ngl, kinda dissapointed with super corn.

[TamTroll]

found some Super Corn seeds (and a guide on how to make new super corn seeds) awhile ago, and swiftly planted them. "New, better foods!" i thought.

Today i harvested them... okay, i can make glue and... some drinks that i don't have anywhere near enough books read to make... Not even one food type on the list.

Real letdown. Reaaaal let down.

[Terry A. Davis]

Farm it in bulk and sell it to the traders for lots of dukes :D

[thestile]

It had really good healing at one point I think. But it was nerfed if I recall. Good healing or maybe it was more filling? Hard to remember

[Azure]

super corn = super amounts of glue

[Amins]

Originally posted by thestile:

It had really good healing at one point I think. But it was nerfed if I recall. Good healing or maybe it was more filling? Hard to remember

Yeah, it actually used to fit it's "Super" name. It was nerfed to hell and they just never bothered to utilize it in any significant way. There is no reason to make a Super Corn farm for glue when bones are so plentiful, and the few recipes that do use it don't use it in high enough quantities to justify the crop. The beers and acid are significantly more of a bottleneck in those recipes.

[TamTroll]

yeah, i was really hoping for FOOD options though. my cookiing skill is still low, and what food i have access too is either not great, or takes up a lot of resources.

Was really hoping super corn could get me like, "super corn on the cob" that fills me up a good amount while only costing a couple of ears each.

[ToxicBoo]

Originally posted by TamTroll:

yeah, i was really hoping for FOOD options though. my cookiing skill is still low, and what food i have access too is either not great, or takes up a lot of resources.

Was really hoping super corn could get me like, "super corn on the cob" that fills me up a good amount while only costing a couple of ears each.

When in doubt; Bacon & eggs.

Yeah they really need to add actual recipes to use super corn in. Right now nobody would care if it was removed, its that pointless.

[Amins]

Originally posted by ToxicBoo:

Originally posted by TamTroll:

yeah, i was really hoping for FOOD options though. my cookiing skill is still low, and what food i have access too is either not great, or takes up a lot of resources.

Was really hoping super corn could get me like, "super corn on the cob" that fills me up a good amount while only costing a couple of ears each.

When in doubt; Bacon & eggs.

Yeah they really need to add actual recipes to use super corn in. Right now nobody would care if it was removed, its that pointless.

I don't want them to remove it, I want them to actually do something with it. It was a good idea to put in the game. A super rare, end-game crop that can only be found in a few locations. It's just the the reward doesn't match the effort.

And I get it, you need to balance the quality of the benefit with how much it could potentially trivialize the game when you get to the point where you can just grow thousands of the stuff. I'd suggest using it as a form of bio-fuel as an alternative to digging up oil shale. You get the trade off of having to go hunt down finite ore sources in a specific biome with having to tend to a large-scale farm. And also, yeah, some new recipes with moderately good buffs would be appreciated. Even if it's just adding better versions of the foods we already have that use corn with Super Corn variants.

[jynx]

Originally posted by Amins:

Originally posted by ToxicBoo:

And I get it, you need to balance the quality of the benefit with how much it could potentially trivialize the game when you get to the point where you can just grow thousands of the stuff. I'd suggest using it as a form of bio-fuel as an alternative to digging up oil shale. You get the trade off of having to go hunt down finite ore sources in a specific biome with having to tend to a large-scale farm. And also, yeah, some new recipes with moderately good buffs would be appreciated. Even if it's just adding better versions of the foods we already have that use corn with Super Corn variants.

I know we're already suspending disbelief with growing coffee at these latitudes. However, any corn optimized for fuel production would suck as a food source, or for making corn syrup. Corns not even the best crop for Gasahol, that was a compromise with the corn industry and promoted heavily in the 70's and early 80's. It's hard on old engines and fuel lines, and even with all the tinkering in the world, there's no supply of rubber parts at the grass roots level (in players shops) to replace all the gaskets and seals it would be drying out and cracking up.

[MoistGamer]

more super rare end game things s/b in the game super corn aside. I see a lot of posts from people who have played a long time (mostly) and a few newer folks who are correctly observing the "what to do" is left almost entirely up to the player. Finding supercorn could be one answer to that.

Finding a rare "Talia's sniper" .50 cal sniper that is coded to spawn exactly once in only one random building per random gen map, would be fun.
Finding one part of an end game vehicle in each biome as a reward to a T6 infestation quest IN THAT SPECIFIC BIOME per part, would be fun. Maybe that's a tank, maybe an aircraft.
Having great heavy armor only spawn at a a single military research facility per map would be fun.

But truth is aside from things like a beaker (less rare than it used to be it seems? dunno?) , and supercorn... everything else can just be crafted or bought.

There are a few ways to solve the "no need to go to other biomes" issue and I'm not sure they had interest in doing that. Had is past tense, "have" isnt really an option anymore as they've decided to tap out in its current state.

[Astasia]

As the first reply mentions, it's good for selling until you can make the buff "potions" it's used for, which are extremely powerful. Grandpa's Moonshine is basically god mode for a minute.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by Astasia:

As the first reply mentions, it's good for selling until you can make the buff "potions" it's used for, which are extremely powerful. Grandpa's Moonshine is basically god mode for a minute.

Not to mention that you can down a Grandpa's Learnin' Elixir as a Blood Moon starts and gain a bunch of levels.
Super Corn is super useful.
Glue early if you're lucky enough to find some seeds. I found some in a Dire Wolf loot bag when I was (un)lucky enough to run across one around lvl 20 and, while it almost killed me, it did give me Super Corn seeds that I immediately planted and farmed for glue until I unlocked the better recipes.

[Amins]

Originally posted by jynx:

I know we're already suspending disbelief with growing coffee at these latitudes. However, any corn optimized for fuel production would suck as a food source, or for making corn syrup. Corns not even the best crop for Gasahol, that was a compromise with the corn industry and promoted heavily in the 70's and early 80's. It's hard on old engines and fuel lines, and even with all the tinkering in the world, there's no supply of rubber parts at the grass roots level (in players shops) to replace all the gaskets and seals it would be drying out and cracking up.:surprised_yeti:

I see way too many people here saying "You can fit a truck in your pocket, lul is just a game, bro!" to be dismissive of a lot of valid and constructive criticism, but this is one of those times where that excuse actually fits.

There is no "Super Corn" in real life. It's an imaginary substance created by who knows what and can do whatever we could imagine it to. In a game where we have zombies, using some genetically modified crop as a viable source of fuel for vehicles that we've cobbled together with duct tape and random parts is more than believable.

[Amins]

Originally posted by DarkEternal:

Originally posted by Astasia:

As the first reply mentions, it's good for selling until you can make the buff "potions" it's used for, which are extremely powerful. Grandpa's Moonshine is basically god mode for a minute.

Not to mention that you can down a Grandpa's Learnin' Elixir as a Blood Moon starts and gain a bunch of levels.
Super Corn is super useful.
Glue early if you're lucky enough to find some seeds. I found some in a Dire Wolf loot bag when I was (un)lucky enough to run across one around lvl 20 and, while it almost killed me, it did give me Super Corn seeds that I immediately planted and farmed for glue until I unlocked the better recipes.

Maybe that would have been the case before you could just buy as much of those end game potions any time you want from the very start of the game for super cheap. There is no reason to make a farm for Super Corn anymore unless you just want to have a glue factory at home and don't want to bother hauling the bones back, which are already extremely common themselves. Like, it's actually more efficient to just use bones.

[TamTroll]

i don't even want it for fuel or beer, i mean if it can be used for it then great, but i don't need those right now. i need food options.

Corn is a food. Super corn suggests it's some kind of super food.

The fact that i can't turn it into food is real frustrating.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Amins:

Maybe that would have been the case before you could just buy as much of those end game potions any time you want from the very start of the game for super cheap. There is no reason to make a farm for Super Corn anymore unless you just want to have a glue factory at home and don't want to bother hauling the bones back, which are already extremely common themselves. Like, it's actually more efficient to just use bones.

I've only seen moonshine on sale once, and it costs like 1500 a pop, so you are talking 22,500 dukes for 15 minutes of power to last through the horde night. Just because it "can" be sold, doesn't mean you can get a reliable source that way.