Lady Kyrah

Age of the engine has nothing to do with anything, that's the argument i always hear from the modding community, mostly because they don't have access to the source. BIS made the arma2 engine, from the ground up, since operation flashpoint, if they need a feature they can simply write it in, there is NOTHING that can't be changed or improved, that's programming 101. Now where the real issue is is in budget. Animation cost money, programmers cost money. If a game has to be the "best they can do" it will never be truly finished. There is always something to prove and at some point you have to decide what is going to be the priority budget and time wise. Frankly i would prefer if they focused on the gameplay and the depth of the game world rather than spending an extra cent on graphics.

I did play dwarf fortress and found the interface too clunky. But i do recommend "Cataclysm: dark days ahead" which use similar visuals. It even support tilesets now i believe. This is my favourite zombie survival experience so far.

Ah graphics... And i've had a blast in games that represent my player with '@'

I have to agree with this argument, why would a car be dumped on the side of the road if it still had gas? Broken down? Unlikely that it would happen just like that. Cars on a parking may still have gas, or cars that where stuck in some traffic jam, but cars abandoned in the middle of nowhere? very unlikely.

Well here is an idea, what about having a chance to be near or far signted when you spawn? prescription glasses would fix it but they would be fairly fragile.

Well they aren't rewriting the engine from scratch FYI.

I used to play a little survival game where time spent could be adjusted for a disadvantage. You could fine tune how you scavenged for example: Quickly: lesser chance of finding things, more noise, use less time.Slowly: more chances of finding things, use more time, less noise.You could then use tools, for example: Crowbar: higher chance to find things, more noise.Flashlight: higher chance at finding things, more visible. You could probably adapt this concept to car fixing for example, get zombie audio and visual aggro involved when the player chose to do things quickly.

Well I already have a job and chores to do in real life, if I want to play a game it's not for sitting there for 25 minutes repairing an engine. As narkoman14 pointed out, if you have an hour of spare time to play your favourite game, you're gonna pick something that doesn't involve waiting for a progress bar to fill for 25 minutes. Rocket/Dean is very fond of his concept of "authenticity", more realism leading to a more interesting game experience? sure. More realism for the sake of realism? Nope.

I suppose they've gone for a generic "worn" look for degraded items, not specifically due to firefight.

Not every player is in highschool you know, some of us have real jobs to attend to. As for less food usage, sure, as long as food drop rate is lowered down accordingly.

Not what i ment, i was refering to that "sandbox mode" idea.

I'm not sure about that. You see, I do like to be able to understand things, but at the same time, i think it lessen the reward those cool things offer.

Option two, screw skills and instead make actions that require two players to be performed no matter what.

But what is their reason to patrolling, or even existing, this is supposed to be the end of the world where only a handful of survivors are left in from of the infected hordes. What do they add that the current zombies, players and looting system doesn't add already. We already have human survivors, why would we need NPC ones?

I rather have them focus on something more profound and meaningful than horror movie gimmicks that add nothing to the gameplay.

^^^^ This, from a practical standpoint you want to recycle as many assets as possible between both genders. There are fancy pieces of tech that allow you more fancy things but they do not come cheap.

Hey i like having an educated debate every now and then, it's a nice change of pace :)

How is this example not pushing forward gender role stereotypes?

You've seen mad max a little too much maybe...

Agreed, what i mean is that i do not believe in a completely genetic reason for the difference, male and female athletes have a completely different approach to their sport, which might affect performances. But yeah this kind of differenciation is not interesting, and even if it turns out that male characters themselve can't do some things as well as female characters, it's just reenforcing gender stereotypes for no good reason.

The breeding argument doesnt work tho there is only one chromosome dedicated to sex differenciation and natural selection affect the specie as a whole, generally not one of the two sexes. I just think that stripped down of the cultural bias the gap might disappear, or at least narrow down seriously.

i mean in our society a girl will be gently coerced all her life to be a girl and a boy just the same, boy will be oriented toward physical prowess while the girl will be oriented toward the idea of bearing children. Are men really more muscular, or does the social convention for men encourage a more physical approach to life?

I'm just pointing at the shallowness of those suggestions.

If i censored everything i dislike there wouldnt be a whole lot to look at, and it's more entertaining the other way,

Well this is another example of why we have game designers designing games, and not some random guy from the internet.