Re: Zombie's Life (RPG Patreon game)
Just played a bit of 0.9 and the game just got a lot easier imo. The last version I played before this was I think 0.5 or something and it was a bit more challenging.
There's like no struggle anymore to find material and food to survive.
I'm on day four and got 30 food, 19 water, 20 electric parts, etc...
I think instead of the item count to show how many items the mc can carry, he should add weight to every item and set how many weight the MC can carry.
That way the game would be more balanced in terms of what and how many items mc can carry and you would need to manage the items the mc has.
Bullets and gun aren't even necessary anymore. With that mini game for fighting zombies, you can easily kill any zombie with two hits if you allocated your stats correctly at the start of the game. I think it was more suited for the game when the kid had to outrun the zombies or shoot them with a gun.
Not sure what exactly prompted him to change those things to be a lot easier.
Did people complain that the game was hard or something?
Hopefully, he reconsiders on some of the changes he did before the final release since I found the game to be more fun when I had to struggle a bit.
Maybe the best option here would be to add difficulties so people who like to struggle a bit and considering the game to be more fun to play that way can choose so.
List of changes I would like to see in end version:
- weight system for carrying items
- different game difficulty levels
- zombie attack on the house at random during the night
- more different items like sex items
- scavenge report after the day ends (for the characters you sent)
- item counter so you don't have to go back in your inventory and check every time
- more detailed shelter/house upgrades (could also include a static defense for when zombies attack during the night)
- more scenes of course
- more forks in the story
- at least a couple of different endings
- an event where a group of women survivors kidnap the MC for reproductive purposes (since he might be the last male alive) and then
the current characters you got at your house have to attempt to find and rescue you.
I could go on but if he included all these, the game production would never finish
The game is still amazingly good, but it would be even better if it was a bit challenging.