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Okay... here's some out-of-the-box thinking for a mobile turret. Why not strap a gun to a zombie?

You get the benefits of bipedal pathing without going too far into techno-babble. I'm pretty sure with a few pointy electrodes and a lot of trial and error you can work out where to stimulate what remains of the zombie brain to gain some sort of control over it.

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https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publications/Kringelbach%20&%20Berridge%202015%20Motivation%20and%20pleasure%20in%20brain%20chapt.pdf

Horrendous science experiments warning...

https://backyardbrains.com/

 
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A hovering bot would spare animations and thus be easier to program. Should need fuel then.Give it a (auto) reconing mode, without being capable of shooting (if both -> to overpowered). Sensing ores would be fine, too.

Make it installable and removable into the 4x4 (or landclaim protected areas).

EDIT: And make it a random encounter in the wastelands and some POIs :tickled_pink:
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I knew James Kirk would support this feature!!! 😂

The bot should also have phasers that can be set to stun or kill...😂

 
You got it! Didn't even dare to think of it. But fortunately others do:encouragement: :encouragement: :encouragement:

Maybe some kind of EMP, in case automatic traps make it into A19 or later....Multiplayer fun ;-)

 
I just dont get the need for m60 machine gun, robot protectors with chain guns and all the other sci-fi crap to kill 10 zombies. Its not like you are totally overrun with zombies in game like World War Z. At max you get 12 zombies coming at you...Maybe.. Hey lets put tactical nukes in game...i just dont see it. The most advanced thing in game is a solar panel and they dont work..now were going to have robots. Bandits are a myth but private security robots with miniguns are coming?? This game has lost its way. IMO

 
I just dont get the need for m60 machine gun, robot protectors with chain guns and all the other sci-fi crap to kill 10 zombies. Its not like you are totally overrun with zombies in game like World War Z. At max you get 12 zombies coming at you...Maybe.. Hey lets put tactical nukes in game...i just dont see it. The most advanced thing in game is a solar panel and they dont work..now were going to have robots. Bandits are a myth but private security robots with miniguns are coming?? This game has lost its way. IMO
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I think you missed it. Bandits are coming. Robots are a maybe.

 
Okay... here's some out-of-the-box thinking for a mobile turret. Why not strap a gun to a zombie?
You get the benefits of bipedal pathing without going too far into techno-babble. I'm pretty sure with a few pointy electrodes and a lot of trial and error you can work out where to stimulate what remains of the zombie brain to gain some sort of control over it.

180

PDF warning...

https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publications/Kringelbach%20&%20Berridge%202015%20Motivation%20and%20pleasure%20in%20brain%20chapt.pdf

Horrendous science experiments warning...

https://backyardbrains.com/
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Oh, about hovering. I made the mistake of thinking it would have to be a gravity-negating device. But add 3 propellers and it looks like a drone and all you need to forget is where it gets all that energy from

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I just dont get the need for m60 machine gun, robot protectors with chain guns and all the other sci-fi crap to kill 10 zombies. Its not like you are totally overrun with zombies in game like World War Z. At max you get 12 zombies coming at you...Maybe.. Hey lets put tactical nukes in game...i just dont see it. The most advanced thing in game is a solar panel and they dont work..now were going to have robots. Bandits are a myth but private security robots with miniguns are coming?? This game has lost its way. IMO
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Hovering bots are even more mythical than bandits. Don’t act like their first version has already been added to experimental. Joel is just talking about future possibilities and as usual people are taking what he says like it’s gospel or sure prophecy or something.

His point was that IF they were to do an NPC follower it would have to be something that hovers— and faatal added that it would probably have to teleport as well in order for it to be viable.

It’s sad the developers can’t include us in some of their own pimp dream musings without people turning it into the next #gate and predicting the game’s downfall.

Now, let’s just have some fun speculating about possibilities. It doesn’t happen much any more being so close to gold.

I think that there could be certain tech advances put into the game that would make hover bots a reality without necessarily pushing the entire game into high tech sci-fi.

It could be Repulsor technology a la Ironman and it could have other applications like being applied to blocks for a higher tech version of Minecraft’s “pistons”. It could also allow for Repulsor Lifts and finally bring true elevators into base building.

Sometimes technology leaps forward in one area so it isn’t unreasonable to think that some of this might be possible if found in military installations but not among the general populace.

Besides, it sounds fun, could open new applications for modders, and could probably be easily removed if someone didn’t like it.

 
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I just dont get the need for m60 machine gun, robot protectors with chain guns and all the other sci-fi crap to kill 10 zombies. Its not like you are totally overrun with zombies in game like World War Z. At max you get 12 zombies coming at you...Maybe.. Hey lets put tactical nukes in game...i just dont see it. The most advanced thing in game is a solar panel and they dont work..now were going to have robots. Bandits are a myth but private security robots with miniguns are coming?? This game has lost its way. IMO
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You are not alone in this opinion. Still harboring a vague hope it will be pulled back from the brink before gold.

 
I know this may be off topic but I love how hard 7 days to die is on insane difficulty its like its a true test of survival (:

 
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I just dont get the need for m60 machine gun, robot protectors with chain guns and all the other sci-fi crap to kill 10 zombies. Its not like you are totally overrun with zombies in game like World War Z. At max you get 12 zombies coming at you.
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Try a horde night on co-op max-alive 64 with four players and say that again. That limit is per logged-on player.

 
Try a horde night on co-op max-alive 64 with four players and say that again. That limit is per logged-on player.
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Again...you all have to be living under the same roof or have a horde night base to get those numbers.

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I think you missed it. Bandits are coming. Robots are a maybe.
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Checks in the mail....how many Alphas has it been ..along with weather and electric.....now turning their attention to robots with M60s...Greaaaaat!!

 
Do you know how many ideas have been suggested on this forum? A lot. Most are gone now. Torch brackets for example.

But that's not really the point is it.

You want to see bandits in the game, I get it.

 
Sills...I just dont see where robots are a necessity over other content...The game is and always has been an apocalyptic, rustic , scavenging type theme. To now have robots added in seems, so out of place . NONE of the POIs are that advanced that they would fit into the whole robot theme. If that were the case..why are all the vehicles running on gas...not solar or electric or at least bio fuel, which isnt even in game anymore(or is it??? Cant remember??) Anyways, having a self propelled robot with heavy armaments that can distinquish friend or foe...doesnt seem a bit out of place to you?? They wont add a rural airport which would make sense for the gyrocopters, (Im not saying this just for an airport POI, just an example of content that makes sense)but now advanced robot science labs will be the new POIs. Are we going to be Hugh Jackman in Real Steel...just going to the robot junkyard...be back before horde night!! Just doesnt fit the history or the genre of this game.

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At my parents house they call that "Christmas Day" :-)
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thats everyday!! LOL

 
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Sills...I just dont see where robots are a necessity over other content...The game is and always has been an apocalyptic, rustic , scavenging type theme. To now have robots added in seems, so out of place . NONE of the POIs are that advanced that they would fit into the whole robot theme. If that were the case..why are all the vehicles running on gas...not solar or electric or at least bio fuel, which isnt even in game anymore(or is it??? Cant remember??) Anyways, having a self propelled robot with heavy armaments that can distinquish friend or foe...doesnt seem a bit out of place to you?? They wont add a rural airport which would make sense for the gyrocopters, (Im not saying this just for an airport POI, just an example of content that makes sense)but now advanced robot science labs will be the new POIs. Are we going to be Hugh Jackman in Real Steel...just going to the robot junkyard...be back before horde night!! Just doesnt fit the history or the genre of this game.
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thats everyday!! LOL
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I am saying that MM just tossed that idea out there much like the blimps just a few Alpha's ago. Remember those?

Robots are just an idea at this point. He (did not) say that they were going in the game.

Madmole likes to suggest ideas on the forum just to see what others think. That's him. :)

Are robots an idea on the forum? Yes.

Will the be in the game? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody knows at this point.

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haha. :)

 
Adding power armor and trying to be Fallout Lite isnt getting you any closer to gold, just saying
HORRIBLE idea if true btw. I really dont know what this game wants to be anymore, and its clear some others dont either.

BTW not a knock on you, your work is exceptional but jesus man. Talk some sense into some people.
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I'm all for moving this game along to gold. We shall see.

 
I just dont get the need for m60 machine gun, robot protectors with chain guns and all the other sci-fi crap to kill 10 zombies. Its not like you are totally overrun with zombies in game like World War Z. At max you get 12 zombies coming at you...Maybe.. Hey lets put tactical nukes in game...i just dont see it. The most advanced thing in game is a solar panel and they dont work..now were going to have robots. Bandits are a myth but private security robots with miniguns are coming?? This game has lost its way. IMO
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MM, mentions bots maybe once or twice and now the sky is falling? It's probably just an idea in MMs head compared to the development already done on bandits...

 
Yes your drone will do it...all you have to do is just stand in the corner of your base...the drones will farm, harvest, build, scavenge and protect you. Very exciting!!

 
Gee thanks Ouch!

I know that robots were an idea and nobody including TFP's even talked about drones but if you said it will happen, it must be true! ;)

 
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