It would at least be nice if we were notified at some point along the way that there is a level cap so we don’t waste points on, you guessed it - the tick specialization.
But anyway, beyond that, why use precious skill points, to simply run faster? Or be able to run slightly longer? Obviously the specializations…or, some of them that is…should be bought with skill points, because they do things that are slightly unrealistic, such as eliminating weapon sway entirely.
Realistically, stamina would increase simply because you are moving more. So, it makes sense that you wouldn’t have to upgrade it.
I agree. Though, i found out about level cap before starting to play GZ (watched some gameplay vids beforehand).
When taken realistically, many skills would be increasing over time, the more you do that activity. This kind of skill progression is in use e.g in GTA series. Though, this skill progression system takes far longer, to max skills out, than the current skill point system. And that could be another source of complaints.
Also, i don’t think devs would make drastic changes to the game, to implement completely different skill system. But you’ll never know. We already got a huge change in inventory system.
No, that is my first character. It might have something small different, but it is basically my first character. I think that says something. The freedom we have with the skill system is an illusion. I only have one other character, which is mainly Combat. Of course, the Survivor tree looks the same. If you were to somehow compile all the player characters of Generation Zero into a set, then remove any that haven’t had much play time, I bet you would end up with 4 general characters, with the Vanguard build being the most seen. They might vary by a point here and there, but they are basically the same. The lack of true classes is an illusion because what is accomplished here is not much different than just giving us 4 characters to choose from.
It’s true that it might be frustrating to some people to just have to wait for your stamina, running speed, and whatever else would be a gradual upgrade, to monotonously improve. But I think they wouldn’t mind as much if that made it so that they didn’t have to waste skill points on those types of improvements.
The devs also are about to make a drastic change to the game, coming ( I believe) on April 27. So, your not wrong, they might surprise us.
Am i sensing, that you don’t think i’m credible and perhaps i took that image from the net and i’m claiming it to be mine?
If so, then in this bug report topic, there is gameplay video, which i recorded and which proves that i do have that char, who’s screenshot i posted: Sprinting Distance since June Update - #2 by Aesyle
Your picked skills may be similar and there’s a slim chance that they are exactly the ones as my 1st char has them.
As far as that telling something goes, well, to me, it tells that there are players out there, other than me, who at 1st playthrough, don’t consider the 25% damage reduction (Vanguard specialization) critical to be picked.
Only devs can tell what kind of skill sets are the most popular ones since they have the telemetry data. We, players, can only guess.
And my guess, out of all players who have 4 chars, have only one Vanguard specialized char, making the Vanguard build 25% of all builds.
There is a huge difference between:
customizing your own char, with free skill picks between 4 skill categories
forced to use pre-defined char, who’s core skills (or any skills in that matter), you can’t change
The issue with gradual progression is always the amount of time it takes to advance or max out the skill. For some, it may take way too long of a time than they expected; for others, it finishes too quickly and there are also those who feel it being just right.
Here, i think that people mind more about spending loads of time to advance a skill slowly, rather than gaining a level from XP and then unlocking a skill at an instant.
Another issue with this is that it’s hard to tell if the skill even improves. Since the improvement is so slow, most people can’t tell a difference, even when you have a counter showing the progression.
Well, that is definitely true. But, because GZ is kind of a “ grind game” where people tend to play a lot of it, for different reasons, some of which have to do with the fact that people are frequently looking for weapons, achievements, and so on…it would even out. Essentially what I’m saying is, yes it would take a while, but it might not take as long as you think because for instance, players are always running, so stamina would increase rather quickly. And because reloading is a necessity, reload speed would increase rather quickly as well.
Also, we’re assuming that the devs would make it that it takes forever to Improve your skills, but they might make it not take quite as long as we’re thinking.
Yes, we are assuming the probable length of time it would take to max out progressive skill. But when to look how long it takes to, e.g:
collect every 5* weapon, including U.S weapons
collect every 6* weapon
collect every apparel schematic
Then i’d say that progressive skills would also take forever and more, to max out.
In mid- to late-game, once players have unlocked sufficient amount of safehouses, players opt to Fast Travel a lot more than run everywhere. That convenient zapping around reduces the gain of stamina related skills considerably.
And using the bike would also have reduced gain in stamina related skills since sitting on a bike and pedaling is less severe of an exercise than running or sprinting.
I wouldn’t say huge. It would be huge if you could just freely pick and choose. The number of possible variations that someone would logically pick and still have characters that are distinctly different is minimal. Add in that most characters are going to be tapping into that Survival tree and you have even less variation. For a solo player, unless they are pro and feel like playing a weak character, variance is even less because going medic is a waste and avoiding lockpicking would be aggravating. It’s like saying you can paint your house a wide variety of colors! Choose from light green, yellow green, blue green, forest green, moss green, neon green, chartreuse, lime, or green.
I’d say that 8-16 options is pretty huge. If it would only be 2-3 options, then yes, it would be limited.
Off the bat, you have 8, completely different skills to choose from. Not 8 different shades of green.
And if you’ve unlocked: Hip Shot Accuracy, Reload Speed, Throw Accuracy, Throw Distance, Stamina Amount, Stamina Recharge, Spotting Intel and Salvage; it raises your options up to 16. Either you can go and pick between 8 new skills or you can upgrade the 8 current skills you have.
Current skill tree placement isn’t the best and it would be nice if:
devs rearrange skills in more logical way
or
remove prerequisite skill requirement, where players can freely pick any skill they like.
Of course, you’d still need to unlock 5 skills in category before you can unlock Specialization (for balancing purposes).
There is value in Medic specialization, especially for non-pro solo players. Since it revives you back with 100 HP, where you don’t have to spend time and first aid kits to heal yourself back up.
As far as lockpicking goes, only thing that you miss out, when you don’t pick it, is the bigger, ammo storages (with two double doors). Smaller ammo storages (with one single door) are also locked but there is a key in game, that once collected, gives you access to all small ammo storages.
As far as skills, level cap and the like go, lets not forget that GZ was designed to be a co-op game. With co-op, and with up to 4 players, your entire team can have all the skills in the game + several overlapping skills.
On paper, yeah. In practice, nope. Unless you enjoy punishment, most are avoided.
No doubt about that.
Not worth the points to get there, plus I don’t know about you, but my goal is to not die in the first place.
Which happens to be a big advantage for a solo player starting out.
Yeah, but not exactly how it’s being played. I just search it on YouTube and Twitch, sorted by most recent. Something like a ratio of 1 out of 10 might have a second player, even less for more players. Who are the most watched YouTubers playing this game? I’m subscribed to two of them… and both of them mainly play solo unless they are streaming with the devs.
For solo player starting out, there are only 2 bigger ammo storages in entire Archipelago region and one of them has always been empty of all loot containers (ontop of Vesslan), while other has few ammo boxes with peanuts of ammo.
Overall, there aren’t that many bigger ammo storages in the game either. But there are plenty of smaller ones, which player can get access to, without Lockpicking skill.
So, i don’t call that a “big advantage”.
If devs have coded the game in a way, where it is going to take forever to gain something, it would be reasonable to assume that it also takes forever to max progressive skill out, if it comes.
I think you might forget what it’s like to play as a fresh player, not knowing where everything is and needing every bullet and medkit you can come across. Even what you find in the locked houses in Saltham can be a great find.
By the time someone finds that key without any assistance, you don’t need that either anymore.
Let’s not forget that the devs recognize the lockpicking flaw. For that reason, the number of locations that require it is limited. The devs recognize it so much, that they even added in this key.
If everybody could lockpick albeit poorly at first such as in the system I propose, and if everybody had the ability to improve lockpicking over time such as in the system I propose, and if the skill still existed to boost lockpicking some more such as in the system I propose, then the devs could do more with lockpicking in general and therefore would no longer be the waste of code that you believe it is now.
So you proposing something like “Morrowind Lockpicking”?
Like skill gives you 100% and consistent door opening, but let’s say 5% without skill and you still can open that door, even if it cost you a ton of picks. That’ll slowly rise up with progression?..
That i forgot, since way back when i started with GZ, there were no locked houses and great loot in them in Salthamn.
When thinking about it, you made me realize that i looked things from the pro player perspective, who knows where things are, how game works and who doesn’t see much value in Lockpicking skill.
Here, i agree with you, that for a new player, not knowing where things are or how game works, Lockpicking is a valuable skill. Since you’ll never know what lies behind the locked door.
Funny thing, that at some point of time I’ve made another character that is carbon copy of my usual build, except I dithched Tech View for Lockpick. Since there sometimes lobby with new players and they were sort of let down without ability to open locks. And I quite often see locked door in other people’s realms.
Yeah, that is really, really close to what I was thinking. The only difference I had in mind is that the perk would provide something like 75% chance of successful lockpicking, while anybody could increase their lockpicking up to a 25% success rate even without the perk. Someone could then max lockpicking with the combination of choosing the perk and simply by leveling the player.
The way that works is what I had in mind for everything that the game would consider to be a basic skill.
There are probably several ways something like this could be achieved in the design.
“Learn by Doing” is probably the worse way. I don’t think anybody would like that. For example, your lockpicking skill can go up by successfully lockpicking. It’s a set up for mindless grinding.
Another way, which is what I originally proposed, would be that all these basic skills would simply level up along with the player up to a certain point. In order to maximize any skill though, you would need both the player level and the perk.
A third way might be to give players perk points and level points. The level points would be applied to basics and the perk points applied to perks as they are now. This would allow you to pick and choose which of the basics you want to improve first instead of all the skills slowly going up at the same time. Let’s say each basic skill requires 25 level points. If you filled all 25 lockpicking skill points, this gives you the 25% success rate, but again you would still need the perk in order to get that 100% success rate.
A fourth way might be that players have to collect items to level basic skills, like research. Scattered across the map, you might have to find 25 documents about lockpicking which can bring your lockpicking up to a maximum of 25%… but again you still need the perk to get 75% more for the complete 100%. This way is slightly different in that the areas your character excels in is randomly determined.
A fifth way might be to combine the second or third method with the fourth. Maybe the perk gives 50%, the level points up to 25%, research another 25%. This one I personally like the most. In order for any player to max out any skill, they need to apply the perks, they must have played the game a long time, and they must have explored the map fully. All these systems are doing is making it possible for players to improve every aspect of their characters, even if just a little, so that they are not confined to the skill cap and skill trees as much. That’s pretty much all it is, even though it sounds to be very complicated.
