Scrap the natives!!

[LostManAbroad]

I am sure there is a storyline reason why the natives are hostile. We are not yet playing the storyline though. Please give us an option with predators turned on but hostile natives turned off. I find the natives to be unrealistic, not very well created, so fighting with them is clunky and takes away from the immersion in the game. Plus as they only have maybe two to three lines throughout, it makes them really annoying. If one stops near your camp then you have to listen to the annoying two line song they sing over and over again.

With the exception of the natives I love this game. I do not have one good thing to say about the natives though. Personally I would remove them all together. Put them back in later if you finally improve them enough to make them worth having in the game.

[ZaRaK]

i posted almost the same...
i would really enjoy this game playing on hard but without tribes..

[SpliffTimeGamer420]

same here! at least devs could give us players an option to turn them off

[ZaRaK]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/815370/discussions/0/1812044473317278417/

[MV-Play]

And yes, I also would like to have he option to play with predators and without these tribes...

[EliteForceQc]

I'm waiting for month that option too

[briansaxton]

I've been begging for this option all along. I want a hard survival experience, but I don't want to commit genocide. More options means the ability to play to your tastes. That means more players overall and most likely more money for the devs. I don't see a downside at all. It's SP (and possibly COOP after release), so there is no "cheating" worry. Options keep people playing and draw in new players.

[S.L.O.]

Natives are great!!! More natives!!!
Maybe more diversity, as far as their mechanics but so far Ive no problems with them.
I dig the challenges to the game. The way it keeps me moving. And natives are a great part of that in my view. The AI is very interestingly well done.

[LostManAbroad]

I'm glad to see I am not the only one. What I would like to see as well would be an area of the map with a friendly set of natives who go about their business at their village. They could even do the occasional small group of natives out hunting. That way when you see a native in the jungle you would have to first identify them.

Oh, and please expand the natives recorded audio. That two line song they sing is really annoying. I had it stuck in my head for two hours at work the other day.

[Data-7]

Originally posted by LostManAbroad:

I'm glad to see I am not the only one. What I would like to see as well would be an area of the map with a friendly set of natives who go about their business at their village. They could even do the occasional small group of natives out hunting. That way when you see a native in the jungle you would have to first identify them.

Oh, and please expand the natives recorded audio. That two line song they sing is really annoying. I had it stuck in my head for two hours at work the other day.

Will l be great, we must have green and red area, in green area you can meet natives and they will react only if attacked, in red area (must be a strategic area) you invade the native territory and will be attacked.

[Werric]

Caution there is sarcasm hidden within this post. Reader beware or should I say be aware.

Prior to the patch where the natives spawn in and attack just because you lit a fire I thought the natives were fine. They were there, you could avoid them, sometimes they attacked because you were too close but over all you could choose to fight or you could choose to avoid. Well except in the old hard mode where it was spawn natives on you all the time to make it hard??

Now the natives have teleportation abilities so if you light a fire in the open they teleport to you and attack you. Really! It's a survival game and guess what? Fire is an essential part to surviving but in this game it brings hostile natives. I do know there are caves you can hide in with a fire and ways to survive without out one but once again Really!

Correct me if I'm wrong here but from the brief bit of the story we have so far we are here to get back to being friendly with the natives not annihilate them. Sure for some reason they're angry at us which is why I thought the original natives struck the correct balance.

Unfortunately as the game is now if you want to survive in the open and not in a cave you have to build a fortified base with traps and weapons and almost constantly kill natives. Unless you play "Walk in the Park". So is this what Green Hell is going to become a base building and kill everything that walks on two legs type of game? I thought I saw at least one of those types of games somewhere on the internet.

To me the option shouldn't be just natives on or off but always hostile human wave type natives (as we have now) or sometimes hostile natives like we used to have.

[Burning Bridges]

Afterall they have to endure the annoying, pretentious rambling of Mia, that turned them hostile.

[ZaRaK]

they could/should be neutral until you do something... like killing one of them, stealing something, or building in their territory

[LostManAbroad]

Maybe they could make it so that random wandering pairs of bad natives would fight if the come across good natives and you could improve your acceptance with the good natives by helping.

[Eagle]

Pretty sure in one of the modes there are no natives. I could be wrong I only play green hell mode. I started a welcome to the jungle but never played past a day It was accidental start.

The Natives attack a lot less since the update. The person who said you are constantly fighting them my guess is you're out wandering around so long as you stay in one location they dont spawn very often. Every few days or so.

There have been a ton of requests for option to turn them off. Dont know if they will ever add that.
Seems like we are leaning towards a fully customizable game play VS game modes.
Options to set spawn rates of foods, time, and predators/natives on and or off.

Im not sure we will see that though. The Natives being hostile is a must right now for Green hell since there are still people saying its too easy. The Natives provide a small percentage of the challenge offered in the game rather challenging to some or not. So I think they will stay in Green hell mode. As for other native tribes Idk the AI is very glitchy and hit and miss but the Combat update greatly improved them.

I dont like that spawning on the players location thats not realistic at all. Spawn them a few hundred meters away and have them come towards us not spawn on us. Which they have improved alot on too. Now It seems like when you venture away from your camp when you come back you might have a visitor but it seems not too common they are getting closer to a more balanced game.

Maybe they could add another Survival mode where its all about the main mechanics with the same difficulty as green hell but no natives. Just the same times, spawns and such as green hell minus the natives. idk. I hope they improve the AI more though. They seem very nerfed on their ability to sense the player having to spawn in on them but their ability to fight is very OP. No fatiguing when hurt or running 3 stabs to your one.

[Adam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.