SCUM The Game - Survival

hughtrimble · 17 Sep 2018 at 15:48

Getting the runs mid-fight will never cease to amuse. Though I would prefer it if you just ruined the contents of your trousers, rather than stopping dead and crouching down without a moment's notice.

Lots of lag issues when in groups of four or more, but under that it doesn't seem to be an issue.

~>Dg<~ · 17 Sep 2018 at 20:09

nice patch tomorrow. see what that brings.

arknor · 17 Sep 2018 at 23:04

TLDR from reddit

TLDR

Launch was crazy, hackers and DDoS attacks being the main problems. At one stage they had 1 GB/s coming into the master server via DDoS attacks

Only have 5 programmers and one master server for now

Office space limited... looking for a new one and hiring more people

A lot of features disabled/removed due to hackers and the need to slowly test things instead of 100's of thing at once & for balance, LOTS of things. Only 30% of features exist in the game at the moment

Smoking will be in the game

Maybe slippery surfaces when it rains

House fortification in the next big patch and Vehicles not long after

Fortify doors/windows only at first but then sandbags around your house and traps later

Vehicles will probably start with unlimited fuel. Fuel and broken/fixable cars come after

Catching bugs and recreating them hard... very hard... a player 10km away from you may do something that affects you

Puppets inside Military Base's

Free Cam being added back to Single Player

Server optimization coming, lag/desync not a network problem, its servers getting overloaded with workload. Getting advice/help from Epic Games on this (yes, EPIC are the makers of the UE4 and the Dev's of Fortnite). A new version of Unreal Engine 4 will help with this (getting that in a week or so, work already started on it.. maybe 2 weeks until release). They are not on the main branch of the UE4 Engine... Changing all the time to accommodate SCUM game

A lot of content already created, they have more content creators than programmers, so now need programming to catch up

Electricity Generator already built... can power electric fences (needs fuel though)

Lots more cooking recipes already done. Unit measures in data base and materials just need to be matched up so they work together

Eating raw food will be bad for you

More weapons coming... Bows etc...

Complex ballistics already in game

Explosives/Explosive Weapons will come, but not until much later... RPG's and other Rocket Launchers coming

More character cosmetics/choices coming... faces etc... Females will be coming

Will be able to hack and control Mechs... also able to hack and control Drones, Puppets and OTHER PLAYERS FOR A SHORT TIME XD

Missions at certain places on the map

Special "Corporate" loot air drops

Lots of plans for Medical skills... Have got advice from Ex US Ranger who was a medic

BR type play is happening atm... but overall game focus will be on survival

No Memory leak... It client side "item queue" that is causing it... Working with EPIC Games to solve it

Trading in Fame Points for "stuff"

EMP grenades talked about to disable Mechs for a time

Compass coming (craftable). Current map will be removed and map will have to be found, maybe in pieces. Will have tools to navigate

Lots of things related to hacking happening... as in anti-cheat. 1000 already banned. Not talking about it because it helps the hackers when they do. Releasing server files would make things worse, so not happening at the moment

Direct reporting of cheaters/hackers from in game UI coming

Trying to work as quickly as possible... but things like loot box bug happens when they try to go to fast lol

Will at some point need to slow down with patch's (4-5 weeks between), as things get more complex, is bigger risk of breaking something major

Safe Zone medical bays

Caves coming.... said he thinks there is one in the game right now with the last patch!

Looting through walls will be removed

Events will be changed to reflect the most popular

Blanks maybe added... as in ammo that you can load in guns and give to others to see if they shoot you lol

Pick-Pocketing coming

Explosive bullets... even for AK etc.... fake bullets... bullets you can rig to explode

Binoculars coming

Indicators for weapon fire mode, ammo left in gun etc coming

Fireworks/crackers coming for distraction

Human and Animal traps coming

Animal handling (training/taming) coming... maybe use Donkey/Horse to carry stuff and Bear to protect you... Chicken for egg source

HEADS ON STICKS COMING to mark your territory LOL

Ghillie suits coming

More clothes from animals coming.... Horse and Pig hats etc... one guy has done all the clothes

Chest locks.... lock picking... electronic locks/password hacking talked about

Maybe Flame Throwers and "some crazy ****" lol

Think I got most of it.....

Digital X · 17 Sep 2018 at 23:26

That lot sounds fantastic. I can finally live my days as Vlad the Impaler!

HEADS ON STICKS COMING to mark your territory LOL

Boycey0211 · 18 Sep 2018 at 00:42

Smoking will be in the game

As a smoker, I seriously cant see the point in this even from a game point of view. Starting smoking was one of the stupidest things I ever did and it really doesnt need to be recreated in any game.

arknor · 18 Sep 2018 at 02:47

Boycey0211 said:
As a smoker, I seriously cant see the point in this even from a game point of view. Starting smoking was one of the stupidest things I ever did and it really doesnt need to be recreated in any game.

probably be part of the vice/flaw system which isn't in yet.
when you create a character you will be able to be drug dependant or whatever, you get bonus stats as long as you keep the vice filled and I guess a penalty if you don't

CliffyG · 18 Sep 2018 at 12:22

Looks promising!

Digital X · 18 Sep 2018 at 13:38

@Boycey0211 I recently quit after 15 years, I can continue smoking in game finally!

Dempsey22 · 18 Sep 2018 at 17:13

I can see the market filling up with "Smoking VR" games

humanlaptop · 21 Sep 2018 at 20:08

Quickly turning into dayz

less than one month in and of the one million purchases barely 15k players and dropping daily.

worthabuy had it spot on.

~>Dg<~ · 21 Sep 2018 at 21:18

next patch is base fortification then vehicles. more than dayz has done in 6 years. the games doing well. wipe your tears or recharge your battery move on. your trolling attemps are the same as a farm yard pig iq wise. hurts reading them. if they were decent trolls it could atleast inject a little humour into the thread.

humanlaptop · 21 Sep 2018 at 21:25

it's not a troll just facts.

same as battalion. you could see players leaving in their droves yet you called everyone a troll in that thread as well.

it's a shame you don't understand that in life people will have differing opinions.

youdsy · 21 Sep 2018 at 21:30

~>Dg<~ said:
next patch is base fortification then vehicles. more than dayz has done in 6 years. the games doing well. wipe your tears or recharge your battery move on. your trolling attemps are the same as a farm yard pig iq wise. hurts reading them. if they were decent trolls it could atleast inject a little humour into the thread.

200 FPS in this?

~>Dg<~ · 21 Sep 2018 at 21:35

144fps i believe.

Malevolence · 21 Sep 2018 at 21:35

youdsy said:
200 FPS in this?

Careful, he'll use his IQ of 170 to slap you down with an erudite retort of epic proportions.

WAMMO · 22 Sep 2018 at 00:47

Give it time and it the players will come back to it.

humanlaptop · 22 Sep 2018 at 02:54

WAMMO said:
Give it time and it the players will come back to it.

I hope so as I love the genre and have dumped thousands of hours into other games... JS Dayz Miscreated etc

Its problem is a lack of content ...compare it to those I've listed and it needs a lot doing to it. I see they are talking a big game but so do everyone. it needs more than talking and roadmaps, it needs a constant stream of content updates that are not stupid like a ***** as a dump item.

the sharp decline in player population is proof in the pudding that the game is very bare bones

WAMMO · 22 Sep 2018 at 07:57

humanlaptop said:
I hope so as I love the genre and have dumped thousands of hours into other games... JS Dayz Miscreated etc

Its problem is a lack of content ...compare it to those I've listed and it needs a lot doing to it. I see they are talking a big game but so do everyone. it needs more than talking and roadmaps, it needs a constant stream of content updates that are not stupid like a ***** as a dump item.

the sharp decline in player population is proof in the pudding that the game is very bare bones

100% agree with you, I hope the developers really stick at this and continue to push out as much content as possible otherwise we will be seeing another survival game drift off which would be such a shame as I really want this to succeed.

Swifty55 · 22 Sep 2018 at 13:04

Dead game is dead.

Vega · 22 Sep 2018 at 13:42

Boycey0211 said:
As a smoker, I seriously cant see the point in this even from a game point of view. Starting smoking was one of the stupidest things I ever did and it really doesnt need to be recreated in any game.

The entire game is filled with nonsense. Par for the course. Terrible game.