I think that's part of the challenge.
Why? There is know why they can balance default to work for all skill levels. I have a friend that can only play on the easiest setting should they try to balance it around her?
Lol kidding aside.
People who are playing on Default difficulty are having troubles.
That's on TFP not the players.
So .... either default needs to be lowered or they need to adjust the settings.
No, the fact is that green zombies appear way faster in A17 than they did in A16 on a per level basis. This is the source of complaints.
No, what I said is fact is well.
Its allways nice if others know what people considered and what not.
Completely irrelevant.
I'm sure it is the real issue... but it's not the issue expressed by the OP.
Agreed. Been saying this for a while now. The amount of ammo (and probably glue/repair kits), not higher probably of mods or quality items, needs to increase with gamestage. It only makes sense.
Yeah. This post and a couple others combined with my experience in Survivalist made me make my own and think about things. I think game stage should cause everything like that to scale, such as getting more ammo/gunpowder/etc, high-quality mods (that upgrade guns, not dye and etc). But, instead of turning everything into rad, game stage should scale normal/feral zombie hp and damage (sleepers and other poi zombies anyway). It just makes it a chore and kills the "boss" factor of rads. They're as common as grass past day 21. I used to be shocked at the sight of a rad -- worried/scared even -- now it's like seeing any other normal zombie. Hell, I barely ever see normal cops or wights, they're all rad. Rad this rad that, not even ferals. Just more rads. Give hp and damage buffs based on game stage + difficulty to normal and ferals, make rads both rare and located in the end-poi loot rooms, and swarming your base on horde nights.
We aren't talking about one person though are we?
Without considering a few select POI's that have some gamestage adjusters that could make them show up even sooner, the first sleeper rad I could find in the xml is at gamestage 156.
So if Easy was the default there would be no issue? lmao. Who says default has to be doable by everyone? They had to choose something as a default so they chose the middle option. It means nothing. And btw I have been to level 150 on Default and it was easy peasy after day 14. So anyone having an issue just needs to git gud. Or lower the difficulty. While there is a lower difficulty to chose, no one has any grounds for complaint. End of thread.
Lol kidding aside.
People who are playing on Default difficulty are having troubles.
That's on TFP not the players.
So .... either default needs to be lowered or they need to adjust the settings.
Level, difficulty setting, and number of days alive. Though I feel it is bugged because my friend died recently and his GS only dropped by 4 (from 480-odd).
The gamestage is not bugged. You just have the wrong basic assumption about the daysSurvived variable. This does not mean the days since the last death but the days that were played. For each death two days are subtracted.
OK, where we are now, our GS is almost identical. Mine is 2 higher than my friend's. I have died 4 times total on this run and he has died 32 times. Can you explain that?
Exactly this. Want to get points? You need to level. How can you level the fastest? Kill zombies until you can make high quality iron tools because anything less breaks too quickly to be practical for leveling. They also break too quickly for serious base building. I'm only level 58 on my server and rad zeds are EVERYWHERE now so I can't raid most POIs or complete most quests. I've had to put everything into crafting so I can make high quality iron tools, so I can't begin to fight even a single rad zed. Today I lost every steel tool I had and my only decent gun when I died and then was spawnkilled..no way to find my pack. But it wouldn't have mattered anyway because half the zeds reset in the POI you died in. Yes, this game most certainly punishes you for making progress. The only way you have any chance is to form a group where a couple people specialize in non-combat skills and work on a pyramid funnel base day and night. Of course nobody wants to group with anyone they don't know in RL so admins have been forced to add safe houses to every server. This game is two steps forward, 1.5 steps back.