Aromabish

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I find this hard to believe: I have just started to play and just ventured into the outskirts for the first time. I am given 30 bullets and am dropped into the first open map. Each zombie takes 2-4 hits to kill. There are about 5 zombies between me and the first house. The house has no additional ammo. After that there are another 5-6 zombies between me and any other potential place of interest which might have more enemies inside. All enemies are not stationary and move rather fast and rather erratically. You can't run through them and thus can get cornered pretty easily due to some terrain that turns out to be non-passable. Afaik, there is no other way to deal with zombies other than the gun. Additionally, you are limited on healing items. There is also no apparent reason to fight zombies - no exp gained. And it seems that if you are out of bullets - you have to reload a save or if you saved with no bullets - no other option - then just to restart the whole game. There is no way to get more bullets with no bullets. And the player can't know how many enemies there going to be: do I save ammo now since next sotuation will be even worse or can I get rid of a few zombies here to make my life easier?
And getting beat by zombies is just a game over. So these hordes of enemies are just there to waste your time trying to get them to move out of your way with limited resources.
I'm probably not understanding something right here, but what is the design apart from "to waste player's time".
That seems to be a pretty poor design.

I'm not trying to attack the game, I honestly try to understand so I can get further in the story and not have it feel like a chore. There must be something I'm missing... Maybe something that unlocks further in the story?
Believe it or not, this is the way it is. Personally I'm tired of games where your hero is one man army shooting through the horde of thousand zombies. That's why we designed it that way. Yeah, you won't be able to kill all zombies on the streets and passing through requires some knowledge which might be hard to get at first times. I can go into required places barely shooting any zombies except those inside houses and which are pretty close to the door. "Agro-drag away" tactics works in this game.
If you need, I can show you online demonstration of how you can beat current content, just contact me in discord: aromabish#9288
 

SF155

Newbie
Apr 1, 2021
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I need to report a bug with Match and drifter. When you talk to one of the two, the "business window" of the second will be the same. (Exemple: i trade with match for black powder, and go talk to drifter who is suppose to sell drug. But, when i talk to drifter, he open the business window of match, where i can obtain black powder. I need to restart the game to see what drifter sell.) I see another bug with the price of the black powder. Match sell it to 6 dollars. He also buy our black powder for 6 dollars. But, if you restart the game after you have buy the black powder, you can sell it for 200 dollars to drifter.
Using this bug, i have clear all the zombie. And i want to complain for the drop rate of the virus. After using the save and load 26 times and clear all the zombie, I only obtain 18 virus. (there was a time were i obtain 34, i had a great luck, but the game crash when i tried to save)
 

TheNextOne

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Believe it or not, this is the way it is. Personally I'm tired of games where your hero is one man army shooting through the horde of thousand zombies. That's why we designed it that way. Yeah, you won't be able to kill all zombies on the streets and passing through requires some knowledge which might be hard to get at first times. I can go into required places barely shooting any zombies except those inside houses and which are pretty close to the door. "Agro-drag away" tactics works in this game.
If you need, I can show you online demonstration of how you can beat current content, just contact me in discord: aromabish#9288
I understand that you want to go for scarcity and that is perfectly fine.
As for "Agro-drag away" tactics - now see, means I was missing some idea of tactics that you had in mind. So maybe you'd want to add some tiny piece of dialog to Abe, for example. When he gives you some bullets and goes something like "this won't be enough - you gotta lure enemies away rather than attempt to shoot them". To explain it to players that are used to a more direct solution. Myself included.
And, maybe, as a failsafe - he can begrudgingly give a player another 4 bullets if they have absolutely no resources in the stash and inventory. Just to prevent potential impasses. (Yes, it can potentially allow the player to wipe maps but they would have to travel back to church for every. single. zombie.)
 

Aromabish

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Aug 4, 2017
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I need to report a bug with Match and drifter. When you talk to one of the two, the "business window" of the second will be the same. (Exemple: i trade with match for black powder, and go talk to drifter who is suppose to sell drug. But, when i talk to drifter, he open the business window of match, where i can obtain black powder. I need to restart the game to see what drifter sell.) I see another bug with the price of the black powder. Match sell it to 6 dollars. He also buy our black powder for 6 dollars. But, if you restart the game after you have buy the black powder, you can sell it for 200 dollars to drifter.
Using this bug, i have clear all the zombie. And i want to complain for the drop rate of the virus. After using the save and load 26 times and clear all the zombie, I only obtain 18 virus. (there was a time were i obtain 34, i had a great luck, but the game crash when i tried to save)
In further updates all zombies will drop virus samples. For now they just show you that killing them is not always a waste of resources.
 
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ggvee

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Nov 24, 2018
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I just used online to adapt the number of bullets to 99. This makes it easier to play. Mind that you can't load more than the maximum amount in your weapon (eg. 2 for shotgun).
 

very_confused

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Jan 10, 2020
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What is the best way to get to the warehouse to get the angle grinder?
Liam said follow main road and turn left but how far is it in the outskirts?

Also impossible to evade all the zombies and way too few bullits.
 
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vs2011xyz

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You just running out of stamina. (white bar under health bar) also you can upgrade it after collecting virus samples...
Oh So that bar is used for this way. I mean this game needs a walkthrough or wiki or tips and tricks
 

vs2011xyz

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I just used online to adapt the number of bullets to 99. This makes it easier to play. Mind that you can't load more than the maximum amount in your weapon (eg. 2 for shotgun).
How do you use, send me saves with 100 bullets added in your gun at the start of finding gun shop after liam said to find gun shop in the outskirts.
 

Aromabish

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Aug 4, 2017
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What is the best way to get to the warehouse to get the angle grinder?
Liam said follow main road and turn left but how far is it in the outskirts?

Also impossible to evade all the zombies and way too few bullits.
I would recommend to get bolt cutter first (go left till you find a corpse near the car), then visit second house on upper street and open the closet there to get double barrel shotgun and shotgun shells. It will make it much easier to enter the warehouse.
 

very_confused

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Jan 10, 2020
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I just used online to adapt the number of bullets to 99. This makes it easier to play. Mind that you can't load more than the maximum amount in your weapon (eg. 2 for shotgun).
After I used the save editor and adapted the number of bullets and shells to 99 I could't pick up items anymore.
 

TheNextOne

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How do you use, send me saves with 100 bullets added in your gun at the start of finding gun shop after liam said to find gun shop in the outskirts.
Get a save editor from here: https://f95zone.to/threads/rpg-maker-save-editors.51/ (RpgMakerSaveEdit_0.69 works for me, for example)
open the downloaded save editor
navigate to your save file in ProjectVenus\www\save
go to items tab
change items you want
then click "file" -> "save & exit"
 

Aromabish

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Aug 4, 2017
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After I used the save editor and adapted the number of bullets and shells to 99 I could't pick up items anymore.
That's because ammo has it's weight. Adding 99 bullets will overload your inventory and you have no space to pick up anything else except story items.
 

Zappyboi

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Oct 1, 2018
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Hi, I have encounter this error when doing Antonio quest. I take the engine parts and secrect package and when I return this happen. I try to restart the game but still won't work.
Edit: I restart the game using administrator and it works, just keep this here for more information.
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<JR>

Newbie
Jul 12, 2022
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I need to report a bug with Match and drifter. When you talk to one of the two, the "business window" of the second will be the same. (Exemple: i trade with match for black powder, and go talk to drifter who is suppose to sell drug. But, when i talk to drifter, he open the business window of match, where i can obtain black powder. I need to restart the game to see what drifter sell.) I see another bug with the price of the black powder. Match sell it to 6 dollars. He also buy our black powder for 6 dollars. But, if you restart the game after you have buy the black powder, you can sell it for 200 dollars to drifter.
Using this bug, i have clear all the zombie. And i want to complain for the drop rate of the virus. After using the save and load 26 times and clear all the zombie, I only obtain 18 virus. (there was a time were i obtain 34, i had a great luck, but the game crash when i tried to save)
Thanks! Now I see the problem. We will fix it.
 

FCcookie

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Oct 28, 2022
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Even if there was no porn I'd play this, it's that good.

One bug still in 0.1.3.1 : When you try to enter into the houses area(with the warehouse) from the leftmost area you can easily crash the game. My workaround is to start moving by spamming D key to go right and left click mouse to start moving as soon as the screen goes black when area changing. I think the crash/bug has something to do with the spawn area?
 

FCcookie

New Member
Oct 28, 2022
10
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Hi, I have encounter this error when doing Antonio quest. I take the engine parts and secrect package and when I return this happen. I try to restart the game but still won't work.
Edit: I restart the game using administrator and it works, just keep this here for more information.
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That's the bug I was talking about, try my fix and see if it works (until dev fixes it for next update)
 

Aromabish

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Aug 4, 2017
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Even if there was no porn I'd play this, it's that good.

One bug still in 0.1.3.1 : When you try to enter into the houses area(with the warehouse) from the leftmost area you can easily crash the game. My workaround is to start moving by spamming D key to go right and left click mouse to start moving as soon as the screen goes black when area changing. I think the crash/bug has something to do with the spawn area?
That was fixed. Previously there were multiple transferring events so when you enter this zone, game doesn't know which to trigger. But not there is only 1 from both sides so this shouldn't be happening. Pack your www/data folder into zip archive and send it to me.
 
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