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To Joel and and the rest of the Fun Pimps, alpha 17 is amazing. Please don't change it. It's a real survival game now not a jumping around, never tiring fps shoot em up.

Bugs aside, where it stands now it feels like a complete game. I would be happy to pay for DLC that included bandits and settlements.

The tedium of looting zombies for junk is gone and replaced with the anticipation of that rare special loot bag. Combat feels real, the danger feels real. The POIs are not just buildings making up the scenery. The multiplayer is stupendous - this is where the update goes to another level. The skill tree is great for giving party members the feeling of place and meaning in the world. Now one person can have his place in the group because of his skill set rather than just a position on the kills leaderboard. The skills have also brought lots of replayability. It truly shines with a group of friends.

In regard to graphics the feather in it's cap is that it succeeds in looking nice while being a voxel game. Everything can be destroyed and built yet it's presented in a way that we don't notice the metre by metre world of blocks it is. The only thing I would like to see is more coherent ground and flora textures for the forest Biome.

Could sa so much more.

Thanks for an awesome update and please don't dial it down.

LOVE IT!

 
Okay, just a few things:
1) I found the jump distance for zombies in xml, what's the amount for 1 block height? I put 1.1 for basic zombies and they still do the crouching tiger hidden dragon on me lol...but power hitting a flying zombie is so satisfying. just wanted some insight on that though..once I know what 1 block is, I can work from there
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The value is in meters (blocks) and is jump distance horizontally. The jump is an arc, so they get about 60% of the value in height.

 
I started a new game with my son last night. 4 days done. Level 12. 0 deaths for me and 1 for him. We did one quest and bailed on a second. Got crippled in desert by heat and no water, but make it out next day back to our church roof base where we hole up each night, except for that night in the desert, where we hid on a building roof.

I just found a small sturdy tool store, not far from the church, that we will be using for our day 7 day BM.

The challenge is real, but if you pay attention, plan ahead and don't go blundering about, it can be done.

Sneak attacking sleeper dogs in the head with an arrow for a one shot kill is sweet. I'm doing x2.8 with perks.

I also got to test doing a simultaneous sneak attack. Each of us line up for a head shot and fire at the same time and since there is a small delay in zombies going alert, we both get x2 (or better with perks) damage plus the bonus if you hit the head. We one shot a wolf doing that and use it on boars.

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!

 
I started a new game with my son last night. 4 days done. Level 12. 0 deaths for me and 1 for him. We did one quest and bailed on a second. Got crippled in desert by heat and no water, but make it out next day back to our church roof base where we hole up each night, except for that night in the desert, where we hid on a building roof.
I just found a small sturdy tool store, not far from the church, that we will be using for our day 7 day BM.

The challenge is real, but if you pay attention, plan ahead and don't go blundering about, it can be done.

Sneak attacking sleeper dogs in the head with an arrow for a one shot kill is sweet. I'm doing x2.8 with perks.

I also got to test doing a simultaneous sneak attack. Each of us line up for a head shot and fire at the same time and since there is a small delay in zombies going alert, we both get x2 (or better with perks) damage plus the bonus if you hit the head. We one shot a wolf doing that and use it on boars.

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!
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Nice :)

And same to you.

 
@faatal

I've noticed that with wandering hordes, they sometimes seem confused. Seen them walking in a line (well, not a complete line like they used to) to me, then start bumbling about in an area. They don't progress any further. I have to get their attention to get them moving again (typically just kill them), is that intentional? Seems odd is all. Makes it easy to pick them off in smaller groups. Even one time saw them split into groups and start walking all different directions, only happened once so far, but the bumbling around walking has happened about every 1 in 3.

And yeah, I power attacked a sleeping vulture and launched it a good 10m, same with a flying vulture that was attacking me. Shot him once and he went about 20m. I started laughing so bad that I missed a zombie dropping in from above. Survived, but man did that hurt. lol.

 
We honestly don't know what it will take to stop the hordes..
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That's pretty bad then.

What could be done is a massive gamey trench around a trader and a small fort against the trader's unbreakable cliff walls.

 
That's pretty bad then.
What could be done is a massive gamey trench around a trader and a small fort against the trader's unbreakable cliff walls.
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They'll pyramid over by what I've heard, so won't be stopping them that way. Lol.

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Omg... just got a very foggy night, my lord. If I didn't have run off, I'd be hiding in my base right now. Like to get a feel for the new stuff before I take on running guys in "The Fog" like fog... it's so freaking creepy. I LOVE IT.

 
OMG! Molotov Cocktail is amazing! So beautiful. And burning zeds give you XP! Just correct the description, you don't have to 'light it with secondary action', it is already lit, just thow it with primary action (unlike pipe bombs, and the pipe bombs don't give you XP).

Noted - Gazz

 
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OMG! Molotov Cocktail is amazing! So beautiful. And burning zeds give you XP! Just correct the description, you don't have to 'light it with secondary action', it is already lit, just thow it with primary action (unlike pipe bombs, and the pipe bombs don't give you XP).
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Agreed :)

 
I neglected to unload a shotgun before selling it. Trader gave me back the 8 rounds, huh.

b199 the repairing a tool 'jump to the head of the line' is gone. very sad :(

That giant green hog, Hogzilla or HulkHog? Please let us know if anyone manages to kill one, & how much bacon you got... :croc:

 
Anyone complaining about how hard it is and are unwilling to lower their settings from default just because it is "default" should really stop. If the game is too difficult then lower the settings. It doesn't make you any less of a person. People who can play on default or higher probably do not want it easier.

I've seen people complaining about this exact thing in facebook groups.

Please do not make the game easier for those who are insecure.

 
I neglected to unload a shotgun before selling it. Trader gave me back the 8 rounds, huh.
b199 the repairing a tool 'jump to the head of the line' is gone. very sad :(

That giant green hog, Hogzilla or HulkHog? Please let us know if anyone manages to kill one, & how much bacon you got... :croc:
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I ran into a bunch of them on a certain POI (wont spoil which one), there were like 5 or 6 giant zombie pigs. I finally managed to kill one but didn't get to harvest it since I was being stalked. FYI - it took around 60 stone arrows and 19 T2 hunting rifle rounds to drop it.

 
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I ran into a bunch of them on a certain POI (wont spoil which one), there were like 5 or 6 giant zombie pigs. I finally managed to kill one but didn't get to harvest it since I was being stalked. FYI - it took around 60 stone arrows and 19 T2 hunting rifle rounds to drop it.
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I killed three of them and got around 250 meat (had some harvest perks tho) and around 150 hide.

Actually it might have been a 250 stack and a 90 something stack of meat.

 
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Yup. I got disoriented a few weeks ago, ran the wrong way. I was the meat in the sandwich. Another time I was already knee deep in POI walkers when a wandering horde busted in (They hate being excluded from anything and like to crash parties) so I fled but hit a dead end in a bathroom. I went out in a Blaze of glory emptying my AK like Carl Weathers in Predator and got rekt so hard.
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Down in a blaze of glory, only way to go really. Thanks for that visual, also nice to know I am not alone in such fates. And as fate would have it, I was just wrapping up a brutal POI, nice juicy loot rooms got me a bit encumbered, so naturally I heard a chorus of footsteps and moaning as I began heading for the exit(for a second I really thought you sent them, somehow.) Fashionably late, but as you said never wanting to miss a good party. A second of panic as I realized I had just spent all my AK ammo, crushing my dream of any Carl Weathers style ending... then I realized I still had 2 molotovs:D So this time THEY went out in a blaze of glory, and I limped slowly home with lootiful grin, albeit a slightly singed one because of course I set my self on fire too.

 
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