NPC's

[Angrysquirrel]

Would you guys stop with the small updates and focus on NPC's? For the love of god, you're now crafting chum for fishing? We're what...5 years into development for this game and you still haven't gotten the NPC's to work? I don't care about a new color for the windshield wiper blades you are working on. Or that you've created a hot water bottle if someone has stomach ache. Or that you have created a new stuffed bunny to be found in the back of a minivan. I'm not sure what the deal is. Do you not have the talent to create NPC's anymore? You did when the game first came out. What happened? Do you just not care about people who put your trust in and spent money buying your game? I bought your game years ago you had NPC's. Now they have been gone for years now. Modders have created more content for quality of life. Tons of guns, cars, weapons, HUD's. They have taken your broken code and made broken NPC's. How about you take their broken code and make working NPC's? Or give them the tools to make good NPC's if you don't want to do it. I don't care about multiplayer. It didn't have multiplayer when I bought it and I still don't care about it. I want NPCs like you had when the game was first released.

[baltezur]

dont be mad

[Bash Arkin]

No one give him jesters lol

[martindirt]

Originally posted by Angrysquirrel:

Would you guys stop with the small updates and focus on NPC's? For the love of god, you're now crafting chum for fishing? We're what...5 years into development for this game and you still haven't gotten the NPC's to work? I don't care about a new color for the windshield wiper blades you are working on. Or that you've created a hot water bottle if someone has stomach ache. Or that you have created a new stuffed bunny to be found in the back of a minivan. I'm not sure what the deal is. Do you not have the talent to create NPC's anymore? You did when the game first came out. What happened? Do you just not care about people who put your trust in and spent money buying your game? I bought your game years ago you had NPC's. Now they have been gone for years now. Modders have created more content for quality of life. Tons of guns, cars, weapons, HUD's. They have taken your broken code and made broken NPC's. How about you take their broken code and make working NPC's? Or give them the tools to make good NPC's if you don't want to do it. I don't care about multiplayer. It didn't have multiplayer when I bought it and I still don't care about it. I want NPCs like you had when the game was first released.

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[martindirt]

⬆️⬆️ look what he just got ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Originally posted by Bash Arkin:

No one give him jesters lol

[Puppers]

Originally posted by Angrysquirrel:

Well good to see your name fits your online persona, lol.

[Armagenesis]

Guess we'll see this kind of thread every Thursdoid update huh. Wish I have me some popcorns.

[Sunshine]

I honestly can't tell if he's just trolling or not...

[VANGUARD]

Look at it this way: He bought the game years ago when NPCs were still a thing and he still cares enough about it to post a comment even today.
In other words, unlike some other companies that only produce money grab games you play once, this game has enough replay worth to last you for YEARS!
Truly an amazing game TIS created :)

[Death]

Really? You want those crappy NPCs back? Then just use the mod. It has the same kind of garbage NPCs that you miss. So you can have what you want right now. I'm more than happy to wait for something better however long that takes.

[Redarmy]

Originally posted by Death:

Really? You want those crappy NPCs back? Then just use the mod. It has the same kind of garbage NPCs that you miss. So you can have what you want right now. I'm more than happy to wait for something better however long that takes.

whats wrong with superb survivors mod? best NPC mod iv played with in any game to date.

[Ᵽitspawn Ƒouldog]

What I personally don't understand is the "liquid system" ok, so we can mix random things together that nobody will end up using except multi-player players trying to poison each other. The only liquid system this game needs is one that makes the water not look like ass and actually be realistic/swimable.

Maybe I misunderstood that post though.

[MINT]

dude, they are busy with animals. NPCs are a whold new another level :D

[Khergit Horse Archer]

you could just use the superb npc mod lol, but last time i tried it, it has issues and causes crashes.

ai in games are usually less than intelligent, and probably will never be good, maybe someday with machine learning but i have no idea.

[Hendo]

I think the complaints get dismissed all too easily. Look, I love this game and it's ok to love the game and still be frustrated with it's insanely slow progress and the title of remaining permanently in "early access."

They've assembled a great team that works on their individual projects simultaneously. I think these individual projects have overtaken the originally blueprint for what they've wanted to accomplish. It comes off to many people that all their new features, like adding chum, creating schools of fish, things that weren't originally part of that blueprint, are taking over and are being concentrated more on. That isn't necessarily the case because the person working on fishing mechanics doesn't work on NPC's.

While these new features are great, the most common things people have asked for since I've been playing the game has been multiplayer, animals, and NPC's. Dev's laid out their path and said once multiplayer was stable, they'd move on to NPC's. It instead looks like that's put on the back burner and they're concentrating on other mechanics. That might not be the case, but that's how it appears. I'm sure the animal mechanics will greatly help the work with NPC's, but it seems like the dev's are a little overzealous with their vision. They might want to take a few steps back and again get to the basics on where they want the game to go in the immediate future, not in the next 10 years future.

[Smokey]

That's the biggest issue with this game.
You have a decent foundation for a survival game, but it's squandered by the limitation of ONLY being able to find other survivors (hostile or not) in multiplayer.

I was having a lot of fun with singleplayer and then it hit me. I was stockpiling all of this loot for absolutely no reason...
Hostile survivor AI goes a long way for survival games. The lack of ai is one of the main reasons I stopped playing most of them.