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I know it's off-topic (from both A21 and farming), but I always got myself thinking:

Wouldn't it be nice if, for every repair you do on an item, it degrades a level?

Say you have a level 6 pump shotgun. You repair it, it then degrades to level 5. If it is a level 1, it cannot be repaired. You lose it forever...

Is it only me or does the idea really sounds good?

 
Teure said:
Is it only me or does the idea really sounds good?
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Not really. With each horde, the quality of my weapons would drop by at least 2 levels if not more.

And I don't even want to start thinking about how many augers I would consume per mining day this way.

But if you want to give it a try, there is a mod that does something similar to what you want. With each repair you have a 50% chance that the quality drops by one level.

https://7daystodiemods.com/item-quality-degradation/

By the way, there is already a thread about this topic.





 
hiemfire said:
By June or within June? If by June, from what I recall of how the time zones are set up, you asked your question on June 2nd Japan time. So no, not by June. I get it, the flow of days and weeks gets blurry sometimes.

Example: Yesterday, which was Thursday local, I was intermittently thinking today, Friday local, was both Thursday and Friday depending on what conversation I was in or what I was planning. 😖

Here's hoping for a release of A21 within June though.  :)
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I'm sure some things don't translate perfectly between languages and they were asking about it being ready in June. 😀

 
Teure said:
I know it's off-topic (from both A21 and farming), but I always got myself thinking:

Wouldn't it be nice if, for every repair you do on an item, it degrades a level?

Say you have a level 6 pump shotgun. You repair it, it then degrades to level 5. If it is a level 1, it cannot be repaired. You lose it forever...

Is it only me or does the idea really sounds good?
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I've been playing older versions to pass time until A21 drops and there was a time things degraded when repaired. It was removed so don't know if they will change it back in future but who knows.

 
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Frekton said:
What a joke this is.......
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Gamida said:
I've been playing older versions to pass time until A21 drops and there was a time things degraded when repaired. It was removed so don't know if they will change it back in future but who knows.
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According to Roland, this is rather unlikely. Reimplementing item degradation would require a lot of rebalancing.

In A21, things will change in that respect anyway. Currently you can reach quality level 5 pretty fast for everything you craft, but in A21 you will have to climb up the quality levels separately for each technology level. After the quality 5 iron pickaxe comes the quality 1 steel pickaxe. You will re-craft your weapons and tools multiple times.

 
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That's too bad, honestly. A stream that will probably show content that will be the focus of the Stream Weekend, it's a bad move in my opinion.

It's like stealing the thunder from the streamers, basically.

People are already hyped and are only waiting for confirmation of the release date. A game play stream will just @%$# them off.

And all this, independently of IF the streamer weekend will start on June 9 or June 16.

Just my two cents.

I won't even publish this news on Steam because I'm "afraid" of the backlash, lol

 
I agree. I'm tempted not to watch it, but could be swayed either way depending on if I knew when streamer weekend was.

If streamer weekend was next weekend I wouldn't watch this stream, but if streamer weekend is still 3/4 weeks away. I'd watch it just to have some new A21 stuff

 
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Doomofman said:
So they're streaming a playthrough with QA on Wednesday, I guess that means streamer weekend isn't next weekend
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Good to know, I missed that. Next Fest is June 19, so that still mostly lines up. QA stream this coming week, followed by Streamer Weekend (17th) with experimental release during Next Fest (19th). Or, they could announce Streamer Weekend during the QA stream, and still make it on the 10th. It's all up to TFP, but you're probably right.

 
Jost Amman said:
And all this, independently of IF the streamer weekend will start on June 9 or June 16.
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I really don't believe June 9th is even on the table since diablo 4 is being released on the 6th. From a business stand point wouldnt make much sense to compete against it- especially since alot streamers are going be doing diablo reviews.  I agree with you on the 16th for streamer weekend followed by the 19th for release. If what faatal said a bit earlier about them being down to the last of the bug list than yeah my money is on that middle of June for release.

 
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Phoenixshade35 said:
Since there is a lot of pages to comb through, and i dont have a fine toothed comb, would anyone say that a21 is a fair bit more optimized than a20? like not gonna drag a comp down?
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Yes. There have been optimizations in A21, for sure. Whether they'll be good for your specific computer configuration, though, you'll have to see for yourself I guess.

 
I think this weekend is bigger weekend for D4, no? (not that they shouldn't give it space either way)

 
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