You patched the fun from the game

[XTRA_TELOS]

I´ve played 7dtd for 7293 hours and I had fun, every minute! But now the fun is lost! The silly thing with the books to level is worst! I played in a new game 6 days, finished 12 Quests and looted more than 30 POIS! I found not one "Forge Ahead" book! Tomorrow is horde night and i have no forge! This is stupid! And the water system is worst case! No trader has the water filter i need! And the cooking pot I found on day 4! What's the matter with you developers? You want to patch this game dead? Why not with Alpha 21 a Stand alone Game Called "7 Days to Die 2" and make the Alpha 20/7 7 Days to Die out of EA!

[Goofy-Gamer]

Totally agree, going the wrong way

[DerFinneAT]

Originally posted by XTRA_TELOS:

I found not one "Forge Ahead" book! Tomorrow is horde night and i have no forge!

That sounds promising, if it will be the rule and not the exception.

The game was defiantly more interesting in the earlier alphas where the forge was a day 22 to 50 thing, and not a horde-night 1 thing.

So if this is really back that would be a nice heads up.

[Trooper Bri]

Originally posted by DerFinneAT:

Originally posted by XTRA_TELOS:

I found not one "Forge Ahead" book! Tomorrow is horde night and i have no forge!

That sounds promising, if it will be the rule and not the exception.

The game was defiantly more interesting in the earlier alphas where the forge was a day 22 to 50 thing, and not a horde-night 1 thing.

So if this is really back that would be a nice heads up.

First random gen put my trader 3.3K away from my spawn. Wandered through the terrain with no town in sight. Just the occasional POI I had to scrounge through hoping for supplies.

Wandered into my trader's town 2 days later hungry, thirsty, broke, and no cook pot. I definitely missed the early game struggles that have been absent for too many Alphas.

[Almonra]

Since I have been playing A21, long walk to trader, killed by pig, birds got me once. But all and all game is great. I love it.
Thanks TFP Dev's

[crmarlow2874]

Reading magazines to be able to craft a forge and other stuff like it is a bit much. Although there are water filters at the first trader I've come across but at day 2 they are way over priced. I'm trying to establish myself on a new map like foraging for food and water, so for a fresh spawn, filters are too expensive. My biggest gripe is the huge amount of magazines the player needs to read to get anywhere.

[onanonehand8]

Watching the streamers gave me a few pointers. The game is somewhat slower in progression, but I have two forges and three dew collectors going on day three. I am way behind in mining but other than that the game is running well.

[Raven Misery October]

just be thankful you can play the game i havent been able to for over a month because it keeps giving me error codes on loading screen and havent been able to get past it no matter what i tried now im hoping with this updated vision i can finally play but i doubt it. so fingers crossed

[Lady MacBeth]

Hmm I found 3 forge ahead books just in Trader Hughs compound on day 1.

[Wei Wuxian]

i found 2 by looting, im at day 2, but yeah it seems that if you want like forge books specifically you need to level up in engineering or lockpicking, i specialized in clubs and found 13 by now.

[Ele]

Your RNG was truly horrible then. On day one, 500m from trader, had water filters for sale at $1500, pricey for sure. Did some missions, by Day 4 I had my first dew collector (which is the most stupid thing ever... dew collector that doesn't go faster when it's out in the rain??? wth?). At the trader, searched his entire complex, found 3 forge ahead books right off the bat to get the dew collector. Had the rest for the forge by day 3. Horde night, didn't even really need the forge to be honest, but to each their own.

Survived my first horde night with just my bow and knife as I went Agility build. Now I have 2 dew collectors, my forge, and starting to work on getting my base upgraded as I'm using the Industrial Tanks for my horde base.

[atom heart]

Haven't had a problem finding the water filter at the traders and magazines are well aimed as they favour the skills you take points into. I haven't really needed the dew collector as I have found plenty of murky water. I have had issues fining animals, they are scarce but I wouldn't run here and burst out crying over it.

Maybe the game just doesn't like you.

[Sandro138]

You must be doing something totally wrong then cause I had a forge by day 2 easily and I just put one point into Advanced Engineering to help the odds for the mags.

I'm on day 8 currently with 32/75 Workstations and still with just the 1 point into Advanced Eng...

Put 1 point and check mail boxes and especially if you find a Crack-A-Book store you should be fine.

[Seftak]

I have not played A21 yet, waiting for stable release, but everything posted here tells me it will be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ great time! I missed the early game strugle so much and have an actual goal to looting POIs other than "just because".

Please devs, make the game even more hard and "unfair". There is no point to play if you are done with the game before even the first blood moon.

[Fayte91]

oh good they are putting the survival game back in, thank god

[Bad Karma]

I like the changes and the struggles they bring. The game was getting too easy and therefore, boring. For my new A21 game, I started 2.1K from the trader and didn't find a cookpot until day 3. I ate Shamwiches and spent a lot of time crapping my pants, and it was hard to survive again - I loved it! Thanks for shaking up the usual playthrough routine...the game needed it.