warmer
Survivor
Player background, I've been playing since A6 w/ at least 50hrs on every major alpha and I have some thoughts
After 30hrs on the current build, these are some things I really like
The good:
Zeds crawling through 1 block spaces is GREAT!
Much better random world gen is GREAT!
I like the traders reacting to the world/player state
And that is where it ends for me on the good.
The ugly:
The survival aspects have been chipped away to only food and water now.
Progression feels very linear now with the biome badges and loot caps. This isn't an open world game anymore like it once was. It's the perception of choices, that are really just gates that can be opened with a tedious quest for a biome badge.
Give me a meaningful quest to get an item that allows me to survive in a next biome and I'm all for it. The generic arcade feel of the current biome badge system feels very pasted on and doesn't fit into the natural vibe of the game for me. I understand your thought process, but the execution is just SO SLOPPY in practice. It takes me OUT of the game instead of drawing a player IN.
The paid outfit DLC's before we get bandits are really the icing on the cake for me as far as respecting what your player base wants.
I would be amazed if a single person who has been playing this game for years seriously cares about outfit DLC's over a feature that is years late arriving.
Unfortunately the promise of this game has been dumbed down to a degree I just don't enjoy the vanilla game anymore. This is where I finally say after 1300hrs of playing this game, the original vibe of this game is gone. Now 7D2D feels like you handed this game off to an entirely different team after your studio was bought out. Where is the DNA that once was 7D2D? Why did you lose sight of your original scope that your players have been begging you to return to for so many alphas?
I'll come back once Bandits are in. Until then I'm playing this modded to the gills, because vanilla just isn't what I loved about this game for the first 1000hrs+
After 30hrs on the current build, these are some things I really like
The good:
Zeds crawling through 1 block spaces is GREAT!
Much better random world gen is GREAT!
I like the traders reacting to the world/player state
And that is where it ends for me on the good.
The ugly:
The survival aspects have been chipped away to only food and water now.
Progression feels very linear now with the biome badges and loot caps. This isn't an open world game anymore like it once was. It's the perception of choices, that are really just gates that can be opened with a tedious quest for a biome badge.
Give me a meaningful quest to get an item that allows me to survive in a next biome and I'm all for it. The generic arcade feel of the current biome badge system feels very pasted on and doesn't fit into the natural vibe of the game for me. I understand your thought process, but the execution is just SO SLOPPY in practice. It takes me OUT of the game instead of drawing a player IN.
The paid outfit DLC's before we get bandits are really the icing on the cake for me as far as respecting what your player base wants.
I would be amazed if a single person who has been playing this game for years seriously cares about outfit DLC's over a feature that is years late arriving.
Unfortunately the promise of this game has been dumbed down to a degree I just don't enjoy the vanilla game anymore. This is where I finally say after 1300hrs of playing this game, the original vibe of this game is gone. Now 7D2D feels like you handed this game off to an entirely different team after your studio was bought out. Where is the DNA that once was 7D2D? Why did you lose sight of your original scope that your players have been begging you to return to for so many alphas?
I'll come back once Bandits are in. Until then I'm playing this modded to the gills, because vanilla just isn't what I loved about this game for the first 1000hrs+