by Chebermech » Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:34 am
It is indeed a huge problem, for me personally, I use amber client which kicks me back to login screen every 10-20 seconds when im near the trees after the update (even with the tree folder deleted from haven.jar), and I can't really do anything on a default client. For people who play this game for its sandbox elements, its important to have the ability to turn the tile grid on/off and have a normal perspective free camera. While its possible to change the camera through a command (unintuitively for new players), you can't terraform properly without the grid, its basically 3D modeling the environment, so free camera and grid is a must. Another feature that really helps is ability to hide the trees to see the animals or players without rotating the camera all the time. At least having an outline of a player or an animal behind objects that block the view would really help. And another feature, not as important but something that i use to satisfy my ocd is the ability to plant trees in the centre of the tile, if planting trees mechanics was a little bit different, like building for example, where you right click on pot > select plant tree and then you have this tree (or bush) show greyed out at 100% growth on your mouse, that you can rotate with a wheel and plant precisely where you want it at whatever angle you want it... that'd be a larper's ocd dream come true. And last but not least is the bounding (collision) box, something that I use all the time to calculate and build things more precisely to make it both safe and functional, when building race tracks or houses right next to each other, or any other decorations. This doesn't really have to be a toggle button to promote matrix-like game play, but its a very important tool for building and should at least be available as a command, just like :placegrid which is also a very crucial tool used for building. With all these things added to a default client i would be able to play the game the way i enjoy it, but without, if the custom clients were to stop existing i don't think i would be able to. Of course the are also a lot of helpful features and shortcuts on custom clients like ability to lower the graphics for people who don't own latest video cards and cpu, ability to enlarge the map which is crucial for pvp (current minimap size really is an insult to anyone who is serious about pvp), as is lack of key binds on running speed and over all only 10 slots for ability binds (on 1-10). Also something that would be great to have is ability to change the font size in chat... running default client on a high res monitor I can hardly see anything in the chat... I really hope to see most if not all these changes to take place during the client re-wright, everything noted here is only a fraction of whats available on custom clients but these are the most important things missing in my opinion.
