PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17

[beHypE]

Is there any way to disable / tone down the late day / early night random hordes ? We've had a horde on day 2 at 21:45 and another day 6 at 21:55. Needless to say it didn't end well having 15 zombies swarm us all of a sudden while we weren't on our "7th day" outpost, and felt very unbalanced / unfair to say the least.

 

[Jugginator]

I found a couple very minor things in the Journal that may need touching up on eventually (especially with the increase of newer players here soon\concurrently). I missed a screenshot with the farming and fertile dirt, but with fertilizer being removed it should prob be removed from the journal, also the blood bag doesn't give health anymore so should be changed to it can be used to craft first aid kits, and in cold weather, "hyporthermal" typo. Minor things, but just in case no one's ever seen them (didn't want to make a bug report either lol)





Also hints blood bags could stop bleeding, don't think it works that way hehe.

 

[Lonestarcanuck]

I actually like that idea.

How about an actual manual and online test that you must past before you can use a weapon?

 

[Nimeni]

Is it me or they are to many guns? By day 7 i had over 50 guns and about 1000 rounds for them... If i need money all i have to do is to loot a gun store.

Now, i did not had time to play B208, was it balanced?

 

[The Gronk]

<snipped for space>

Not sure that's a typo.

Hyperthermal = Not enough heat

Hypothermal = Too much heat

 

[X16191]

Really do not understand why you all are complaining. I am ending day 2 and I am level 17!!! All I have done is clear out a few PoI's mine a little collect this and that yet to even go to the trader.

It's not that bad yes I found a greenie feral white in a building. Yes I killed it. Found a number of deals they are a pain but not the end of the world.

So by day 3 I'll have a bike..... by day 7 or 8 a mini bike how is this to slow paced. ? I am confused as hell.

 

[The Gronk]

Really do not understand why you all are complaining. I am ending day 2 and I am level 17!!! All I have done is clear out a few PoI's mine a little collect this and that yet to even go to the trader.
It's not that bad yes I found a greenie feral white in a building. Yes I killed it. Found a number of deals they are a pain but not the end of the world.

So by day 3 I'll have a bike..... by day 7 or 8 a mini bike how is this to slow paced. ? I am confused as hell.

Because the xp distribution is borked. I've been mostly mining and building so it took me the best part of a week to hit level 17. Farming zombie heads is a far quicker way to level up.

 

[X16191]

Because the xp distribution is borked. I've been mostly mining and building so it took me the best part of a week to hit level 17. Farming zombie heads is a far quicker way to level up.

I saw that I have close to 350 raw iron from mining.

I don't get the point of playing a zombie based game and not killing a few.

 

[The Gronk]

I saw that I have close to 350 raw iron from mining.
I don't get the point of playing a zombie based game and not killing a few.

I also kill quite a few but I like a lot of passive defences on my horde night base. The system just needs a little tweaking, maybe give xp for upgrading and repairing blocks a bit of a boost.

It seems like a larger problem than it is because it's the addition of a lot of small incremental values, the differences in which can only be seen clearly by playing over a long period of time.

 

[X16191]

Well a hundred turrets or so should do that just fine. There is many many options. It just takes time

 

[Perlin_Worm]

In multiplayer everyone is assigned a specialty job. No one wants to be stuck with that job that gains minimal xp

 

[X16191]

I don't mind mining at all I would job it for a group there is lots of options for exp

 

[GARGEAN]

So our changes are not adequate nor driven by common sense? Well you won't like A18 then, since it will just be the main menu with a zombie sprite bouncing around and the louder you scream into your mic, the faster it will die. :02.47-tranquillity:

Only some of them and only by my opinion. And most, if not all of them, have roots in same place it seems. Perk system. It's not bad by itself (despite lacking learning by doing which I liked), but it's just TOO overwhelming now. Farming was somewhat hard and required time and patience to multiply crops and fertilize ground. Now? Buy a perk! Stamina usage was harder and leveling it required time and carefulness with properly raising wellness. Now? Buy a perk! Making more damage with guns was a complex problem of leveling skills, crafting/finding better items and recrafting them to even better quality. Now? Buy a perk! Crafting new types of armor and weapons plus minibike was usually tied to some random recipes, which pushed people into houses with book shefts and specialized book stores. Now? Buy a perk!

Almost all of my previous complains (aside from maybe zombie corpses lacking and clay everywhere) are tied to lack of effort now for player to really do variety of things. It's mostly leveling and unlocking perks now. Which saddens me.

 

[DanLW]

Probably said before, but I dont like the XP notification when I kill a zombie. It let's me know they are really dead and won't get back up. Takes away that uncertainty factor that keeps me on edge, and that constant on edge feeling is part of what makes this game so great.

Perhaps if there was a way to delay the XP tag until 5 seconds after the kill?

 

[wolffblood]

Probably said before, but I dont like the XP notification when I kill a zombie. It let's me know they are really dead and won't get back up. Takes away that uncertainty factor that keeps me on edge, and that constant on edge feeling is part of what makes this game so great.
Perhaps if there was a way to delay the XP tag until 5 seconds after the kill?

You'd also want to delay the xp bar from moving as well, I notice that usually earlier than the bottom right notification. Though, I don't know how to delay either.

 

[GARGEAN]

Are wolf of two size now? I was raiding a Pass-n-Gas and on roof I found 2 wolf of different size, or is that some new animal?

If bigger one was black, then it's relatively old one.

 

[Gareee]

Does anybody has an issue with the bicycle vanishing in solo mode ? I can't see any bug report about that and it happened 4 times to me... Once in B199, three in the actual version (fresh restart). Thanks

I *think* I saw that once in 199... but it happened when I created minibike. It was like the game would only allow one vehicle at a time. I placed the minibike, ran around to get my bicycle, and the bicycle was gone.

I want sure if another multiplayer person took it, or if it really vanished, and the next day we got the recent update, so I never reported it as a bug.

 

[Gareee]

Is it me or they are to many guns? By day 7 i had over 50 guns and about 1000 rounds for them... If i need money all i have to do is to loot a gun store. Now, i did not had time to play B208, was it balanced?

Low level spare guns are a great source of mechanical parts when you cant find a wrench, or steel to fix them.

Look at gun mods being the rare good loot, and low level guns being scrap.

 

[Gareee]

Many play this game on private co-op servers and there a permanent party status makes a lot of sense. Especially for me since I often log off if I have to go away from the game for a few minutes, for security reasons ;-).

And why should the game choose for you, initially it is the player who invites someone else to a party, even on open servers it should be the player also who ends it and not the meta event of a logoff.

I agree. 90% of our play in the past three years is a closed CoOP server with friends. It's always a pain to have to send the party invites again.

 

[Junuxx]

Hitting grass once with a stone axe: 10 XP

Hitting a rock once with a stone axe: 1 XP.

Eh?