PC first day loot lucky looter :D

Always nice when RNG gives you some good stuff right off the bat. :)

just got a lvl 4 mining helmet on day 1, day 2 got several wrenches, a lvl 3 shotgun, and a level 5 compound bow.

yet took all day on day 1 just to find a stupid cooking pot. RNG likes to toy with us.

RNG: "here's some good weapons and tools, but oh look, you're out of water and food"

ME: "got lots of snowballs, jars, meat and eggs, but no damned way to cook them!"

RNG: "giggle"

(kept looting, found the pots, made a beeline back to base, got there just after dark, and managed to get my food water taken care of. was in the 50s on the bar.)

 
with gunparts this wouldn't happen... but I guess its just too much "micromanagment".

Back in my day the gunparts were integrated to expand the looting.

To give you the feeling of accomplishment when you finally found that last weaponpart.

You found weaponparts as often as you find weapons now.

So you would have a pistolpart or a shotgunpart and every 15 parts you would find a whole gun, mostly pistols and sometimes others. But within that gun was always a bad part draging it down so finding single parts was always a reward.

Now I scrap 9/10 of all my weapons for parts. On day 7 I already have a pistol and a shotgun (4/4 playthroughs) and 2/4 I had an ak and a sniperrifle. 4/4 I had a complete compoundbow and enough steelarrows to go looting.

TFPs don't know what they want.

They make bases completely invalid with logspikes beeing gone and A.I. beeing way better because they want to make the game harder.

They give you 10x the guns because "micromanagement is bad"

They make zombies pop out of walls like they actually planned to ambush the player because pois should be harder

They remove wellness which actually mattered as it gave stamina and hp, and introduced a near deathpenalty which nobody likes.

Lets just face it. A17 is a mess. No way around it. You can like it. It can be a great basis for A18, but A17 itself is the worst alpha since A9 (for me because I started with it).

Its uncoordinated, all over the place, broke the game in many aspects, removed core features and replaced it with blandness and performance also suffered.

The only good things it brought was graphics, vehicles and some smaller stuff like ragdoll, arrowphysics and some pois make the world nicer.

But overall a catastrophe. Still fun, but only because 7d2d is a great game and had 16 alphas to improve, not because A17 is good.

 
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I got a few decent drops too, which was surprising given that 25% loot leaves most of the yellow zombie-bags (and just about everything else) completely empty (still gives XP). I know I got an orange shotgun, and ammo.....shotgun ammo! I've found a couple pistols too, and they also came with their appropriate ammo.

Not sure if these were deliberate tweaks, but if so....nice change devs! :)

-Morloc

 
I remember when my daughters were trying to convince me to try 7D2D. While I was downloading from Steam, they insisted that I check EVERY toilet I saw cause I was going to need a pistol and ammo asap. First toilet I saw I looted a pistol and 20+ rounds.

 
Always nice when RNG gives you some good stuff right off the bat. :)
just got a lvl 4 mining helmet on day 1, day 2 got several wrenches, a lvl 3 shotgun, and a level 5 compound bow.

yet took all day on day 1 just to find a stupid cooking pot. RNG likes to toy with us.

RNG: "here's some good weapons and tools, but oh look, you're out of water and food"

ME: "got lots of snowballs, jars, meat and eggs, but no damned way to cook them!"

RNG: "giggle"

(kept looting, found the pots, made a beeline back to base, got there just after dark, and managed to get my food water taken care of. was in the 50s on the bar.)
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Yeah the exact moment happend to me too this run ahhahaha omg. i found a cooking pot in a ♥♥♥♥ing SINK XD but never acid LUL also yeah.

 
with gunparts this wouldn't happen... but I guess its just too much micromanagment for people with a mind younger than 2.
Back in my day the gunparts were integrated to expand the looting.

To give you the feeling of accomplishment when you finally found that last weaponpart.

You found weaponparts as often as you find weapons now.

So you would have a pistolpart or a shotgunpart and every 15 parts you would find a whole gun, mostly pistols and sometimes others. But within that gun was always a bad part draging it down so finding single parts was always a reward.

Now I scrap 9/10 of all my weapons for parts. On day 7 I already have a pistol and a shotgun (4/4 playthroughs) and 2/4 I had an ak and a sniperrifle. 4/4 I had a complete compoundbow and enough steelarrows to go looting.

TFPs don't know what they want.

They make bases completely invalid with logspikes beeing gone and A.I. beeing way better because they want to make the game harder.

They give you 10x the guns because "micromanagement is bad"

They make zombies pop out of walls like they actually planned to ambush the player because pois should be harder

They remove wellness which actually mattered as it gave stamina and hp, and introduced a near deathpenalty which nobody likes.

Lets just face it. A17 is a mess. No way around it. You can like it. It can be a great basis for A18, but A17 itself is the worst alpha since A9 (for me because I started with it).

Its uncoordinated, all over the place, broke the game in many aspects, removed core features and replaced it with blandness and performance also suffered.

The only good things it brought was graphics, vehicles and some smaller stuff like ragdoll, arrowphysics and some pois make the world nicer.

But overall a catastrophe. Still fun, but only because 7d2d is a great game and had 16 alphas to improve, not because A17 is good.
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i am sorry u feel this way honestly a very negative view but i might be young and navie in the sense i dont reach more then 4 weeks in each playtrough before i feels like i won the game, sure i understand you thhink a17 is a mess but it really isnt, only thing they need to do its the fps stabilzer performance if the garbage collector and just make zombies feels smoother and or add few stuff like more life..

when it comes to looting, i feel like a house u have 20 loot stashes right? and prob 15 of them is empty. 5 gives u alright loot that me to is what bums me out, but ofc all lockers shouldnt have loot in them still if youre really unlucky u can go several hours ingame with no loot or scraps. but i like way its going. cant complain much about how its going i felt like a16 was to easy and made me bored after 7 days and i am new player.. so yeah more life better performance all i wish for.

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I got a few decent drops too, which was surprising given that 25% loot leaves most of the yellow zombie-bags (and just about everything else) completely empty (still gives XP). I know I got an orange shotgun, and ammo.....shotgun ammo! I've found a couple pistols too, and they also came with their appropriate ammo.
Not sure if these were deliberate tweaks, but if so....nice change devs! :)

-Morloc
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yeah its nice to open a bus van and get 10 bullets LUL

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yeah those good ol toilets are proven deadly LUL first time i starvd navz game in a 16 i did the same as u XD its always a shocker tbh

 
when it comes to looting, i feel like a house u have 20 loot stashes right? and prob 15 of them is empty. 5 gives u alright loot that me to is what bums me out, but ofc all lockers shouldnt have loot in them still if youre really unlucky u can go several hours ingame with no loot or scraps.
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maybe im just very lucky or just know the loottables by heart.

Bc after looting 10 cars and a military camp, I have enough weapons for 3-4 hordenights.

 
Best day one loot was a Chainsaw in the first 5 min of playing in the trunk of a car. That base went up quick! ;)

Is it me or are bird nest in 17.3 giving next to nothing 80% of the time? In 17.2 they were dropping consistently. Now I end up destroying the empties for feathers.

 
maybe im just very lucky or just know the loottables by heart.Bc after looting 10 cars and a military camp, I have enough weapons for 3-4 hordenights.
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And people moan about not enough ammo... jk ;)

when it comes to looting, i feel like a house u have 20 loot stashes right? and prob 15 of them is empty. 5 gives u alright loot that me to is what bums me out, but ofc all lockers shouldnt have loot in them still if youre really unlucky u can go several hours ingame with no loot or scraps. but i like way its going. cant complain much about how its going i felt like a16 was to easy and made me bored after 7 days and i am new player.. so yeah more life better performance all i wish for.
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I would love for 7DTD to have on regular loot almost every container you find have something. Doesn't mean it has to be something worthwile. To some extent it could be annoying like in Project Zomboid, but on the other hand the most peculiar items would be in very specific POIs, not in common houses.

The same could go with loot. Sure you could find a resource deposit (dungeon POIs) hidden in the attic or basement and you could explain this by other survivors gathering the items and dying some time after. Nonetheless, if you only have dungeon POIs around you, it's like you can get stockpiled on everything you need as long as you loot only them (with some luck ofcourse).

 
Best day one loot was a Chainsaw in the first 5 min of playing in the trunk of a car. That base went up quick! ;)
Is it me or are bird nest in 17.3 giving next to nothing 80% of the time? In 17.2 they were dropping consistently. Now I end up destroying the empties for feathers.
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I had a lot of good loot on my first day as well. cooking pot, grates, tons of ammo, 2 mining helmets, weps. No food, but plenty of water.

I got 2 batteries and 2 wheels also.

As far as nest go, i got tons on mine and i loot almost everyone i see.

 
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with gunparts this wouldn't happen... but I guess its just too much "micromanagment".
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Yeah, instead he would have a bunch of muni and useless items he could do nothing with.

Praise it all you want, former weapon parts system was a pointless mess - that's why it was scrapped.

 
I don´t want weapon parts back. But firearms are waaaaay to early in game now. Actually it should be stone tools and bows for at least a week, before you can find/use guns and ammo.

 
I don´t want weapon parts back. But firearms are waaaaay to early in game now. Actually it should be stone tools and bows for at least a week, before you can find/use guns and ammo.
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Stone tools for a whole week ? No thanks. I had a forge and iron tools in A15 and A16 on day 2 at the latest. The level gate for the forge and the production of iron tools is annoying enough already. Fortunately I had a working forge at my trader so that I could produce forged iron to repair the tools I found.

As far as the weapons are concerned, they don't play such a big role for me. I even use the bow voluntarily longer than a week because I hate these loud firearms and only use them in an case of emergency. The bow and the crossbow are the ranged weapons of my choice.

 
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Yeah, instead he would have a bunch of muni and useless items he could do nothing with.
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EXACTLY! Its called patience and gradual reward.

You are still happy about that sniperpart you found. To be fair i hated shotgunstocks but everything else was awesome to find, even if it gave no immediate reward.

 
RNG is RNG.

Last night went through over 20 nests, not a single egg. Then I get a bunch.

Running low on meat, nary a critter to be seen except bunnies. (not chasing those down)

Riding back after doing a quest, deer in the road. then a pig. and a wolf. oh look, another pig.

Finally got the nerd goggles, and a monkey wrench page. oh, I can do minibikes, iron tools, and whoa! lvl 5 (for 30 min)

prep everything and spend that time making the bike, tools.

This was on day 5.

Have a lvl 5 compound bow, lvl 5 sledge/iron club, iron tools. lvl 4 mining helmet, lvl 3 shotgun and ak.

got the weighted head, barbed wire, rad remover mods either found or bought.

3 of the storage pouch mods (one of each lvl)

oddly, 2 sets of the tool and die thing have dropped.

only found ONE battery in all the wrenched cars, and of course, that went into the bike.

granted, I'm messing with trader gen, and have 100 on the seed I'm using. (code posted in another thread)

so someone will have the little things I need. :)

First day run is always exciting though, as we have nothing, and there are things we all feel we MUST have.

( a bloody POT!! number one! )

heh, should make a thread for "what the best loot you've found on DAY ONE" and what's the worst day one for loot.

(mind you, that just might tempt the RNG gods, and not in a good way. hrmmm)

:D

 
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