Razorpony

The tape doesn't bother me so much as the jackstand/buttstock. You know there's supposed to be a buffer tube and recoil spring in there, right? You know that gun would never ever cycle, right? I'm sure this is when someone is going to pop in and say "zombies aren't real" because whenever logical inconsistencies are pointed out that's their get out of jail free card. So long as there are zombies in the game nothing has to make any sense.

I think a simple solution (in theory, not sure about coding) would be to allow for a chance to damage the item if you try to repair it without the proper knowledge. It may work or you may have a chance to lose a tier level or durability or something. Blue auto shotty is almost broken. Do you try to fix it and risk turning it into a green or orange shotty? Once you read enough and have the proper repair level this is no longer an issue.

They didn't call them the B Last for nothing.

Why do you think the player is unable to sleep through the night? It's the sound of all that damned condensing water!

First off Roland I just want to say that I understand your point, I really do. It's just the fact that someone said "Let's put lakes and rivers in the maps!" And then someone else said "Yeah and let's make water hard to get!" When I try to hold those 2 dissonant thoughts in my head at the same time it makes me want to eat broken glass. I don't care where the bottles come from. I don't care where they go. But if you want to make water hard to get then maybe don't put entire rivers of it everywhere. So while I have adapted my playstyle to a21 mechanics I'm not one of those people who never think about it again. I do. Frequently. Every time I scoop a bottle of water out of a toilet I wonder why I can't do that down at the river. It hurts my soul, man. I die a little inside, over an approximate 7 day timeframe.

I would say this is true IF there were lakes and rivers of unaccessible gasoline and acid in the world but there are not. Shale can, in fact be brought back to your base for processing. Acid has always been loot only. The problem isn't mysterious jars it's internal logistical consistency. So far the only reasoning is "because we needed to make water arbitrarily harder." I guess there are people out there who find the hydration gameplay loop fun. Not me, but people. Somewhere. Out there. *waves hand*

You can sit there and say that the hydration mechanic isn't meant to be realistic but is it meant to be absurd? Because that's where we're at right now. I can go out into the desert with a shovel and a pick and dig up oil shale, bring it back to my base, run it through a redneck refinery, and have gasoline pure enough to run a truck or motorcycle. What I can't figure out how to do is walk out the door and down to the lake to fill up a bottle. If the water is from a toilet? No problem. Maybe I just need to make the lake into a giant toilet.