The problem is that in a normal game (ie. default settings) it doesn't take all that long or all that much effort to amass thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of dukes, making brass practically infinite. You're correct in that brass, by itself, isn't all that useful.... but, it should be a little harder to accumulate than it is.
Aye, and by doing so, you save a LOT of ammo and potential dukes. Because, melee don't use ammo, a couple repair kits perhaps, while a gun user have the cost of lead, nitrate and coal and brass + the time to put all this together.
The balance doesn't really involve melee vs ranged. That's balanced by more risk for instance. Madmole has even stated many times during A18 that guns really come into play during the hordes where melee is less feasible. If someone wants to use a gun and not be ammo efficient you don't balance against that anymore then you would balance against someone not wanting to wear armor.
Not in the slightest - melee is being rewarded for something ranged don't have - the risk associated with getting up close and personal with Zeek.
That's exactly how I play. I am absolutely a melee combat player. However, I don't know what GS you guys are looting tier 5s on, but a point comes when melee is simply no longer viable in POIs except on the odd small group which is rare. Your typical rooms are 12+ irradiated/feral. Outside horde night I try to never fire a single bullet....but where we are now we had to change that playstyle for t5 quests - melee doesn't cut it even when fully specced for it and with best melee items you can get. Baseball bat is my preferred, friend uses Sledge. Heck even top tier Pistols and Pumps won't cut it imo, you need AKs and or M60s and AP ammo. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE it, the combat is absolutely crazy, but we need a ♥♥♥♥-ton of Brass. A single tier 5 is as intense as horde night but we don't have the base and all our traps to back us up.
After about GS 600 the vast majority ARE armoured. And feral/ irradiated. You can't melee.
Again, your playing on insane, that multiplies the gamestage significantly. You can't jack up the difficulty to the hardest difficulty and expect the game to be balanced around you. They balance it around the standard default setting and then your free to modify it to make it easier or harder.
I have got to know what the term cheese is supposed to mean, I see it a lot and I think you mentioned it 6 or more time in your post. I like cheese as a food so I do not get how the word cheese clarifies something.
Everyone will face what I face sooner or later. At that point, when they spend 2000 rounds in a T5 because melee is no longer viable and every zombie is an irradiated Soldier and they come a dozen at a time, they won't be so quick to condemn the dukes/Brass ratio, I think.
I have 2000+ hours in the game and have played post GS 500 in A18, and have played it modded for MORE zombie spawns, more hordes, less loot, less food, less meds, etc. Just because you have issues doesn't mean others don't. Again you keep ignoring everyone else and only using your own game which you have set to insane which does other things such as turns zombies into bullet sponges which is not the same experience other's will see. Playing it on insane more then DOUBLES the gamestage compared to the base difficulty the game is built upon so its going to be a drastic difference
I will comment on that part seperately. The new players are what keep the game alive and generate publicity for it. If the game is woefully imbalanced then their first impression will be the game is a joke and the reviews will reflect that.
You've got the right idea. It's not really a wildly different definition for gaming. A technique is called cheesy if it's in obnoxiously bad taste. It's something that works, but you don't feel proud for doing it, and you may feel disgusted seeing other people do it. People frequently use cheese and exploit in the same discussion, and both may be unintentional and/or overpowered (OP) ways to play. For instance, most of the tricks a speed runner would use might be considered cheesy if performed in a 'normal' playthrough. Like other matters of taste, it can be highly subjective.
Thank you for the definition of the term."Cheese" is an old gamer/mmo term for anything in the game that allows you to exploit to gain a distinctive edge against the environment or mobs (zombies/critters in this case). 7d2d is absolutely drowning in cheese, it is easily exploited. New players do not realize how much cheese is available to them even with A18, things they could do that are available right from the moment of entering in the game. As such the game is harder for them and an experienced player quickly outpaces them in gamestage.*examples*
1. I started a new server map a month ago due to moving away from experimental and switching to stable with my comrades. During the first few minutes of the game I had breezed through the tutorial mission and headed for the trader about 1KM away. Along the way I grabbed every nest for feathers/egs, every rock, grabbed a few hundred wood/grass all while running to the trader (still no cheese, just experience so we understand the difference). I get outside the trader and theres a bear there, and a mountain lion (all of this is true story btw). Rather than avoiding them like the plague I aggro them and sprint inside the trader before they cant reach me, using the terrain to stay just ahead of them (minor cheese, jumping on rocks, using pathing exploits). Once inside I close the doors because the trader depot is invincible to them (bigger cheese). I lead them to a small opening in the fence where they attack like crazy doing nothing to the depot. I quickly make a wooden spear from the materials I found and proceed to kill the bear, the cougar, I make a bow and aggro a nearby couple of lumberjacks and spear them down too for good measure and I am now suddenly somewhere close to level 5 (HELLO CHEESECAKE!). I have been in the game for less than 30 minutes, server is on standard difficulty. I THEN finish my "find a trader" quest with several more points to start with and start doing burial treasure missions.
2. I wont mention the nerdpolling exploits and other things you can do, they put the last cheese to shame and essentially make the game easy mode when doing fetch missions. I'm glad they are increasing rewards for clear missions to give those more incentive, at least those can be a challenge.
MP is where it is at in this game on co-op, just wish everybody would log in at the same time
