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So I tried the static spawn option and it's so awesome that I only play static spawns now. The zombies are actually fun to take on now, and you have to get much more creative. You can actually carve out sections of the town, rather than having to drain the entire thing as a singular unit. I think it should become the default option, but it needs some work. You can not heal or find food and water fast enough while fighting a cougar, then Bear, then wolf pack every map tile. If you take time to heal, you will die of starvation/dehydration. The character needs to eat/drink twice as much as he should, which is less of an issue when in normal mode you can scavenge a starting stockpile of food/drink at the start and empty a town in day. The food/drink rate makes static spawns impossible to survive because it takes that much longer to clear out an area, then secure a fraction of the food/water and heal.

-Nailboard traps need to be a 0-skill trap you can make with a rock.
-Lawnmower machetes and halberds are a little underpowered.
-Nailboard weapon is possibly slightly overpowered, considering it becomes the defacto starting weapon and is still pretty good against most weapons you find shortly after.
-Steel spears should be made with steel wire, not string. Metric ton of wire available, few uses for said wire right now, makes more sense than string regarding durability and construction. Possibly only require one steak knife instead of two as well.
-Butcher's knife needs to be useable in some recipes. I don't think there's a single recipe that actually uses it. Xacto knife as well?
-Craftable sling and/or atlatl for throwing skill. No range bonus from skill, range bonus from sling/atlatl and strength.

So I was screwing around with the debug menu mutations and made a pretty awesome handtalontipped-tentaclehorror-to-hand combatant. I also just found out that the "edge" of the map just leads to another map. Why did it take me so long to find that out? Does it go on indefinitely? Technically that means unlimited resources?

I know semi-controllable mutations have been suggested before, but they'd need to be balanced somehow. What if mutations fucked up cybernetic implants? Characters by end game would have to choose between being primarily mutant or cyborg. Majority of what both offer are already covered by tools and items, top-tier stuff is somewhat more unique like stat bonuses and time dilation. Maybe mutations are a more viable route for lower intelligence characters than cybernetics. How would the control or at least partial control of mutations be acquired?

Will battery recharging ever be implemented? Gas generators, or even a cigarette lighter charger in a vehicle. Batteries aren't exactly uncommon, but neither are rechargeable batteries IRL. Lategame you have all cybernetic tools powered by food anyway, and unlimited flashlight power via headlights. What kind of mid-late game battery sources could be added?

Cybernetics suggestion: As we have leg/movement related mutations, how about a special cybernetics one? What if one of the cybernetics packages allowed you to mount a small engine and some wheels? We already have an expanded assortment of engines, and wheels. Excellent bonus on flat surfaces, harsh penalty on anything that isn't a flat surface, takes damage over rough terrain and big penalty if the tires blow out. Can't be healed normally, must be repaired.

Tool spawning on zombies should be toned down IMO. I can clear a town in minutes, and then am given half or more of all tools in the game. Some stuff that was a lot rarer have had spawns buffed, but they're way to common now. Stuff like welders, woodaxes, bullet making equipments, etc.

I like that you call gregtech a mess and excuse all of the issues with UE

Conflicts which UE didn't have and needlessly complicated enough I've seen even /vg/'s nofunallowed autists warn of it. UE is literally unfinished. Some mods aren't complete but planned, and other things are in but unbalanced. Those are my issues with UE. The stuff that is in and relatively "finished" content was somewhat impressive.

You'll be running an IC-central server for at least another year before UE could possibly usurp it. Meanwhile I have been waiting for a fresh tech mod collaboration for a very long time, and can continue to wait for it.

The last AOE anything I played was AOEII: Conquerors. I guess any AOE thread is relevant enough to ask:
Was AOEIII "good"?

From what I understand a lot of AOEII fans didn't like it because it wasn't AOEII.

At that matter, Age of Mythology? I've heard a lot of people say it was superior to the AOE series.

Apparently there was an "online" AOE I missed too.

Zyxl, don't harsh our mellows.

OK, I won't any more than this:
Cheap moneygrab.

On the other hand: new player influx! The old crowd was kind of impenetrable, either private friend games or nostalgic pro-players looking to crush anyone willing to play with them.

Now if they could just do this with StarWars Galactic Battlegrounds all my AOE2 dreams would be fulfilled.

Anyone think MWO will go the way of Tribes Ascend and release a "purchasable" package version?

I keep thinking I'd like to try MWO, but then lag shields, c-bills, grind-2-unlock, etc. I've heard varied opinions about how bad the pay-2-win is regarding how long it takes to grind useful credit, to how intentionally useless starting unlocks are. Reading a bit through this thread, it sounds like it's better than it was?

Then I think, oh! I'll reinstall MW4 Mercs and do some quick matches with a few of my Steam friends I used to play with- oh right. MekTek dropped MW4 to beg for money to revive some other Mech series, then removed all MW4 downloads and support. Not a huge loss, given their proprietary client sucked, but the all-in-one patches and content was nice.

Is the beta close enough to a released product regarding issues/balance that I should consider getting into it, or are there still significant enough things that you'd recommend I hold off until later? I feel like I'm going to regret not enjoying the game before consumables. Purchasable cooling and artillery/air strikes. Really?

Swamp spawns are insane. Going 70 MPH in a beetle down a highway past a swamp, enough spawns to kill me in a moving vehicle.

Do they deplete like zombies? Zombies are really easy to depopulate now, with the max population in lower and spawns being batshit insane. Makes the only reliable possible way to depopulate a town driving in circles in a truck every few days. Only dangerous things are the shock zombies, else you could do it in one day.

totallynotanedit
Yup just savescummed. Killed me from full torso health going 70 MPH past a swamp again. Fuck it. I'm going to hold off for a few more updates. Liking the new content so far though.