PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17
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A Nice Cup of Tea
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Do we also have sticky crossbow bolts?Go back and watch the video. Joel talked about picking up arrows. He said he would love to be able to retrieve arrows. He literally said that what he showed is the starting place.
Everdeen is sticky arrows. Sorry if it is underwhelming compared to expectations but that is what hype is all aboutTrust me that playing with it is far more enjoyable than watching it. I probably ran around for 45 minutes just shooting zombies and deer and boars trying to stick as many arrows in them before their....ahem...huge red HP bar depleted completely. Sticky arrows adds more than you would guess to the archery part of the game-- even if you can't retrieve them yet.
Dagzambie
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So I guessed right! Everdeen is people! Um, I mean Sticky Arrows!Go back and watch the video. Joel talked about picking up arrows. He said he would love to be able to retrieve arrows. He literally said that what he showed is the starting place.
Everdeen is sticky arrows. Sorry if it is underwhelming compared to expectations but that is what hype is all about
I'm not sure how wanting gas to be scarce equates to "more silly micromanagement." With how easy it is to get gas right now why even have it in the game? I've never ran out of gas and I never mine for shale. Needing to conserve your gas is a good way to limit the OP nature of vehicles that can outrun everything in the game. I don't find that a silly argument at all.
Alex Gribble
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I'm a little late to the party. But here's my 2 cents in regards to Health Bars.
They should only be used for vehicles, pets, bosses, and regenerating enemies.
Everything else should be left untouched.
Normal whack a mole zombies or zombir dogs don't need a cartoony RED House of the Dead style bar taking up even more screen space.
Half of the fun is not knowing if it's dead.
Taking this away really would cheapen the game experience imo.
Just add health bars to the enemies and things/ vehicles that need real time knowledge of how much health is left.
I.e. driving your jeep without a health bar, you're unsure how long til it explodes.
Same goes for regenerating zombies or bosses. You need some kind of visual indicator be it thru UI, or even more awesome would be visual ♥♥♥♥ like they're walking cycle gets distorted, or they start bleeding a bunch.
Dismemberment is already in, so this could be done specially for bosses, without health bars even.
But alls I know is 7DTD ain't no arcade game and those HB's on EVERY zombie or animal would get annoying in a couple mins.
Ps. This is my first post. Damn I wrote an essay
I used to occasionally set a barrel down and shoot it at (hopefully tactical, but usually poorly-timed) particular moments during larger/tougher fights. Sometimes gas would build up in storage but usually this used it up at about the right speed. The fairly recent change that invalidated such a maneuver meant I suddenly had more gas than I needed.
It's so trivial to out-path zombies, and breadcrumbs won't change that...just make a few jumps needed and they're hopeless. Aircraft haven't ever been needed for evasion and won't be. They would be great for transitioning to permanently higher-threat areas but they're most likely going to be a one-off after the thrill wears off and you decide you'd rather be on the ground actually playing still. That and bragging rights if you're the only one who went to all the effort to get one functional on your server.
Roland
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I approve and ratify this first post. I can easily say that very few first posts have been as incredibly on target as this first post. Welcome to the forums and always post what I'm thinking please and thank you.I'm a little late to the party. But here's my 2 cents in regards to Health Bars.
They should only be used for vehicles, pets, bosses, and regenerating enemies.
Everything else should be left untouched.
Normal whack a mole zombies or zombir dogs don't need a cartoony RED House of the Dead style bar taking up even more screen space.
Half of the fun is not knowing if it's dead.
Taking this away really would cheapen the game experience imo.
Just add health bars to the enemies and things/ vehicles that need real time knowledge of how much health is left.
I.e. driving your jeep without a health bar, you're unsure how long til it explodes.
Same goes for regenerating zombies or bosses. You need some kind of visual indicator be it thru UI, or even more awesome would be visual ♥♥♥♥ like they're walking cycle gets distorted, or they start bleeding a bunch.
Dismemberment is already in, so this could be done specially for bosses, without health bars even.
But alls I know is 7DTD ain't no arcade game and those HB's on EVERY zombie or animal would get annoying in a couple mins.
Ps. This is my first post. Damn I wrote an essay
Dagzambie
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Welcome to the forum! I really don't have a preference for or against the health bars as I know I can mod it out of my personal game and I don't generally play on on-line servers. But I can see some peoples reasoning's for not wanting the clutter if they are playing on line and cannot change it themselves. I think a solution would be a toggle- press once to remove the bar, twice to remove all UI elements, and third brings back everything. Everybody happy.I'm a little late to the party. But here's my 2 cents in regards to Health Bars.
They should only be used for vehicles, pets, bosses, and regenerating enemies.
Everything else should be left untouched.
Normal whack a mole zombies or zombir dogs don't need a cartoony RED House of the Dead style bar taking up even more screen space.
Half of the fun is not knowing if it's dead.
Taking this away really would cheapen the game experience imo.
Just add health bars to the enemies and things/ vehicles that need real time knowledge of how much health is left.
I.e. driving your jeep without a health bar, you're unsure how long til it explodes.
Same goes for regenerating zombies or bosses. You need some kind of visual indicator be it thru UI, or even more awesome would be visual ♥♥♥♥ like they're walking cycle gets distorted, or they start bleeding a bunch.
Dismemberment is already in, so this could be done specially for bosses, without health bars even.
But alls I know is 7DTD ain't no arcade game and those HB's on EVERY zombie or animal would get annoying in a couple mins.
Ps. This is my first post. Damn I wrote an essay
Lonestarcanuck
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As long as I can turn off health bars for everything that would be great. I like seeing mine but only when I am below 30%. I don't care for zombies having them games like WOW have them on everything but you can turn them off.
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What about just making 3 different size gas cans that give you X amount of fuel? I large =full tank /small= half tank / jar= 1/4 with limited amount of miles for each...large lasts a day, etc?
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Dragontear
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Loving the updates - power attacks coupled with what seems like zombies actually falling backwards via ragdoll physics, the 'twitching' is, hopefully, going to be kept in as it looks creepy, and arrows sticking to targets. Distant trees for forested areas would feel much nicer, but also hoping for easier manipulation of the terrain, or for it generally become more interesting on the smaller scale - more tiny outcroppings, little dips, small hills or even minor cliffs/ravines.
Regarding healthbars, not too keen on something garish and bright-red for all enemies personally, but out of curiosity, what if something like that was unlocked via a perk, and slowly displayed while concentrating upon a single enemy? Doesn't necessarily need to be a large health-bar, maybe an ui-indicator or something.
Regarding healthbars, not too keen on something garish and bright-red for all enemies personally, but out of curiosity, what if something like that was unlocked via a perk, and slowly displayed while concentrating upon a single enemy? Doesn't necessarily need to be a large health-bar, maybe an ui-indicator or something.
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Demonoid74
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Yeah even in my project I only show enemy health bars for important targets and bosses , otherwise it would be a little distracting
Crater Creator
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Release to experimental too early, and you get too many reports on the glaringly obvious bugs, which aren’t useful. Release too late, and more of the obscure bugs that take longer to tease out slip by into the full release. Only The Fun Pimps have a clear enough picture of the state of development to see where that needle they’re threading is.
And that bit of lexical confusion right there is why “EA” is the most unfortunate game-related acronym for this decade.
I’m guessing you don’t work in the marketing department.For the airship, think steam punk. Not a Goodyear blimp, but dirty, stinky and... yeah, think men's locker room meets basement furnace.
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