Magazines

[Mac]

Comment your thoughts on skill magazines? I think there's far too many. I like the perk mags spear 1-7 etc, but when it comes to the skills /100, /75, far far too many for my liking. Game has now become a magazine reading simulator.

[Dwarf_Bastard]

What i personally don't understand is the "more invest into finding exact weapon in loot, more exact weapon you'll find" skills. How would that even work?

[Kruel]

Thats not true Daring Adventurer is lvl 4 and enable you to select 2 quest rewards also all quest will now offer you more rewards to pick from, so far all quests i done was 5 rewards and i was able pick one

[Kryzx]

Originally posted by VR_Donut:

What i personally don't understand is the "more invest into finding exact weapon in loot, more exact weapon you'll find" skills. How would that even work?

I guess the gist of it is: if you're focusing on a spears build, for example, then you'll find more "Spear Hunter" books in the loot table.

Once you've finished finding the complete set, then those books will be much lower (or maybe completely removed?) on the loot tables since you've already found the whole set, which should allow higher odds to find other books you're trying to find for other skills.

Back to OP's concern, yes, we'll be reading A LOT of magazines/books + mod recipes compared to A20.

My first loot when I loaded in-game on a nearby garbage pile? Found a gun magazine extension recipe! xD

[Sandro138]

I feel like the system is cool, but super imbalanced. I am able to craft a tier 5 spear at 20:00 on day 1...

Magazines shouldn't be quite as common.

Edit: Managed to unlock Iron Spears quality 1 at 21:40... yeah that def needs to be scaled back.

[General Frost]

Originally posted by Skelly:

I feel like the system is cool, but super imbalanced. I am able to craft a tier 5 spear at 20:00 on day 1...

Magazines shouldn't be quite as common.

Edit: Managed to unlock Iron Spears quality 1 at 21:40... yeah that def needs to be scaled back.

Well then people will complain that its taking to long. Its better to have to many than to have to little. Maybe a server option.

[Nipheon]

it literally takes less than a second to "read" the in game magazines. so Im not sure what you are on about.

[Crashtian]

So far I find the new skill system to be quite unbalanced, but that has less to do with finding books to read and more to do with the new point-perks being incredibly powerful.

Knives are insanely overpowered at the moment with the slow/bleed stacks you can get even 10 minutes into the game.

Find magazines is very meh, like I need so many of them that the individual finds don't "hit" super hard. I don't think it's a bad system, but it's definitely...different.

[Arasine]

I dont like it. Too much emphasis on magazines in the Apocalypse seems ridiculous for a survival game. Food, water, weapons, navigation equipment, medical supplies, clothes and dukes should always feel like better loot than 'Gardeners weekly' or whatever. I know they're going for a gamey-feel with this alpha but is that really what the majority of us players want ; a shift to survival-lite ?
Its still fun and the other improvements are good but I wish they'd actually realise most of the playerbase are not, actually, 10 year old boys looking for CODCraft

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by Mac:

Comment your thoughts on skill magazines? I think there's far too many. I like the perk mags spear 1-7 etc, but when it comes to the skills /100, /75, far far too many for my liking. Game has now become a magazine reading simulator.

Usually, when The Fun Pimps introduce something new, they put an overwhelming quantity of that new thing everywhere (I've noticed).

I think they do it so that it will become evident if the people like the new thing or not.
After a while they tone it down to normal levels, once they know how it's working.

[Mac]

Originally posted by Nipheon:

it literally takes less than a second to "read" the in game magazines. so Im not sure what you are on about.

So you don't think 1897 skill magazines is too much? I do.

[Mac]

Originally posted by ⚜ JOST AMMAN ⚜:

Originally posted by Mac:

Comment your thoughts on skill magazines? I think there's far too many. I like the perk mags spear 1-7 etc, but when it comes to the skills /100, /75, far far too many for my liking. Game has now become a magazine reading simulator.

Usually, when The Fun Pimps introduce something new, they put an overwhelming quantity of that new thing everywhere (I've noticed).

I think they do it so that it will become evident if the people like the new thing or not.
After a while they tone it down to normal levels, once they know how it's working.

I've noticed a similar pattern, I do think 1897 magazines is a tad overkill.

[comet_65cali]

I like it, Day 3, I can craft a workbench.

[Kruel]

Originally posted by Mac:

Originally posted by Nipheon:

it literally takes less than a second to "read" the in game magazines. so Im not sure what you are on about.

So you don't think 1897 skill magazines is too much? I do.

U pointed that it is magazine reading simulator, which definetly isnt :D, and like Nipheon said it takes second, one "A" press and its done, I think i collected almost 200 hunders of them and it didnt slowed me at all nor bothered me anyhow, just press A and continue, same like in previous alpha with books, so there is 1897 of them and what? it is not like that u will read them at once.

It is kinda same like scraping some items, sometimes i just loot everything and then i open inventory to see what to scrap, so i click on bunch of useless items and press S to scrap them or throw away so if u dont read those mags right away you click on them and A. Nothing new, we all already do this, so reading mags isnt nothing special or time consuming.