Seems to be like Fallout 4, where you can join either Noah's faction or the Duke although the Duke (like the Institute) are portrayed as the default bad guys.
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4sheetzngeegles
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ok, look up duke of navezgane. One reference names him as Cassadore but In the 7 days to die wiki. Supposedly Noah
opposes the duke, and is the one that found you naked in the beginning of the game, The white water note. Then you
see the Duke's casino token has a picture of Noah. So unless he has some sort of unrequited crush on him. Then there is
a picture labeled A painting of the Duke. So is Noah just a Schizophrenic with split personality. Or is the story that confusingly
written on purpose. This has been in the back of my mind for years. I just never brought it up.
Old Crow
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What? No, it doesn't have a picture of Noah on it. The tokens depict a Native American that resembles the Duke.
khzmusik
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You can get some pretty specific information from the game files and Wki, but this isn't the right forum for it.
I posted something in the General Discussion forum, but it is awaiting approval. (I included links to Wikipedia and the official Wiki, and that probably triggered moderation. EDIT: Or it could be all the salty language from the game's translation entries. Ironic if so.)
In the meantime, these are the in-game portraits of the Duke and Noah Wright/White, respectively.
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4sheetzngeegles
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Thank you.
That you got 11 likes for this post (something usually reserved to Fataal posts with lots of information) is a strong indication that this would be a very popular option.
Sadly there is still the unloading of chunks that makes this hard to implement, you would need to add routines to keep zombies outside of a chunk memorized and simulate their path. Though even if only inside loaded chunks it might have some good effect, not sure. Alternatively parameters like the AI pathing length could be stored more easily accessible in XML or options, that would already be some help.
This would be one of the ideas that TFP seems to have internally already worked on but never finished, legendary weapons. At the moment I would be already happy for something smaller, for example weapon mods that might be copies of existing mods, just with one stat slightly better. Nothing you absolutely need, but only found in loot very seldomly and only in specific but varying end room containers.
The advantage would be that even after playing the game for a long time players could still be searching for that one elusive mod.
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FranticDan
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There's a mod that does this, WalkerSim, which keeps track of thousands of zombies in unloaded chunks
Adam the Waster
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Also is there any chance we will get a knife book series? I know night stalker buff it but it's mostly for stealth
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4sheetzngeegles
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What about the second half of Roland's post. Why was the part of them finding a way to you,
or going into destruction mode reweighted? That part is not dependent on multi chunk distance.
It was closer to traditional tower defense, because they attacked the tower more often. It was basically
a rage mode against structures, like there is a constant rage mode when in battle.
beerfly
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Yeah I miss that, a bit. Now they enter rage mode when they can't find a way to you. They do try to make one, but few zeds banging on walls instead looking for you would add additional layer of defence I think.
You have to ask him what exactly he meant by it. If the zombies can't see or reach you though they attack structure and have been for a long time. Additionally they randomly go into destruction mode even if they could reach you. So what is missing there in your opinion?
Also, I don't know if I ever have played a "traditional" tower defense, but I have played a few and in all of those the enemies have not attacked any defense towers but were simply walking to their destination, the central tower (as far as I remember). If you were controlling a toon in the game yourself they would attack you though. Now in 7D2D you are essentially the central tower and the zombies already attack you. So I don't think you can argue with tradition in this case. Except if you played the original mod from warcraft and can tell me what happened there, I have no knowledge of how the mod worked in that regard.
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Roland
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It was reweighted because of how easy it was to predict their behavior and manipulate the entire horde at once. People could simply step from one block to another block and the entire horde would reroute itself in a conga line to follow a different path and you could seesaw the zombies back and forth between the two pathways all night long. Also, every zombie in the horde would go for the same exact spot in your defenses and could seeming see through walls to find the weakest point and people didn't like that ability in zombie enemies.
So now we have a mix of zombies that have variable pathway distance knowledge, chances to forget pathways, and the destruction mode option for those that have no pathway to you all to prevent what could happen in the original AI change of A17. I agree that it was important to fix those weaknesses but it could be cool to have one type of zombie that acted like the A17 zombies now that the general population of zombies isn't like that any more.
In addition, the A17 zombies were awesome in POIs when you were infiltrating even if they didn't work the best for horde night. It would be nice to have separate AI routines for horde night and non horde night zombies. Sometimes the propensity for them to forget pathways and go into destruction mode make them pretty useless when confronting them in POIs. It's dumb when you are just standing on the other side of an open door way and they try to jump out a window....
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4sheetzngeegles
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@Roland
That is what I was talking about, and thank you.
I meant during, the other 161 hours of the week not the 7. I build my personal mods
based on 6 days of interactivity not the one. I usually turn off horde night for that very reason.
Since you have an idea of what I am predisposed to, judging from your reply.
Is it still possible for me to recreate within xml alone or was it a combination of
xml and code overrides? I just needed a direction because I have been trying to
recreate it only partially successfully to this point.
That is what I was talking about, and thank you.
I meant during, the other 161 hours of the week not the 7. I build my personal mods
based on 6 days of interactivity not the one. I usually turn off horde night for that very reason.
Since you have an idea of what I am predisposed to, judging from your reply.
Is it still possible for me to recreate within xml alone or was it a combination of
xml and code overrides? I just needed a direction because I have been trying to
recreate it only partially successfully to this point.
That is what I have been doing, making a hybrid set of actions and reactions, 30 alive, sweep and clear an area to do a poi,
4sheetzngeegles
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I mean, it's cheap and won't affect performance. The biome already has smoke/haze, but they need a way to indicate to the player that the smoke is affecting them, similar to the red we already get when we're injured or green when we're dealt radiation damage. Seems consistent and logical.