a resource sink for food, there are lots of other activities the consumption could increase. (runnning, mining, salvaging, building, slapping etc)
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Most people are not logical. The logical thing to do is to hose people for just standing around in their base, but we went the friendlier way and are attacking the race car drivers as they are the ones with loads of food piling up and not the noob who is standing around reading the tutorial. As I said, 80% of calories (roughly) are used just breathing IRL. I can sit on my @%$*#! or work out, I get hungry every 3-4 hours regardless. Do you not get hungry when traveling? Sorry bro everyone else does.

beHypE said:
Who cares if it makes that much sense or not. Yes the numbers are over the top in terms of realism but if it adds anything to food being an absolute non-issue after a while (hint : after you don't run no more), that's cool for me.

Regarding vehicles, could the gyro be a little bit better on the road ? Just parking the damn thing is a chore, the reverse gear is terrible...
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But they aren't. The base calorie rate for being idle is really really low and below normal... and we tuned it since his post anyway and will continue to tune until it feels good. The end result is hopefully you don't go from eating 5x a day to once a week like it was when you got a motor vehicle. That is just bad. Food needs to be a slight issue even late game if you don't put effort in.

 
Adam the Waster said:
hell im eating right now! 
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So am I. I just want to play the game. See how it really is in Game and then make my choice based on the actual gameplay. Until then it is all speculation and assumption. But thats my 2 cents. 

What im really curious about is if @madmole has decided to keep the junk drone in A19 or it isn't ready yet and needs some more tweeking. 

 
Khalagar said:
People get hung up on the dumbest things. Had to argue with one dude about why a "junk drone" isn't any more nonsensical than zombies, autonomous junk turrets that can differentiate between friend and foe, a gyrocopter taped together, drilling down to bedrock and making a cave full of forges and campfires sealed off with vault doors etc.

Complainers gonna complain yo
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LOL  this is so silly it isn't even funny. We have drones now. We have automated turrets now.  In Real Life we have these things.  What we don't have is zombies.

 
My watch tells me that I burn more calories sleeping than I do during the day. Granted, I sleep a lot during the day too, but my point is everything burns calories.

And for the third freaking time, this is a non-issue. If you have a vehicle, you do not have food problems.  Unless having a vehicle means your crates full of food get destroyed, you will never notice the drain. 

 
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Guppycur said:
And for the third freaking time, this is a non-issue. If you have a vehicle, you do not have food problems.  Unless having a vehicle your crates full of food get destroyed, you will never notice the drain. 
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But only people who played the game would know that. lol

It's a nudge towards food consumption. Not a complete rewrite of the game.

 
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I can sorta get behind this calorie burn thing, but I don't think you're implementing it very intelligently. First off, merely driving on a specific kind of road doesn't necessarily impact your burn rate. Secondly, stress doesn't burn calories. Your brain uses a mostly fixed amount of calories. Thirdly, aside from the bike no vehicle is going to consume calories faster by "sprinting."

Now, I *can* see where what you're simulating makes sense. You absolutely will use more calories on a 2 wheel vehicle than you will in a 4 wheel (or 3 wheel for that matter). You'll have to sit up and support yourself with your arms rather than just resting in a seat. 60% is a hilarious amount though, which I think needs a tweak. Also, the bicycle is more efficient than sprinting on foot in real life, so I'd make an adjustment there.

That of course all flies in the face of what you're trying to solve with this and even exacerbates it. Smoothing out food importance during the game cycle. Realistically the bicycle would use the most calories, the minibike/motorcycle would use much less, and the 4x4 would, if anything, have a lower calorie consumption than standing. That reinforces the problem where food is mostly only an early game problem.

I do like this sort of thing though. Holding certain items in your hands should come at a calorie cost, for instance the M60.

 
If you want to have a higher food consumption for high level players, there are better resource sinks, such as the the additional unlocked backpack slots, placing higher level blocks, using the auger, etc.

The even better solution would be to have food-recipes, that take an increasing number of food resources (looted, hunted or farmed) for better recopies that provide perks high level players dont want to miss out on.

So all the food stock CAN be used up meaningfully by converting it to really high level extra perk level foods.

By having a wide range of those recepies, there should never be an overstock of food items, as they could always be invested into a bit better recipe, adding some extra buffs.

Low level player can stick to their looted cans. High level players can craft some special stuff, that mighteven be needed in certain situations.

To simplify the recepies, a lot of the gathered food items could be considdered "classes", such as "protein", "carbs", "fats", "spices", "rotten".

-> a can of Spam or Beans would then be simply "Protein"

This way you can have a lot of funny specific items to loot, but not make recepies have to use too overspecialized ingrediences.

 
I think, but I could be mistaken, that doing harder activities already increases food consumption?  I could be wrong.

The only real and meaningful way to make food hard is the S word (that's right, I said spoilage).  Anything else is a waste of time.

 
Guppycur said:
No, we have to hold the players hand and that means the vehicle can't tip over and can drive underwater.

As for the food, meh.  Who's in a vehicle that long anyway.  By the time you have a vehicle, you're crates deep in food.  
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Depends how you play and what kind of drops you get, if on a mp server, etc. I barely had any food when I got my motorcycle but then my need for food fell off a cliff, thus here we are with some changes to try out.

 
SylenThunder said:
LOL  this is so silly it isn't even funny. We have drones now. We have automated turrets now.  In Real Life we have these things.  What we don't have is zombies.
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Saw a zombie today, staring at his smartphone

madmole said:
Most people are not logical. The logical thing to do is to hose people for just standing around in their base, but we went the friendlier way and are attacking the race car drivers as they are the ones with loads of food piling up and not the noob who is standing around reading the tutorial. As I said, 80% of calories (roughly) are used just breathing IRL. I can sit on my @%$*#! or work out, I get hungry every 3-4 hours regardless. Do you not get hungry when traveling? Sorry bro everyone else does.

But they aren't. The base calorie rate for being idle is really really low and below normal... and we tuned it since his post anyway and will continue to tune until it feels good. The end result is hopefully you don't go from eating 5x a day to once a week like it was when you got a motor vehicle. That is just bad. Food needs to be a slight issue even late game if you don't put effort in.
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MM revealed the loophole: All who are not happy about this should hold their breath while driving --> You will save 80% of calories !!! 😉

 
Jost Amman said:
Look, even if I don't agree with your knee jerking approach I'm not saying you may not have a point there... I'm just saying that theorizing about something and actually playing the game to get the feel of it are often two different things. Sometimes even when a plan sounds bad to you on paper it can still give great results when it plays out.

Also, as Gazz said, you don't have all the information you need to really understand the balancing behind it.
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Minecraft sounded stupid AF about 20 times. Then I tried it. Now we are all here. Here's to bad sounding stuff turning out to being good fun.

 
Perlin_Worm said:
Aboot the whole vehicle/food thing... What I am scratching my head about is vehicles have their own consumption mechanic which is damage/repair and it's way under utilized. Vehicles take practically no damage no matter how hard you drive it. Whouldnt it make more sense to tweak that mechanic instead of plugging it into the food system?

Perfectly willing to try this change, but just sayin..
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A20 or 21.

Laz Man said:
60% sounds like alot but imagine if the stam drain is 1 point per 10 secs (example only).  60% of that is not that much.  Were better off waiting to see how it feels instead of theory crafting the worse case scenario.
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Even if it is 60% and that stays, you are traveling way faster... big deal you used up 1/5th a bowl of stew to drive a couple miles. Beats walking/sprinting.

 
and talking of food, for the ones ho remember: Fleash.... huuuunngeeerrrrr.... braaaaainnnsss.... Hunger! Hunger!

BTW brain activity consumes quite plenty calories, but these should be "fast carbohydrates", hope my translation here is good enough))), like sugar, you will rarely consume your fat thinking, but you'll throttle like my Mac under heavy load))) Thats why we always have some cookies or other sweets in the office, just to boost our brains when we get tired.

 
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