Some thoughts on customizable difficulty settings I think TFPs should add in A21 or at least before the game is finished. I think most if not all of these would be easy to add options for, since they're already in the game:
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Loot stage scaling: Give us options on how fast the loot stage increases along with your game stage.
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Loot TYPE spawn rates: Let us alter how much specific types of loot spawn. E.g. if we want to play with lower ammo, let us choose to decrease ammo drops by 50%. Same thing with food, guns, resources gained from mining, etc.
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Game stage increase customization: Let us choose how fast the difficulty increases in general. # of days alive currently increases game stage a bit slow for my liking, I'd love the ability to change the impact by something like 30%, so my day 21 horde is more difficult by 30%. You get the idea.
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Customize screamer hordes: What types of zombies & how many the screamers can spawn.
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Debuff customization: Let us choose the likelihood of getting each type. For example, I think infection should be a MUCH bigger problem in the game, so I'd like to turn that up to 300%. On the flip side, I think the other debuffs are annoying & not fun, so let me turn them down to 75% of normal. Etc.
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Dangerous cities: Customize the frequency & number of zombie spawns in cities vs. POIs vs wilderness, etc.
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Wandering Hordes: Customize the frequency & number of zeds that spawn in wandering hordes.
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Damage by hitbox: Customize the percent damage for different regions of the body. Let us choose if we want to play head-shots only (e.g. turn down body shot damage to 20% so we really have to aim for the head).
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Questing nerfs: Choose how many quest you can do per day/week, and how often the quests reset. Lets us choose how much we want to let the quests rule our playthrough.
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Biome difficulty: Let us choose just how much MORE difficult each biome should be. For example, I'd love to turn my wasteland into an absolute warzone. 400% difficulty increase over even the snow biome, with an accompanying loot increase. This would essentially turn the wasteland into the 'endgame' that I and many others currently crave.
I'm sure there are more that would be good to add, just can't think of them right now. I know TFPs don't want to make the game harder so they keep it fun for newbies, but please don't ignore us veterans either. This is a great compromise that'll keep us all enjoying the game for a long time to come. I know there are mods for some of these already, but I think these are fundamental for advanced players and so should be in the game. And since TFPs have been tinkering with virtually all of these for a while, the ability to change these settings is clearly present in the software. It should therefore be easy to add an 'advanced options' section of the game menu. Cheers & I'd love to hear any thoughts people have!
Just gonna tag some people so hopefully somebody from the dev team sees this --
@Roland @meganoth @madmole @faatal@Crater Creator
P.s. I'm very excited for A21, hope it lives up to the hype! Thanks for the work you guys do.
