enraged_camel posted:

However, I also think there is a difference between killing someone in the wild and stealing their inventory, vs. raiding their base while they are offline, destroying everything and stealing everything they had collected or crafted up to that point.

Spudalicious posted:

gently caress Rage forever.

PowderKeg posted:

Should I change the PVP setting on the server? Historically, this has been a "gentleman's agreement" kind of place with the occasional "oops, I shot you". I can admin you the stuff to set up again..

PowderKeg posted:

I can admin you the stuff to set up again..

Molothecat posted:

lol

Strength through adversity. I'm gonna whip this server into fighting shape.

Sillybones posted:

redreader posted:

Can you maybe make the claim size larger or make the multiplier higher? This still requires people to lock their doors etc.

Drakenel posted:

There are server settings to that effect. Claim strength multiplier can be set from 1 to 32 times. A seperate setting entirely for claim blocks when the owner(s) are offline.

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

seems to dissuade assholes

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

One thing I wonder is how long can they fund this level of development. Surely not enough people are still buying it right now for this many people to be working on it

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Originally Posted by madmole View Post
I've been successfully pumping just one attribute and grab just a tiny bit from the other attributes when the RNJ doesn't cooperate.

You now spawn with 3 rows unencumbered and can craft enough pockets to completely remove all encumbrance without a single point of STR. There are schematics or books to unlock everything now so if you can be patient you don't have to buy the perk unlocks. You gain 1 HP and one Stamina each level, and stamina costs are not a problem any more you can left click all but two handed weapons endlessly at level 1. Sex Rex is mainly for less stamina use on combat but with my str build I didn't need it at all, I had plenty of stamina one shotting most zeds.

Workbench is unlocked at INT 4 or you can find them in the world, or buy them at traders or the schematic.

Farming I don't really think you need perks at that. Maybe one rank is all I'd buy, but TBH I don't farm until mid to late game, I find plenty of food. Recipes unlock foods now, so the perk is optional.

A18 is more about playing how you want to play, not using what you are given. Sometimes you do that a bit but eventually you get what you need to play your style. Agility governs bows, blades (not axes anymore), pistol, magnum and SMG, and stealth. So if your the sneaky type that should be your go to perk. It sounds to me like you would be a strength or fortitude guy. Of course you can have both if your patient. I'd recommend going heavy into the most useful one for your style, and then lightly into a second, again depending on play style and cherry pick a few others. So far I've avoided INT entirely with STR and AGL builds and its great. Knowing I can unlock something by a schematic keeps me looting instead of wasting points. Once you get to rank 3-5 of your weapon you are a badass even with a tier 2 weapon at least agains non ferals then you keep scaling with gear as you go to keep up with ferals and radiated.

But on day one its tough killing a zombie can be hard, but as you buy ranks that increase damage with your favorite melee and ranged you are smashing basic zeds pretty easily, then the ferals come and you can handle 1 or 2 maybe but then need armor and can start dealing with them and handle them, then radiated come and you need better gear, this is the mid to late game stretch where you loot for the best gear because crafting isn't worth it or going to rock against these tougher zeds.

Anyhow, we've worked really hard on decoupling the NEED for any one perk. SOme people will argue you still need it but you don't. You could play the game with no perks now, there is enough gear upgrades I think it would be viable.

lead-dev posted:

I'll let the cat out on this. Zombies can get aggro when hit and nearly run now. It can go from slow to a brisk walk to nearly sprinting. It makes combat a lot scarier because they can suddenly sort of lunge at you. Hitting them again seems to sometimes slow them back down, but it is very cool. Sorry if your an always walk guy. I mean they don't just turn feral if thats what you reading here, mostly its a small increase in speed, just enough to make you feel a little uneasy and cause them to close the gap and hit you a bit more.

On the plus side, (IMO both are a huge plus, zombies were zero threat before and I didn't need armor at all) players now have a glancing blow so as you swipe your sword across a guy it might hit his arm and then hit his face for the intended hit. If you miss by a milimeter you will get a glancing blow, so less missed head shots that result in nothing at all, and it kind of helps make combat feel less binary.

enraged_camel posted:

It would actually be a lot of work, because each weapon has its own animations, so if you gave weapons their own hitbox then you would also need to give them different animations so that players can control what they are hitting.

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Gear Changes:
Quality now influences damage output on tools, firearms and melee weapons. Quality influences armor protection values.
All items with quality now have random stats in loot. Players craft with static stats in the middle of the range. It is possible that a brown pistol is superior to a yellow one, but not likely. Check the stats of every thing you find.
Weapons and armor now have scaling recipe costs, so the higher the quality the more materials are needed to craft the item.
The governing attribute determines the quality of crafting. For example the shotgun messiah perk governs the quality of shotguns you can craft, and the gunslinger perk governs the quality of crafted pistols, SMG and magnums.

enraged_camel posted:

Fayk posted:

They did, I just meant that vis-a-vis current balance of those tiers vs enemies (hp etc) that I'm hoping that 'middle of the tier' is the same mechanical effect (damage, etc) as it is right now. Otherwise this is a stealth-nerf just so we can try to play a bad diablo hover-over-items-to-see-if-it's better, which has a major problem: the better your item is, the worse the signal-to-noise ratio will be for finding something better (because it's not like the game will highlight them a different color)

enraged_camel posted:

That said, I prefer the new system, the way it is described by the lead dev. Because currently in A17, once you craft the best gear, looting becomes almost completely pointless.

enraged_camel posted:

Why raid long and dangerous dungeons with quality 6 gear if there is zero chance that what you get at the end will at best be the same as what you have now?