meganoth

Mods available with bananas and banana trees in them: Apocalypse Now, Darkness Falls, Experimental Recipes

Salvage Tools magazine for the w(r)enches

So you confess to theft and gun trafficking? I may offer you a deal if you testify against your fence there, this Rekt guy.

I see it as a reward for people well prepared/punishment for slackers 😉. If I only remember to start crafting on the day of the horde I might have to improvise. Time is a very important resource in the game and this is one of the tasks where you have to manage it. Did you let clay run out in the forge? Did you forget to make darts for your traps? Did you schedule repairs for day 21? Well, too bad, cope with it. Yes, you can make 10 workbenches to get down production times. That is one further way to manage your time. Though you must either be a skyscraper builder or mighty disorganized to need 10 benches On my server with 4 people the max number of workbenches we ever had was one time with 5.

Zombie hunting licence please. Do you have a permit for that rocket launcher in the back?

Actually there is always a chance to get a net negative out of a harvest, it just gets smaller and smaller the larger your farm is. But on the other hand you continually find additional plants (especially corn and potatos in farm POIs) so even extreme bad luck never gets one really in trouble as the found plants can be made into seeds to fill up empty slots. In a recent game I had 8-10 plots for corn and potatoes each and I could supply 4 people with food. For all the other plants I only used around 4 plots each. Sometimes I had to make all plants of one type into seeds for one or two harvests to keep them at 4. But it didn't matter because I could always cook different recipes when one of those plants was in reduced supply for a week. Even corn and potatoes could have a really bad harvest but I don't remember that I ever came into the situation that I didn't have enough plants to replant all pots. Or if it did happen it must have been so easy to correct that I forgot it did happen. I remember there were harvests where I just got a handful of corn or potatoes for cooking though. Each harvest was different. In most harvests at least one of the plant types had a relatively bad harvest, sometimes even the worst case, say 0 out of 4. That meant I kept the whole harvest for seed production, i.e. produced 3 seeds and even kept the 1 remaining plant to bolster the next seed production. But this never had even a chance to go into a downward spiral because I also found seeds and plants in the world or at the trader. As a rule of thumb I would say any plant you consider indispensable should have 8 plots or more.

The need for glue is highly variable. If you want to play as an "explosive" archer on horde night then (before A21 at least) you need a lot more glue than typical. People are adverse to any change for the worse, if they have played with unlimited explosive bolts for a few alphas they expect to be able to make unlimited amounts again. Even without that, in a typical vanilla game my friends and I produced a lot of food and drinks, much much more than was necessary. And that needed a massive amount of bottles as well. Consequently it wasn't really seldom that we made jars in the hundreds and wasted them for food and drinks we just collected in chests to wither away. Not sure if some players even count that subconciously as water they need. But mainly explosive arrows and bolts are mentioned as the area where a constant and high amount of water is needed. If you compare to the nearly umlimited amount of bullets you can produce (since dukes make the only problematic resource unlimited as well) then explosive arrows could be at a disadvantage now depending on balance

Maybe it isn't always malice when people misunderstand you, maybe you sometimes just explain yourself in ways that can be misleading. After reading it for the third time now I can see that you probably meant to say something totally unrelated and opening up a new discussion in the second paragraph here. But really, a lot of people here have assumed the comment in the second paragraph about "don't need fixing" to be a comment on the water system.

Undocumented feature or bug? I knew there were occasions where stealth worked but my observational powers are 1/sherlock and I never realized it might be their facing away that does it. Run and Gun is a very good counter-argument. So agi already has a special mode of combat that is suitable for horde-night (and useful at other times as well) Gunslinger though is just the normal weapon perk and is (when not used with Run and Gun in a run-and-gun style) a lot weaker than other guns except for INT. But I assume you listed it because a run-and-gunner depends on this perk as well, right?

This is true for players who want to play the game only once. Specialization has a bonus for replayability (for players who actually use the specialization). Sure, you made a survey and a majority does ignore it. Means the game is made for the minority of that group. The game does not always have to be tuned to the biggest group of players, otherwise this game would be a battle royal PvP game.

Could that mean that flurry of blows only works at night? (EDIT: Okay, as we have a very good explanation for the riddle, I drop that as a theory) Another theory would be that they cope with the recipe removal by removing ONE perk from every perk tree as creating enough sensible substitutes for all the recipe perks would be a task they don't have time for. So Strength gets sexrex removed and distributed, agi Flurry of blows. Int would lose one of the recipe perks, I would put my money on the vehicle perk. In perception there are a few perks that come to mind, maybe the lockpicking perk that is useless as long as strength has multiple better ways to open safes, though I doubt that. There are other ways to fix this. And in fortitude the obvious choice would be LotL, though that perk is working well without recipes already. So I would put my money on the hunter perk as the better choice to go and be incorporated into the perception hunter perk.

I don't think it would be sensible for TFP to distribute all buff perks into the trees. Flurry of Blows was a nice perk but not the uberperk nobody could do without like Sexrex (IMO). If this is really it, I'd rate that as disappointing though naturally it has to be seen in context of all changes to the perk tree Looking at the riddle It could also be that the perk is moved somewhere else, but again I don't see that making sense as AGI would need an equal substitute. Especially moving it to strength as substitute for sexrex would not make any sense. My idea (knowing about the "moon" childrens book) is that flurry of blows is changed to only work on blood moon but is made a lot stronger. This would correct the balance problem that AGI is a good attribute under the week but a "handicap" in blood moon because all points in stealth are useless. Is there another name for santa clause that could work for the first picture?

What pretense? What else should bandits be in this game? What do bandits with guns do in other open world games? I'd say hiding behind cover and shooting at you. So Joel has humor and frankly says that bandits will not be the super feature that transforms the game into something completely new (which it shouldn't, this is still a zombie game). 3 years ago some forum users who were missing their "endgame" were so hyped they thought bandits would heal all their grievances with the game. It makes sense to downplay that hype because players with no sense of the complexity of programming and especially AI programming were dreaming of camps of bandits and bandit groups that actually work together and attack your base intelligently as a group. Sorry, but it was clear even then that TFP could not make this happen with their small team. As usual they don't tell us anything about features planned but not in the game. So you won't even find official infos about bandits going into cover. It doesn't make sense to complain about bandits already when nobody knows how they will enhance the game (or not). You were making that complaint about the water change. I haven't been with the game that early so you could be so nice to tell me the alpha where water was scarce (to show it was already fixed and they unfixed it to fix it now). Or were there were no water containers (to show it was reinvented). Bring some facts to the table. Possibly they are not very good at picking the best version immediately. I have the impression many game developers have the same problems as some (even famous ones) bring out a game once in a while that simply doesn't work well and is misconstructed. Maybe the drawing board isn't always the perfect solution for this problem. Maybe at least not for all developers. I can (mostly) distinguish rants from reasoned discourse and the ones that come to mind were rants. I especially look down on rants about "there was no reason to bla bla" when I had heard about a few reasons on this forum and often could think of a few myself. Oh, and I can look down on them as I am not part of TFP and the ranting posters are not my customers.

He didn't either The new system makes water scarce in early game and makes the game more difficult. That was one reason for the change. Among many solutions they also selected the one that fit with other liquid containers not being simulated by the game. For it probably also counted that it was as easy to implement as other solutions. So this shows you why it was fixed and why this particular solution among many others was selected. So could we please drop the "They keep "fixing" systems that don't need fixing" complaint that you hear all the time on steam from people simply too lazy to read up on the real reasons behind a change. It is still not 600 levels and it still is very different from what was in A16 Have you seen zombies ducking behind cover lately? If yes, it seems you have a different version of 7D2D than I have and bandits will bring nothing new. 😉 Here I agree, the block system really was reduced in complexity a bit. But mostly it reduced a lot of unnecessary clicks. Still a controversial change.

Jars? No. How will the world react to the jar meme vanishing? Will a youtuber cry in pain? Will netflix produce of movie about the vanishing? I think nobody will notice the absence of a meme that wasn't there in the first place 😁 Advance engineering improves mining? What strange mushroom have you been smoking?

Lets remember here that you complain that Halcyon is comparing this game to a non-zombie game. . . . Still remember it? Good. Just checking 😉 TFP and Roland have given reasons why they did it, and those reasons were recapitulated by a few forum posters a few times. And since you are frequently here you can't claim you didn't hear about them. If TFP could only ever change what forum posters were complaining about their choices would be severly limited. And actually our main topic, before you made this into a rant about all changes you don't like, was sexrex. And yes, sexrex was broken because it was needed by all attributes but only cheap for strength. Oh look. Still remember your complaint from above? You are comparing 7d2d to a non-zombie game, another non-zombie game (with a small zombie mode in some of them) and another non-zombie game. 😉 What about jars? You were saying that jars were a meme. Do you think "jars" when someone mentions 7D2D? With "sexrex" I actually went to far in my argument, it is very much linked with 7D2D and I sure will mourn it for 2 seconds. But every game actually builds memes or iconic things out of overpowered items or skills, though with sexrex the word sexual in it also might have contributed to it. Either way, OP stuff has to be toned down or removed and memes come and go. All you need is renaming another perk to "buttstroke" or "Power of Jen" and 2 years from now those will be memes and a forum user named Matt319 will say 7D2D can't just remove that as it is an essential meme 😎

A meme is nice when it otherwise doesn't distort or worsen the game. I'm all for keeping the turd or pistols in toilets, the latter could be called a meme by now. But calling everything a meme just to keep it is just the same old fear of change a lot of players here have. Putting jars on a pedestal and calling them a meme is really strange. Why would you think they are a meme now and not just that you became used to them? Sure, anything that you find in the game in the hundreds is burned into your brain. But that doesn't mean it is a meme or if it is that it is a positive meme. There is nothing special about sexrex, except that the name is funny. Exactly the thing you are complaining about in respect to other things in 7D2D.

The increase in balance between attributes is huge. The overall decrease in difficulty is almost negligible, especially if most players simply took Strength to avoid the increased difficulty of paying for sexrex in other attributes. ---> A 99.983% positive change 😉

No way, you are our resident (fake) artist now. 😁

The order of the pictures suggests "onscreen craft tracker". It could be that you see listed in your GUI what's still cooking in your workstations (and backpack?). That it tracks where you are with your magazine reading does not sound as likely as there is already a page in the perk/skill section for that.

You need port 26900 tcp and the ports 26901-26903 upd. The other ports are for special cases I think, not needed for playing or the browser. You also need a current serverconfig.xml and set the new properties "Region" and "Language" to correct values. Disabling both network protocols is an interesting experiment but not helpful if you want it to work. SteamNetworking is for cases where the ports are not forwarded, if you did it right your server should be able to use litenetlib

Bad news: TFP seem not to have gotten the source code when they got the rights back after that auction ~3-4 years ago. Even if they had it would be doubtful they could do much as the game had massive problems running on that relatively weak hardware. TFP will produce (or let someone produce) a new console version up to par with the PC, but it is almost guaranteed (IMHO) that it won't fit on the older console generation even though they kept the possibility open for now.

I don't know, but create a game under proton and give it a distinctive name. Then search for the name with filesystem tools (for example "find / -name 'game name' -print" in a shell). The same way you can find the location of your old game. Compare. Oh, and the launcher should also open the savegame location. Probably the proton save game is at a location where proton simulates a windows directory structure, i.e. it would be somewhere with a name of .../Appdata/Roaming/... So you might find the location without generating a game with "find / -name Roaming -print"

If you define survival sense as anything that helps scrounging then you should have listed agility as well as having none, while perception has. If you define it more general then Int has the medic perk (which is survival related) while agility has none. If you define "getting stuff" in general then trading skills are very much in the thick of it.

Is that a horse-sized groundhog there in the middle?