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...the attention span of a goldfish.

A chucklefish, you mean.

Anyway, the game has a fair bit of content and they keep adding more. Yes, sometimes they run around like headless chickens, but they've yet to crash and burn. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the development process lasted a year, three or five. All that matters is that they deliver a decent game in the end for the price they're asking.

In the meantime, there's plenty of games to entertain ourselves with.

Steam usually releases/unlocks a game at 18.00 GMT on the day in question.

There have been a fair number of exceptions to that rule, moving some releases/unlocks to midnight. No fixed timezone, though.

I guess it's not so hard to believe that you can make bullets, but I would expect it to be very hard to make good bullets for manufactured weapons.  Aren't the tolerances extremely tight, so that the bullet will engage the rifling properly?  I'd expect that deviating from that very much would either wear the gun out super fast or significantly degrade the range, damage and accuracy of the weapon.  Maybe it's easier to get the tolerances to spec than I think.

Making ammo for pipe rifles and the like seems a lot more plausible to do with household junk at least.

Ultimately, the most implausible part is that there's so much pre-war ammunition lying around after 200+ years (not to mention weapons, but that's beside the point). Ammunition crafting isn't in itself implausible, but from a gameplay perspective you'd need to balance it. In this case, that'd mean making pre-war ammo a lot scarcer, which makes sense.

Personally, I think it'd be interesting to have to mostly rely on "homemade" ammo, as the properly manufactured kind would be very rare. You could even make it so that proper bullets are more effective than the improvised stuff everyone inevitably ends up using most of the time.

As it is, the versatility of crafting has already trivialized loot gathering. Over 90% of what you find is scrap fodder, before long.

Official craftable ammo would trivialize ammo scrounging as well. It's already wholly unnecessary, as it's easy to procure thousands of bullets of most every calibre.

Crafting should really focus on improving gear, and it has already overflown into "morphing" weapons (i.e. pistols to rifles), which isn't a good move from a design standpoint.

And if you can build turrets out of tin cans, the solution isn't to make everything else buildable from tin cans, but rather to up the complexity of suitably complex construction to begin with (i.e. require a missile launcher for a goddamn missile turret).

Quote from: Greenbane on December 19, 2015, 09:23:55 am

Guys, at one point you have to choose a faction to help you. Are there any negative consequences with the factions you didn't pick? Am I locked out of their quests or something?

Not if it's the quest I'm thinking of. I think it can lock you out of 1 mission, but even then I'm not sure if it does.

The quests that determine your final faction loyalty don't happen until a bit later, any factions you oppose become full time enemies.

Guys, at one point you have to choose a faction to help you. Are there any negative consequences with the factions you didn't pick? Am I locked out of their quests or something?

The "over" part of overcomplication is highly subjective.