My theory about February's QoL

[Mike23Ua]

1 hour ago, Capybara007 said:

that is not what a qol is supposed to bring but ok

I think some people forget that QoLs don’t generally add any NEW content, it just gives you more control or ease of access over what’s already there. 

You only need to look at all other previous QoL’s to see what I Mean, but Ultimately how much or how little Klei wants to consider as a “QoL” is entirely up to Klei.

For example: We know that somewhere along the way they plan to make changes to Ancient Guardian, but we have no clue to what depths those changes will go through.

Fixing Pillar cheese? Giving it new Attacks and A.I Behavior? Mutating it with Lunar Moon magic to fit into the Return of Them lore of having Moon Shenanigans terraform stuff?

At that point would it even be considered a QoL anymore??? Or would it be one of those 3 “Setting The Stage” game content updates?

Previous QoLs have done things like reducing crafting costs of Bat Bat, Marble Armor, Removing Rabbit Earmuffs from needing to prototype and adding starting resources, griefing protection, more settings for World Gen, that sort of stuff.

[Theukon-dos]

49 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

I think some people forget that QoLs don’t generally add any NEW content, it just gives you more control or ease of access over what’s already there. 

You only need to look at all other previous QoL’s to see what I Mean, but Ultimately how much or how little Klei wants to consider as a “QoL” is entirely up to Klei.

For example: We know that somewhere along the way they plan to make changes to Ancient Guardian, but we have no clue to what depths those changes will go through.

Fixing Pillar cheese? Giving it new Attacks and A.I Behavior? Mutating it with Lunar Moon magic to fit into the Return of Them lore of having Moon Shenanigans terraform stuff?

At that point would it even be considered a QoL anymore??? Or would it be one of those 3 “Setting The Stage” game content updates?

Previous QoLs have done things like reducing crafting costs of Bat Bat, Marble Armor, Removing Rabbit Earmuffs from needing to prototype and adding starting resources, griefing protection, more settings for World Gen, that sort of stuff.

I think the problem there is that I'm not sure what's left to give the QoL treatment. Pretty much every underpowered item's gotten a look-over and an adjustment. And I'm not sure where else they could go. Other than, Y'know, A craft UI update. But is that going to be the whole thing?

[Cheggf]

2 hours ago, Capybara007 said:

that is not what a qol is supposed to bring but ok

Klei doesn't know what qol means either because they do things like balance changes in their supposed qol patches. 

[UbiAnomaly]

9 minutes ago, Theukon-dos said:

Pretty much every underpowered item's gotten a look-over and an adjustment.

Unbuffed and overly niche items be like:

 

[Theukon-dos]

3 minutes ago, UbiAnomaly said:

Unbuffed and overly niche items be like:

 

Catcoon cap was technically buffed, I don't think the Slingshot needs buffed, but I will concede on Worm's items and the Tail o' 3 cats

[Cheggf]

7 minutes ago, UbiAnomaly said:

Unbuffed and overly niche items be like:

 

Slingshot is good and Wormwood's crafts are good when you look at who makes them. Wormwood already has a pretty loaded kit, cactus picking armor and weird tooth traps are just a nice cherry on top. 

[mima_]

i hope they give use for critter . maybe just helping cleaning around from clutter .. if we give them seed they will pick up seed around us and give the loot back if we gave them special kind of crockpot food ... 

[LiamAshvinn001]

5 hours ago, Capybara007 said:

that is not what a qol is supposed to bring but ok

Ok yeah that one was more of a rant

[ArubaroBeefalo]

5 hours ago, Theukon-dos said:

I'm not sure what's left to give the QoL treatmen

fixing walls, fences, statues, winter feast tbales, end tables, etc allowing mobs to scape, mobs being pushed into the sea, befriended mobs getting stuck instead of going back to their homes, a way to deal with wildfires (like raining end game items) so the qol of summer increase, more regrowth mechanics, removing force atack on walls, fences and snurtle dens, allowing certain actions to block the interaction with other stuff (like fishing in oasis blocking interaction with fireflies or watering can blocking interation with plants so you dont need to look after 1 free soil pixel to water them), BERNIE! being lost when you go throw a wormhole or you outrun him, removing using space bar to activate pinchin winch, fixing bearger ai, boat leaks having more area of interaction so you dont need to click with boat patches on a pixel when they are small, birdcage on food tab instead of on the bottom of the structure tab so noobs realize it exists and is food related and not decorative, adding more gems to the hit springs loot table, changing ruins maze chest loot table, sunken chest loot table, AG loot table (the rework doesnt fit in a QoL update but will be a huge QoL since you kill him many times per world...), CC not dropping 1000 stacks of glass (it could drop more moonrock instead), remove secondary meteor field or atleast not making it appear near oasis dessert, set pieces not spawning in meteor field, adding some of the set pieces and biomes diseabled in world gen, increase cookie cutters shell drop/buff cookie helmet, performance improvements (why the hell a lightbulb consumes way more than a bunch of gekkos?), more graphic options (we only have HD or 1999 resolution...)...

i just recall these ones right now

[Capybara007]

yeah there is a lot to improve in a qol lol

[X-lem]

On 2/6/2022 at 1:46 AM, Szczuku said:

I mean, this year's exceptional content has you walking around the map howering your cursor over every structure in a biome so that you can make a nursery. So exciting!

I think year of the rat has been my favourite thus far. While I have not really touched it since then, it was the most in depth. Year of pig was hilariously fun until we figured out how to break it.

 

In regards to the QOL update, I would have to disagree. Tbh I think it will be something none of us expect. Looking forward to it though!

[Owlrust]

It's pretty scary to think what Klei could do for the QoL update that would change the way you play the game. All it takes is one minor adjustment to drastically impact the way people play the game, resulting in a kind of "snowball effect".

If they change how ai pathing works for example, destroying walls or most structures that impede the path of mobs, then most farms become impossible to keep up without them being free-range. Make mobs attack while moving and suddenly kiting isn't as reliable in a fight. Make survivors vomit when they eat too much, and now suddenly Honey Poultice and Healing Salves become the best forms of healing while mass-producing healing foods become either obsolete or require rot to be paired with.

I'm all for it though, regardless of what Klei chooses to do, I'm all for more impactful gameplay.

[. . .]

A crafting UI rework would be so damn amazing! I hate the current craft UI in DST, you have to scroll for so long and the scrolling is horribly slow too... pair that up with dozens of mods which add dozens of new crafting recipes and it becomes a NIGHTMARE to use DST's crafting tab as you may literally have to scroll for a solid 30 seconds to find what you want to make.

When you have a lot of mods too it actually also LAGS the craft ui so it makes scrolling even slower ...

Also, it would be nice if they make it so you can have crafting recipes with more than 3 items and the item icons don't start going off the crafting recipe's overlay. Being able to favorite crafting recipes would be awesome as well!

 

I also seen this post of a modder in the past even had a cool idea too!

Spoiler

If there was just a way to have a tiny button which toggles the crafting tab to look like this it would save so much time and no need to scroll endlessly anymore... a small search bar would be nice too which could pop-up only when you have the crafting tab open.

 

I would also like a button to toggle hiding/showing the crafting tab. It might just be, but I prefer having my screen not being very cluttered and having the crafting tab always be on the screen just bugs me since you aren't using it all the time. So, a button to toggle it appearing or not would be nice !

[SomebodyRandom]

10 hours ago, . . . said:

a small search bar would be nice too which could pop-up only when you have the crafting tab open.

If this was the case I would finally use the Open Crafting button, and since they implemented Mouse 4 & 5 support, my mouse has been needing some buttons assigned to it.