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[scrdest]

Early on, Hulk is more or less 'gg new char pls'. Unless you, say, run into 3 LAWs on a dead patrol.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Glass, metal and high cutting damage items inflicting extra damage to the tires.

inb4 every single steak knife/machete/axe gains a highly magnetized blade. And tires are replaced with magnets.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I come bearing suggestions to make the game harder. The first is a simple thing which honestly is less of making it harder and more common sense. As it is you can train mechanics skill by using a crowbar on a unlocked but closed door which means you can basically raise it easily and only having to have left the shelter for a rock. Basically if the door is unlocked you shouldn't train mechanics.
   My other suggestion comes from a realization I had in my video which will be going up later tonight. Why do we see how much damage we do to the enemy when we don't see how much they do to us? I propose that instead of a number it just has a message telling how much you did in relation to the enemies max health. That way instead of seeing that you hit the zombie for 10 damage it says you smashed the zombie with you bat and then when you do the same thing to a hulk instead of 10 damage again it says you hit but barely faze the hulk. We already don't know our own health without a trait so why should we be able to analyze how much we have done to the enemy as well? You could even hook the message into some skill so it increases the granularity of the message for how much damage you did. If you attach it to a skill it should probably be survival as its the one that you get points for by butchering stuff.

[i2amroy]

My other suggestion comes from a realization I had in my video which will be going up later tonight. Why do we see how much damage we do to the enemy when we don't see how much they do to us?

Because nobody has gotten around to implementing it yet. It's been planned for a while now, but we just haven't gotten around to it.

[Blaze]

Glass, metal and high cutting damage items inflicting extra damage to the tires.

inb4 every single steak knife/machete/axe gains a highly magnetized blade. And tires are replaced with magnets.

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Why does crowbar-ing a door open train mechanics at all?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Because it probably uses the lockpick function in some way

[Blaze]

I'm fairly certain they're separate functions. Lockpicks don't set off alarms or make a crunching sound.

[i2amroy]

I'm fairly certain they're separate functions. Lockpicks don't set off alarms or make a crunching sound.

They are separate iuse functions (though lockpicks can still set off alarms). As for the why, it's just always been that way and nobody has taken a close enough look to change it yet.

[Flying Dice]

It might make more sense if you could cap certain actions to only provide skill gain up to a certain level. Working at things with a prybar will teach you a bit about leverage, material qualities and tolerances, and the application of force, which is related to mechanics, but it shouldn't teach you how to build clockwork guns or something. 

[Jack_Bread]

I decided to start making a tileset and even though it is very unfinished, I wanted to know what you guys think of it.
Here's a couple of screenshots:

Spoiler: Large pictures incoming (click to show/hide)

I had just redid my fire sprite, so I was messing with fire here.
You can see the generic wall and floor tiles.
Inside the house on the right, you can see a squirrel. I'm going to be remaking that sprite, because it blends in too well with the background there.
There's boomer goo on the left. It's the pink stuff.
I'm also going to be remaking the bushes and trees because the young trees look like regular trees and the regular trees look like taller bushes.
If you're wondering why there's no line of sight in this picture, it's because I have the game in debug mode.


Here's me getting swarmed by some zombies. There's a boomer in there but I think it's kinda hard to tell him apart from the rest, so I'm going to change him, too.
You can see part of a car at the very bottom, but I'm going to skip over them for now. They just have veerrry basic colored squares for tiles, at the moment.
Also, the windows on the upper right are dark because I haven't set them to use the floor background as a sprite.

[Elephant Parade]

Nice. A sort of crayon-y look. I love the creature sprites.

...Seriously, it looks weirdly like childish drawings in a way that contrasts the apocalypse. Keep developing, please.

[Iceblaster]

The aesthetics of the childish drawing like tiles make it seem more stylized like the way a child would draw what their caretaker did, because children draw everything. Keep it like that unless you wish to change it.

I'd use it when it comes out sooo yeah.

[Krevsin]

I decided to start making a tileset and even though it is very unfinished, I wanted to know what you guys think of it.
Here's a couple of screenshots:

Spoiler: Large pictures incoming (click to show/hide)

I had just redid my fire sprite, so I was messing with fire here.
You can see the generic wall and floor tiles.
Inside the house on the right, you can see a squirrel. I'm going to be remaking that sprite, because it blends in too well with the background there.
There's boomer goo on the left. It's the pink stuff.
I'm also going to be remaking the bushes and trees because the young trees look like regular trees and the regular trees look like taller bushes.
If you're wondering why there's no line of sight in this picture, it's because I have the game in debug mode.


Here's me getting swarmed by some zombies. There's a boomer in there but I think it's kinda hard to tell him apart from the rest, so I'm going to change him, too.
You can see part of a car at the very bottom, but I'm going to skip over them for now. They just have veerrry basic colored squares for tiles, at the moment.
Also, the windows on the upper right are dark because I haven't set them to use the floor background as a sprite.

I approve of it. Keep developing it.

Make the zombies contrast the background a bit more. Otherwise, it's great.

[Jack_Bread]

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

-snip-

Make the zombies contrast the background a bit more. Otherwise, it's great.

Yeah, a lot of creatures have this problem. I'll be fixing it.

[Robsoie]

Yes, i suggest to add some black outlines to the sprites , by example (using Hodder's tileset) :

into


So ingame

it changes to


Increasing readability and appeasing the eye strain in my opinion.