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Suggestions / Re: New Hotkeys/Controls PLEASE! Grid?

« on: July 02, 2024, 09:58:46 AM »

With the game’s visual detection mechanism: I don’t think wasd can ever cater to the numpad.
E.g. numpad1 turns your character 180 degrees to the left. If there’s hostile in the “rear right quarter: you won’t detect him/her/it. Numpad3 turns 180 to the right. You won’t detect rear left quarter. WASD can’t cater to that.

Just make Numpad 7 as Q, Numpad 9 as E, Numpad 1 as Z, Numpad 5 as X, Numpad 3 as C.
But tabbing through modes is just an idea. Would have to use it to see how good it feels.

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Guides and tutorials / Re: Hacks for Super Easy Play and or the Power Gamer (spoiler alert)

« on: June 30, 2024, 09:45:13 PM »

The easiest hack for super easy play or power gaming is just making a Fishing character with high Fishing skill and "I WANT TO BE A FISHERMAN" scenario and using nets everyday. You will never starve.

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Guides and tutorials / Re: Carrying Penatly and fatigue tested

« on: June 30, 2024, 09:43:29 PM »

I would be constantly dropping stuff if it wasn't such a pain to drop and pickup 🤣

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Suggestions / New Hotkeys/Controls PLEASE! Grid?

« on: June 30, 2024, 08:23:34 PM »

Can we modernize the hotkeys and controls? Maybe adding custom hotkey controls configuration too, like being able to change 'Alt+t' to 'z'?

UnReal World follows the old retro style of hotkeys where you once you press S for skills you press P for Physician, i.e. you press the first letter of the menu option name. Old RTS games did the same thing where you would press A to attack, H for hold, and P for Patrol; but they went away from that to adopt grid style hotkeys. That is 1234 QWER ASDF ZXCV, etc, where all the hotkeys are reachable to each other. Perhaps the menu options can go down from Q being menu option 1, W being menu option 2, etc?
Ideally whatever is easy to press many times, easily reachable within each other, and can be memorized with muscle memory (actions don't change chords/combinations and remain the same).
If you do add these grid styles, I think you should make them changeable like "Menu options 1" "Q" can change to "W", incase players want to switch from WASD to ESDF for more keys to press easily.

Why change these? I tend to play left hand on WASD and right hand on Numpad. But everytime I have to do menu actions I have to constantly move my hands around finding the right button to press for a menu option, like moving my hands to touch type home row mode "ASDF JKL;". It honestly makes me want to drop playing the game when I have to tedious menu navigation so frequently (R repeat action helps a little). This is especially true with NPC chat interactions where I have to press 'T' for trade then reach other for the '0' to go back to main menu. Even the mouse click distance is quite far where bottom left is for some chat options and on the right side are others instead of all options being next to each other.

Also I found it extremely annoying tracking Elk in thick dense forests where I have to either spam press the awkward Alt+t or get epilepsy menu flashes on my screen quickly pressing S > T over and over.

Another idea for controls is you could press TAB to change modes from movement/actions to menu stuff. So Numpad controls can be moved to WASD, but when you press TAB you have menu interactions like Make, Build, etc. Not sure about this one to be honest, but food for thought I suppose.

I beg you that we make controls more intuitive and easier to interact with so the game is more enjoyable to play 🙏

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Gameplay questions / Re: having hard time not starving, especially when it comes to fishing

« on: June 30, 2024, 07:59:18 PM »

If you want to NEVER starve, start with "I want to be a fisherman" scenario where you have high fishing skill. You'll easily catch like 3-6 fish every 1-2 days. It also requires no bait.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 17, 2018, 07:53:00 PM »

New rituals can be gained by doing quests or completing a game course.

There are no vanilla recipes for cooked meat, but if you want to there is a neat mod you can install https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=1106.0  This does have some recipes that use cooked meat in new recipes and maintains a good balance in the game.

I can't seem to find any quests? I been through like 8 villages.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 17, 2018, 07:17:27 PM »

Why don't animals eat roasted, dried, or smoked meat? Makes no sense.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 17, 2018, 06:57:53 PM »

How do I get more rituals in the newest version?
Why can't you cook smoked, dried, or roasted food?

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 16, 2018, 09:58:44 PM »

What can you use bones and antlers for? Are they good for trade?

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 16, 2018, 06:56:58 PM »

I'm using crow berries on my light lever traps, but birds don't seem to be going in them. I also notice that birds don't enter traps unless I'm near them. I set like 6 light lever traps about 5-10 world tiles away.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 16, 2018, 01:52:30 PM »

How do you level trapping?
If I don't see animals around my shelter/hunting-grounds, should I move? If so, how far should I go? Or are you able to stay in one area and get a good game in the area?
What's my best bet for preserving meat at the start in the summer?
Also, how are you supposed to start and make a living when you don't have a fishing rod or a dog? How can you even make a living off trapping when you don't have bait?

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 15, 2018, 01:28:41 AM »

I found no animals for 3 days straight, almost a week now. What is going on? I'm constantly starving and the only way I'm able to get any meat is from light lever traps working by shores for birds. I usually walk around zoomed out around my shelter checking on mountains and zooming in on open areas to check for tracks.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 14, 2018, 10:50:50 PM »

I'm stuck in playing this game. How can I survive as a newbie without using fishing?

I personally trade for a dog in the beginning, keep your knife.  You can trap without bait, but like I said in the start I make javelin or paw board traps to get a dog. They make everything easier, atleast until you get your main traps/ trap lines up.

Why are dogs even needed? How can you even make boards when it won't let you do it with a stone axe?
Also, why do I almost never see medium game in the overworld (zoom out)?
How do you even sneak in this game properly? I try going in sneak mode and even crawling when the animal is looking at me and try passing turns, but it still notices me and puts me to unsneak.
There seems to be no good ways to hunt besides cursorial hunting.
There are no good guides on generally surviving early game.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Short Questions/Quick Answers

« on: May 14, 2018, 10:14:36 PM »

I'm stuck in playing this game. How can I survive as a newbie without using fishing? Also, I can't seem to tire out any medium game when chasing them. Am I able to effectively trap without using bait? I keep running out of food and I'm constantly starving. How can I efficiently trap at the beginning of the game?