Any reason to go to other biomes?

[Coyote]

So i have tier 6 weapons and armor and i havent left the starting biome.
My equipment is maxed out already...

Just kinda weird game balance to me. Im starting to get bored as im not going to purposefully go out of my way to go to a harder biome if there is no reward.

Higher loot chance doesnt mean anything since i can craft everything...
And all building materials seem to be in the starting biome... I was able to build pretty much any defense for my base. o.O

Some of this stuff shouldnt show up at all in the starting biome.

[[STD]Random Lead]

The reward is the more challenging gameplay but to each their own.

[esthergray]

You gain more xp in higher biomes if you still need it.

[Coyote]

STDRandom Lead původně napsal:

The reward is the more challenging gameplay but to each their own.

Lame but thanks for the answer.

[Trooper Bri]

Start on Warrior or higher difficulty, get to the snow or wasteland biome before or right after the Day 7 horde, and get back to us.
If you're feeling real frisky, up horde night to 32. And of course loot respawn is cheaty.

The game is designed to scale to the difficulty you tell it to. Try horde night every 3 days with 64 zombos on 120 minute days. That's a full 30 minute horde. Or play on vanilla settings with 10 minute days.

If you're bored, that's your fault.

[GodestLust]

Coyote původně napsal:

Trooper Bri původně napsal:

Start on Warrior or higher difficulty, get to the snow or wasteland biome before or right after the Day 7 horde, and get back to us.
If you're feeling real frisky, up horde night to 32. And of course loot respawn is cheaty.

The game is designed to scale to the difficulty you tell it to. Try horde night every 3 days with 64 zombos on 120 minute days. That's a full 30 minute horde. Or play on vanilla settings with 10 minute days.

If you're bored, that's your fault.

Making the game harder does not add content to contentless biomes.
I didnt say the game was easy i said it was boring.
Im not going to another biome unless they have special things to do in it.

It definitely is my fault since i bought the game in alpha expecting them to actually add content. I wont make that mistake again.

the game is Pretty fun. not sure why your Bored maybe find a buddy to play with?

[uebie420]

Well if you have loot respawn and chunk reset on then no, since resources at that point are infinite and you dont have to leave the biome for even gas production as you can only get oilshell in the desert. In the end its a sandbox game its what you make of it

[Mithrandir]

Reasons:
Most higher tier quests and POIs are out of the starting biome if not all.
Shale is in desert only.
Plenty of easy to find animals to hunt in snow biome.
Nice challenge in wasteland at night.
Traders are specialised by biome.

Also, I agree that the settings are important. If you play with loot respawn, it may reduces the need to travel, and may increases boredom as you can confine yourself to explore the same small subset of POIs.

[God Bless The Dead]

Not really with the nerf to the trader rewards and extra harder better biome loot that you used to get, you used to get tier 6 auto shotty for doing tier 6 in the wasteland, stuff like that, it was a good way to the best guns early as possible before, not the case anymore, doesn't matter what biome said quest is in, either way I pick a biome to build in, usually the grassland area as that is where they place us and do quests from there, I go to any biome though to do quests, I only do infested quests, for the massive ammo cash, have not made a single bullet since they have been a thing plus the x2 zombies is nice and extra tokens.

[onanonehand8]

Other than quicker leveling and better rewards earlier, no, All things can be done in the forest biome. That is not a good design.

[Tahnval]

uebie420 původně napsal:

Well if you have loot respawn and chunk reset on then no, since resources at that point are infinite and you dont have to leave the biome for even gas production as you can only get oilshell in the desert. In the end its a sandbox game its what you make of it

There isn't any need to go to the desert for oil shale anyway, unless you also choose to not use traders. Traders always have ample fuel in stock at a very affordable price.

The devs have tried to coerce players into all the biomes by changing the map gen to only allow villages in the forest biome, only villages and towns in burnt, desert and snow and with cities reserved for wasteland only.

Or, to put it another way, the devs tried to make the less annoying biomes more boring in an attempt to coerce players into going into the more annoying biomes.

I rarely go into the wasteland. That's not because it's harder. It's because it's annoying. The player's view of the gameworld is always partially obscured in the wasteland and often heavily obscured. Travelling offroad is a constant annoyance. Bird attacks are a common annoyance. It's dull and dreary and irritating.

[Bad Karma]

After 6,455 hours in, I get bored of vanilla too. I suggest you install some overhaul mods. There are many great ones out there and some change the game so much that it feels like a totally different game. Install the 7d2d Mod launcher and it will handle finding, downloading and installing overhauls for you. It's an awesome way not to get bored of this incredible game...even after playing for almost 6,500 hours.

[ChumSickle]

My answer would be "not really". Some of the quests later on will send you there, but after a number of playthroughs there is little reason to spend much time outside of the starter area. In fact, in my worthless opinion, the game is somewhat set up to ensure most people stay in the starter biome. You get to your first trader there, and by the time you want to leave, you already have a bunch of things placed and a ton of loot stored away that would be a pain to move.

Most answers I have read on similar topics all come back to "it is up to you if you want to go spend time there."

[Pain Weasel]

Coyote původně napsal:

So i have tier 6 weapons and armor and i havent left the starting biome.
My equipment is maxed out already...

Just kinda weird game balance to me. Im starting to get bored as im not going to purposefully go out of my way to go to a harder biome if there is no reward.

Higher loot chance doesnt mean anything since i can craft everything...
And all building materials seem to be in the starting biome... I was able to build pretty much any defense for my base. o.O

Some of this stuff shouldnt show up at all in the starting biome.

At the stage of the game where you seem to be, no. The only possible benefit at that "end game" stage is for more difficult encounters, but lets face it by the time you have max tier gear the added game stage from the biome doesn't matter at all. There is a loot bonus, but since you are at max tier gear that isn't really an incentive.

The only resource that doesn't spawn in the forest is oil shale, but you don't need that for anything since you can get all the gas you will ever need from salvaging cars. Even plants like Yucca can be found in POIs you can find in the forest.

At lower stages of the game though there is a point. POIs like Crack A Book stores no longer spawn in the Pine Forest by default so unless you mod rwgmixer to spawn cities in the forest you would need to venture out into higher tier biome for book runs. Those POIs are NOT necessary but grabbing 50 magazines from a single POI run drastically bumps up progression.

[CatPerson]

I think the only real factor is speed of loot acquisition in early-middle game, because of the loot-stage (and the vanilla limits to Forest biome, as mentioned above). But as pointed out, by late/end game, that is not a motivator.

I mean, technically you can/could reach max gear/get all books while never setting foot inside the interior of any main POI, or at most just looting the outer perimeter of them. Mailboxes/newstands, cars, trash, the little street food carts. I've come close to doing that a few times myself.

But that is much longer time endeavor than busting out quests or raiding POI big loot boxes over and over.

[8_Hussars]

Coyote původně napsal:

So i have tier 6 weapons and armor and i havent left the starting biome.
My equipment is maxed out already...

Just kinda weird game balance to me. Im starting to get bored as im not going to purposefully go out of my way to go to a harder biome if there is no reward.

Higher loot chance doesnt mean anything since i can craft everything...
And all building materials seem to be in the starting biome... I was able to build pretty much any defense for my base. o.O

Some of this stuff shouldnt show up at all in the starting biome.

Short answer no. If top tier gear is your end game, there is no reason to explore other biomes.

It is sandbox game play so players can play how they like. It is not a hand holding procedural RPG story. Players don't finish 7d2d.

Players play until they get bored. Restart with a different goal, self-imposed challenge, and/or explore, fight, build, in other biomes. They run overhaul mods to change it up.

So no there is no end game; but there is a vast array of options and endless replayability.