Needful things (simple additions to improve the game)

Stelknecht · 2014-10-18T18:10:09.000Z

What about a zombie that successfully imitates a live survivor? Start a conversation, blah blah, ask to trade, zombie snarls, turns into a Z and lunges for you with a special attack of a bonus surprise bite? Or even parrots things like the Mi-Go. On the other hand, they’re often more dangerous than the zeds, so maybe that’s not a smart biological imitation.

RAM · 2014-10-18T19:41:32.000Z

I suppose they are already parroting motion, so maybe they could parrot common behaviours. So maybe a construction worker that wolf-whistles incessantly is actually particularly intact zombie?

Wanderer · 2014-10-18T20:54:55.000Z

Stelknecht:

What about a zombie that successfully imitates a live survivor? Start a conversation, blah blah, ask to trade, zombie snarls, turns into a Z and lunges for you with a special attack of a bonus surprise bite? Or even parrots things like the Mi-Go. On the other hand, they’re often more dangerous than the zeds, so maybe that’s not a smart biological imitation.

It doesn’t even have to be a zombie, just a survivor with double personality, thanks to the Cataclysm horrors. To make it less OP, maybe a survivor infected by the fungus, suddenly coughing?

Damn, even just a common NPC with a flu in a city would be a problem

…a Schizofrenic NPC? .-.

The ability to recognize blueberry bushes at a distance(different bush color, perhaps?), depending of Perception and Survival.

TheFlame52 · 2014-10-20T18:49:14.000Z

The ability to make funnels out of plastic chunks.

edm · 2014-10-20T23:18:17.000Z

Being able to drag beds would be nice. I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t be able to drag them around.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-10-20T23:28:21.000Z

edm:

Being able to drag beds would be nice. I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t be able to drag them around.

+1.

vache · 2014-10-21T01:13:23.000Z

In some places, it uses multiple bed tiles to represent an average sized bed. It would be weird to pull the corner of a bed away…

Goombah · 2014-10-21T02:43:19.000Z

So I was doing a lab start and I was in a room with a turret nearby. No way to get by that without dying, really, as far as I could tell. However, in my room was a fire extinguisher. I thought, perhaps I could use the extinguisher to generate a localized cloud that I might be able to duck across the hallway with.

Unfortuantely, this didn’t work. Shouldn’t it?

Keyreper · 2014-10-21T05:07:33.000Z

TheFlame52:

The ability to make funnels out of plastic chunks.

This, so many times i have died because i couldn’t find water, this would solve everything.

how does5 chunks and 30 soldering iron charges sound?

Bonevomit · 2014-10-21T05:43:49.000Z

I was thinking about submitting a bug report on this but I’m not sure if it counts:
Should the broken consoles in mansions be changed into televisions?

I think this is a leftover from before the game had the television item.

KA101 · 2014-10-21T05:58:14.000Z

[quote=“Bonevomit, post:690, topic:5570”]I was thinking about submitting a bug report on this but I’m not sure if it counts:
Should the broken consoles in mansions be changed into televisions?

I think this is a leftover from before the game had the television item.[/quote]

More likely a computer, so not a bug. I’m not averse to changing it though.

edm · 2014-10-21T07:43:30.000Z

vache:

In some places, it uses multiple bed tiles to represent an average sized bed. It would be weird to pull the corner of a bed away…

The same also applies to tables, benches, counters etc. Yet you are able to pull those to pieces.

baldamundo · 2014-10-21T11:43:16.000Z

Keyreper:

[quote=“TheFlame52, post:684, topic:5570”]The ability to make funnels out of plastic chunks.

This, so many times i have died because i couldn’t find water, this would solve everything.

how does5 chunks and 30 soldering iron charges sound?[/quote]
You know you can already make makeshift funnels out of plastic bottles, right?

TheFlame52 · 2014-10-21T11:54:40.000Z

baldamundo:

You know you can already make makeshift funnels out of plastic bottles, right?

But I don’t want to make plastic bottles, then cut them into makeshift funnels. I just want to make a funnel. You know, to streamline the process.

edm · 2014-10-21T13:43:52.000Z

I propose changing the name of the AK-47 to AKM, since the AK-47 was the designation for the earlier, developmental models that were produced in relatively small numbers. The AKM is the weapon that was produced in the tens of millions and has spread all around the world. Calling them AK-47s is a common mistake.

Headset-less · 2014-10-21T14:01:06.000Z

edm:

I propose changing the name of the AK-47 to AKM, since the AK-47 was the designation for the earlier, developmental models that were produced in relatively small numbers. The AKM is the weapon that was produced in the tens of millions and has spread all around the world. Calling them AK-47s is a common mistake.

The little things, hmm…?

Bonevomit · 2014-10-21T14:54:14.000Z

[quote=“KA101, post:691, topic:5570”][quote=“Bonevomit, post:690, topic:5570”]I was thinking about submitting a bug report on this but I’m not sure if it counts:
Should the broken consoles in mansions be changed into televisions?

I think this is a leftover from before the game had the television item.[/quote]

More likely a computer, so not a bug. I’m not averse to changing it though.[/quote]
I doubt this is a computer, because:
1.It never spawns a chair
2.The setup around it looks vaguely like a TV cabinet

edm · 2014-10-21T15:08:29.000Z

Headset-less:

The little things, hmm…?

At the end of the day, it’s the little things that give the game a more polished feel to it.

Funk · 2014-10-21T18:00:36.000Z

edm:

I propose changing the name of the AK-47 to AKM, since the AK-47 was the designation for the earlier, developmental models that were produced in relatively small numbers. The AKM is the weapon that was produced in the tens of millions and has spread all around the world. Calling them AK-47s is a common mistake.

The thing is that every one know of the AK47, it’s the Russian gun, the Kalashnikov, it’s been in every war of the last 60 years, it’s on the flag of mozambique, it’s the coca cola of guns
Sure there 80 odd different models and technicality our right that the AKM is more common but in the end the first installment wins.

edm · 2014-10-21T18:18:57.000Z

Funk:

[quote=“edm, post:695, topic:5570”]I propose changing the name of the AK-47 to AKM, since the AK-47 was the designation for the earlier, developmental models that were produced in relatively small numbers. The AKM is the weapon that was produced in the tens of millions and has spread all around the world. Calling them AK-47s is a common mistake.

The thing is that every one know of the AK47, it’s the Russian gun, the Kalashnikov, it’s been in every war of the last 60 years, it’s on the flag of mozambique, it’s the coca cola of guns
Sure there 80 odd different models and technicality our right that the AKM is more common but in the end the first installment wins.[/quote]

That is my point, the AK-47 hasn’t been in every war in the past 60 years and isn’t on the flag of Mozambique. It’s the AKM that earns all of those honors.