Ramethzer0
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I hope you lower the sub count on the requirements to join for youtube.
5k seems so far out of my grasp at the moment.
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Howdy Survivors! Today in my 7daystodie series the Downtown Dead, it's time to build back better and take the fight to the undead! It's a struggle every blood moon each episode, and the challenge and world details are in the description! We are live at 5pm CST (GMT-5) Can I thrive and not just survive? LETS GO!
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Hello Zombie slayers!
In the last episode of Downtown Dead, the zombies had taken out several of the pillars of our base and in the last moments I had to go hand to hand to fight off the remaining undead. We must rebuild, and build back better this time! Resources are thin, and loot is not as forthcoming as I'd like. Will I survive the Blood Moon? We find out at starting at 5pm CST (GMT-5) today on the channel!
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Howdy, Survivors!
THE NITTY:
With my relatively recent return to streaming, I've set up a gaming channel on Youtube with the focus on open world, survival, exploration games that have caught my attention. But, out of all the content that I've done so far, 7 Days to Die got a fair bit of attention with some recent speed runs. I had never done them before, but I knew that viewers tend to enjoy challenges like these. I've decided to continue with a new series known as Downtown Dead.
THE GRITTY:
The Downtown Dead series features a zombie filled cityscape in a RWG world and includes a 3 strike perma-death counter. Days are 60 minutes long and the stream itself is 3 hours long, so its a guaranteed Blood Moon each time! However, even in death there is no real release - as I will respawn with all injuries and this can cause a terrible spiral if I am not careful. The stakes are high and I hope I have what it takes to survive. To win I need to build a gyrocopter and fly off into the sunset, leaving the struggle of survival behind me.
I hoping some of you might join me. As of now, I am 2 episodes in, with another coming tonight at 5pm CST/6pm EST (GMT-5 for european folks).
You can find my upcoming live video here for the time being:
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If you're going to do challenges that can funnel you down a path of unsustainability, you might consider altering your toggles to change your day/night scale accordingly. In addition, id encourage you to play around with your loot percentage and trimming player block damage to whatever fits your goals.
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If No Man's Sky has taught me anything, is that procedural generation of worlds that can have vastly different/similar makeups is that you either finding a cosmos full of planets with the same 4 biomes that all look eerily alike, or a cosmos that looks like a jackson pollock painting.
I can't imagine it being much different in 7 days.
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I missed out on the Behemoths, but only because I saw people spawning them in or using them in mods. Personally, I didn't care too much because I liked the game as it was.
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I can't imagine being full time hype for anything that captured my attention
I think it'd be exhausting.
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What's stopping you from making Youtube shorts about these moments? I think you'd be hilarious to watch.
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On 2/7/2024 at 7:33 PM, Max Headroom said:
there is no particular reason to explore the world since you can just run quests from a few traders and get all you need.
I don't think people understand how much passive exploration happens in game. Deep exploration tends to happen more once you max out a trader and want to move onto another one and you feel safer moving about the countryside.
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On 1/29/2024 at 6:38 PM, RyanX said:
Well they won't make child zombies so it probably poses a problem for them.
Have you ever seen the film Cooties?
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I speculate it as a parody of every 90's romantic comedy/drama and specifically those that featured Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts.
Anything beyond that is anyone's guess.
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On 1/16/2024 at 7:46 AM, BFT2020 said:
So much passion for an object most people wouldn't look twice at if it was laying on the side of the road.
You've no idea. I've got a recent real world example I'd love to just whip right out.
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On 1/16/2024 at 12:44 AM, pApA^LeGBa said:
@Ramethzer0 I mean what do you expect people to do if they really don´t like something? And on steam, wich i think you are talking about as the last topic on here is from November, it´s not the only the same people over and over that keep that topic going with new posts until today (merging is happening pretty fast there). Also a lot on steam are on the same page as me wich is we don´t necessarily want the jars back but we don´t want this system wich forces the trader and heavy looting.
I think not even the A17 death penalty had such a negative feedback.
I can tell you right now that this could end up being a long and nuanced topic, one that would need its own thread.
I do expect the worst, most of the time. Because it usually is (against, back to the cynicism I'm also struggling with). I have nitpicks on standby, but I don't think it's going to move the thread forward in a way I think will be of benefit to anyone.
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38 minutes ago, theFlu said:
I wasn't arguing about difficulty, and I don't think @drgnkght was either; I was arguing about your opposition to the term "artificial scarcity". This is almost literally a textbook example of the term; "buy all the wells in an area, start selling water to the residents at an inflated price". Here the buying of the wells is the disabling of the lakes and the price is you looting or literally working for the trader for coin to buy the water. Just because the price is "low" doesn't make it less of "artificial scarcity".
I think my opposition to it isn't as academic as all that. I've largely reacted (at least from an internalized standpoint) the sheer amount of saltposting about it, and this is where I feel my cynicism takes over. I'm just tired of hearing the same complaint over and over being used in an inflationary way by the same crowd that refuses to accept responsibility for their own contribution to the problem. I can accept this is not a position you are pushing, but tbh the amount of hackle-raising over the subject at large has me really skeptical, but that's on me.
I also REALLY wish we could stick to just one thread, instead of randos just opening a new thread with the same talking points every time, ad nauseum.
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2 hours ago, theFlu said:
I'd say this is basically the definition of artificial scarcity; which is a bit of a feat, usually it requires laws to stop people gathering their own lake water, but here it was managed via breaking physics already. Nestle is jelly right now.
There is plenty of water out there to be looted. Considering that and my own experience at luck at knowing where to look, I find it difficult to entertain those complaints anymore. The only way I've been able to replicate this issue is to either become a victim of poor RNG, trim my loot settings to the point of nothing, or simply refuse to loot the common places where I know water to be found.
I dont really wanna come off as being this cynical, but I have no other reasons to believe it is anything but a player problem.
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14 minutes ago, FramFramson said:
You could make it scrappable for a water filter and that wouldn't break anything.
That's not what I meant and I edited my post for clarification. What I mean is, that it would take a lot of time and effort to implement from start to finish. Creating anything new or adapting anything old has the chance to break something in the process.
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12 hours ago, drgnkght said:
Personally, I think the Fun Pimps don't care about the jars at all. Jars aren't, and never were, the problem the Fun Pimps were trying to solve. In my opinion, the thing the Fun Pimps were trying to remove was access to environmental water. Environmental water isn't RNG/progression-gated. It's always there and available. So they couldn't restrict its availability in order to extend/balance the game. Removing the players' ability to collect environmental water as previously implemented required removing the glass jars so they're gone. I liked the jars as well, but asking for them to be restored is pointless. It would break the artificial scarcity they're attempting to enforce. (I think this is why they don't seem care about the water filter mod. You can't use it for crafting.)
There is no artificial scarcity. Water is not rare, and easy to loot if you know what to look for. It's been discussed at length in multiple threads that seem to die off after that information gets shared.
Also, you're not meant to use the water filter mod for crafting. I don't think you understand what that would require to implement.
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10 hours ago, Roland said:
I take it that it must be feral zombies and larger wandering hordes starting from day one because that is certainly not what you get from vanilla.
Or....are you playing in the wasteland instead of the forest?
Didn't we acknowledge the fact that there are first night ferals, or has this been changed in patches since then?
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Man, I thought this might have been just me.
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Your case is just likely that rare where the evidence can point to such a specific conclusion. The Zombie AI does not target specifically any type of infrastructure, other than just generally player made objects. They will play through a space or an object simply because its there and in the way. From what I have observed the zombie pathing logic is a bit less rigidly defined than it has been in the past, and that change has been made in the time you've been away. I think the reason for this was to make them seem a bit more chaotic and less a thinking foe.
But, for the reasons above I think it's just a mere coincidence, as I've not heard of this being an issue for a really long time.
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21 minutes ago, TorQueMoD said:
What's the harm? Not only is it a single line of code that you simply copy and paste in, but if something DID go wrong, you just validate the files on Steam and it will re-download the original file. Not to mention if you use Notepad++ to edit the file, it will automatically create a backup of the original for you. Don't be afraid to mod things. It's really fun and liberating!
I have a full on volume of information as to my love/hate relationship with modding/modders/mods. But I can tell you from my own personal standpoint, I do not find modding to be fun nor liberating for me at all. I find it a tedious band aid fix that may or may not even address the issues I tend to have.
As for a brief summary on the positives, the mods or overhauls i like I REALLY like. I keep them around as long as they are supported. I can count these mods across all my owned games on just one hand. It's that small of a window for me.
EDIT: And now I see why I hadn't messed with this thread in a while, so I'm going to unsub from the discussion.
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Electricity is not my forte, but motion sensors are like all other triggers. You gotta connect them in the pattern to the devices they intend to activate,
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1 hour ago, zombiehunter said:
I don't believe I was "presenting it as news." I was simply sharing my experience from playing a no trader playthrough for the first time. I've got over 1000 hours in this game, always playing the "quest grind" and wanted to experience something different and wanted to share that experience with the community, realizing that some probably already have played this way.
I also don't believe I said "oh you gotta try this." I've read several posts from players complaining about how they believe the traders and their rewards and stock are way too OP. My comment, "Anyway, I just wanted to share and for those who think the traders are too OP with their rewards, I think you should try a playthrough without using the traders. You may like it better." was directed at those folks as a suggestion.
Part of it I feel was presentation, and part of it was my reaction to it as it seemed implied regardless. I admit, it's sometimes hard to read inflection and subtext in the written form. At some point in time a writer has to let go of the ownership of how a body of work is received, otherwise you're gunna be splitting hairs with a reader and ultimately no one actually moves. But, that was my reaction to it. You were not specific about 'oh you gotta try this' but it was further down the forum by another poster. I wasn't attributing it to you, nor did I use language that did. I don't consider your experiences as a bad thing, and I'm happy you shared them. I bet this is context that was missing in my post previously to your reaction mine. So, here we are, trying to understand what each other really mean, as I feel were likely both guilty of the same thing without trying to write a full tome of text to explain such things in greater detail. I don't think most of us have time for that.
I hope some folks do try your suggestion. For those that are affected by the traders, it may or may not work for them. I think there is far more nuance to that situation than most folks let on about, so my expectation is that its not a 100% answer to the problem. My personal opinion is that I think traders are a bit wonky as rewards are varied and not scaled well, and maybe in time these things will be trimmed/normalized and this wouldn't be the first time that TFP has made a similar decision. I am, admittedly, far more patient for that outcome than pushing the issue towards the modding community as a solve that may not persist or even be compatible after the next experimental passes.
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A21's big failure, a post about truth and broken play
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Some people like to sit on lit campfires and then complain that the wood is flammable.
and... I never get tired of ragey gamers that say things to the tune of: "I've been playing this game since forever, and I still hate it after a decade of constantly playing it."