#Balancing Time

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plush ingot
jovial plover
unreal cove
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Oh hey nasko you escaped the basement

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Also good stuff

jovial plover
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so exciting i cant wait!!

subtle burrow
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ohhhhh fancy!

hard harbor
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The save breaking thing is an April Fools joke, right? Right?

distant pelican
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i'd be amazed if it was lol

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but if it's large enough, like they make it seem, I can see it breaking a lot of things in old worlds.

unreal cove
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Yall gotta learn

subtle burrow
unreal cove
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Its unstable shits gonna break

subtle burrow
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dang some interesting changes for sure

naive idol
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It sounds amazing

dense canopy
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Hey @plush ingot and @formal lodge - you may or may not know the answer to this question, but just in terms of preparing our multiplayer community for a fresh wipe this week because of 42.16;

While saves aren't compatible, is it expected that all mods that work in 42.15 should continue to work under 42.16, or does this update break mods in a significant way?

subtle burrow
trim dagger
subtle burrow
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💯 ☝️

modest galleon
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Any idea if all nearby zombies disappearing on quit-to-desktop will be patched?
Or the silent sprinters that were supposedly fixed in 42.12 or 42.13 but definitely still exist?

humble ember
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are u gonna re-add the possibility to wash the character from the metal or wooden buckets?

marsh crow
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did they finally add orange-colored raccoons?

trim dagger
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Theres no patchnotes yet guys

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just a warning that the next patch will break your save, so change to outdatedunstable now

subtle burrow
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it's a mondoid 🥹

jovial plover
dense canopy
subtle burrow
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throw back to the old days spiffo ❤️

jovial plover
distant pelican
dense canopy
subtle burrow
jovial plover
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hopefully i said that right, tha thurt my head

dense canopy
marsh crow
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interesting that zeds banging on fences will no longer cause stress pz_thinking maybe 5+ zeds banging on fences should cause stress

random spindle
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No discomfort for vets is quite a change!

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A lot of these changes seem good

main nest
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sigma rizz ohio gyatt

jovial plover
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lol what the hell does that mean

silk galleon
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Excellent blog title!

rain harness
silent crow
shy tiger
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1 April?

silent crow
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Good ol drinking time
Can of water my beloveds

potent stream
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I like the idea of occupations getting some work done. Too big a spread between the top picks and the real duds.

main nest
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PLEASE JUST MAKE DESENSITIZED EARNABLE

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PLEASE INDIE STONE

analog siren
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lessss gooooooo

cinder rapids
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i love zomboid

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what does big pass mean in the controller part

trim dagger
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It means going over everything

cinder rapids
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ok awesome ty

hidden sierra
light onyx
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Balance this nuke-

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Sorry, I just needed to say something to get this channel on my list

tepid arrow
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"remember to keep your bandages clean" feels like a hint at something too. It's very specific for a sendoff

light onyx
agile surge
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With nigh owl, they just know they always working the night shift

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they forgot to add desensitized

finite gazelle
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Will this include being able to put cheese in omelets?

light onyx
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It's about balancing, so probably not unfortunately. No cooking recipe expansion any time soon I'd think

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Mods are great for adding onto vanilla things, so more recipes? Someone out there has definitely made a mod for a bunch

dense canopy
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Obviously this is SERIOUS and game-breaking and I'm genuinely shocked mainstream media hasn't picked up on this egregious oversight.

light onyx
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Wait, but the grease might actually be too much at some point if you start shoveling it down lol

dense canopy
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There's no such thing as "too much".

oak lantern
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Won't they add any more guns?

marsh crow
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cheese in omelets would be great, but they really need to bring Hot/Cold Cuppa back! That would really balance out the American/British influence on the game

marsh crow
oak lantern
stuck lantern
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Pumpkin cannon!!!!! And a corn maze!!!

dense canopy
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what day do we reckon we get the patch, if they're teasing it in a monday blog post?

Thursday?

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That doesn't give them much time to drop a hotfix before easter IF there's anything game-breaking in the patch

light onyx
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5

daring pewter
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its a test build, not a long-term play build

daring pewter
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so a easter week patch could be happening, sully getting a week off could just be him using vaccation time, before he gets bonked by HR again

marsh crow
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and if the Spiffo head comes off, that particular zombie turns into a sprinter

light onyx
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Wow it it is april fools on Wednesday... smh TIS

topaz compass
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@unreal cove

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Good post, love seeing TIS give more communiques.

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I read one of the comments and they mentioned the possibility of adding a couple more starting towns similar to the ones we already have, say, Irvington, Brandenburg or Ekron. They brought up a good point regarding MP spawns feeling cramped (everyone has to spawn in the same place). Are there any plans for the future for those places to be added?

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At least Irvington and Ekron would be rough equivalents to Rosewood / Muldraugh and good starting points, imo. I don't know about Brandenburg (Riverside / Westpoint).

spare iron
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I'd really like it if we could get some sort of documentation on the changes to gun attachments. That's gonna be a pain in the ass for gun mods.

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Also still waiting on a modding feature to get the locations of items placed in the world so that we can replace the guns on the wall in Stendos.

brave solar
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i don’t think removing echo creek spawn was necessary

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yeah it’s a chill area but it has less loot and is less rewarding to be in

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it having less loot makes it more balanced alone

dense canopy
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There's still time to implement this simple quality of life MP-specific change for 42.16 @plush ingot Be there hero we need ❤️

daring pewter
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I mean... that's a really simple map mod you can do yourself easily

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i dont see why this would need to be in the base game

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the hardest part would be grabbing coordinates for the different spawn points, but you can geniunely just do that with the help of b42map

dense canopy
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If it's so simple, no reason not to be in the base game 🙂

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Massively improve the QOL for all MP communities

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win-win!

daring pewter
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I'm pretty sure they still design the game mostly with SP in mind, not MP

unreal dock
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i def think adding all towns would be great cause a lot of people would spawn in riverside to get to brandenburg anyways

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and i wanna be able to spawn in Ekron 🙏

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Fallas Lake would be sick too

dense canopy
jovial plover
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i wanna spawn in penisham lake

primal pebble
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Please don't remove echo creek, ty

brave solar
light onyx
gusty flax
pseudo warren
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I see the vision though, you could stay a whole run in echo creek, addressing the problem of what to do late game? Encouraging the player to go out exploring

gusty flax
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I love this notion of a crafting system that rewards crafting something new for the first time over grinding. Always advocated for that. I hope it will end up being brought to more than just Tailoring

bright jungle
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42.16

tender laurel
gusty flax
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Ill be glad not to be tempted anymore

tender laurel
gusty flax
bitter heart
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Just hope it will get stable soon

tender laurel
chrome sierra
tender laurel
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especially when people have already gotten over the fact that theres 50 billion zombies in guns unlimited

gusty flax
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Cant say i feel the same. It'll make me appreciate echo more

somber urchin
tender laurel
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i dont think ill ever go there unless i spawn there because except for guns unlimited theres just not really anything there that you cant get somewhere else🤷‍♀️

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its like going to dixie no one goes to dixie

chrome sierra
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I’m in camp “unlock all cities to spawn in you cowards” but yea, I’d rather have no echo creek and a slightly more reasonable amount of zombies XD

somber urchin
tender laurel
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theres gas stations in every town and chickens in a lot of the fields. its just not reasonable to remove echo creek for balance when you dont acknowledge every spawn can be incredibly op if you know what youre doing. im the type of person to turn up zombie spawns anyway because once again fun vs realism

pseudo wigeon
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saying that guns unlimited makes echo creek op is really funny

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because that isnt even true lmao

chrome sierra
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Stendos probaly has more guns lol

tender laurel
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we have to remove all spawn points theyre all op

subtle burrow
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random spawn only drunk

quick summit
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I don't mind the Echo Creek spawn being removed, though, I'm curious to see if they added a different town over there as a spawn point instead. Without a replacement, the left side of the map would feel kinda left out x3

toxic tiger
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Echo Creek removal is the worst thing tp happen to pz since security months earlier this month

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Truly a tragic day

odd oar
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removing echo creek is really disappointing - it's going to mean so many more people just never see the awesome new parts of the map in b42, as well as the best newbie start and the best start for rural gameplay

wintry sable
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No crafting update.

toxic tiger
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almost 50% of the actual map has not a single spawn point now, I bet so many people will visit those cities!

calm dagger
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Is there a chance to get at least some very brief info on what was changed in the save format so the community could write a custom migration solution?

broken bear
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Where's the exact specifics on the balancing changes?

tough hazel
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Fix building culling when aiming. Since 42.13 this is total disqualification for further PZ gaming!
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haughty raptor
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Why would you remove the echo spawnpoint? Thats such an uneccesary thing to do imo. I dont know for the majority of the playwrbase but i personally hate even just the idea of having to drive across the entire map/away from my base to see any new locations

sullen turtle
sullen turtle
final adder
wide cedar
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Great work as always, think the unstable hype has died down for me, just waiting to sink time into a longer stable version playthrough

dense canopy
tough hazel
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not my fault they lost physics after updates xD

dense canopy
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Fix it reeeeeeeeeeee

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❤️

tough hazel
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im no longer working on mods. No interest in PZ gaming until crutial fixes like this building culling is reverted or can be patched.
You should ask PZK community to do patches for trucks 😄

somber urchin
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What's a PZK?

tough hazel
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"Polskie Zakłady Kosmiczne" 😄

dense canopy
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imho the best vanilla-like mod car pack available

somber urchin
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Oh, I thought it was Project Zomboid K(something) lmao, thanks

dense canopy
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(Peter is/was the original creator)

timber harbor
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Plz don’t remove Echo Creek as a spawn

somber yew
stone jetty
south oak
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Day sprinters is 😬

quick summit
fiery matrix
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any update brings us closer to stable release and ekko being removed is kinda weird. I mean i dont need it but if someone wants to be there they will find a way. I would rather see more spawn points then less. Maybe a complete random spawn were you could spawn almost everywhere for the brave souls

lime kindle
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Maybe the removal of the echo creek spawn is an out of season april fools joke... oh wait.

silent crow
fiery matrix
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i dont mind but i would really like to see more spawn points in the future and maybe a randomized spawn were you could spawn almost everywhere. But only make it available if you pick extinctionstressed panic 😈

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spawn in the middle of the mall in extinction. What fun time that would be

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Or the rosewood prison or maybe the secret military building.
AHHHHHHH So many great spawn points for extinction

somber urchin
vivid totem
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I think the new update just released

stone jetty
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Same strategies apply to 42.16 day sprinters.

fiery matrix
hollow wyvern
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good thing they delivered the update on time

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i was standing there looking at my watch...

south oak
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Patch Thursday 3pm uk time?

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(I have no intel I’m just throwing mud at the wall)

stoic basin
south oak
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Oh

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My meeting was cancelled and I’m forced to work with no time to play it

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Noooo lol

green belfry
south oak
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I think I must

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Erm

Firefighter 0
Fitness instructor -6

That’s…a choice 🫨

pseudo wigeon
green belfry
# pseudo wigeon Controller isn’t usable on this newest update
brave solar
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honestly the more spawn points the better. it’s a sandbox game. if players find echo creek too easy they will just migrate somewhere else

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no need to balance it like we’re balancing a competitive game

azure widget
brave solar
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real. now that echo creek is removed i also don’t like how i have to choose whether i want to go east or west no matter where i spawn

brave solar
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i like to spawn on the maps edge so i can journey from one side to the other over my run

wicked viper
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Reactions are almost a replica of what happened when they removed the Louisville spawnpoint back then. Was intended to only be for testing.

Except the map was probably half as big back then.
Echo Creek was the perfect starting point to open up exploration of the western map area. Easily solved by mods but it does feel a bit unnecessary still

stone jetty
brave solar
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it’s already balanced

stone jetty
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We don't really know unless the devs tell us the reason.

brave solar
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and if they want a more challenging experience they will migrate to the challenging areas

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the devs don’t have to decide for them

azure widget
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Any spawn points mods that work on 42.16 that you could recommend?

brave solar
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if anything sandbox mode should provide the option to change towns available to spawn in if they’re going out of their way to remove them as a whole

potent nest
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echo creek is a noob trap spawn
too few cars and pretty remote outside of guns unlimited so your options for escaping are limited compared to all the other spawns and u get destroyed if u go to the closest POI
it is better as a place you visit later for staging guns unlimited or otherwise
its kinda analogous to fallas lake
being able to disable or enable spawns in sandbox would be a good compromise though

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could see some interesting gamemode differences arising if they were tailored for their intended playerbase

green lion
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neat rose
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didnt see it in the notes, did the Motion Sensitive trait get fixed?

jovial plover
neat rose
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aah i see

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i liked the idea but it was like, 30 seconds of driving resulted in two hours of max nausea moodle lol, i think if it just capped at "queasy" instead of being able to go all the way up it might be fine

jovial plover
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yah i liked the trait, i thought it was funny, and it was really good on 12 months laters and challenge maps where you dont get a car right away or drive much

chrome sierra
neat rose
chrome sierra
neat rose
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😂

amber kelp
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this update destroyed the controller compatibility bruh how do i talk to the devs working on controller support LMAOOO

chrome sierra
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I don’t really understand removing echo creek tho, the spawn locations are basically another difficult option imo. If someone wants to start extra easy (echo) or extra hard (Louis) why not let them

jovial plover
gusty flax
amber kelp
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the controller changes are absolutely ABYSSMAL we no longer engage in jog via R2 and can no longer sprint with the R2+B instead they made jogging an L3 dead zone activation this is a horrible implement for ppl who's controllers have more wear on them not to mention the dead zone settings are glitched so bad to the point where it would hurt my thumb even more to steady my controller stick perfectly to walk and reserve stamina the aiming implement was such a good push forward for controller all they needed was to fix a couple weird issues like certain things not getting picked up by the world options button (selecting options for tv's and radios which i needed to physically right click with mouse which btw i was willing to deal with lol) but switching up a whole portion of the controller scheme was not the answer i have almost 1223 hours SOLELY on controller and this update broke the one way i enjoy playing the game. sorry if this seems super rude im just extremely upset about the update

tight sky
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I don't like the rework of the controller imputs. I like using my left thumbstick to walk only and the new method of only using 90% thumbstick to walk is hard to use. My character was running everywhere with the new layout and quickly fatigued me.

jovial plover
sacred thicket
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Three patches now and us controller users still don’t have the context menu option for tv/radio unless picking it up and placing it back down.

I agree with all the uproar regarding the new sprinting method, but I feel like amidst all that no one seems to be mentioning the melee aim still seems to be off. Yes, they have fixed the iso cursor travel issue, but for me on steamdeck the aim seems to not be centered on the player, it’s slightly lower. So I have to aim NE to swing right, if I push my stick directly to the right, my character is aiming south east.

after the last few patches Im honestly starting to suspect that no internal controller testing is happening at all.

pseudo wigeon
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Controller isn’t playable anymore lol

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Its stuck in a running state when you move no matter what

cinder rapids
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I agree with you guys, I hate the way running works now, maybe I'll get used to it but im not sure. I also really dislike that i cant move my character anymore when I have my inventory open. melee combat is better but still not as good as it was. hopefully they get it right with next patch because I really love this game, but i only play with controller, and this latest update makes it really difficult

unreal cove
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Controller is lame anyways

amber kelp
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some of us are very passionate about this game we dont need a kbm player talking trash on the ONLY way we enjoy playing tbh its quite lame of you to even utter that sentence.

unreal cove
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Lmao

amber kelp
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cornball

jovial plover
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lol you got called a cornball

unreal cove
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Tbf i deserved it

jovial plover
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yes you did lol

gusty flax
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Can definitely see why they wanna free up R2 for controllers, but yeah this type of movement scheme is open to too much error

jovial plover
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i like the auto run thingie, dont really care for the auto open doors or the auto sit down on chairs or however i triggered that lol. But if its possible would really like option for it

green lion
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The Indie Stone Forums

Version: [42.16.0] Mode: [Singleplayer] Mods: [None] Save: [New Save] Reproduction steps: 1. Start the game in any mode. 2. Die from being swarmed by zombies 3. Character will die from bites, and being overwhelmed, but will never resurrect. Troubleshooting done : 1. Clean install of the game 2. R...

clever merlin
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I play streaming to my console sometimes and the auto sprint/changes to movement on controller is cool to see. Not a fan but it would be cool to have key binding support on the controller and to be able to enable toggles like sprinting like keyboard has so others who do enjoy the changes can keep them.

vivid merlin
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Steam input support without be good then everyone can customize it to their liking.

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Have an official template from TIS

vivid merlin
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That won't help them of course.

green lion
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The Indie Stone Forums

Version: [42.16.1] Mode: [Singleplayer] Mods: [None] Save: [New Save] Reproduction steps: 1. Start the game in any mode, and make sure you are in debug mode to spawn zombies or be in a mode with large zombie pop 2. Go behind Wooden, non green military wired fences, and black metal fences and zomb...

blissful chasm
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Mods will break stuff? But my Skeeter Davis End of the World death music is essential to my game.

green lion
light onyx
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Fire spreading indoors has been broken since the fire spread in meta bug "fix" attempt

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Playing CDDA hasn't been the same challenge since lol

humble ember
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i remember was also outside, i draw a huge horde in fallas lake and nothing happened they didn't die or had any damgae from the fire

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but i did and also died

rancid sand
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does darkness affect accuracy or something now?

stone jetty
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You need lighting

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Sprinters can just sneak up on you if you're not aware.

rancid sand
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flashlight and/or cat-eyes makes nighttime and daytime seem about the same

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unless inside with no flashlight, cuz the moonlight doesnt reach.

rancid sand
stone jetty
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Oh really... eh.

main nest
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ai generated guides for pz is crazy

light onyx
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It's mostly all info that's slightly off, aka AI adding its own flair lol

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No one's checking their shoes at least twice a day, every day, what kind of advice is that lol

feral vault
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internet no longer has humans.

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robots everywhere

daring pewter
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of course you do it more than that!

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also atleast half to those points are taken straight out of videos with beginner tips for zomboid, lol

light onyx
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Yep, not extinction specific at all

quick summit
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It's sprinters night and day now :D

subtle burrow
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personally even on fast shamblies I don't usually go out at night unless I have to

feral vault
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i wonder if there is an instant transmission speed setting for shamblors

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faster sprinters

hollow sandal
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Uh Sugestion could buff mechanical? Its my fav job
It cost 14 pts and only gives
4 mechanical
1 Metalisteria
and mechanical skill (3 pts)

While Carpinter cost 12 pts
1 short weap
4 carpinter
1 maintance
1 masonry
1 carving

Thats 8 pts for 12 pts while mech its 5 pts + skill (3) 8pts for 14pts

I would love mechanical to be, 14pts
1 Short weap
1 Electronic (becos mechanicals know that)
+3 mechanical
+1 metalistery
+1 maintance
7pts for 14pts
(with skill would be 10pts for 14pts, still fair (?)
Or maybe change one stat for +1 strenght. refaccions are soo heavy they are strong people

thx if read my suggestion