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love your content on any game and watched a lot of your 7 days playthroughs a lot. cannot wait to get onto alpha 21 exp once its actually released on steam!
In my opinion, the Fun Pimps are simply in need of a good community manager. They have forum admins but a community manager needs a different set of skills. A video like this or a text detailing the changes from a player's perspective would have prevented a lot of drama in the forum.
See I disagree. Or more accurately, GNS let me in on something I hadn't heard to this point that makes the magazine system sound worse, not better. The whole "just put points into what you need and you'll be more likely to get the related magazines" comes across to me as "you have to spread your points way out or you'll never have workstations". It sounds like this system would hurt you if you wanted to be highly specialized, not help.
Well said, you both! This being said, please everyone remember, how fast a life can be. So please enjoy as much moments as possible, stay safe and healthy and don't forget to share kindness to other people as well, if possible in any way. You all matter, have a great day!
My absolute favorite points of A21 is the new learning system and the infested clear quest. Dont have to rely so heavily on RNG to get upgraded weapons armor and tools. Infested Quests gives you more zombies to kill (main point of the game yeah?) and gives you a special additional ammo box at the end of it and allows you to get Level 5 quest rewards exploring a Level 4 building. Love it.
I have to say your editing techniques, mixture of content and you voiceover commentating really shines in this video. Especially your voiceover throughout the whole video is very professional. I really enjoy your videos, I watched your vids back in the early days and I think many will agree with me when I say you have evolved a lot. Keep it going and good luck for your future projects.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again… you make the BEST video game videos. I must say your ability to edit and generate professional content is unmatched by any streamer in any game. Great job man!
Excellent video, man! It feels like such a professional and well put together run down of the update that most people would probably assume it's put together by the devs :D It's amazing how far 7DTD has come. It's criminally underrated and seeing this update really makes me want to jump back in it,
Thank you so damn much for this GNS! Done so much for the community and we are forever grateful for this. Hopefully you’ll jumped to millions of subscribers very soon! 🙏👏
I think that the learn by read system is really great. In the past, the only reason you would craft a higher level item in a tech 1 tier is if you didn't have the resources to craft anything better. But now the upgraded tools are available more gradually. You end up using more of your resources crafting things multiple times until you can make something really good, but I think that that balances the game more. It also reduces the chance you'll be disappointed by constantly finding recipes that you've already read in loot when you are trying to find a recipe that you need.
Not even two minutes in and I'm sold. I'm a massive nerd for modular/visible upgrades in things like workbenches so being able to see what equipment is on one of the many stations is amazing.
I love the reading update for so many reasons. I actually have a mod on nexus that did it for alpha 20 because I think that system if great for a difficulty increase and I really like how they did it. Great video and explanation on that. To the funpimps thank you. I have been following this game since early release and the amount of gameplay time is incredible. The replay ability from updates has made this game pass the test of time. Thank you, thank you, thank you fun pimps for all your hard work and an incredible game that I have enjoyed for more than a decade!
That water improvement is much better than expected! They said you can't do waterfalls, but what you created is pretty much a waterfall, just isn't once the pit is filled to the top
Gotta disagree with the water thing, the water filter cost 2200 dukes for us, not 1500. It makes barely any water unless you're constantly dying to save up more and it's honestly just really frustrating having a base right next to a river but the character being too stupid to boil the water from there, instead relegating himself to drinking exclusively boiled toilet water for no reason. I can understand making the jars rarer, something you can't craft and you don't get it back from drinking murky water (broken seal) or mineral water (plastic bottle) but not at all is terribly unrealistic and unfun. On a slightly unrelated note, kinda lame that the dew collector doesn't accelerate when it's raining. If it produced more water conditionally it might be less frustrating to go through all those dukes (more than I got cracking an atm at the outdoor cinema) for almost no water.
As someone who's been watching 7DTD since 2018 the game looks so beautiful now. Now all the game needs now is an animation overhaul, but overall, it's a great looking update. Edit: Rip Thick44 he's the recon I aspire to be.
LOL really? This game is old like a dinosaurus and you call it lot of work? LOL This game have even ugly graphics as Rust have, mechanics are like 20 century etc
The thing about Learn by Reading is that I haven't been able to find any information on how this is balanced in relation to the game stage and how much looting is required to keep up with the game stage. I love building large bases and often take a break from looting for several weeks while I build. During this time, my level and of course the gamestage increases, but the crafting skills remain at the same level. So the concern is that eventually my gear will not keep up with the gamestage. Also I usually pushed into advanced engineering with the skill points I recieved from upgrading blocks and unlocked the traps to finish my bases.
In my current playthrough, on day 4, I already have iron tools and miner 69er to level 4. And I've only just finished the tier 1 quests. In my opinion, the progression is VERY fast - perhaps too fast for some people who do a LOT of looting. But a casual raider should not have any trouble advancing quickly. Alternatively, with the new traderstage system. You should find iron tools at the trader starting at traderstage 21 (more on that soon) and steel tools at traderstage 35.
@@GunsNerdsandSteel I prefer to craft my equipment rather than buy it. I am a little surprised that you already have access to A21 Experimental and based on the build numbers, at least for a few weeks.
@@GunsNerdsandSteel I think casual looting won't be cutting it when I see that you've just unlocked iron tools on day 7 in your stream, even though you hardly do anything else but loot. If it's too slow for me I'll mod the game to fit my play style.
My favorite playstile was isolation: no trader, no raiding, but the loot near in trash by the cabin I built by a lake and I got from zombi bags. I like the idea of the new system, and I hope magazines drop from zombies too and not just raids / traders.
I've watched a fair few of your vids and this was the first I could put a face to the name! Great to see the guy behind the footage! Keep up the good work!
I gotta say the one thing I am dreading is the water nerf, especially for groups of friends. a 3x3 is a huge dampener, especially considering I usually use my rooftops for farming massive amounts of food for my group. The water nerf isn't *huge* but not being able to go out and fill jars or having a ton of snow and jars on hand for emergency water feels just kinda wrong, especially for a survival game, I always loved that immersion aspect
it been year for me since alpha 20. I dont like it too. I find that the game becoming more toward RPG with some weird survival zombie slap to it but since I havent play the game yet so I dont know how hard it is to find water. I even got friends that own the game and they perfer realism survival like old day of 7 Days but it become more of a chore to play. Tho my feeling toward game is mixed since they promise NPC so I hoping for ruling colony of sort. This change of how to get water is meh for me but I dont have a will to play anymore until some complex system of sort to add some favour to the game beside new shiny item
This update is really amazing it makes the game feel new, but there are some things that I've been wanting for a long time: - The main thing I want is some actual optimization. Because when playing with a friend and as we explore the skyscraper we both get like 40 fps and it can dip to as low as 25fps (we both have 3090's, I've got an i5 13600k (they have a 5800x) and we both have 16gb's of ram) the performance is great outside the city but in the city it's not a very enjoyable experience. - Animation overhaul. The animations on the zombies are great but they are very repetitive, I would love to see some unique random changing patterns on the zombies just to make the game seem more realistic and make it harder to counter the zombies. The player animations and models really do need some work as they have very unnatural movements and don't look like they have been updated for a LONG time, but you'll only notice that if you're playing with someone. - Maybe add some other humans other than the traders, I heard about some potential raiders that might've been in development for this alpha 21 update but obviously nothing came of that rumor but seeing some other humans maybe even other settlers would make the game more interesting (maybe even add some lore to the game like who is flying the plane that sends the airdrops and where its coming from) - Also some updated gun models and better animations for them for more realistic ones would be sick but that's just my preference Other than that this update is great and I like seeing the pimps team still working on this game.
"thank you do the developers who made this update for free"... seriously? it's in early access, it's still leagues from being able to compete with any modern zombie survival, it's nowhere near the complete vision they have for it (by their own admission) and them releasing a paid update would be suicidal right now. yes, thank you devs for updating the game. and full stop. their PR team or whoever is in charge of hyping updates should hire you to do it for them, though. if i was to only follow what statements they've released, i'd have stopped playing long ago. thank you for the detailed descriptions and patch notes, each and every time. you, sir, have my utmost respect.
I just came to check out the new update and ended up getting teary eyed at 1:56. An amazing way to honor Thick. And always remember "He's not gone, He's just off looting"
Those bloopers are a gold touch. I only bought the game today, and i rarely if ever comment on youtube, but your content was on point mate. I watched a couple of your videos today. Niche youtubers deserve love, so well done fella
I played every version since alpha 1, and since these books were added i probably used it once on PvP server. Why wasn't this specified before in description? Probably every other perks has referred to zombies, and with humans most would assume it means other players. I even sold it 2 days ago...
@@Drakexman idk dude, it's been a point of debate for years. People in the forums have listed the XML file to show it says zombies but people have ignored it.
I really disliked the old recipe learning system, so I'm with you and am really glad they swapped it to learn by reading! Thanks for the coverage on all the changes
My only concern for Learn by Reading is how multiplayer would work with it. Typically someone (or 2 people) in my 4 person group would go out looting, while the rest of us are gathering resources, building, whatever. We still go on looting trips, just the other person(people) do it more. They would have to bring back the recipes for the scientists/electricians/whatever, which, unless i'm wrong abt this, would take up a lot of their usually already limited space
I love how every few alphas, it's like a new game, and I will never really complain because I've gotten 100s of hours of fun from this game for a very low price, but I can't help but wonder if this game will ever be "finished", the vision seems to have changed a dozen times already.
I kind of prefer it that way, why “finish a game” when you can always improve it rather than hoping that people either like or dislike that you would have to implement into a separate game
@@myrrah8026 eh it feels too empty they need to finish it and add finishing touches, there’s not enough quests and the gameplay is sooo repetitive (ugh) i’m just waiting for them to add more cool mechanics like maybe pets or something cool idk doesnt matter what it is
On the performance, FPS under relatively mundane circumstances is of less interest than that big stutter that comes when you're in a POI and a wandering horde or screamer horde generates nearby while you're fighting some soldiers. How's that "lots of entities loading in all at once" lag spike in 21?
I was kind of wondering the same thing. The lag spike when a screamer spawns in while you're mining or the lag spike when you walk into a trigger room in a large POI.
Don’t know who you are as a content creator. A buddy linked this vid in a discord DM. But I gotta say… this is a CM quality breakdown of changes, improvements, and implementation. Bravo to you. You’ve earned a sub off me and now I’m considering jumping back into 7D2D.
R.I.P. Thick, I’ve been watching Neebs since I was younger so hearing about this now is just terrible. Much love to any of his friends and family I can only hope for the best for them🕊️💜
Like when you attach a lantern on the side of the wall how do you rotate it to be on the side when I push rotate it just turns the item clockwise but how do you flip it onto its side or attach it to the ceiling
I've still got some mixed feelings about the "learn by reading" system personally. In the maps I play with friends, I am the main looter and I'm good at it. In your video you had multiple important things unlocked by only day 7. I am concerned that this will make progression a bit too fast for players like me. Undead Legacy struck a pitch-perfect balance with its progression systems, and after having played on that, it seems like Alpha 21 will be a return to the breakneck pace of progression of before. The kind of progression that causes many players, including myself, to get very bored after like day 35 or 49.
Not exactly what I was wanting, though I suppose thats every update, but still a lot better then I expected. Some of the graphical improvements are quite nice and I can't wait to try some of the new POIs in Navisgane or a custom world. Also seriously appreciate the Thicc44 flags. TFP might not always get it right when it comes to the community but nice for them to acknowledge a player that gave an insane amount of entertainment using their game, he and the rest of the Neebs Gaming crew no doubt helped sell a bunch of copies.
First they take away my spike blocks that I'd decorate my base with for both looks and defense, now they take my Predator Reference away. What's next, the goth boots and biker jacket. They already destroyed the strength of the raider gear
Agreed. It's amazing that here in 2023 a game can receive these massive updates for free while the AAA companies charge $20/each for updates with half as much content.
Man this is awesome. Bout time. Gotta say its been great watching your content and seeing the channel grow. Congrats on hitting 100k man. Looking forward to tons of new alpha 21 content
Can't say I'm a fan of my bike taking 10% damage for bumping into a tree or having to look in every single toilet or cabinet for 1-2 water jars that takes 35 actual minutes to boil roughly 40ish jars. There's a ton of good things in this update but they need to fix some things, what's new though. Game will probably be finished in 2045.
Relying on "magazine collection" has the big issue of immersion breaking. Not to mention the massive amount of inventory it will take up when you try to collect for someone else. Ultimately, the skill trees should be progressed by *doing* if you cook, you get better at cooking. If you shoot, you get better at shooting with that. That is the gold standard that players want. Overall the skill trees are the weakest part of this game. Picking any tree locks you in with several aspects you might not even have an interest in. It would be better off separating character "stats" : "Strength, agility, intellect, etc..." into their own thing or tie them into a skill tree based on *role* Collector roles, Builder Roles, Fighter, medical roles. Things that encourage and permit more hybrid and flexible builds.
I like the learn crafting by books thing but wish they had made the combat skills learn by use. Like the more i stab things with a spear the better my spear skill is.
It's amazing to see how far this game has come since 2013! Kind of wish the developers would've released different versions of the game as stand-alone titles with sequels instead of updating the same game for 10 straight years beyond recognition. The console version of the game might as well be considered the first game in the series, the early versions being beta builds.
Regarding no more endgame items early on, it seems that simply Better Barter and the secret stash have been replaced by Daring Adventurer. For each point in Daring Adventurer, the trader stage increases by 10 points. And if you spam quests then you are pretty quickly back in the area where you can buy endgame items.
12:20 I enjoyed having Empty Can, I'd put it in the forge for Iron.. or Use it at Chemistry station for Oil Cans.. or sell them! Also I enjoyed having empty water jars, going to a river or something and refilling them.. and late game crafting them in the forge myself. These were really fun to do, kept you busy and perfectly fit the Survival aspect of the game! why do we only have to buy them now? thats actually boring :/
@@holinator6500 ikr it was really fun and made perfect sense survival wise, where you use every resource you have and it doesnt just "vanish" or you buy it at Vending machine which is backward imo.. maybe make the Jars/Cans have limited usages instead of instantly deleted you know?
So if anyone would like to answer me I’ve been trying to figure it out but can’t, is A21 live for PlayStation and if so is it only for ps5? I’m figuring so but would love to know, thanks in advance 🙏
Pretty excited for this update. It would be nice to see some improvements to the questing - it's hard with some POIs to figure out what you're supposed to do, the fallen over tower in particular is frustrating because you end up going all over the place trying to figure out where the last zed is. Even a perk in the perception tree that gives you the ability to sense sleeping zed's would be good.
I feel like the magazine change really pushes those that like doing things other than looting into only being able to loot to progress. Possibly give a reward for mining x amount of materials or building x amount of blocks, the reward being skill magazines. If the main aim of the game is looting, why give us base building, mining, farming, etc as other activities?
Great video! Very concise and to the point. Everything is laid out very well and it was easy to follow with some great on screen examples. Earned my sub.
"learned by reading has been critically acclaimed by some people"... but not most people. Some learning by reading would be fine, but you are still relying on luck of looting to be able to do anything, if you don't get lucky you are SOL for the things you are trying to do. Learn by "doing" and a little by reading would be fine especially if they made it so you could make the top tier things, but thats it own issue since you can craft a lesser quality item that says it should be a higher tier/level, something that should NEVER happen. 7Days still has identity issues deciding what type of game it is. Is it a tower defense game, is it a zombie survival game, is it a crafting game, or is it a lesser version of all of all of them combined? All in all I think we are still waiting for the mod pack creators to make the game more interesting outside of cosmetic changes (and downgrades).
i remember i was watching 1 youtuber making lets plays on that game like 9 or 10 years ago, and it game still in alpha? damn i hope my grandchildren's at least see beta
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Your about to get rich my man, Now is the time Cancel everything in real life ride that 3 week Boom!
love your content on any game and watched a lot of your 7 days playthroughs a lot. cannot wait to get onto alpha 21 exp once its actually released on steam!
nice add with the little bloppers part :)
so with the removal of glass jars what is the recipe for mollys now.
I think the Fun Pimps sold the update badly, the way you lay it out makes it sound excellent.
Most fun I've ever had in the game - by far
In my opinion, the Fun Pimps are simply in need of a good community manager. They have forum admins but a community manager needs a different set of skills.
A video like this or a text detailing the changes from a player's perspective would have prevented a lot of drama in the forum.
@@GunsNerdsandSteel Im glad- i was pessemistic about some of the changes but you give me hope i'll like them too.
They should hire him as a promotions head
See I disagree. Or more accurately, GNS let me in on something I hadn't heard to this point that makes the magazine system sound worse, not better. The whole "just put points into what you need and you'll be more likely to get the related magazines" comes across to me as "you have to spread your points way out or you'll never have workstations". It sounds like this system would hurt you if you wanted to be highly specialized, not help.
TFP should hire you as a PR rep! Your video makes the update sound WAY cooler than they did. I'm super excited to explore all the new POIs.
Deeply appreciate the commemoration of Tony via the Thick44 flags. RIP Tony, you're greatly missed and will never be forgotten
R.I.P Human man warrior. Long live the wyvern king.
Well said, you both!
This being said, please everyone remember, how fast a life can be. So please enjoy as much moments as possible, stay safe and healthy and don't forget to share kindness to other people as well, if possible in any way.
You all matter, have a great day!
Every base I make from now on will have a memorial to the man warrior. Gonna have a lot of purple flags
I teared up a bit when he was saying that. How freakin cool that TFP would put that in! Bravo. RIP Human Man Warrior ❤
Every base gets a Thick44 flag!
My absolute favorite points of A21 is the new learning system and the infested clear quest. Dont have to rely so heavily on RNG to get upgraded weapons armor and tools. Infested Quests gives you more zombies to kill (main point of the game yeah?) and gives you a special additional ammo box at the end of it and allows you to get Level 5 quest rewards exploring a Level 4 building. Love it.
I have to say your editing techniques, mixture of content and you voiceover commentating really shines in this video. Especially your voiceover throughout the whole video is very professional. I really enjoy your videos, I watched your vids back in the early days and I think many will agree with me when I say you have evolved a lot. Keep it going and good luck for your future projects.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again… you make the BEST video game videos. I must say your ability to edit and generate professional content is unmatched by any streamer in any game. Great job man!
Update definitely looks better in action than it sounded when described originally. Can't wait to try it myself!
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As somone who once went 90 in-game days without finding a crucible: I love the magazines.
The bloopers at the end 😊 ❤ . You give such professional well done videos . Thank you for providing this so excited 🙌
Sadly I didn't watch all the way to the end until I saw your comment, so thank you for posting that!!
Excellent video, man!
It feels like such a professional and well put together run down of the update that most people would probably assume it's put together by the devs :D
It's amazing how far 7DTD has come. It's criminally underrated and seeing this update really makes me want to jump back in it,
Not going to lie thought this was put together by the devs and then recognized who put the video out.
I thought so until the very end of the video!
Thank you so damn much for this GNS! Done so much for the community and we are forever grateful for this. Hopefully you’ll jumped to millions of subscribers very soon! 🙏👏
I think that the learn by read system is really great. In the past, the only reason you would craft a higher level item in a tech 1 tier is if you didn't have the resources to craft anything better. But now the upgraded tools are available more gradually. You end up using more of your resources crafting things multiple times until you can make something really good, but I think that that balances the game more. It also reduces the chance you'll be disappointed by constantly finding recipes that you've already read in loot when you are trying to find a recipe that you need.
So hyped for this coming out and looking forward to what your new series will be
New series starts tomorrow morning 😁
@@GunsNerdsandSteel you don't rest, do you?
Not even two minutes in and I'm sold. I'm a massive nerd for modular/visible upgrades in things like workbenches so being able to see what equipment is on one of the many stations is amazing.
I can't wait to see the streams this weekend and to play on Monday. Thank you for this update.
I love the reading update for so many reasons. I actually have a mod on nexus that did it for alpha 20 because I think that system if great for a difficulty increase and I really like how they did it. Great video and explanation on that.
To the funpimps thank you. I have been following this game since early release and the amount of gameplay time is incredible. The replay ability from updates has made this game pass the test of time. Thank you, thank you, thank you fun pimps for all your hard work and an incredible game that I have enjoyed for more than a decade!
I cannot wait to try this out myself, so far the update makes the game look and seem to feel more polished than before
That water improvement is much better than expected! They said you can't do waterfalls, but what you created is pretty much a waterfall, just isn't once the pit is filled to the top
they need to add a water pump so we can have water features
I'm wondering what happens if you were to create a tunnel on a mountain lake xD will the whole map flood or the Lake drain? xD
@@mikagrof9243 OMG I hope someone makes this video lol
Gotta disagree with the water thing, the water filter cost 2200 dukes for us, not 1500. It makes barely any water unless you're constantly dying to save up more and it's honestly just really frustrating having a base right next to a river but the character being too stupid to boil the water from there, instead relegating himself to drinking exclusively boiled toilet water for no reason.
I can understand making the jars rarer, something you can't craft and you don't get it back from drinking murky water (broken seal) or mineral water (plastic bottle) but not at all is terribly unrealistic and unfun.
On a slightly unrelated note, kinda lame that the dew collector doesn't accelerate when it's raining. If it produced more water conditionally it might be less frustrating to go through all those dukes (more than I got cracking an atm at the outdoor cinema) for almost no water.
Best 7dtd TH-camr right now. Content, explanation, editing, all top tier.
As someone who's been watching 7DTD since 2018 the game looks so beautiful now. Now all the game needs now is an animation overhaul, but overall, it's a great looking update.
Edit: Rip Thick44 he's the recon I aspire to be.
This update is absolutely MASSIVE, thanks for the video too, I'm all excited.
I remember this game from YEEEEARS ago. Incredible how much work the devs put into this since!
Damn true, they added like 10 new models and like 5 new zombies thats insane ! 😂
LOL really? This game is old like a dinosaurus and you call it lot of work? LOL This game have even ugly graphics as Rust have, mechanics are like 20 century etc
Are you kidding me?
@@fboest proccedds to give the reason its a lot of work 🤦♂️
The thing about Learn by Reading is that I haven't been able to find any information on how this is balanced in relation to the game stage and how much looting is required to keep up with the game stage.
I love building large bases and often take a break from looting for several weeks while I build. During this time, my level and of course the gamestage increases, but the crafting skills remain at the same level. So the concern is that eventually my gear will not keep up with the gamestage. Also I usually pushed into advanced engineering with the skill points I recieved from upgrading blocks and unlocked the traps to finish my bases.
Same here, I'm a base builder/miner. I'll probably stay on A20
In my current playthrough, on day 4, I already have iron tools and miner 69er to level 4. And I've only just finished the tier 1 quests.
In my opinion, the progression is VERY fast - perhaps too fast for some people who do a LOT of looting. But a casual raider should not have any trouble advancing quickly.
Alternatively, with the new traderstage system. You should find iron tools at the trader starting at traderstage 21 (more on that soon) and steel tools at traderstage 35.
@@GunsNerdsandSteel I prefer to craft my equipment rather than buy it. I am a little surprised that you already have access to A21 Experimental and based on the build numbers, at least for a few weeks.
@@GunsNerdsandSteel I personally dislike fast progression. I love Undead Legacy mod for that reason.
@@GunsNerdsandSteel I think casual looting won't be cutting it when I see that you've just unlocked iron tools on day 7 in your stream, even though you hardly do anything else but loot. If it's too slow for me I'll mod the game to fit my play style.
My favorite playstile was isolation: no trader, no raiding, but the loot near in trash by the cabin I built by a lake and I got from zombi bags. I like the idea of the new system, and I hope magazines drop from zombies too and not just raids / traders.
Wow this is actually a super amazing update, nice to see some new things again.
I've watched a fair few of your vids and this was the first I could put a face to the name! Great to see the guy behind the footage! Keep up the good work!
Always with the BEST content and explanations dude! Thanks for your dedication and hard work!
My pleasure!
I gotta say the one thing I am dreading is the water nerf, especially for groups of friends. a 3x3 is a huge dampener, especially considering I usually use my rooftops for farming massive amounts of food for my group. The water nerf isn't *huge* but not being able to go out and fill jars or having a ton of snow and jars on hand for emergency water feels just kinda wrong, especially for a survival game, I always loved that immersion aspect
it been year for me since alpha 20. I dont like it too. I find that the game becoming more toward RPG with some weird survival zombie slap to it but since I havent play the game yet so I dont know how hard it is to find water. I even got friends that own the game and they perfer realism survival like old day of 7 Days but it become more of a chore to play. Tho my feeling toward game is mixed since they promise NPC so I hoping for ruling colony of sort. This change of how to get water is meh for me but I dont have a will to play anymore until some complex system of sort to add some favour to the game beside new shiny item
This update is really amazing it makes the game feel new, but there are some things that I've been wanting for a long time:
- The main thing I want is some actual optimization. Because when playing with a friend and as we explore the skyscraper we both get like 40 fps and it can dip to as low as 25fps (we both have 3090's, I've got an i5 13600k (they have a 5800x) and we both have 16gb's of ram) the performance is great outside the city but in the city it's not a very enjoyable experience.
- Animation overhaul. The animations on the zombies are great but they are very repetitive, I would love to see some unique random changing patterns on the zombies just to make the game seem more realistic and make it harder to counter the zombies. The player animations and models really do need some work as they have very unnatural movements and don't look like they have been updated for a LONG time, but you'll only notice that if you're playing with someone.
- Maybe add some other humans other than the traders, I heard about some potential raiders that might've been in development for this alpha 21 update but obviously nothing came of that rumor but seeing some other humans maybe even other settlers would make the game more interesting (maybe even add some lore to the game like who is flying the plane that sends the airdrops and where its coming from)
- Also some updated gun models and better animations for them for more realistic ones would be sick but that's just my preference
Other than that this update is great and I like seeing the pimps team still working on this game.
"thank you do the developers who made this update for free"... seriously? it's in early access, it's still leagues from being able to compete with any modern zombie survival, it's nowhere near the complete vision they have for it (by their own admission) and them releasing a paid update would be suicidal right now. yes, thank you devs for updating the game. and full stop.
their PR team or whoever is in charge of hyping updates should hire you to do it for them, though. if i was to only follow what statements they've released, i'd have stopped playing long ago. thank you for the detailed descriptions and patch notes, each and every time. you, sir, have my utmost respect.
I just came to check out the new update and ended up getting teary eyed at 1:56. An amazing way to honor Thick. And always remember "He's not gone, He's just off looting"
10/10
Same
Those bloopers are a gold touch. I only bought the game today, and i rarely if ever comment on youtube, but your content was on point mate. I watched a couple of your videos today. Niche youtubers deserve love, so well done fella
"Hunter's Journal vol 7 now refers to humanoids and zombies" As I said. Now we have clarity and people can stop selling the best book in the game.
I played every version since alpha 1, and since these books were added i probably used it once on PvP server. Why wasn't this specified before in description? Probably every other perks has referred to zombies, and with humans most would assume it means other players. I even sold it 2 days ago...
@@Drakexman idk dude, it's been a point of debate for years. People in the forums have listed the XML file to show it says zombies but people have ignored it.
Thanks for mentioning Thick 44. ❤
I really disliked the old recipe learning system, so I'm with you and am really glad they swapped it to learn by reading! Thanks for the coverage on all the changes
The love Conan Exiles and SDTD have given to thick 44 and the whole neebs crew is heartwarming! I will always be a massive supporter to both teams.
My only concern for Learn by Reading is how multiplayer would work with it.
Typically someone (or 2 people) in my 4 person group would go out looting, while the rest of us are gathering resources, building, whatever. We still go on looting trips, just the other person(people) do it more.
They would have to bring back the recipes for the scientists/electricians/whatever, which, unless i'm wrong abt this, would take up a lot of their usually already limited space
Oh no learning to adapt the horror
Tem is easily the best creator at giving these break downs for updates, and tutorials!
Didn't like the sounds change on the Frozen Lumberjack, but then I remembered that the new model lacks the "frozen" part :,)
I love how every few alphas, it's like a new game, and I will never really complain because I've gotten 100s of hours of fun from this game for a very low price, but I can't help but wonder if this game will ever be "finished", the vision seems to have changed a dozen times already.
I kind of prefer it that way, why “finish a game” when you can always improve it rather than hoping that people either like or dislike that you would have to implement into a separate game
@@myrrah8026 eh it feels too empty they need to finish it and add finishing touches, there’s not enough quests and the gameplay is sooo repetitive (ugh) i’m just waiting for them to add more cool mechanics like maybe pets or something cool idk doesnt matter what it is
Somthin awfully charming looking down and seeing it was uploaded 7 days ago.
On the performance, FPS under relatively mundane circumstances is of less interest than that big stutter that comes when you're in a POI and a wandering horde or screamer horde generates nearby while you're fighting some soldiers. How's that "lots of entities loading in all at once" lag spike in 21?
I was kind of wondering the same thing. The lag spike when a screamer spawns in while you're mining or the lag spike when you walk into a trigger room in a large POI.
i was sad my alpha 20 seed was no longer playable, but this update is like a new game.
The only thing that's missing is a stealth update
Don’t know who you are as a content creator. A buddy linked this vid in a discord DM. But I gotta say… this is a CM quality breakdown of changes, improvements, and implementation. Bravo to you. You’ve earned a sub off me and now I’m considering jumping back into 7D2D.
RIP Thick44
R.I.P. Thick, I’ve been watching Neebs since I was younger so hearing about this now is just terrible. Much love to any of his friends and family I can only hope for the best for them🕊️💜
Such an amazing quality of life update. Thanks for the coverage!
Love your videos this update got my old crew back together lots of fun
They definitely need to hire you to show updates you did it much better than they did
Like when you attach a lantern on the side of the wall how do you rotate it to be on the side when I push rotate it just turns the item clockwise but how do you flip it onto its side or attach it to the ceiling
I've still got some mixed feelings about the "learn by reading" system personally. In the maps I play with friends, I am the main looter and I'm good at it. In your video you had multiple important things unlocked by only day 7. I am concerned that this will make progression a bit too fast for players like me.
Undead Legacy struck a pitch-perfect balance with its progression systems, and after having played on that, it seems like Alpha 21 will be a return to the breakneck pace of progression of before. The kind of progression that causes many players, including myself, to get very bored after like day 35 or 49.
Def subbing. This was a perfect breakdown. Concise and to the point.
Not exactly what I was wanting, though I suppose thats every update, but still a lot better then I expected. Some of the graphical improvements are quite nice and I can't wait to try some of the new POIs in Navisgane or a custom world. Also seriously appreciate the Thicc44 flags. TFP might not always get it right when it comes to the community but nice for them to acknowledge a player that gave an insane amount of entertainment using their game, he and the rest of the Neebs Gaming crew no doubt helped sell a bunch of copies.
Long Live the Wyvern King! Miss you Thick44!
This update sounds like fun. I'm still not thrilled about the removal of glass jars but now it feels more like a nitpick and not an actual problem.
First they take away my spike blocks that I'd decorate my base with for both looks and defense, now they take my Predator Reference away. What's next, the goth boots and biker jacket. They already destroyed the strength of the raider gear
I bought this game 8 years ago for $20. Best money i've ever spent! Can't wait to play A21!
Agreed. It's amazing that here in 2023 a game can receive these massive updates for free while the AAA companies charge $20/each for updates with half as much content.
Man this is awesome. Bout time. Gotta say its been great watching your content and seeing the channel grow. Congrats on hitting 100k man. Looking forward to tons of new alpha 21 content
I love that they never gave up on this game, it's really a top tier game now!
i love the vid and i genuinely appreciate the performance comparison thank you
This is a really amazing update!!!, I just hope they gonna give same level of love to character creation and animations later on.
Awesome video as always! I love the addition of the bloopers! 😂
Nice work man. This looks really exciting. Happy to see you doing so well... such an awesome video.
Earned my subscribtion today. Good material! Tx! Hope to see more in the future.
Huge video! It makes the update look at great as it is!
bro this update is sick, the last time I played 7 days to die was 2 years ago. Good to see its finally getting a fresh coat of paint.
Can't say I'm a fan of my bike taking 10% damage for bumping into a tree or having to look in every single toilet or cabinet for 1-2 water jars that takes 35 actual minutes to boil roughly 40ish jars. There's a ton of good things in this update but they need to fix some things, what's new though. Game will probably be finished in 2045.
Thank you for a well edited, action filled vid. Subscribed.
Earned my subscription! ;) Thanks for the comprehensive walkthrough.
Relying on "magazine collection" has the big issue of immersion breaking. Not to mention the massive amount of inventory it will take up when you try to collect for someone else. Ultimately, the skill trees should be progressed by *doing* if you cook, you get better at cooking. If you shoot, you get better at shooting with that. That is the gold standard that players want. Overall the skill trees are the weakest part of this game. Picking any tree locks you in with several aspects you might not even have an interest in. It would be better off separating character "stats" : "Strength, agility, intellect, etc..." into their own thing or tie them into a skill tree based on *role* Collector roles, Builder Roles, Fighter, medical roles. Things that encourage and permit more hybrid and flexible builds.
So basically before they fully revamped the system? Similar to console, aka my favorite skill system
I like the learn crafting by books thing but wish they had made the combat skills learn by use. Like the more i stab things with a spear the better my spear skill is.
It's amazing to see how far this game has come since 2013! Kind of wish the developers would've released different versions of the game as stand-alone titles with sequels instead of updating the same game for 10 straight years beyond recognition. The console version of the game might as well be considered the first game in the series, the early versions being beta builds.
thank you for laying out the new changes so well and so clearly, excited to check this out
Man I'm watching on my phone and the video 100% still does it justice, that lighting, flame and shadow effect combo is pure immersion
Damn I love your editing, man. lol. Great vid and as always, loving your insights!
Big W on them for the Thick44 flag, much love. Rip wyvern king
Regarding no more endgame items early on, it seems that simply Better Barter and the secret stash have been replaced by Daring Adventurer. For each point in Daring Adventurer, the trader stage increases by 10 points. And if you spam quests then you are pretty quickly back in the area where you can buy endgame items.
Usually what I do anyways. Gonna have fun learning new ways to break this game again
Great video, summarized the update perfectly!
Awesome looking forward to playing later.
Thank you
Thanks! You’re work is incredible!
Thanks so much for the support!
Great overview of the changes - thank you!
12:20 I enjoyed having Empty Can, I'd put it in the forge for Iron.. or Use it at Chemistry station for Oil Cans.. or sell them!
Also I enjoyed having empty water jars, going to a river or something and refilling them.. and late game crafting them in the forge myself.
These were really fun to do, kept you busy and perfectly fit the Survival aspect of the game! why do we only have to buy them now? thats actually boring :/
i enjoyed it too :(
@@holinator6500 ikr it was really fun and made perfect sense survival wise, where you use every resource you have and it doesnt just "vanish" or you buy it at Vending machine which is backward imo.. maybe make the Jars/Cans have limited usages instead of instantly deleted you know?
When I saw the Thick44 tribute, I wanted to cry.
The Human Man Warrior will never be forgotten!!!!
We miss you Thick!
Been playing since early 2014 and so happy the game is still alive and well. This makes me want to play again so bad
So if anyone would like to answer me I’ve been trying to figure it out but can’t, is A21 live for PlayStation and if so is it only for ps5? I’m figuring so but would love to know, thanks in advance 🙏
What an awesome update, you laid out so much more than I saw in the patch notes!
Pretty excited for this update. It would be nice to see some improvements to the questing - it's hard with some POIs to figure out what you're supposed to do, the fallen over tower in particular is frustrating because you end up going all over the place trying to figure out where the last zed is. Even a perk in the perception tree that gives you the ability to sense sleeping zed's would be good.
Thats amazing about Thick... I havent been able to watch them since he passed. I still cry
i dont understand the water/rain collector thing, since they removed water jars how do you collect the water from them?
you dont you use the Mt. dew machine thing
great job, look forward to trying it out.......Quality video guns and steel!
It’s amazing that they added a nod to thick44 he will always be missed!
i really feel the same about the progression by reading magazines. Its just such of a good incentive to loot anything you see.
I feel like the magazine change really pushes those that like doing things other than looting into only being able to loot to progress.
Possibly give a reward for mining x amount of materials or building x amount of blocks, the reward being skill magazines.
If the main aim of the game is looting, why give us base building, mining, farming, etc as other activities?
Great video! Very concise and to the point. Everything is laid out very well and it was easy to follow with some great on screen examples. Earned my sub.
"learned by reading has been critically acclaimed by some people"... but not most people. Some learning by reading would be fine, but you are still relying on luck of looting to be able to do anything, if you don't get lucky you are SOL for the things you are trying to do. Learn by "doing" and a little by reading would be fine especially if they made it so you could make the top tier things, but thats it own issue since you can craft a lesser quality item that says it should be a higher tier/level, something that should NEVER happen.
7Days still has identity issues deciding what type of game it is. Is it a tower defense game, is it a zombie survival game, is it a crafting game, or is it a lesser version of all of all of them combined?
All in all I think we are still waiting for the mod pack creators to make the game more interesting outside of cosmetic changes (and downgrades).
i remember i was watching 1 youtuber making lets plays on that game like 9 or 10 years ago, and it game still in alpha? damn i hope my grandchildren's at least see beta
Great video, can't wait to play it. I've long awaited a serious update to one of my favorite grinders.