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stew

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Registered: 2019-02-13

Posts: 47

Does the game get balanced more around the zoom-mod?

In early game as Eve you can zoom out and easily scout a biome. Without zoom you would need to spend years of you lifetime (aka minutes) just to find out the biome is not good.

In later stages if you go out and search for food, with zoom -> zoom out and see where food is, and where the food is already eaten. Without zoom -> run around hope to find a berrybush. And when you finally find one it's empty.

And then we complain about berry eaters.. But without zoom you can not quickly zoomout and see where the stewpot is setup. But berry farm is easy to find and most time has food.

And.. crowded cities. Even with zoom I sometimes have a hard time finding the one item that I need. When there lies seeds and trash everywhere how should a non-zoom user find anything in this chaos? They need to spend years to find one item. And they probably need to eat while searching for it, costing even more time..

I personally find the zoom-mod makes this game muuuch more enjoyable. And I like that it got harder. But maybe it's a bit too hard for the vanilla game? (shhh.. just add zoom to the vanilla game)

Booklat1

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Registered: 2018-07-21

Posts: 1,062

Re: Does the game get balanced more around the zoom-mod?

I've never used zoom in my life. I also have no problem scouting whatsoever. But seeing from videos it does seem to make some stuff more viable (specially in small zoom).

fragilityh14

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Registered: 2018-03-21

Posts: 556

Re: Does the game get balanced more around the zoom-mod?

I don't use zoom mod. The game is finally challenging again. I had played well over 10 hours straight without starving a single time [besides being abandoned as a bb or a couple of disconnects] before the update.

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pein

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Registered: 2018-03-31

Posts: 4,337

Re: Does the game get balanced more around the zoom-mod?

a decent size forge cannot even fit in a normal screen
i could play the game without zoom, i did it for 4-500 hours
its just makes no sense, 1.5 should be default, or at least let people choose

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