I agree.
I don't know about WASD back then as I joined the team at the start of A17.Popping in after a while to yap like I've never yapped before, so sorry. I finally had a chance to purchase and play on Console Edition and it's incredible! I'm genuinely surprised at how intuitive the new controller layout is, though I do miss not having to hold Y/Triangle to use the D-Pad shortcuts (I still prefer it over PC A15... I've been meaning to ask, why weren't the WASD shortcuts in that version of the game? Was it a limitation or something else?). It actually didn't take me long at all to get the hang of it, and I thought I would. Using the controller does feel better with the updated combat too, but... I totally use aim assist because I am a giant baby (feel free to clown on me).
I do have a question though—I have a Series X, and I notice even in the 4k worlds that frames drop every now and then. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't trigger my motion sickness. Are there any plans at all in the future to unlock even some of the graphical options beyond brightness and motion blur toggle? I'm noticing while I'm playing what I know I can do without to possibly gain better performance. I can't remember if anyone said anything about it, so I figured I'd ask, and if not, pretty pretty pretty please?
( Also if it matters any, my parent, who was a long-time old console version player, is having an absolutely blast with this version, too, maybe even more. They're enjoying themselves greatly and love all the new stuff ( if you could have heard how they screamed when they saw all the new potted plant decorations and paintings... LOL ). They're also most excited for cross-play and are eagerly awaiting that, since we usually played split-screen on the old version! They actually prefer playing 7 Days over their other games of choice, which is like, the highest honor my parent can give since they're a die-hard Bethesda fan. But nope, they're loving Console Edition more! )
(bolded the actual questions so y'all don't have to read the yapping, ok bye!!!)
It sounds good... at first. But I don't think I'd like having to sit around waiting for a storm to pass before I can play the game. I suppose I could scavenge a building I'm in, but that doesn't take much time and unless the storm lasts only 5 minutes or something realtime, then it just seems like it would quickly become annoying rather than something interesting. I would have to see it to know for sure, though.
At this point, I wouldn't expect another vehicle before gold. After... maybe. As far as POI that far away, you are likely talking about tier 4-5 (6 with infested) quests. These POI mostly only spawn in larger cities because of the districts that they spawn in. So unless you're building your base near a large city, you're going to have to travel a long way for those. RWG now only makes small towns in the forest, which is where you're likely spawning and building. That means a long travel time. You'll probably want to just go and build near a larger city after you are up to that tier of questing to save time. Or build a mini base near there that you can unload stuff at and just occasionally transport everything back to your main base.
Well, bandits are different because you can fight them. Though I still hope for an option to disable bandits because I think they will hit be something I like since I play this to fight zombies and not people. But that's another topic.To keep things simple yet dynamic, I would treat storms conceptually like wandering hordes. That is, at random times a storm comes in from a random direction and advances on a straight line path until it leaves the map. The shape of a storm, in terms of where the gameplay effects happen, could be a ‘marching chunks’ kind of deal, where a chunk is either in or out of the storm at any given time. Of course the visual effects would be more amorphous, to blend the boundaries.
There should be multiple, intuitive ways to counter the storm, probably including:
- Get out of the storm’s path before it reaches you. To make this possible, give the player some indication of where the storm is on the map - even just a marker at its center.
- Take shelter. As in, get some blocks over your head, and/or be considered ‘indoors’ using calculations the game already makes.
- Wear armor mods, to mitigate the damage from the acid rain or radioactivity or whatever makes the storm harmful. If you don’t, your armor’s taking significant damage, and if you don’t have armor, you’re taking significant damage.
It would be phenomenal if a storm did block damage. Like, picture an invisible vulture puking down aimlessly from up high in the middle of the storm. This would really engage with the 100% destructible voxel world in a way other games can’t. The resulting damage would be like a bad storm actually blew through, instead of there oddly being no consequences on the world. And stronger materials would hold up better than weaker materials. So you’d have the option of throwing up a wooden shelter at the last moment, but it may not survive. The storm could even additively drop persistent puddles of water or debris - again, just utilizing the voxel tech that’s already there. But I suspect storms won’t do anything this cool.
TFP have talked about a random event system for a long time, where conditions on the ground are at odds with what you were otherwise planning to do (think not just weather, but bandits). I can spend the better part of a day working on crafting, making base improvements, thoroughly looting/harvesting a POI, putting together a trader run, etc. So I’m not too worried about a storm taking me out of the game - there’s a lot to do inside, so long as it doesn’t last too long. Those that don’t want to be cooped up will gravitate towards the “get off your ass” avoidance option, and go off exploring some other part of the map. That’s why it’s important for the storm to not be a hurricane that affects the whole map.
Apropos of nothing, that’s what I would do.
Well, unless screamers appear at a POI I'm in, they last far less than 2 minutes. I hear them, I run out and kill them. Often before they call reinforcements. Even with reinforcements, I can kill all of them in probably 30 seconds. If I'm in a POI, I just ignore them. Maybe they come in, maybe they don't. If they do, things get interesting.
