[2020] About New Looting System

I personally look at it from the perspective of 'You are FAR from the first person to have come this way'.

By which I mean, 7DTD takes place YEARS after the zom-pocalypse. Store shelves are looted, Gun factories have been stripped top to bottom. It's rare to find anything of use anywhere. Many people had to make do with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tools in lieu of not being able to find something good; And when they found something good, do you think they kept those ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tools? No. They tossed it, Just like you do when you find something good. You either throw out or scrap your stone tools the moment you find something iron.

So, to me at least, It's not that immersion breaking to find stone tools in places i would expect to find iron ones- Hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of people before me have stripped the countryside.


Then later, once your gamestage improves (Which is somewhat arbitrary), you stop finding places that people left their crappy stuff, and instead start finding the places they left good things. You start finding the buildings where people holed up and died with their chest full of good items, and so on.

Originally posted by Tunguska: Well in this perspective it makes sense to find stone tools into small houses and camps that were probably a base for some unlucky survivors before they turned into the sleepers in that house but it only make sense to find these primitive items in simple storage boxes and containers, not in a hardened military chest or a steel gun safe :D

Well...Here You are cracking your way into a hardened military chest, Or into a steel gun safe; Do you really think no other survivor before you ever had that thought themselves? "I bet there's something good in there, I should break into it." . . . If you can think of it, Someone else is liable to have thought of it too. :)

So why can't someone else have beat you to it, Found awesome loot and ditched their crappy stone tools and obsolete blunderbuss' or bow in the chest?

Originally posted by Tunguska:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Well...Here You are cracking your way into a hardened military chest, Or into a steel gun safe; Do you really think no other survivor before you ever had that thought themselves? "I bet there's something good in there, I should break into it." . . . If you can think of it, Someone else is liable to have thought of it too. :)

So why can't someone else have beat you to it, Found awesome loot and ditched their crappy stone tools and obsolete blunderbuss' or bow in the chest?

Well then they locked it again to troll the next survivor comes by I think, this makes so much more sense now

Really depends on how it was unlocked, but, most safes(Or at least all of the ones I personally have dealt with) tend to automatically lock themselves when the door is shut. So, All it takes for them to 'lock' it to troll the next survivor is to swing the door shut, Something most people would tend to do out of habit anyway.

And I'd presume the kind of super-reinforced military chest we're speaking of here would have a similar function to lock upon closure, to prevent forgetfulness leading to weapons and arms getting out when it shouldnt. :)