Harsh reality about Project Zomboid Development

hello I'm Z Survivor I finally have enough courage to talk about this topic because no matter what you say and how much sense it makes people will always defend the Indi Stone please I beg you understand I do not hate Indi Stone and I do not hate project zom project zood is my favorite game of all time anyone who said anything against the game or devs was crucified in the past and it will always be like that which means I will receive hate and I'm fully ready for it because I I don't record anymore and um I don't really care even though I'm not saying Indi stone is doing a bad business move or that they are bad people so I'm not saying any of that this is just my opinion and it might not be true and I have almost no experience in software and game development so hopefully you understand that but I did play this game for years and years since the Primal age of the game so I will just tell you what I think the main problem with project Zomboy development is time and focus but time doesn't matter because look at Day Z for example it literally died because of how slow the development was and then beta came out and boom it's one of the most played games again so time doesn't affect game aive time because it's reversable so Focus devs focused on animals to add shock content that will draw players in which will cause more issues in the long run that require fixing because of course any additions has its own bugs I'm not saying devs are doing a bad business move they realize that big content like vehicles and animations brought a lot of new players and what's the third thing that they promised NPCs and in this case it will be animals they know that this will bring a lot of players in it is a very good business move but not a good development move even though I do not know software development I have at least half a brain to understand that a lot of things are still unpolished and unfinished and we will talk about a lot of these let's first start with skills most notable are electric skill first aid skill and metal work skill electronic skill has very little usage you only need like level three or level six if you're trying to uh make uh time bombs or whatever but which also don't work in multiplayer that's also another topic so electrical skill after level six is absolutely useless and it's unfinished but Zed you can make lamps run on batteries with high skill wow really as if anyone needs that I'm surely not going to be grinding for it and that's literally it that's the skill only a couple of usages and they added it just to bring people in because all new content next first aid there's wound infection that does almost nothing just slows down the process grinding for first aid has a very limited use only thing people love first aid for is fracturing metal working is old and they still didn't do anything about the fact that you have very limited constructions and there's literally no metal doors like making a metal door or prisoner door that are both already in the game keep that in mind they're already in the game you can literally add this feature in 15 minutes and electronic skill could be used together with this to make combination locks they're also in the game mind you and you could finally have bases to replace the safe house system which is just absolute a mess absolute mess it's unbalanced kills theay game in PvP which we will talk about later there's more skills with minimal content like for example tailoring yeah sure it works fine and level 10 is got tier but there's a lot of content that could be added with this so they chose to work on very difficult addition that just that's just animals instead of improving stuff they kind of just pushed inside the game just so it feels full because a lot of new players go into the game and they see all these skills and think there's a lot of content behind them and there's not there's nothing behind them there's a couple of crafting recipes that's it there's a lot more of these examples so buckle up so one of the most noticeable that most people just forget especially old players like me just just they don't really think about them anymore but look at it UI is trash the game is Hardcore but that doesn't mean the UI has to be hardcore look at the UI the inventory system is is just a black box there's mothers who just made the made the inventory system way better everything really the UI is just dog [ __ ] I'm sorry it's dog [ __ ] it's so old and still hasn't been touched upon I just don't I just don't understand why server browser oh man let me not get into that let me not get into that one server browser is literally the biggest piece of [ __ ] I've ever seen you refresh it and you get different servers every single time literally different empty servers you literally have to go on Google Chrome or whatever the [ __ ] you're using type in Project zomboid servers and then organize it by the most players just to be able to find a proper server that's populated with people right next Co-op system is trash this is this is a fact you go into host there's like so many options that you don't know what they do so you just click next next next literally like there's no Lobby system there's nothing I do understand the lobby system requires servers to function as well but like bro can we start at the same time at least or something can we like it's so Bare Bones and it's so like raw like look at the I literally had to make make a tutorial on how to host when multiplayer was becoming a thing again because people had no idea literally had no idea what to do next challenges are just forced into the game to adequate content this is a fact you have like plenty of challenges that are so Bare Bones and trash literally uh rain forever or fog Forever This is literally just just you can't even edit anything around it it's just you just play it and just whatever right so let's talk about mods now mods fix game problems and they don't only add content they only they they literally fix game problems there's so many things that there's mods for that just fixed the game uh content is slow small updates don't really offer anything for example an entire update was focused on keys and key Rings that's like what two hours of development of adding better spawns less than 2 hour I don't know I don't know software gaming development that much but and the rest was info about a new build a whole patch for small fixes and quality of life changes in settings but no content I'm cool with these bug fixes and I'm cool with quality of life but not when that's the only things in the patch which should include at least some new content from time to time especially when we have to wait for build 402 to get new content which like every single build takes a few years to be released don't don't get me wrong I know it takes time to add new content but we should get at least something interesting like new car for example changing old icons or animations into new ones small things that will eventually add up and make the game interesting and fun so basically we got content that was never touched anymore and it's unfinished there's a lot of small things that could be changed or at it I can give you examples too road maps with areas and town names to help you travel to other areas and learn the map the maps in game are pretty bad especially Louisville map that have multiple parts and you find them on zombies and random towns you spawn in and these maps are so Random you have no they have no reason to exist on these zombies and won't help you at all annotated maps should spawn on Survivor zombies but instead they spawn randomly and just feel out of place new items and item changes like the option to cut tree branches with a saw or a sharp weapon off trees new locations like junkyard and to find metal working materials and car parts but I guess the developers don't really want to touch anymore on metal working skill a lot of additions that should be in the game already exist as a part of mod and some of them feel so in place that people love them and devs use this with foraging and new foraging system is basically a mod someone made devs let modders fix their game as a temporary solution to problems they don't have time to fix because guess what NPCs are on the menu you will just have to wait a long time and that's cool but at least add some kind of filters or easier mod access in the game oh guess what moders did that as well with a mod manager great even NPCs were added as a part of a mod but yeah they are bad and all that but hey they're in the game they they added with mods and um next one map yeah map is empty devs added unfinished structures I mean what the hell sure they made Louisville that's that's great and they want to add more cities but why is there an unfinished map literally to the West there's an unfinished map for two years right now two years there's an unfinished map they started making it to bait people in to think that there there's progress being made and it's been there for two years why are you adding content that you just don't want to finish I don't understand that with Indies St they add so much content that it's literally never going to be finished or it's going to be finished in in in three years why just don't add it just just don't add it is is it like a reminder to themselves that oh we forgot about this content we have to finish it someone started making it and what they just gave up and left it there why and there's roads leading to absolutely nothing which is also very annoying especially for new players they just follow a road and literally get lost because the road just closes in a forest that's why a road map would be cool or just I don't know don't make rows that leave to Nowhere the the the most of the map is just forest for crying out loud next systems that need improving PVP PVP system is just gambling which depends of your in-game skill explosives do not work in multiplayer they don't they don't work properly even they you throw a pip bomb into a wall it explodes instantly uh zombie spawns yeah zombie spawns are [ __ ] zombie spawns this is a whole another video I could make zombie spawns are just trash so I won't even get it into that but at the end of the day the reason why devs are doing the right thing Dev are made a documentary on how not to make a game and stated that they basically live from this game this is their primary income well that was back then I don't know now but like that was back then uh their focus is not making the game as good as possible they want as many players as possible more they sell more they profit that's literally why this is a good idea not saying I'm happy about the game is unfinished in many aspects and they're just adding more ways the game will be unfinished I don't hate on deaths I'm just giving criticism but hey I'm not a game developer I don't know how it's supposed to go this is just my opinion and if anyone knows more let me know in the comments literally talk to me anyone who I tell all of this never cares never really gives me anything in their like never gives me their opinion everyone is so scared to talk about this and as a long-term player I don't care anymore hate on me tell me tell me anything anything you want to tell me I don't care okay so I just said what makes sense to me it just felt like I had the right to give an opinion after like more than seven years of playing this game one of the last notes is that most people know the game is very spaghetti cated but I can't really get into that because I really don't understand programming and development so hope you don't have a sudden urge to send a pipe bomb into my mailbox after this video it's all just thoughts and discussions so tell me what you think and I hope to see you soon with more videos which I'm going to make because I'm going to make a few more controversial videos because I don't care anymore and I will tell you my opinion and um because I'm pretty much quitting YouTube at this point because you know um my time has come I guess so I hope you enjoyed or whatever and just um see you around

Channel: TheZedSurvivor

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Length: 12min 52sec (772 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 22 2023