In your opinion the best SCUM version?

[Martha_Pfahl]

Since I'm not a fan of the current version of the game, but maybe I would like to play in single player again.

Which version of the game do you think is the best so far and why?

[Grend]

I was messing on Frebruary many versions.

In terms of visuals/atmosphere or overall sound, version 0.5.13 wins by far the newest versions. ( i did not test older ones so maybe olders are even better but did not test ) also the fog/misty atmosphere appeared sometimes was EPIC for SP!

In terms of scarcity and you will die because no food at all 0.5.13 also wins. But since now we have loot tables, dumped from the game, we can configure it that way, so with this in mind newest are better because you have control over it ( from 0.9 and above ).

In terms of spawns, obviusly anyone that is not the horde update, not because the horde itself, because they destroyed a working spawn system for the sake of I don't know what server resources ( as we are talking only in Single Player ).

Outposts / merchants. Added on the 0.7... on that version you could configure them to not spawn at all so no economy/traders there. Now this is not possible, why? I don't know.

Metabolism, in the 0.6 they added injury treatment and the new rework of metabolism, also in the 0.6.17 development they added the thermal system rework.

Transportation, well vehicles for me is not important at all, the map is a bit small for some vehicles. So sorry for not covering this section.

As you can see and what I faced when I was testing all those versions, that now I have stored in my PC, all of them. As the procedure is to add then delete from versions to others, and also make tweaks on many things, you will face that older versions are better, but they lack the good and interesting implementations that they added in posterior patches. But also in those patches they deleted many things that were nice and ok or added really bad ones.... So it is a difficult choice. ( remember diahrrea, or cutting your hair? )

For me the best is 0.5 but i miss the metabolism part, you can treat everything with aloe or bands... makes no sense.... but the survival part is epic, also the puppets seemed more silent so more than once i was attacked by one without even noticing at all (that was epic).

0.6 is more mature than 0.5 and it keeps the 0.5 spirit in it and also the metabolism part is there.

Then 0.7.500 is nice because you still have all the vehicles, the old spawn system, birds, animals are there and all the new additions to the game, it just lacks but a bit of immersion that they put off, but is still there....

After this version (0.7.500) i don't really like at all. For example, with farming, food is not scarce anymore, I mean I can sit at my house and take care of the garden and thats it, I have a river next to me and nothing more to do, i do expeditions, but the survival part it is a bit gone. No birds, no animals... puppets scream like full ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥... Also I loved cooking my food near a campfire in older versions.... but well its being to walltext this post....

All this is under my opinion.

[CrankyOldMan]

IMO .75

[Grend]

Yeah, 0.75 in general is really great! my choice of 0.5 is because the overall sound is also epic, when I tested that version I remember walking through a forest listening to the wind and constantly looking around because I never knew if there was a puppet there because puppets were really silent... or a wild animal. The 0.75 version doesn't have that. But in terms of the overall game, yeah, 0.75 is better because 0.5 is missing a lot of new nice additions...

[Andi]

I'm with Cranky. This game peaked at 0.75. From then on all went downhill.
My personal take on it.

[[EGG]HunterRose]

0.75!

[Sr. Morajsakom]

4.2! Just because

[Jolie Rouge]

Originally posted by Grend:

Outposts / merchants. Added on the 0.7... on that version you could configure them to not spawn at all so no economy/traders there. Now this is not possible, why? I don't know.

EconomyOverride.json: enable-economy : 0 <------ this *should* disable the traders.

[Dracsimus]

maybe im just weird but i'm liking where we at now........ been here since 0.1. plenty to do now with alot more options and better performance. so my "best" will always to be current version, because closer to a finished product.....

if the devs were to make 0.75 or 0.5 the 1.0 version we get to experience oooooof i would be totally disappointed....

[SonOfAtlas7]

I've reverted my game back to the 'Smokin Hot' version. But the version I liked best contained the tractors, quad bikes, animals roaming around free (that you can SEE), and no beam-in puppets at all.

[Martha_Pfahl]

So I'll load the 0.75 once. Then I just have to prevent the automatic update, but that shouldn't be a problem. At least I can play single player with a version that's still fun.

Last 0.75
SCUM - Hotfix 0.7.511.54633
10/28/2022

I think this would have to be the final 0.75 version of the game.
Many thanks for your help.

[Arc]

Originally posted by Martha_Pfahl:

In your opinion the best SCUM version?

The future one in which the devs have already finalized their design, unified gameplay loops, stopped refactoring what has been refactored before and started adding content with faster pace then than at which they keep removing it .

I do not have a favourite version personally, they all have pros and cons, etc.

[Moriarty]

Originally posted by Dracsimus:

maybe im just weird but i'm liking where we at now........ been here since 0.1. plenty to do now with alot more options and better performance. so my "best" will always to be current version, because closer to a finished product.....

if the devs were to make 0.75 or 0.5 the 1.0 version we get to experience oooooof i would be totally disappointed....

Yup, with you, game just keeps getting better. Still not the finished article, but I love it.

[CheeseKing]

0.1.

[Martha_Pfahl]

Originally posted by CheeseKing:

0.1.

The good old time! Everything was better before! ;)

[KungFuSpaghetti]

0.75, the following update killed the game for our server and everyone left. Game has remained uninstalled since then. I pop back in here now and then to see if anything positive has materialised, but seems to be the same old... so uninstalled it shall remain.