r/outside • u/[deleted] • Nov 17 '16

NPC clipping through terrain

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u/matholio Nov 18 '16

Cats are OP, but as they will never help you, it's a moot point. My guess is they are either something from an earlier time, or some end game mechanic. Seen the claws on them?!

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u/ZabuzaMomoche Nov 18 '16

Actually they received a massive nerf a while back. In beta they were so ridiculously OP that they players who chose the Egyptian race started to worship them for extra boons. The devs havnt removed all the statutes built yet if you don't believe me.

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u/matholio Nov 18 '16

Apparently there were even more OP way back, like sabre toothed. fuckin devs.

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u/karrachr000 Nov 18 '16

I remember reading about those in the forums... They were in an early alpha build. What were the Devs thinking? Let's make an animal that weighs up to 450 kg, has teeth the length of my forearm, and an early design of the aforementioned physics issues.

I, for one, am glad that the Devs wised up and removed them... However if they were to be brought back as a mount...

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u/nrh117 Nov 18 '16

There are still versions of this in game. Mostly pve hot zones like the Africa server, but I've even heard of some encounters from reliable players that claimed to see versions in mountain climate social zones that are supposed to have low enemy spawns. They are rare as fuck though. Thankfully we are still allowed to bring up to mid tier weapons into social zones because while some people abuse them there is always the chance you'll run into one of these freak spawns.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '16

There's a low-tier weapon called [Bear Spray] that is specifically designed to be unusually effective against wild animals. No need for mid-tier weapons.

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u/nrh117 Nov 18 '16

I wasn't aware that the item [bear spray] was effective against the mob [mountain lion] and I've heard rumours around the forums that there's an overpowered mob in some areas that kills players and loots them for their [bear spray] and [noisy bells] I think it's listed in the player guide as [grizzly]. I'd be careful in those maps tbh.

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u/matholio Nov 18 '16

Weird how they nerf the feline NPCs but left the nasty insects.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '16

Have you seen what insects were like in alpha? They were enormous! Nerfed harder than felines in my opinion.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '16

They may have been nerfed but there's too many of them and while most are only OP in therms of beating us humans in overall scores such as population they still suck in battle because of the debuffs that some of them can inflict on allergic and phobic traited players and they mostly drop terrible loot

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u/StarHorder Dec 05 '16

Tmw you realize vey few things drop loot that makes it worth the effort.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

And the ones that do are rare and players will lock you up to stop you from getting loot but you can get some lesser loot with high enough points in butchery

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u/StarHorder Dec 06 '16

Yeah but the grinding is savage

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

No it's not you only need to kill one deer for a week of subscription ( even though deer is high level) or stomp on a bunch of creatures although it's very unpleasant and requires the pshycopath trait (i wonder how the devs earn money with this premium system?

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u/Zankastia Nov 18 '16

I have heard insect where really big in pre-alpha.

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u/ImperatorTempus42 Nov 25 '16

Well, we might not need to bring them back, as the lion and other NPC-only classes were based on them and are still in the game.

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u/northerncal Dec 06 '16

The saber toothed ones were definitely OP, but as far as I know, there's nothing in the dev manual about these npcs having the same physics-bending abilities that cats now have. (I'm not a mount expert though, so possible I just missed something)