Like everyone else, I'm familiar with the concept of scrapping, reusing or selling materials in these types of games, Rust for example. By worthless I've meant very very little value, having to deal with great quantities in order to make it worth, like I said earlier, insane grinding.
Spending so much time looking at the inventory was true, was it 60%, 50% or maybe just 40%? I dunno, but it was enough to get me bored and realize this is not what I want from a game.
I appreciate you defending the game, but there is no need, I haven't said anywhere that is a bad game, just that basically it doesn't work for me. Now with the latest release I'll probably give it a shot again, but not very hopeful.
Cheers

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Quoting: g000hEven though Dubigrasi finds inventory management is a strain, I've never had that problem. Partly, it comes down to playing strategy. For instance, I tend to put a storage box outside buildings that I am looting. Then as my inventory fills up, I drop off all the excess into outside storage. Once I am back at base, I ensure that I use multiple boxes, and place similar items together - Food/Meds, Components, Weapons/Ammo, Clothes/Armour, Building Materials.

I disagree with Dubigrasi's comment about "worthless things". Practically every item mined, looted or salvaged is useful. Rotten flesh is useful for farm plots and hobo stew. Paper is useful for shotgun shells. If you pick up a chair, you can scrap it for wood. Seeds are useful for growing crops. AND... on top of all the above, if you have stuff (let's say paper) which you aren't using (to make shotgun shells) then you can collect up stacks of it, and sell those stacks to a trader, and then buy useful stuff with the money. Even excess "dukes" of money can be smelted in the forge for making bullet cases.

Appreciate the detailed strategy advice, turns out I never realized that you craft multiple boxes and shuffle/organize things around. I only crafted a single small box and felt so annoyed that I can't cram everything inside it.
Also, using seeds for growing crops, mind blown, such a revelation.
Can't understand why I haven't already did all the above, I'm gonna apply all your kind teachings and I'm sure the game will be so much more enjoyably for me.

Thank you g000k

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I really tried to like this game, but the grind is killing me. The never ending grind and also managing the inventory. I realized that more than half of the gameplay time I've spent looking at the inventory screen, than doing actually something. Actual gameplay seems to be more like an annex to inventory management.
And I'm used to games where you have to carefully manage you possessions, for example The Long Dark, but in there everything is useful, even sticks and pebbles you find in the snow. In 7DTD your inventory consists in a miriad of worthless things. You have to gather a lot of crap and make countless roads in order to achieve something, well, like I said, grinding is insane.
Maybe I'm playing it wrong, I dunno.

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So it requires an internet connection and asks you to agree to your data being handled and transmitted... somewhere. OK, two reasons to pass on it.
Still curious about it so I've sent the file to VirusTotal to analyze it. It shows some interesting details about what files it writes, copy or modify on your system, what IPs it tries to connect to and what commands it executes.
It also displays a warning: The sandbox CAPE Linux flags this file as: MALWARE, which looks worrisome, but truth be told, I'm a total noob about security, so maybe some one else could took a look and give some insights?
Is enough to send the file or url to VirusTotal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal [External Link] ) or a similar site. I used this one since it accepts big file uploads.

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Interesting how these guys (after the initial reluctance to put up the promised Linux build IIRC), they still support Linux to this day, while Facepunch started strong but eventually abandoned their Linux version.
What kind of anticheat is 7DTD using btw?

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Will the singleplayer campaign still be accessible?

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Those touchpads seem to me ridiculously low for actual gaming.

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My litmus test when it comes to wayland is the visibility of the Steam Controller cursor, since I really need it. I test wayland quite often, but so far this is still a very old (years) issue waiting for a fix. There are several workarounds, like using gamescope or extest but nothing "official". As for the causes, there is a discussion on Gitlab with interesting arguments from developers. A rare occasion to see plagman rather annoyed.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/431 [External Link]

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Quoting: MohandevirPesonnally, I prefer Holoiso. I can use it exactly like SteamOS, on my PC. Emudeck works the same & the app store is the same. Quite similar in behavior. That may be the reason. They might have decided this, because they could not get official SteamOS from Valve, yet. Just my two cents.

Agree that a SteamDeck like experience is preferable, but I see HoloIso itself as a problematic choice. In my search for a SteamOS-like experience HoloIso was indeed the closest one, but was also the most problematic.

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Worried about the Holoiso thing. Wonder why they haven't went with something more say, reputable and actively developed, like ChimeraOS.
If I'm not remembering wrong, they were the first to sent an AYANEO to ChimeraOS team (even before Valve sent a SteamDeck), so they know about it and there's a resemblance of collaboration. Could be because of ChimeraOS's choice of using Gnome instead of KDE? (and wanting for their device to be more SteamDeck like?)

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