madmole

I don't mind a healthy discussion but nerd polling is now off topic. It has been discussed a thousand times probably more than LBD so just stop already unless we officially make a change to it in a future alpha it is off topic in this A19 thread.

It would probably be for the highest tier POIs where there is a super chest involved. You could still grind your way through with a pickaxe, but it would be more obnoxious than just taking the intended path. I'd like to see auto turrets protecting loot myself, so even if you break in you get insta killed pretty much without deactivating them properly with a key card or something.

And we still missed my conservative estimate of August 15th, so A20 is shrinking by the day, or getting pushed to spring/summer 2021. Most people are working on A20 though so there is that.

Dead bodies float though, so all the other zombie fiction completely got it wrong.

You might want to elicit some of that self control you claim to be so good at then, but here on the forums instead of in game.

Don't take things out of context. He probably left out the fact that he had hordes every night or two so that may be why he had block damage reduced significantly. Devs don't need to be good at the game they need to be good at their job. There is a portion of the team myself included that does play the game a lot but an animator needs to be good at animating, not knowing every in and out of the game design or being awesome at playing the game. It helps to some degree some more than others but is only critical for a few people on the team such as system designers and people doing balance.

Nerd poling will not matter if you need a key from a zombie to unlock the loot chest. You'll have to go through the whole POI and hit a certain number of volumes before the special one spawns. We haven't done this yet, but it was talked about. Taking out nerd poling is a futile action because you can build ladders etc. Take out the incentive to nerd pole, problem solved.

Probably best to just get one to spawn then toss grenades or empty an m60 into it and find out yourself rather than go by rumors and theories.

Seems like an easy fix with tagging. Anyhow it is on the roadmap.

Depends on how sweet pathing, AI and combat animations all end up I think. There might be too many scenarios where a human NPC gets glitched out and stuck if forced to try and follow players.

As long as there is some upkeep/maintenance/costs I don't mind bases that make you very safe. Something you can build once and never have anything to worry about again with zero fuel/trap repair/base repair would be something we would want to investigate I think.
I know Faatal hates cheesy things. I showed him that ladder video and its already fixed, zombies are ninjas on ladders now and can attack and strafe on ladders.
I know you have said I shut you down all the time, but even if I did I appreciate you bringing some things to light. You are on the extreme end of a hardcore player, I'm probably 65% hardcore with my settings. Our goal is to have enough options to make most people pretty happy, and after gold nearly everyone can be happy with mods.

If something takes 10 hours in real time to build I wouldn't rush to call that an exploit. I can build a 10x10 steel box faster than that, and be 100% safe sitting afk, so I don't see huge issues or the need to go out of our way to stifle creativity of players. Obviously if something is very easy to build and super effective we will try our best to solve it. Everything should work, just not 100% and stuff that does work well should require maintenance.

I can probably do that now that they aren't crafted exclusively from plant fibers. I didn't want players getting rich crafting cigars.

We have talked about some procuring quests where you gather/craft some things.

That is genius lol. Doesn't seem like a glitch, but maybe when they can hang onto bars and hatch lids and jump/crawl/climb through 1 meter holes... it might not be so...easy.

I was thinking all zombies would have that sense, not just ferals. Might as well make it hardcore since not that many ferals spawn at night anyway except in the wasteland. I'd want ALL zombies to have the ability if I turned it on.

So while they are on a sideways garage door you activate it and they fall in the pit?

I put that feral sense at night idea on the roadmap. Don't say we never listen to you guys Obviously I'll need to get everyone on board and make sure its pretty easy to do, but I can see that being a great feature to make the game more challenging and scary.

They already have specialization.

"Feral sense at night" would be a decent option. You couldn't go anywhere at night without eveything coming out of the woodwork to get you. It would be pretty scary tbh and add cheap legs to the game.

A modder could hack it together easily.. just make the door a 2 meter multi block but it would be 2.5 meters high to the peak of collision. Then it would work fine, but the issue is if you put any block other than an arch up there, it clips, looks wrong and would get us a bug ticket so we can't really do it properly without some kind of new tech that had the arched block paintable and achored above the door. Way too much engineering when you can just put a plate or something behind it and just use a square door.
I'm not really picturing your use case needed an arch corner?

When you see an alpha 19 thread go up, we will add stuff to it.
All I can say is most likely pipe weapons, POI work and more HD zombie replacements, possibly some new / old special infected.

Knives really suck early game though. If anything I'd buff the hunting knife so it is right in the middle of bone knife and machete.