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Don’t get me wrong, your opinions on how much gas this game will have after final release (along with Roland’s) are good and thought provoking. I just have an issue when people start throwing out numbers with no data behind to back it up. Even if your conclusions and assumptions are solid, numbers without data leaves you open for others to poke holes in your stance. It’s the engineer in me. Same thing about people calling themselves experts, but can’t tell the difference between Minnesota and Michigan, or make up non-existing places as proof.

That is not how this works. If you provide a specific number, you have to have data to prove it out. If you are saying that more than 75% of kids wear shoes outside in 2021 compared to 1900, you need to have the total population of kids in 1900, the total population of kids in 2021, the number of kids wearing shoes in 1900 and 2021. Hearing it from people does not make what you say as fact. If I said that users with the numbers 115 in their username are all 3 feet tall, weigh 1 ton, and have green skin, just because I say I heard if from people does not make it true or factual. Or say you are a politician and lost an election. Then claim that 500k to 700k people illegally voted for the other guy in the city. And you say this is true because they heard about it from people. Does that make it true? No, especially if the actual data for that city shows only 250k people voted in the election. Any time you use statistics or absolute/relative comparisons, you have to have the data to back it up. Otherwise, all you are stating are opinions based on what you believe, not on actual data out there.

Does the vehicles have to be on the player or can they be on storage? I got a marker for a minibike that disappeared on me and couldn’t find it with god mode enable. I been having issues with my bow firing as soon as I go to pull back on the string snd wondering if this is tied to it.

Everybody plays it differently and there is nothing wrong with that. Play it based on the settings and mods you want, not what you other people play the game. It is all about your enjoyment, not some "pre-determined" way to play this game.

Wolves though are a great source of meat. The mod I got right now reduces meat harvest so no more existing on rabbits and chickens alone (they are reduced down to 3 per). Though me personally, I love a pack of zombie dogs or vultures as they are a good source of rotten flesh and feathers. But hey I am different. I love it when I misjudge a situation and several ferals make me pay for it 😉

Yeah this is not going to happen. Madmole has stated that LBD is not coming back, so I seriously doubt they will put forth any development resources to create a game that does both the current system and the LBD system. Most likely you will need a mod to do this (Darkness Falls does it already).

You can either set the spawn rate to 0% chance or change what is spawn in place of the zombie itself. If you open up the file that Boidster replaced for casual zombies, that will point you in the right direction. Then find any instance of vulture and either change the name (say you want to replace vultures with wolves) or lower the spawn chance to 0%. You will need to find the correct name of the entity you want to replace so that the console doesn't give you errors trying to spawn in a non-existing entity. I am at work right now so I can't give you specifics. you know what is weird. I got this itch to download the original mod and your mod, and go through them, seeing how the original mod author went about it.....even though I personally have no desire to mod any of the specials out of the game 🙂

The mod that MaxTurnerX was using had issues with POI sleeper spawns. Did you happen to check this out under those conditions?

With my newest computer, I went with the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X. I looked at the comparable Intel (Core i7-9700k) which based on benchmarks, the Intel was better. However the AMD gave me what I wanted and I got a really good deal on it. I am not a hard core computer person like all of you, but I typically build my computers to last (7-10 years) and with the exception of adding new RAM or replacing a burnt out component, I usually do a complete new build when it comes time and my computer is seriously lagging in performance. It makes it easy to get my wife on board to spend money on a new computer for me when I point out that every time I build one, it lasts for a minimum of 7 years. Mine is the 2080 Super. I don't think they had Ti or the regular ones available when I was building it, but I lucked out on getting this one. I hope I can get a lot of years out of this one, but I don't think I play as demanding games (with the exception of 7D2D) as you all do. As I have gotten older, I have gotten into the more casual games that I can enjoy when I am not spending time with the family 🙂

Yeah, if you look at the mod page, this was a known issue with it back in 2018 and was never updated.

I thought about offering mine for free when I upgraded my computer last year, but decided against it (ended up taking it to a recycling center for computers). In hindsight I should have asked but it was a potato to me. An ASUS GeForce GTX 560TI with a whooping 1 GB. Yes, I was playing 7D2D up to and including Alpha 19 with that card. I now got a GeForce RTX 2080 with 8 GB. The difference has been stunning. You know, nobody asked Liam what his budget is......

A simple solution is just to reduce the spawn chance in the xml files to 0% for special zombies, or even modify the spawn groups so those zombies don't spawn at all. While mods can be broken during the Alpha development of this game (which is not a surprise), there is a robust modding community on this forum that will help you with making those changes yourself and help you track down errors if your first attempt doesn't work out smoothly.

You can still find recipes and books to craft those items, without ever going into perks. The perk option is only quicker in some cases (if you can't find it randomly yet in loot or at the traders) and gives you additional bonuses that the recipes besides themselves cannot give you. In fact, some items are only able to be crafted via finding the recipes for it. The other downside is that without any perk points, you can only craft a level 1 version of that item. But that falls under the concept of decisions and consequences of our decisions. Your version of casual mode seems just to be an adult version of Minecraft. Which is fine as I am a big supporter of people playing the game they want to, not being forced to do it. But that is something that I don't think TFP want to spend developer time and resources to do when they have so much more to do to get the game they want out there in its finished state. This is one of those things that fall under the concept of having modders out there do these types of modes / changes.

Or have deep pockets and not concerned about paying a significant markup on ones you find from "third" party sellers

That is up to Madmole and the development team, but based on MM's past comments, I believe what we have today is their goal and if people want to play it differently, they are going to have to mod the game themselves or just play past Alphas. They are working on simplifying some aspects of the game, but MM's intent with 7D2D is to have a game where choices matter. They are working on giving us a solid baseline game, but it is up to us players to make the changes if we want it to be easier or harder. At least that has been my takeaway based on comments made over several Alphas. I don't claim to know the mind of MM and the development team.

Does a new POI come with it? IPEA!

I have run in the same situation - not realizing I am still crouched as I try to get away from a pack of zombies after me. And I agree wit the statement that we shouldn't change the environment (toggle switches). However, in real life, I can easily tell if I am crouched or not. In the game, it sometimes is not apparent that I am crouching when I want to run away from the danger. It would be nice (like Meganoth mentioned) if there was a better visual indicator that you are currently crouched or not. I have no issues with the keys themselves, it is just that the awareness could be better IMHO.

Should it be called Modifications or maybe... Game Modification? 🙂

If you installed new modlets, your file is probably messed up now. Just deleting them won't necessary fix the issues if it is looking for items that those modlets introduced into your current game. Without your log files or a list of mods that you installed, it is very difficult to assist you. There can be a wide variety of issues that is causing your problem: Mods that conflict with each other Mods that are out of date and not updated for the latest alpha version Wrong mod version installation Bad mod installation

Sure, you can use whatever adjective you feel like...but which is the better way of going about it? Option 1 (your way): TFP - your game is terrible unless you input the options I want. I don't care if it isn't in your plan or how much work it takes, but unless you do it, this game is terrible. Or Option 2: Hey TFP, I know you have a lot of work still ahead of you, but would you please look into adding an UI option to remove special zombies for some of us that don't want it? Thanks for listening. Keep up the good work.

Different reactions really. I love how the special zombies up the difficulty as the gamestage progresses. Without them, I can make a base and just sit there all night during the bloodmoon and not worry about them penetrating it. If that was how TFP went, I wouldn’t still be playing this game. And I think calling it terrible is too harsh. Sure, you minght not enjoy it, but there are countless others who are actually looking forward to new specials that MadMole hinted at.

That feature was removed to improve performance. Each zombie body became a loot container so they would stick around for a long time. Removing that feature was amway to reduce performance loss, at least thst is what I recall they said when they made the changes.

I can’t remember how much I paid for this game, but definitely worth it for me also. 2,941 hours on record, easily my #1 game played on steam (#2 is Fallout 4 ar only 1,400 hours). Not getting as many hours right now as I did when A19 was releases, but it is going against MW5 right now and I been a Mechie fan sinces the days of the first one and NetMech.

Hackers don’t break into people’s machines, install cheating software so they can get banned from servers…..they just don’t…….

You bought X. You are not paying rent, so TFP is not obligated to fix the problems of TT’s product. You buy a car from Company A. Company A goes under. Company B buys the rights to use Company A’s trademarks and patents. Company B is not obligated to fix the problems with your car because they purchased those rights.