Loving seeing the new content of the houses with the skyscraper like puzzles/mazes the new mo cap, and the new vehicles. A16 too way too long to kick out and fix, and the game has kind of stagnated really needing some of the fixes like ai and smell... so this is a VERY welcome breath of fresh air!
Please don't be overly ambitious for a17.. the new houses alone would be fine for a quicker update as long as they were in rgw paired with the ai stealth and smell fixes to tide us over for a while. That would give you more breathing space to work on the vehicles and mo cap enhancements for the update after that.
Will the larger vehicles be able to damage blocks? Could make for some interesting tactics if that's the case.
That might be interesting, but only if there is a risk of too much damage and an explosion as a result... he hee!
My only concern is on a 4 player server, everyone driving minibikes can cause all sorts of issues because the game can't keep up. If the new vehicles are faster, the game will slow to a crawl.
There also has to be a driving need for the new vehicles...If there isn't any advantage to them to mnake them unique to gameplay, they are just eye candy.
If you get a bike by day 10, and a minibike by day 20, the other vehicles would have to be in later game stages, and once you go past day 50 or so, you can't keep up with resources to stop the increased horde difficulty. Later game difficulty is good, but if it becomes a no win situation, there isn't any reason to play later game where you would finally be able to use these new vehicles.
The early game challenge is leveling, collecting, and establishing a base.. if you have a bike too early, it might make resource gathering too easy too fast.
I hope the game developement flow chart has something like:
You need a bike: for this reason
You want to upgrade to a chopper: for this reason. (Maybe it could have front mounted blades, or a mini gun or shotgun for drive by horde reduction?)
You want a car or offroad vehicle: for this reason.
(Hmm.. maybe the cars would be good for multi player transportation only for road travel, getting stuck off road (like in real life) and the offroad vehicles would be the reason to upgrade to them so you wouldn't be restricted to road travel?
Sorry for the rambling.. its late.
I blame Joel for getting me stoked again!
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grrrr hate you so much.
how can you show us this month before next release......
It could be next June! A month is nothing...lol!
