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Hey Guppy is the yellow health bar your doing?????
Are We There Yet!!! :)
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Chartreuse, and no, you can think your wax doll loving friend Roland for that.

...I'd tell you what he DOES with the wax doll of Albert Einstein, but I'm under an NDA. Rest assured, I won't be signing one regarding the stephen hawking one though. :)

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Make them teenagers. Everybody hates teenagers.
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We already have the skater punk zombie; I want to blast some 5 year olds in the heads, just like the The Walking Dead!

 
Boats/Fishing

I'm sure someone has brought this up but have they though about incorporating making boats/rafts and being able to fish?

 
I don't know what game you're playing, but we're having a very different experience. I'm on my 34th day and I still haven't found the most basic of schematics - no crossbow, no sledgehammer, and no spiked club. Though, I have found ten or so rocket-launcher schematics, countless AK-47, and a slew of others ALL that I already have. I died just recently as a feral spawned right beside me as I was repairing equipment in my menu. It literally killed me in two hits while wearing full armor. The first hit stunned me so by the time I was swinging and backing away I was already dead. Since I play single player there's no one to watch my back. How can you predict a zombie spawning under your feet, right after you just cleared the whole building? And on the way back, attacked by six zombie dogs (luckily survived that). Yea, I'm going with not the same experience.
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I get what you're saying, it is definitely easier with two people. But I've also done it in single player and have the achievements for it. Dogs are easy, you can outrun them. It's wolves that are the bother. Build a makeshift tower and snipe them with a bow, or run and jump into the water. They slow down much more than you do in the water. Same with bears, but they take a bazillion hits to kill on insane. I've been three hit by a lumberjack in full iron armour, all around the 500 mark a few months ago. (Which was totally my fault, stopped in the middle of the road to answer my phone). But that was back when my wellness was only around 120. Now, 0 deaths routinely, in several games. This is all at day 90+ on insane.

You just have to be smart about it. They suck at elevation, build a railing system above them and shoot through. I've built an impenetrable base on single player-insane with an electric fence all the way around, towers, spotlights, spikes you name it. I have pictures of it all, if you think about it you can get by without dying pretty easily once you're used to it. Master elevation and you've beaten every creature in the game.

To answer your indirect question, you can't predict zombies spawning at your feet. But you can stop it ever being a threat. Don't stop on ground level to repair things or go into your menus. Build a little tower in the street, stand on it and voila. 100% safe.

Mind you, I have around 600-700 hours played. Not sure how long you've been at it!

Schematics can be a female dog I agree. So can gun parts, I've found like a thousand pistols, two AK's, a rocket launcher, sniper and an SMG. But, I'm consistently ALWAYS missing one part of a magnum, which makes me cry.

 
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But, I'm consistently ALWAYS missing one part of a magnum, which makes me cry.
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This came up in the bug reporting forum a few times. The QA tester agreed that the magnum parts were way too rare, or a specific part was missing altogether (can't remember which). Don't know if it got fixed...seems not.

 
Is it just me or does the HP bar make anyone else giggle? Must be flashbacks from the 60's. :)

Wow! Its not exactly the clothing color I remember. I use to like woman in that color.

 
My idea is to add visual / visible cues directly on the BODY of zombies (or NPCs) you hit.

The more damage they receive the more scars, holes, bleeding you will see.
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bump.

also:

TFP planning to open their "what to do before the patch release" / "currently working/planning on" to the public anytime?

So will the Diary turns into a "Course"?

maybe, or not at all?

(currently, everythings shows up when its nearly done.)

 
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What this game needs:

it needs an update..not just a change of color on the bar that never moves.
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I Agree. It has been Red then Pink and now this color. Not sure why it is not moving, but they could have just said 'Not in March' and it would accomplish the same thing without everyone getting their hopes up.

I would like to say that I am VERY much looking forward to Alpha 17 and think the updates are going to be great! I understand that these things take time and we all want them done right. Just be straight with us and don't tease us with this color changing health bar that doesn't move.

 
Not in March. Probably not in April. Outside chance in June. Possibly July.

You just have to read the comments to understand the color changes.

 
I Agree. It has been Red then Pink and now this color. Not sure why it is not moving, but they could have just said 'Not in March' and it would accomplish the same thing without everyone getting their hopes up.
I would like to say that I am VERY much looking forward to Alpha 17 and think the updates are going to be great! I understand that these things take time and we all want them done right. Just be straight with us and don't tease us with this color changing health bar that doesn't move.
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You must have missed the point, the bar is a joke by Roland.....

 
Chartreuse color change is because some of the live critters in The Beard have expired.

The burning question is will they be consumed or cleaned?

 
I've played around 260hrs A15 and however many hours it takes to reach day 34 in A16. I'm not inexperienced I know about outrunning dogs though with cacti and other impediments it's not always easy. Some things like the tower just feel contrived and not something a real survivor would do. But I get your point. I'm not saying it can't be done just that it can be difficult, and it's easy to die from a little slip-up.

 
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I Agree. It has been Red then Pink and now this color. Not sure why it is not moving, but they could have just said 'Not in March' and it would accomplish the same thing without everyone getting their hopes up.
I would like to say that I am VERY much looking forward to Alpha 17 and think the updates are going to be great! I understand that these things take time and we all want them done right. Just be straight with us and don't tease us with this color changing health bar that doesn't move.
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What are you talking about? It moved thrice allready. :)

Cheers

 
The question about the types engines in game.

The question about the engines.

In the game there will be a minibike, a motorcycle and a jeep. For each of these modes of transport you need a different type of engine.

Will the game be able to craft engines of different types from parts?

Thanks.

 
Not in March. Probably not in April. Outside chance in June. Possibly July.
You just have to read the comments to understand the color changes.
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Those guesstimates for experimental or release?

 
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