Armstrrong
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....What you don't understand - block/parry bad and shove is good. -_-
PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17
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I mean yeah parry doesn't make sense in that zombies don't use tools, but I'm likening the word "parry" to the way parry mechanics tend to work in games, that is, a timed counter-attack.
I disagree that blocking is inherently bad against attackers that run at you and flail their arms or dogs that try to bite. A shield would absolutely be effective against zombies as 7D2D has presented them, and parrying / shoving would just be a natural extension of blocking. All three of these concepts work as one, you could time a button press to block an enemy's attack and shove them away, resulting in the entire move being a "parry."
You could also theoretically block cop vomit or mitigate cop explosion damage for example with a shield.
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Armstrrong
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Yeah, shield is good for blocking, but we don't have shield and blocking with hunting knife is dumb.
The discussion is about developing melee weapons, and that would mean adding new weapons including shields, and expanding upon the attack style of various weapons, such as adding a sweep to clubs/hammers in addition to overhead swings. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear but I was actually suggesting adding shields with a blocking/shoving mechanic as part of a melee system expansion. I was never thinking about blocking with weapons but I guess I didn't communicate that clearly. I started this conversation after someone said developing melee combat is useless, which I disagreed with since melee combat is possibly the most fun and useful system in the game, and it could be even more enjoyable if it was developed further.
Armstrrong
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Looking from this position, blocking with shield is interesting idea, but if tfp add it.
Shoving mechanic is simple enough, so even without shield it's possible to shove zombies with your hands or weapon. Ability to kick with foot also can work.
Warnhammer
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If I don't have a17 this month, i will literally die.
69WithAzombie
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Did Madmole die? Did 7 days to die, die? I hope to not die before 7 days to die comes out! I hope 7 days to die does not die before I die. I want to live knowing that 7 days to die will be possible for my children. Maybe my children's, children. Maybe thousands of years from now aliens will come to earth and find this game and be like "it took 7,000 years we must finish this game". And then there is a huge space war and the aliens are killed. Then there is thousands of years of war over the game. And in the end... in a galaxy far far away... Someone.. or something, some life source.. Will play a completed, polished, ready to go 7 days. Imagine that. Gets me all fuzzy inside <3:sorrow: :flypig: :whoo:
Warnhammer
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well, to be fair, before alpha 16 released, the dev team was like...what, 6 people? if that?
Joel just hired on a bunch of new people, who have been explosive with what they're bringing to the table, including alot of things that were almost too menial to deal with as a small dev team, like how the landscape is formed, and how POIs interact with said landscape.
So hopefully it isn't too far reaching for these ideas to come to fruition, and hopefully its not putting the cart before the horse to aim so high for this next update, but that is just the type of gamble each and every update has. "Do we release something for this update that is basic steps, or do we shoot higher, and try to have an expansive, encompassing update that will drive more and more players to the game?"
Joel just hired on a bunch of new people, who have been explosive with what they're bringing to the table, including alot of things that were almost too menial to deal with as a small dev team, like how the landscape is formed, and how POIs interact with said landscape.
So hopefully it isn't too far reaching for these ideas to come to fruition, and hopefully its not putting the cart before the horse to aim so high for this next update, but that is just the type of gamble each and every update has. "Do we release something for this update that is basic steps, or do we shoot higher, and try to have an expansive, encompassing update that will drive more and more players to the game?"
Odetta
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Still happens, in fact my cousin just did a 3 month non paid internship for Kaiser hospital.
I don't understand what you are saying because this is how almost all internships work even till this day. She didn't get the job btw, it was for school credit.
Edit: Fun Pimps are based in the US, same as me. Don't think that applies here.
not sure of act, but when you use work Slavery, it generally means, the worker is not willingly doing it. If you think all a16 user of game, they are doing testing a alpha software after buying it. Isn't it that slavery ? no it is not, because they are willingly doing it after knowing that it is alpha software. So Internship cannot be seen as slavery. There is vast difference in ethics.
Marinxar
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This was answered in those Q&A's MM did a while back. At the moment they are not, for several reasons. 1. They do not have the time to train someone. The team is all focused on going Gold. 2 They are for the most part not working from a centralized location or office. ( Dont know if this has changed since, with the team getting bigger ) .
petruherro
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Oh man i had one of those dreams again where we get info about a17 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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