PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17
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he said he will have show us a video the last week but nothing...
Just thought of a legitimate reason for that sentence by the way. If he is a PVP player, the play style of other players influences his play style quite perceptibly. He might have meant just those bedrock-dwellers he meets on the servers he is frequenting. "No player is an island", at least in PVP.
Since PVP is of secondary concern to TFP until the SP game is finished and non-kickstarter-features have a hard time to be implemented now anyway, that wish above is even if someone acknowledges its legitimacy just a wish like wishing for the key to Fort Knox and a truck.
Royal Deluxe
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The only legitimate reason for
is beeing a jerk
Actually a working idea (if we disregard the "8 hours" for the moment and put some "fun" in). We already have radiation zones, but they are rather mundane, you just avoid them and their only use is to keep the player in Navezgane from finding out that he is Truman of "The Truman Show".
An interesting game element could be radioactive clouds wandering randomly over the world. Naturally you would have to get ample notification of this, but if that cloud comes, your only options are
A) go underground IF you have dug out something already
B) run
C) (and here the fun begins) don a very good hazmat suit, accept slowly damage to accumulate but have the chance to loot even high level buildings or areas because even zombies get damaged, slowed and/or confused by the cloud.
Finally hazmat suits would get the attention they don't deserve but should get anyway.
Royal Deluxe
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NOOOOOOOO they got me
Roland
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See, your problem is that you fundamentally don’t understand those who want threats underground. I see what you were trying to do there with a nice reversal but the thing is that pretty much everyone who wants underground threats would also welcome cool features like surface radiation or Al’s tornadoes that we have to try and adapt to and cope with.
Bring it.
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Unicumdeluxe
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Surface threads are cool if avoidable implemented but force the player to (re)act
The Bloodmoon we have
Toxic rain like in Killjoys:
The Bloodmoon we have
Toxic rain like in Killjoys:
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Unicumdeluxe
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Life from Germany
he´s on the run
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I had an idea regarding complicating underground bases.
It is resource heavy to simulate smoke or lack of oxygen, but lets tackle the same problem from another perspective.
The game already detects an "indoors" status for temperature and weather. Why not use the same mechanic to make all forges and campfires take twice the time to complete anything - simulating the player not making the fire as big as he would outside (for smoke and fire hazard reasons).
This would even add immersion. Realistically you should not put campfires and forges indoors whether above or below ground. Everything taking twice as long should be enough incentive to motivate you make your fires outdoors.
It is resource heavy to simulate smoke or lack of oxygen, but lets tackle the same problem from another perspective.
The game already detects an "indoors" status for temperature and weather. Why not use the same mechanic to make all forges and campfires take twice the time to complete anything - simulating the player not making the fire as big as he would outside (for smoke and fire hazard reasons).
This would even add immersion. Realistically you should not put campfires and forges indoors whether above or below ground. Everything taking twice as long should be enough incentive to motivate you make your fires outdoors.
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And radiated sharknados!
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In a way it was a troll-post, in that a 'don't tell me how to play'-argument is meaningless. One can say that by introducing underground threats TFP's are telling people how to play. One can say that by not having underground threats TFP's are telling people how to play. Hence I think that particular argument is horse-feces.
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Nope. I'm not a PVP-player. At least, mostly. I think there should be no safe-zones in the game. At least, not on purpose.
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Roland.... RO land..... Roolaand....See, your problem is that you fundamentally don’t understand those who want threats underground. I see what you were trying to do there with a nice reversal but the thing is that pretty much everyone who wants underground threats would also welcome cool features like surface radiation or Al’s tornadoes that we have to try and adapt to and cope with.
Bring it.
BRING ON THE SHARKNADOES!!!!
But on a more serious note:
- Random fog during the late hours, that really make you see nothing. But also the zombies see nothing so they won't hit you until they are very close.
- thunderstorms (radiation or disease ones) Lose health a bit unless you got protective gear.
- Rat infestations (goodbye crops)
- Solar flares (crops drying out if not irrigated)
- Polar sheer (winter colds on every biome except underground or highly isolated buildings / clothings)
- Zombie nests, the virus has nested like a beehive and produces smaller zombies nonstop. Requires flamethrower (new weapon) or explosives to clear out.
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