Hi All, This game has been eating way too much of my time over the past couple of weeks. It’s a fantastic achievement and thanks a lot to the developers. Just want to throw in my two cents about some of the gameplay mechanics that are a bit unbalanced/overpowered in the player’s favor, in my opinio…

[image] Erk: Some of the really clunky ones should also add encumbrance. In particular I think the integrated toolset should encumber one hand and arm. Not a ton, but like 10-20 (maybe it’s actually semi random based on the installer skills). Enough to make you have to choose between, say, an in…

Because Integrated toolset does far more than a survivor toolbelt, draws from the internal power supply, and doesn’t occupy weight or inventory volume. Also it encumbers one arm rather than the torso, which has value for different builds… If it is my shield arm, I don’t mind at all

[image] Erk: Because Integrated toolset does far more than a survivor toolbelt, draws from the internal power supply, and doesn’t occupy weight or inventory volume. And has no negatives. As soon as you add a substantial negative it becomes imminently more effective to just carry a set of tool…

Like I edited in, 10 points of encumbrance on one arm is a relative negative. My character wears a shield, I don’t care at all about that but I do care about torso encumbrance.

[image] Erk: Like I edited in, 10 points of encumbrance on one arm is a relative negative. My character wears a shield, I don’t care at all about that but I do care about torso encumbrance. It’s kind of besides the point anyway, bionics slots is what we should focus on and implement. Adding s…

I agree, that was why the bulk of my post said that. Part of bionic slots is that it needs to be possible to remove and exchange bionics anyway, which means that having one add encumbrance or cause some other drawback is no longer an irreversible issue. It’s likely just going to be harder than putt…

One issue being that the slot limit method is a hard cap to the amount of bionics you can install, and those aren’t as much fun. You can’t actually make a bionic monster of any kind and the player is heavily limited, plus, there’s no way to build in such a way that you can get more bionics. It’s jus…

Personally I see no problem with a hard cap on bionics. If it were up to me I’d nerf them to oblivion, and they would still be very desirable. Re shady zombies - they seem a fairly transparent way to add a small (beginning of game only) element of danger to nighttime. I think it points to the fact …

Hmm. What if bionics had their own new form of encumbrance, sort of a bioencumbrance? You get x number of bionic slots. You can fill those up without problem, just like you can wear gear unhindered. When you exceed your basic bionic slots, you start to gain bioencumbrance. Penalties might be thing…

[image] Erk: bioencumbrance That’s not a bad take. I’m big into Shadowrun, so I hear this and I immediately start thinking cyberpsychosis. Sure, you can jam as much tech in you as you want, but there are consequences for becoming more than, or less than, human.

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