[SUGGESTION]Quality of Life ideas

[Xogroroth]

Here a few general idea for easier gaming, to be implemented after the fixes (IF interested by GZ-Team):

PC/CONSOLE:
GENERAL: VERY IMPORTANT!!!
Add Hacker-Tracker/Demolisher (find hackers, kill safe files when found, block player from game for X time).
Make Saves Server bound, NOT Client bound (to prevent cheating).

SERVER:
Make Server setting remembered, even when restart game.
Add Team option to lobby.
Add Team Start Server to lobby.
Add Block User to Lobby.
Add Password Option to server.
Improve (simplify) Server Control (Block, remove player, invite player, make private, …)
Scale enemy per player in server.

GAME:
Add Character Naming.
Add Storage Box to Safe House.
Add Account Storage Box (separate from normal Storage Box). Maybe 1/3rd Storage Box size.
Add Menu Equipment Bar.
Widen the interaction area or make the door itself the interactable object.
Make New Character should be: Create NEW character from scratch.
Map: In Bunker Mapping (2nd tab map for in-bunker layout, war-misted (so bunker layout uncovers as we move through it), hard-saved.
Map: Multi-Marker (to map multiple locations (handy for when exploring, so you can cross of all buildings as you go, and thus do not miss one by accident).
Add difficulty slider (only affects drop/loot rate, nothing else. The higher the difficulty, the less ammo/HP/Adrenaline/item quality).

INVENTORY:
Add Sort button.

WEAPONS:
Make Scope Setting remembered (range, Vision Type) even when restart game.
Make Weapon Card tell what ammo and add-ons precisely installed, showing quality of add-ons when hovering over weapon.
Show current ammo type ingame.
Add Swap ammo hotkey.
Rifle Barrel Extension: Increased projectile speed = more damage, even if only kinetic.
Add SMG Rifle Barrel.
Add Hunting Rifle Barrel.
Add more scope options to rifles (AI-76 should be able to install 4x8 Rifle Scope for instance)
Add more scope options to SMG (Should be able to install Pistol Scope).
Add more scope options to Klaucke (Should be able to install Pistol Scope).

AMMO:
Time-correct ammo box types.

CONSOLE ONLY:
Add Key Rebind Option.
ADS up / down to select ammo type.

Other ideas will be added to this post, so feel free to put in your thoughts.
Or criticise mine, but do it politely and well-motivated.
Thank you.

EDIT: As per request of @Vasdema, I will also include Console requests.
Thank you, @Vasdema, not having a console I forgot about them, my apologies.

[Hogge]

There’s plenty of threads taking up most of this stuff.

[Xogroroth]

@Hogge
Yes, I am trying to get these organized into one thread.
To ease the life for the Dev Team.

If we all co-operate a wee, we can keep things nicely tight, don’t you agree, brother?

MAYBE a Moderator could pin this for easiness? hint hint

[Vasdema]

Here is a list of QoL enhancements for controller users.

The display of ammo sub-type, both in-game and in-inventory, would welcome some QoL improvements; as discussed between @Moonmists and I a while back:

(TIP) How to attribute more ammo to your weapons

Moonmists:

I suggested this in one of my early posts. Maybee it’s only a small detail, but I would love to see different icons for different ammo types. If different icons would be used for ammo types and these icons where shown on-screen, like next to bullet count for example, one simple look would tell you what ammo you are firing with in mid combat. Could prevent some in-game fatal errors

Brilliant. Hell, I wouldn’t mind them clearing up the visuals of the ammo icons in the inventory as well. The different shotgun types you can tell at a glance, but the rest are differentiated by a tiny label on the box.

[Xogroroth]

@Vasdema:
The ammo part was addressed, to quote myself:
“Make Weapon Card tell what ammo and add-ons precisely installed, showing quality of add-ons when hovering over weapon.”

Reading up on the link now, this post will be edited.

EDIT: Now, I am not so familiar with consoles (extreme understatement, IMHO they should be forbidden by law with death as penalty, but that’s just me), and so, I cannot tell which is actually correct, and which not.
Example: the Quick Assign DOES exist in PC version.
From what I understand, and PLEASE correct me is not!!!, this is also a thing in consoles.
In the end, we do play the SAME game, right?

Now, IF I am wrong, the first thing I will do is add those as well to my list.
Despite I abhor consoles, I will not act discriminating.

So, please confirm all the points of your list, if any is not correct, tell me, if the whole list can be imported, please do tell me, and I will do so ASAP.

Thank you, my friend.

EDIT2: Added FOR PC ONLY and FOR CONSOLE ONLY to primary post.

[Vasdema]

The ammo part was addressed, to quote myself:
“Make Weapon Card tell what ammo and add-ons precisely installed, showing quality of add-ons when hovering over weapon.”

You misunderstood @Xogroroth. While @Moonmists and I did discuss improving the weapon card further along in the thread, in that paticular quote Moonmists was talking about seeing what ammo you have loaded when you are on-screen in combat. Whilst I was talking about improving the ammo box icons in the inventory.

As for the Controller QoL Enhancements, they apply to PC, XBox One and PS4 equally…

[Xogroroth]

In theory, before you enter combat, you sort the ammo thing out aforehand, no? O_O
So, you should know what’s loaded on the moment of combat?
This means, I kind of lost the use/need for this?

If you can provide me with a logical explanation, I will add this.

As for the ammo boxes: how would you see these improvements, brother?

[Vasdema]

Regarding Moonmists’ idea, it allows you to switch to another weapon and know what ammo it’s currently equipped with; whether that happens to be HP/FMJ, FMJ/AP, or HEDP/EPR/Smoke.

It’s also a necessary step in another suggested feature. In-game ammo changing. But that’s something for further down the track.

As for the different look to the ammo boxes, that’s something for their graphic artists. They need to make sure it fits in with the current aesthetic while still being clear. Perhaps they’ll put a stripe along the ammo boxes. Perhaps they’ll colour the tips of the various rounds. That’s something that needs to be decided on their end.

[Xogroroth]

Adding.
Good motivation!

@Vasdema:
Please check, and see if you like it, if it is correct.
Also added few items of the list, I did some not…
See if I have those needed, tell me is I missed an “important” one…

[Legion245]

I think and ADS up / down to select ammo type would be good.

[Xogroroth]

@Legion245 added under Console.
Thank you.

[Tri13]

I hope that they add much more base building aspects to the game or just more options to customize a existing house. I also thing that adding more slots to the inventory is necessary and they need to make the exp system more rewarding> I mean I fought 5 hard tanks and it only gave me 2 bars on my exp slot.

[Xogroroth]

From what a few people living in Sweden told me, that is actually as rural housing is there in reality?
All very… copied, uniform?

[Tri13]

Yeah but I would like the feeling of having a customized and safe place that you can hang around.

[Xogroroth]

Bunkers, brother, bunkers!

[Tri13]

True. Very True.

[Vasdema]

The experience system is a bit of a mess at the moment. You can neutralise a T2 tank for 97 xp and then after it respawns, kill it again for 597 xp. Seriously, wtf?

[Vasdema]

If they were going to do this, I agree with:

Bunkers, brother, bunkers!

I’d set it up so that when you first cleared the bunker at Salthamn or Vesslan it became your home base. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not convinced this should be a thing, but being able to change what a room is for, State of Decay style, might be cool. Especially if those rooms were useful and not just aesthetic.

Anyway, we’re way off-topic here.

[Hogge]

Yeah, I suggested a “home base” in another thread.

Better rewards?

I really love the game thus far, but there is ONE thing that’s slowly making me grow tired of the game to a much greater extent than bugs: a lack of rewards. All you get for completing quests is XP and… well, more quests. Guns and mods can be found by exploring the environment, but they are few and far between. For this problem, I have two solutions. Homebase My thought is that the game should contain a “home base” of sorts. A base which will receive improvements as the game continues. These …

I was thinking that as the game progressed, players would unlock more features. At first it’d just be storage, then it could be stuff like transforming one type of ammo into another, combining guns of the same type to get one in better condition.

Your home base would also be where you’d assemble your vehicles if the game includes vehicles. I elaborated on what I intended here:

A case for vehicles

From what I’ve understood, the devs have said that they don’t plan on having vehicles. Here I intend to make a case for why vehicles would be beneficial to the game 1: A worthwhile reward My main issue with the game is that it doesn’t feel particularly rewarding. You advance the story, get new quests and some XP… but most of the cool stuff, like guns and accessories are found by exploring the environment. A small selection of vehicles could be a really cool reward for completing some quests. O…

If the devs ever intend on allowing players to contact the outside world, maybe you’d be able to request airstrikes from the remnants of the air force.

Basically, one major reason for the inclusion of this stuff is to give the game better rewards. As is now, you basically complete quests for the sake of completing quests.

[Tri13]

Currently my “house” is in fiscbach if thats how you say it. Any way I really want for there to be like a log cabin house on the big mountain overlook but currently there is only a campfire and a few benches but also a breathtaking view. If they can add that I would set up camp there.