This game is about to get interesting :)

[Mactavendish]

For all you guests here on this forum, I thought it would be good to let you know a few of the things going on in game currently, what has been said will be coming in the next patch or two.

To me the game is much more than others for a few reasons.

For instance, you need to manage animals and trees now. This means that if you kill all the animals in an area there won't be many if any to hunt. Only kill adults and leave a few of those to breed and you keep seeing baby animals.

Same for trees, leave trees to re-sprout and you will have a more steady supply.

Also with all the new resources and stat boosts you can do, you can augment your stats to make up for some bad choices.

But the best part is that next patch we will most likely see carts and by the end of the month Zombies will be a part of the game. At least that's what Jordi hopes to have for us.

This game IS making steady progress in a good direction. Those that are willing to grow and adjust to the evolution of this game will always have lots to do .

If you tied at beta and left ... it maybe a good time to check it out again .

[Mizzlexx]

I am seriously considering returning. This posts makes me really think about it. When I left, animals were not working correctly, and I figured I would just take a break. I think I'm going to resub with news of the development.

Say Mac, does Pawnee have room for an old Apache? I'm not sure if the Apache is still thriving anymore.

[MrDDT]

I think the game has been improving with the last few patches a lot.
New tools, new recipes for arch, much better combat system. Many more animals.

I cant wait for carts, that will make a huge difference.

I want to see some tracking, I want to see better and harder monsters, and I want to see better bonuses for resources.

[staticrage34]

I'm really liking the game,right now my peve is that it takes awhile to load the game.But it has been really fun for me playing.

[Archangei]

My fear is that i did arch to 82 or something back in April.. and that ill end up beeing screwed because of that.
But im still hanging in here... hoping

[Mactavendish]

Sure mizz we would love to have ya and we are close to you too!

Archangel, Im lvl 98 and have been finding all sorts of arch blueprints, and have a much better selection now than I ever would have had just unlocking by crafting. So, you are actually in very good shape.. just keep going and get unlocks and scav alot and you will find blueprints there too.. its ALL good

Don't let is scare you off... you will be fine I promise

[MrDDT]

They did put a limit on how many recipes you can learn, but its normally more than what you would have got through just grinding up the skill anyways, with all the new stuff.

They also plan to change how recipes work, they are going to go the route like toolcrafting is I believe.

[Dzarren]

I am waiting for carts to actively return, someone cut down most trees in my area and the few left i wanne keep for regrowth.
Also it seems common for sandboxes to have an slow start, just been playing dawntide and the same issue there and much worse communication from the devs.
So lets hope the next patch brings us carts would motivate me to become more active.

[inhabit]

I am trying not to get too hyped up about carts etc until we get information on how they will actually be added ingame, are they fully lootable, how much will they carry etc etc.

Have they already given us info on this that i have missed?

[Archangei]

They did put a limit on how many recipes you can learn, but its normally more than what you would have got through just grinding up the skill anyways, with all the new stuff.

They also plan to change how recipes work, they are going to go the route like toolcrafting is I believe.

So all new arch recipes is from scavange or what?

[unclean666]

you can still learn them but ive scaved every recipe there is in arch

[NorCalGooey]

how do you know that unclean?

[VeryWiiTee]

I am trying not to get too hyped up about carts etc until we get information on how they will actually be added ingame, are they fully lootable, how much will they carry etc etc.

Have they already given us info on this that i have missed?

As far as I'm aware they will be able to hold Bins.. I'm not entirely sure if it applies to raw materials such as logs or stacks.
There is supposed to be 3 different kinds of carts. One that hold a small amount, but quite fast, one that holds a medium amount with medium speed and one that can hold a large amount but moves slower than the other two. It's some where in one of his Weekly answers when I asked how they would work.

[blythega]

Anyone know how the mechanics of the new carts will work? i.e. wil you be able to lock a cart? Will you be able to hitch animals to it? Will you be able to ride on the cart with hitched animals? Will you be able to store contains inside the cart?

Just a few questions I have

[Kazkid]

I can say at this time they wont work with animals. Taming and animal skills aren't implemented yet. I'm sure as we advance they will come in time and hope they will be able to pull different carts.

[VeryWiiTee]

Nope (not entirely sure you can lock it..), nope and nope Blythega. I already answered the last one..

The three kinds of carts we get to begin with, as far as I understood, was only to be pulled by us Survivors and not animals, not now and not ever. I believe they would introduce some animal pulled carts instead of using the ones we hopefully get soon :).