Exxodous
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On 6/14/2023 at 2:59 PM, Greymantle said:
I will give you that they succeeded all right. The problem is what you seem to see as success, I see as a lot of unhappy people.
And I see a lot of people enjoying it....In previous Alphas water was something I considered once or twice a playthrough, and it was simple. Loot 5 or 6 houses, take the 50 empty jars you got out of cabinets to a puddle and boil..... BORING. Now, it's something I have to think about pretty much daily. I wouldn't classify it as particularly challenging because I haven't died from lack of water or anything but at least it's entertaining.
2 hours ago, Apocalipservice said:Oh, the logic... So you're saying that all survival games don't use water containers? Wow, I rlly didn't know that - no idea that dew collectors and disappearing containers were standard for survival games. Thanks for that protip. 😆 JFC Srsly, this one didn't have one until now. *shrug* Note that it's a hybrid game, not a full survival game but it's mostly supposed to be about fighting zombies and not be a drought simulator ffs. Being a survival game also doesn't equate to making a sudden and drastic change in how folks have been getting water and that change making all the pretty lakes and rivers more useless than they were. That's calleds dev not having a clear idea I think they're fantastic scenery but we can't fish, can't boat, and now zeds can spawn there. There's water everywhere but we have to set up big blue water farms if we want the teas, food, glue etc midgame (multiplayer anyway which is what I mostly play) - yeah there'll be enough water but besides the unwanted water farm the change seems very poorly thought out. That's why we have mods though. 😃
You don't need to wait for modders to fix this for you. Simply edit the XML to put more murky water in cabinets. It's probably only changing one number in the loot tables. Or CM some in magically. Either way "poof" the problem is gone and the rest of us can enjoy the changes.
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Or......you could continue to play A20.
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1 hour ago, GlassDeviant said:
There was nothing wrong with the water system. Loot, or make jars and collect water. Boil it. Use it. Simple and effective. I've seen some dumb changes to this game, but this one goes right over the top. So enlighten me, what is the justification for the change?
Because it's a survival game maybe?
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4 hours ago, Neminsis said:
The third would just be changing the frequency that it appears in traders inventory. For that matter just a broader array of stone tools at the trader would be more affordable and that would be handled similarly, but even though the books are more expensive there's something nice about crafting it yourself.
I don't think you'd really want to add books to the starter gear because it would affect everyone of every playstyle and throw off the balance.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting the Fun Pimps make the change to the game, I was suggesting individuals who found it problematic could make those changes fairly easy to their own games.
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2 hours ago, Neminsis said:
To reiterate the suggestions that I have made, bump up the exp for resource gathering, the dukes paid for bulk resources, and maybe ensure that tool crafting books are available at the trader during the first 7 days at least to more closely match the conditions present in this build.
The first two are easy edits to make in the xml files, not sure about the third, but you could probably add a few books to the starter backpack maybe?
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18 minutes ago, Scyris said:
naw it takes more skill points not less. when Sex t-rex was in str, it affected ALL melee weapons and tools. In a21, its in the weapon/tool line, so you wanna get max stam reduction with wrenches? too bad you gotta take int to 10 now to get 5/5 salvage ops. Wanna reduce stamina of knives for butchering kills? welp you now need 10 agility and 5/5 knife perk. They made the problem worse not better. 5 str was all you needed to max Sex t-rex 8-10 skill points total, compared to now where getting max stam reduction even in one line is over 15 skill points, and thats just for ONE, want more than one in more than one stat? going to cost you another 15+ skill points.. See why this is a bad change now? It especially hurts single player, well the stat system as a whole kinda screws single player entirely tbh. It just costs more period even with a single weapon/tool line to get max stam use reduction with the system in a21 than it did in a20, now multiply that by 5 stats. it now costs well over 5-10 times the perk point to maximize stam use reduction
But if you wanted to use wrenches wouldn't you be taking 5/5 salvage ops requiring int 10 (15 points) anyway? I've never even considered needing a stamina reduction for butchering an animal that takes 5 or 6 swings lol.
But anyway the way I see it, if I'm playing batons I'll already take 10 int and 5 in batons....so with the new t rex I don't need to take 5 str and 5 t rex saving 10 points. If I also want to spears for example I'll still want 10 in it's parent skill and 5 in spears, still saving the 10 points in the str tree. It just seemed in the past that I always had to have points in the str tree no matter what skill I chose, now I do not and I think it's great.
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8 minutes ago, Scyris said:
I'd argue against the skills being balanced for single player. We went from 1 level gate in a16.4 to 5 level gates in a17+ in the form of stats, so tfp just made the problem worse. Its even worse in A21 now as sex t-rex is no longer in str, so now if you want stam cost reductions you have to waste perk points in stats you do not want. I'd rather it be put back into str. but also part of the weapon lines themselves, so you can either take the general sex t-rex perk that covers all or use the specific one for your weapon type. So annoying using a wrench now because it just drains stamina so fast without sex t-rex and I hate it.
TFP I been noticing keeps removing more and more choice from the player with each update.
I think your confused how "T-Rex" works now. If you put points in clubs or spears or miner 69 it's basically built in already. I'd argue it takes fewer skill points than before, because if I wasn't doing a str build I still had to level up T rex.
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Play nice you two!! Lol
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14 minutes ago, VALL said:
So you admit you are just trolling. I never asked for a conversation. You are just assuming that. I am simply giving the developers feedback from someone that has bought the game and played it a long time. If you want me to explain my reasoning I am happy to. As I already explained every POI *IS* a quest now. Regardless of weather or not you pick it up from the trader. You can't craft without finding randomly placed thousands of books. Just not very immersive or fun. Very forcefull way to force people into POI's for a game that should be a more open concept. That is my opinion. Shrug. Hope you have a great day.
But you can craft without ever finding one book, I think what you mean is you can't craft top quality items by mining rocks all day and spending skill points. Maybe that's why they are called skill points instead of recipe points?
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14 minutes ago, Auger said:
On the first few nights where I have nothing to do I'll just exit to menu set the length of a full day to 10 mins. Log in wait like 3 mins till morning. Log back out and reset the time.
Kind of cheap I know , but I've played over 3000 hours so I don't like sitting there all night doing nothing.
I'll only do that for the first day or so. Once I have armor and weapons I'll with prep stuff for next day or go scouting. I also usually set up a mining base and mine at night.
Press F1, type DM and enter, Press F1 again, press escape and slide time to 4 am, hit the exit button. It's a lot easier than logging off and on twice. You can turn debug off again when your done if you want by repeating the first 3 steps.
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I imagine since the baton is to top tier weapon in intellect, your game stage is low enough to keep them rarer maybe?
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My group has probably had a few more crit hits than normal, but it is a survival game at the end of the day. Just have to remember to be a little more careful is all.
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What is it exactly you feel you can't do any longer? Gather infinite water from the river? Have you tried this? Walk to the waters edge, open creative menu and give yourself 10000 murky water, close menu. It's about as challenging and time consuming as getting water used to be.
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24 minutes ago, Survior said:
so having a tough time getting water for 2 game days after which you will have a magic water dispenser and the ability to drink directly from any lake (with a helmet filter) justified replacing all better laid more complex mechanics?
Yes....and better yet I don't have 100 glass jars and 100 cans in my inventory every house I loot.
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Playing Co-op with the wife and so far Great Job Fun Pimps!!!
Performance is considerably better on my rig and it's 5 years old.
New art and POIs are great
Dismemberment is fantastic and funny as hell
*&%$*ing zombies eating my kills is fabulous. lol
We're on day 4 and I've crafted more tools and weapons than most entire playthroughs already....NICE We will actually craft our bikes instead of taking the trader reward bike. That hasn't happened in my playthroughs in a hot minute.
Food and water have been a challenge so far. We were excited to be able to make corn bread. When was the last time that happened? .... Never. By night fall we are both hungry and thirsty. Getting the water filter was easy enough then we realized we hadn't been keeping plastic....Oops
No cans or jars cluttering up my inventory is great. I hated scrapping a can every time I ate.
OMG DOORS!!!! Makes the world so much more realistic!
A21 was worth the wait for the hatches with the arrows alone! lol
New work stations are awesome.
Houses with names instead of Oldhouse546125464. I mean, c'mon who can't love that?
Magazines have been fun in my opinion, not sure why there's been some hate on them. I'm enjoying spending my skill points on things other than recipes to be honest.
Just my opinions on day 4, Good job to all that brought us this build!
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Any suggestions on how to generate random world? 3 tries in a row just stops responding on 8k world at smoothing street tiles somewhere in the 90% range.
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First time playing this mod and of course I've got questions lol. Found the forge ahead book, place it in hot bar, use it and it doesn't unlock the forge. What am I missing? I've tried reading it everyway I know how but I'm lost at this point. It seems any schematic that says it must be read from the hot bar doesn't work, just disappears. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Think I figured it out....need character levels it seems. Thought it was just going poof.
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On 1/26/2022 at 12:17 PM, Star69 said:
Fatal recently posted that it is a default Unity setting that he turned on in A20.1 that’s causing the error. He will be turning this setting off in the next update and work with someone from Unity to resolve the problem. The setting is supposed to offer some optimization but isn’t working as expected.
Hope it's soon, because it's currently unplayable for me.
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18 hours ago, faatal said:
It is probably Unity graphics jobs. I enabled them a few weeks ago, since that is now the default for Unity projects and they are supposed to improve performance. Two testers started having random crashes and they have reports of others crashing. I disabled it today, which will be in next exp. When we get our new consultant from Unity, that will be one of his initial tasks of why Unity is doing that. We will give it another shot once we switch a21 to 2021 LTS.
Thanks faatal for the feedback. Hope its soon because 20.1 is pretty much unplayable for me currently. Guess I could roll back to stable but I liked the changes in 20.1. Other than this one obviously lol.
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5 hours ago, PThunderhorse said:
Did you look at the error report? Is it a stack over flow or something else?
I did look at the report. All I can tell you is there were tons of origin reposition lines in the report. I've no clue what that means.
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After reading some other posts I see I have dozens upon dozens of Origin reposition errors as some others do. Is that normal?
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Seems like certain sounds trigger it. Like starting a quest or closing a door. I think 3 times it's happened immediately after clicking on the quest start marker.
Here's the output log. Yes I'm using mods but had no issues before 20.1 so I don't expect any official support, I was just hoping one of you savvy programmer type players might be able to see the issue.
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Been getting this since 20.1 Can anyone tell me what is causing it? Crashes me to desktop every time. Sometimes I can play 2 hours then it will happen every 5 or 10 min. Other times will start after 15 min play time. There's also some sort of audio input error that shows up in my task bar, but I didn't get a screenshot. When I log back in I'm about 45 seconds behind where I crashed. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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3 hours ago, meganoth said:
Create a new topic (in General Discussion at least) and you should see two tabs, one titled "poll"
There is a forum section for questions like this.
Thanks, that was helpful.
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Alpha 21 Dev Diary
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I've done the tier 2 infested quest at gas station 10 twice and I think 3 times as a tier 1 and didn't notice it having more zombies, is it just such a small building it wasn't noticeable? I was expecting more lol.