[Is there a plan to return to survival horror?]

8 hours ago, Riamus said:

The unfortunate thing for people who want hardcore survival aspects in the game is that such players are a very niche group.  If the game caters specifically to them, it will sell far fewer copies than if it caters to a wider group that isn't looking for a grind.  That isn't to say they can't make things more difficult, which they are trying to do with water scarcity, but I wouldn't expect too much change at this point when they are pushing for gold.

 

Personally, if I had to work too hard to find things, I probably wouldn't play the game.  Challenge is fine but having to try forever to find enough of XYZ isn't my idea of fun.  It's like games that make ammo so scarce that you basically can't use guns except in limited situations... I usually quit playing those game after a couple of hours or never play them.  Sure, it's realistic.  But fun?  No.  That's just my own preferences and others have different preferences.

 

As mentioned, you can use mods to get at least close to what you are looking for.  And you don't have to double loot a POI.  I know you can but it isn't a requirement.  It is extremely rare that I will do that regardless of the loot because it just feels too gamey.

They don't have to make it super grindy, but eating glass shouldn't be a viable healing methoed.

[Is there a plan to return to survival horror?]

5 hours ago, rateds2k said:

Why does it feel bad? They set up this game to be very mod friendly so you can have almost any game play you want.  Wish all games were like this.  You get your survival horror feel and someone else gets another type of game play.

Oh no, im glad the game is mod friendly. I just don't like that I need to mod the game to actually make it fit into its genre.

[Is there a plan to return to survival horror?]

53 minutes ago, FranticDan said:

You can play Hardcore Survivalist mod.
This mod keeps the vanilla feel, but nerfs everything to bring survival back into the game.
Less quality in loot.
Less harvest from blocks, including salvaging and butchering.
Traders are also heavily nerfed too, so no more online shopping getting everything you want!
You start infected and have to keep the infection under control, until you can find the cure, which can be found in the one custom T5 POI that is added for an end game challenge.

https://github.com/Frantic-Dan/Hardcore-Survivalist-Just-Die-Already

Cool. I will look into it, just kinda feels bad that I need a mod to make a survival horror game actually be survival horror.

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As the game stands, it has left the survival horror genere and is just an arcade shooter/Tower Defense game. Death isnt a penalty. Scavaging is a joke with perks/books and double looting PoIs. At no point after day one do I have to worry about survivng and I dont even need to build a base for forever.

[I want wellness to come back.]

I started 7DTD in A10 and have recently come back to find the game to be hilariously easy. There is no punishment for screwing up and dying. The EXP penalty is a joke.