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22 hours ago, Krougal said:
However, you seem to discount that it's free advertising, and advertising is what is driving the whole thing.
You are echoing what every music venue tells a band when they don't get paid.
"You guys are getting paid in free exposure."
Exposure doesn't equal revenue ever. I have seen 1000 McDonalds commercials in the last year and that hasn't gotten me to spend a penny on them. That aside. Quite a few people watching already own the game, so you can't assume 1000 eyes balls on a stream = 1000 potential new buyers.
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22 hours ago, The_Great_Sephiroth said:
No change to experience though? See I am used to higher difficulties rewarding more exp. I assumed the zeds would be harder, but why do that if it's the same exp?
There is a setting for xp % there can independently be adjusted
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17 minutes ago, The_Great_Sephiroth said:
Also, while speaking about difficulty, what EXACTLY do the difficulty settings change the game?
It just affects damage done to player and done to zombies as a percentage of the default.
I believe easiest is 50% damage to player and 200% to Zeds and hardest is reversed 200% to player and 50% to zeds
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7 hours ago, Kyoji said:
There are ways to increase difficulty without adding such mechanics of zombies spawning on triggers. It's immersion breaking to see the zombies spawn right before your eyes and it's not much more difficult to force trigger zombie spawns once you know the mechanic. It also ruins much of the luster behind an entire perk tree as many new POIs abuse the trigger mechanic making them impossible to utilize stealth.
I use stealth and have never felt it was ruined by this because you can't stealth your scent. This is a fundamental aspect of how all creatures identify prey in the when they can't see them.
That aside, stealth with immunity to be detected would completely ruin this game in terms of difficulty. It's really easy to make your way through a POI without triggering a single sleeper, all without a single point in stealth if you take your time. Without ambushes, my same point remains. All the difficulty is sucked out of it.
For me cranking up the HP/lessing damage down doesn't increase difficulty, it just makes things bullet sponges which I can't stand in games. It's not harder, it's annoying. That is just a lack of creativity in enemy/gameplay balance.
The hardest part of this game has always been time management. How you spend your time is the most difficult choice when you play solo and that is me 95% of the time.
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8 hours ago, meilodasreh said:
I completely agree, but this is exactly why I don't like this system.
What you say may be correct for the first, maybe the second time you do a poi.
But after that you know exactly when and where you will be abushed, and from where they will come.
Sure there is some variety, sometimes one of the hiding spaces is unpopulated, but still, where's the thrill then?
Wouldn't it be better if the zombies would kind of have their own life within the volumes, so that you can only expect them to be there, but they are in different spots every time?
If you ever double dip on a quest, you'll notice some POI have several spawn variations. It's not drastic, but they do change locations, I do agree having a more dynamic system would be cool. Personally my ideal would be some sleepers and a few wandering in a poi. The closets make sense when you think about it. Where would you hide from zombies? lol they just all got infected before hand, that's why they are there.
I do like the blocks that break suddenly. Those still surprise me quite often because of how many POIs they add with large updates.
A good one to add would be one that crawls out from under the bed. We have a crawl animation, it would be cool if they could work that in for the skinny zombies. The big zombies would probably clip through really noticeably1 -
I can understand the lack of realism, or "cheese" when they pop out of walls/closets. However, without this stuff, the game completely loses any sense of danger for me. Once a game becomes to predictable I cease wanting to play.
Everytime I barely make it out of a situation with single digit HP I think "this is why I keep playing" that rush is what I aim for. Without ambushes, I personally, wouldn't feel any POI is a challenge after 1000+ hrs of gameplay.
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I think it makes good sense the only places you find it are toilets and cupboards/coolers. This is lore consistent regarding a point at which an "open to the water cycle" source have become contaminated. Dew is unique in that each particle is so small it doesn't contain other chemical elements like rain does (collecting contamination as it travels through the atmosphere)
The big issue with reworking this change is the value of a water filter mod for a helmet is huge. It is a milestone point for any characters evolution. I think keeping it as is, and forcing dew collectors or boiling none wild sources is the only way to maintain a crafting balance as water is a huge component in the crafting economy. Once you have unlimited H2O then you next bottle neck is bones for glue, then cloth for duct tape.
Water keeps crafting paced in my opinion and slows progression for a balanced MP game.
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44 minutes ago, Riamus said:
However, if your distance is enough to get beyond the loaded chunks, they will just dig no matter what.
That is what I am thinking. The back wall is 70-ish meters from the entrance and about 50meters below ground. Probably 34-40 rock in between the surface and the base layer.
What is the total size/distance across a chunk? Is it the size of the prefab block/sections in cities? I have read it's a 16x16 square from bedrock to sky, but the zombie spawn much further out than that on horde night. I'd say at least 100 blocks away and run.0 -
I have a straight path going into a slope/mountain that is at about a 45 angle. The distance from the front is almost identical to the depth.
My idea is to make a series of easy to destroy frame bars with camp fires between them. Ranged Damage, plus fire, and easy clean up to exit.
At which point will they choose to dig down vs, run through the front?Is there a maximum distance between you and the entrance, that they will just spawn directly above and dig down?
If anyone has some metrics or a video to point me to that would be much appreciated.0 -
I thought it was like a stream of vomit with multiple projectiles. Wouldn't it keep going if the first projectile destroyed the block?
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31 minutes ago, Riamus said:
Note: Pille is looking at a way to be able to share a preset as an image (similar idea as a QR code, though note quite the same thing) so you'd be able to share presets easily on a forum that doesn't allow sharing .ini files without needing to include all the text of the preset. No time frame on when that will happen but it'll make sharing them easier.
That would be great! Awesome map above by the way. I really like the cracks in the road, that's pretty interesting.
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Each block type has a different level of strength/build/weight/distance allowance.
I have built a perfectly stable structure only to place down a forge and have that collapse it.
Pretty sure that is what you are experiencing + total blocks/distance. It is supporting
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I've noticed a pattern regarding the lack of quality when the subject line contains more characters than the post itself.
Anyone else notice that?
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My last play through I didn't find a single toilet pistol by day 14. My current one I found two toilet pistols in a row on day 1. I 100% agree. Seems like every survival game I play has 1 item per wipe that is either near impossible to find or way too much of.
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2 hours ago, Krougal said:
Game was released on console, that means they have to cater to the "filthy casuals".
I own it on PC and console, what does that make me? Any blanket statements to justify your position will always have holes in it.
The term "filthy" to describe casual gamers is hilarious. The people I know with the worst hygiene also happen to be "hardcore gamers" Oh the irony...
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Like the above poster says, make a chest. It's not hard to do. 10 wood. This is an aesthetic choice being made, not a gameplay issue.
Leave something in and you are good. Either way, this doesn't hurt the game. Maybe if you are truly in a roleplaying experience and don't want to break immersion, I get it, but do you also play with a HUD? How exactly like real life do you want it?
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I personally enjoy the fact that I can't predict exactly when I unlock things. It keeps the game fresh and requires me to find new solutions to problems.
Once they make everything predictable, as far as, this item unlocks when I do x, and I can predict x. Then the game ceases to surprise you, and that always equals boredom in my experience. The only challenge I get is trying to start in the wasteland and hopefully make it to town without dying (I play dead is dead and purposefully spawn in the harshest place in the random map)
If the games progression becomes predictable linear, I would get bored even faster. The only reason I have 1000+ solo hours in 7D2D is due to it surprising me.
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I have a liking for this setup. It gives you the feel of a bomb going off.
Lowest to high elevation-
Desert
Wasteland
Burnt Forest
Forest
Snow
In this map you spawn on the mountain by a rode with a few vehicles, like in the trailer
This is the result of hours of tinkering with height and smoothing setting for 20-ish parameters.
Do we have an easy way to share teragon .ini presets?
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On 8/2/2023 at 2:49 PM, hiemfire said:
Is you're horde base a remodeled remnant? A tiered POI? Built in the middle of a field of rubble where the only the wasteland's difficulty modifier applies (remnants are the same)? Are you set up in the parking lot of a tier 5? As @Syphon583 and @Riamus are pointing out that affects what you will encounter on horde night. Heck, it'll affect what spawns in period depending on where you're standing when enemies spawn in.
Does this apply once a land claim block is placed? That should remove all spawn within its range. My assumption is the place they spawn is the level of the gamestage, vs. your actual location. Does placing a land claim remove the tier bonus from the POI? My assumption is it does.
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I always set a handful of things in queue and then go loot. Water/food. When you get back you have a ton of cooked goodies.
I do agree the time to craft is really hard for short duration games, but the point of a shorter day is to increase difficulty do to the time limitation between horde nights.
That is the only thing I know of that a shorter day affects. Hunger/thirst don't seem to be tied to game hours, but are to energy expenditure and time passed IRL
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This affects less than 1% of the population and doesn't warrant any attention.
Your personal feelings do not trump those who don't care. It's pretty pretentious to assume 1% can dictate the behavior of the other 99% because that isn't how "reality" works.
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Let me make sure I understand this correctly. So the solution is to use the second half of dreadlocks and not the first half...
OK
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I thought they brought this change about to make it more realistic and less arcade like.
Maybe drive slower, and do less off roading? I mean these aren't tanks, why are we expecting them to have the same level of durability.
Maybe what is needed is a vehicle mod / ram prow type thing to justify the durability people want.
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I know they have changed a lot of blocks in POI's recently. My guess is it's the mismatch of your save vs Version you are running. The one way to check is to find that POI in creative/world editor mode and check it in the current version.
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Posted · Edited by warmer (see edit history)
I've been that band for dozens of gigs, playing original music, and the venue collected entrance fees and sold drinks.
Music on the radio is a horrible example, no listener is actively making money from the listening while the song is playing. Twitch people dropping bit donations is exactly like buying a drink. Good venues pay the band a portion of drink sales because the reason the person showed up was because of the band. When you are a cover band playing someone elses songs, YOU also pay the band who wrote the songs. If you don't own intellectual property rights to the product you are using to generate income without any true transformative work being done on your end (sorry playing a game isn't transformative. it's doing exactly what it is intended to do) then you haven't added anything to it that is unavailable to anyone else who buys it. You are effectively playing a cover song in a bar and expecting to keep all the money for using someone elses work.
The majority of People show up because of the game you are playing. NOT simply because of who you are. If you are interested in a game you search for it and watch. They showed up for the game. Did they show up for you? Maybe a little, but really it's the game. As a streamer you should be paying royalties to the creator of the reason they showed up in the first place.
I've been on both side of this, as a band getting paid in exposure and as someone who lived with a full time streamer for years. They always picked what game was hot, because the wrong game doesn't get you eyeballs, and no eyeballs means no twitch partner, and that equals no revenue. The revenue comes from advertising yes, but the majority comes from subs and bit donations. That equals WAY more than advertising. Advertising is a small amount in comparison. You watch 1 add at when you launch a stream. I saw my old roomate make $100's in subs and bit donations in 4-5 hours all the time. You also have to think about all that traffic cost. That is a ton of internet traffic and someone has to pay for it. The advertising doesn't even begin to.
If you actually modded something, that the devs added, I think you should absolutely get paid, but playing a game, which anyone can do doesn't hold any value like a skilled trade of a laborer does. Anyone can play 7 days to die with a PC and $20. VERY few people can walk into home depot and buy a few tools, build a piece of furniture of ACTUAL quality and convince someone to buy it from them. I'd say the ratio is likely 100 7d2d players to 1 furniture maker and that's being generous.