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Exactly.

A primary point of the system is to reduce the active zombie count. I specifically put spawned sleepers in a passive state, so they can't hear or see and run very little code. Player touches volume and they go active, so then they can hear/see.

A better choice might be stealth provides you some resistance to the targeting, so based on distance and randomness, you may only get a partial amount targeting you while the rest just look around.

I don't even try to get melee stealth kills. I basically just use the bow when I can. Enemy in field or sleeper laying there? Free damage. Head shot even better.

Except you are talking about a good case. I'm talking about all the cases. A group of players running around the walls and through POIs. Near all manner of sleeper volumes. We would be spawning tons of zombies and FPS declining. Someday having cheap bare bones non animated versions appear or just plain cheaper zeds allowing more volume padding, would be improvements, but not in A19.x.

Sleeper volume spawning tries to pick spawn blocks you can't see, but given limited choices that are visible it spawns far to near. Designers don't like it when you don't spawn their zombies. If they place 1 block in a volume, it will always spawn there regardless of how you busted into the volume, since there are no other choices.

Sleeper volumes are independent of each other unless grouped. Having a party in one, does nothing to the rest.

Bone knife has a 2m range against entities. 2.5m against blocks.

Stealth is a play style for having fun. In its current form, like other things in the game, it may not be the best for min/maxer play styles.

Cosmetic items also do nothing for succeeding in the game, but some play styles like them for having fun. I generally don't touch cosmetic items and often play stealth. Why? That is my combination of fun.

Your version of fun is not mine.

1 - Pretty sure the noise originates at the player, so that would be a bug.

2 - Your sneak meter is based on your light level, not what any specific zombie can or can't see. It the zombie facing you? AI does not see light on walls. It sees you or not.

3 - When you get near a volume it spawns, so you may see things appear. Just like a lot of other stuff appears out of nothing in games. Low FPS really breaks 'immersion'.

4 - Yep

Padded armor for backstabbing glory.

I don't think it is the CPU requirements, it is just finding time to tackle it. You might only need to cast in 6 directions periodically to define your space then dampen sounds that collide with those. Or do some kind of pre generation of room volumes and diminish audio and stealth if it collides with each volume.

We'll see how opinions change after bandits are in. Getting the drop on a few guys to lower their numbers using stealth is always a good plan.

...is that it isn't done, yet, but players are assuming that it is.

What I implemented is a greatly simplified version of what the level designers cooked up for loot distribution.

It is what could be fit into A19 and it's a massive improvement over the ridiculous loot pinatas of previous alphas where you would be "done looting" after a week or two.

Pfft. That's easy.