I have thousands of hours in DF…and I really wish it wasn’t a buggy mess.
Marksdwarves not taking arrows? Follow this easy 20 step guide of obtuse mechanics that circumvent what’s probably several bugs?
You fixed them taking ammo? Great, good job! Are they using the training room you set up verifiably correctly? No? Well sucks.
There are so many instances of this. Exploding trees killing woodcutters if trees grow into one another. Items left perpetually on the floor that can never be moved again. Military squads never returning from expeditions, forever blocking their noble spots and sometimes making it impossible to refill any positions…endless problems.
A lot of it can be fixed with DFhack but not all of it can. I am happy they are doing fresh content for the game, but I also wish they would take, like, two years to fix all the known bugs that have been in the game for several years. And while the steam version has a better interface then what was there before, it’s hardly perfect. It’s mostly just a bit more user friendly while being obtuse in new and inventive ways.
Why am I writing all this? Honestly I don’t know. I just…the game is uniquely frustrating, but so cool when it does miraculously work.
I have thousands of hours in DF…and I really wish it wasn’t a buggy mess.
Marksdwarves not taking arrows? Follow this easy 20 step guide of obtuse mechanics that circumvent what’s probably several bugs?
You fixed them taking ammo? Great, good job! Are they using the training room you set up verifiably correctly? No? Well sucks.
There are so many instances of this. Exploding trees killing woodcutters if trees grow into one another. Items left perpetually on the floor that can never be moved again. Military squads never returning from expeditions, forever blocking their noble spots and sometimes making it impossible to refill any positions…endless problems.
A lot of it can be fixed with DFhack but not all of it can. I am happy they are doing fresh content for the game, but I also wish they would take, like, two years to fix all the known bugs that have been in the game for several years. And while the steam version has a better interface then what was there before, it’s hardly perfect. It’s mostly just a bit more user friendly while being obtuse in new and inventive ways.
Why am I writing all this? Honestly I don’t know. I just…the game is uniquely frustrating, but so cool when it does miraculously work.