"Clay" is just another snowstorm in a jar but I'll tell you anyway. Having one less surface texture saves memory and helps the poor Unity texture blender which can only handle 3 adjacent textures.
We still like our players even if they are salty.
Well done faatal, Im very pleased about this good news. I think that the community would have been pretty disappointed if this wasn't added.
A release date poll you say? Sounds like a good idea, what could possibly go wrong?Like a democracy (and this forum): Very little gets done and people argue a lot.
A17E sounds ready for release. We should take a poll!
Hmm. I'll have to bring that up in the next design meeting. It certainly sounds more apocalyptic.I woudn't be surprised if you removed the driving altogether and had everyone get out and push
First we need a poll on whether or not there should be a poll on taking another poll on the release date. Gotta make sure everyone feel sufficiently... heard.
I wonder what would happen if you took some of this "clay" form one biome and placed it in another. Up till now, things like soil were depended on the biome that they came from. But now that this has been turned into "clay".
There is, though: the fact that the plains and maple forest biomes were removed precisely for the sake of reducing terrain texture blending, which is apparently a big problem. Now Gazz confirms (while I was rushing to catch up and point this out) that was the impetus for changing clay.
Good, because that was my chief concern: the inventory clutter of getting dirt fragments and lumps of clay with every block you dig. We don't need more inventory clutter, bigger backpack or not.
I would much prefer to have separate iron-rich, lead-rich, and KNO3-rich boulders, each with a slightly different tint, so that my backpack doesn't automatically accumulate bits of materials that I have no interest in at the time.
And in the spirit of streamlining, it all comes down to that point. You've distilled down the root cause of most of the debates that we have here - the big ones that everyone has an opinion on, that burn for page after page. Each person ranks the losses differently in their minds, focusing on the merits of keeping the particular things that they like.
:whoo: Okay, I am officially looking forward to the new vehicles now! To my mind passengers are the feature (among what's been announced) that make the vehicles a real game changer. I applaud you for prioritizing this.
With that said, this change is firmly in second place. I've lost track of how many people have complained about "GPS hordes" that always go straight to the player's position, and how many times myself and others have explained why this is the sensible, performant way to simulate a world where zombies roam everywhere, and all it would take is an offset to remove the perception that they're always coming for you. A lot of people will be very happy about this change.
