My Personal Thoughts Regarding Scum - Honest & Direct

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[@JinVonPew]

Scum is stuck in a perpetual dementia loop. Players keep voicing exactly the same complaints, devs keep doing exactly the same dev thing and content creators keep publishing exactly the same opinions.

[@aaronpower879]

Yeah so true hey

[@RayKit]

True!

[@jimmydunn202]

I think if we are all honest, we can see that Scum is on life support. All the evidence is there - low/no viewership on socials, loss of good will from community, recycled features in game, devs slowly stepping away from engagement and worst of all, the server list populated by 99% of Asian bot-populated servers. It doesn't look good.

[@TheFormActually]

did the count the other day on BattleMetrics site. 90% of playerbase is from servers were Chinese IP lol and the rest were all the other ones around the world.... pages of 100 pop full servers in a game that's breaking with 25 - 30 players on a server.....make it make sense... not to mention that Chinese are also playing on all other western servers... No idea what's going on... maybe gamepires pumping player stats so Jagex doesn't drop em like Devovler did... Someone should count all the players from the server list in-game, I can't be bothered to reinstall the game and do that..

[@TacShooter]

It has been about SEVEN MONTHS that I have been waiting for them to fix the game so that I can play the game that I loved for YEARS before that.

[@pablogaming_973]

Same here I have more than 3k hrs in the game but I am not gonna be back until the zombie spawn is same as before but yeah horde with that system will be awesome

[@bmjr24]

I'm primarily a PVE player in SCUM. I've played since 2019, and my biggest issue was summed up by you Ray a couple of year ago. You said "Scum is a squirrel simulator. Leave your tree, go out, collect nuts, bring them back to your tree." That is Scum PVE in a nutshell (no pun intended). There is NO environmental challenge in Scum. All i do is roam around the map looking for very predictable loot, bring it back to my base, or simply put it in chests in my vehicle. Rinse and repeat endlessly. No challenge in the environment. No variety in the puppets. It has simply become boring. I do not do the "new bunkers" for other reasons...and have uninstalled and will wait until 1.0. The boredom drove me away until it is in a different state. Ty Ray for all you do!

[@GetnBrains]

wait dude.. ur complaining there are no challenges while also saying ur not doing the bunkers which id assume because u think they are 2 hard? this feedback is absurd and exactly why you personally will never be happy. ur complaining about something that's impossible to fix lol

[@SolukPlay]

Your statement is true. It’s also true for every game after you experience or get your fill of all the content a game has to offer. I just got the game 2 weeks ago and it’s loads of fun. Talk to me after I’ve accomplished all the game has and my statement matchs the OP’s. If u play PvP it might be different for u but to what end? It’s a good game and hopefully we get quests, a story, and a way to possibly “win” by escaping the prison and fighting the game show ala “The Running Man meets Escape from New York”

[@flash1259]

@@GetnBrains So you're making assumptions. Maybe you're correct or maybe not. Maybe you should have asked instead of assuming and criticizing.

[@craigcas117]

Took the words out of my mouth. Game needs missions and human NPC's that are not puppets but actually use weapons and wonder the environment and attack your base.

[@wisdomandy9361]

You say the PvE is too easy yet you don't do AB? Considering Killbox and AB are the only end game PvE in SCUM, that's a wild conclusion.

[@mattkeegan1359]

they need to bring back the old respawn system with fame points, i hate having to go to the traders to get money just for my respawn especially on a hardcore server where it may take me awhile to actually get something worth selling and make some cash

[@MechGyver10g]

I just stopped playing until the puppet issues will be fixed. I think myself a very persistent fan of the game since 2018 August. Funny that the puppets worked so much better back then. But I am not that persistent to eat up that insufferable half cooked shit with big smile that the devs put on the table with the spawn reworks and the horde system

[@qreepyQT]

I stopped because everytime we build a lvl 5 base with dozens of bombproof layers and hundreds of goldlocks with hundreds of lvl3 zappers, some hackers just comes along and destroys it within 30minutes, no chance to defend. The puppet issue is just holding me back from getting back into this damned cycle again

[@concretecomforts4012]

Game going in wrong direction. Period. Makes me sad.

[@Crucial_End]

Horde system ruined it for me. I liked the immersion of scouting and planing my approac now Its more like an action shooter, I would love to see a turn on/off system for it or some other fix. Would also love to see more environmental challenges to make the survival gameplay better. Something like Green Hell or The Long Dark but in a village with puppets would be amazing.

[@therealbettyswollocks]

Same issue with melee. Probably 1/3 attacks misses.

[@RayKit]

Well ain't that a load of 's

[@Gazbeard]

Incredibly frustrating gameplay problems ... Puppets that aggro from 400 metres away - at night - in a thunderstorm - while sneaking - and using silent weapons only (swords & spears). Constant game progression wipes - bases gone, vehicles gone, loot/stores gone, clothing and armour gone, weapons and ammo gone - back into oranges with only a bank card. Chain-spawning hordes appearing 10 yards away round a corridor or building corner. Respawning regular puppets thet respawn after 3 minutes auto-aggro'd on you regardless of distance. Needing one full bar of soap to clean 3 rags to make bandages, or one bar per item of clothing worn. Extreme scarcity of disinfectant and sterilising alcohols forcing purchase from traders - are the puppets drinking it all? Vehicle doors that don't close until you're travelling at 20mph. Rate of decay on weapons and clothing (especially shoes). Very poor vehicle physics on dry tarmac let alone any other surface. Why no human enclaves and encampments away from the trader outposts - friendly and hostile - with missions available from both. In some areas of the southern half of the map, distances between potable water locations are too far for early-game play.

[@minimejohn6650]

The only thing that bothers me in the game is the spawning system, puppets spawn pretty weird in bunkers and in other POI's (Points Of Interest) I have no issues while fighting them, I can easly escape, but sometimes puppets and beepers spawn so weird and so close to you, especially in C0 Nuclear Power Plant and you can't run with the Hazmat Suit on you, all I'm saying is: the devs really need to rework the spawn system so the puppets can have a specific area to spawn, not always around you at 10 meters away, and as for the hunting system, I don't know why they have to change it, it was pretty fine in the past, you could've find wildlife everywhere in the woods and mountains, have a nice day Raykit, good video, keep up the good work man! 💪🙂

[@GetnBrains]

this game is WAYYY to focused on making every little detail perfect and 100% realistic and it has lost site of the game being FUN. This game/any game will NEVER be real life, you dont respawn in real life.. They keep adding to the depth of stuff that is already good/fine and neglecting obvious issues

[@GetnBrains]

example of this.. pissing in the game.. it changes every update and its getting worse. i do NOT wanna piss 5 times a day like i do in real life, ONCE is complllletely enough in the game! that's one of mannnny mannnny examples lol

[@MaxMozin-wr2ds]

@@GetnBrains Thats the first thing grown up modders removing. It's the most stupid thing ever implemented in a game. In a XXX fetish game ,ok :D

[@EttoreB93]

2:50 I remember explosive puppets regularly respawning in the bunkers out of thin air while me and my friend were lockpicking the cabinets (we had killed them like 1 minute before), maybe it was some server setting but it got us killed for no reason the first time, from second time one of us stayed gun ready beside the one who was lockpicking...

[@Terrince_Tate]

I'd just like to have official controller support at this point. Also, a revamed character creation is needed.

[@rafalb9448]

Hey, I'm having very similar thoughts about survival approach to Scum and I'm happy to see key community persona like you representing it toward devs. My main worry is that at some point game may take easy turn toward becoming more like Rust (ie. predominantly fast paced PvP). I very happy to see a shout out for Scum being mainly PvE survival with PvP encounter being only an extra threat during game play. Back to your observation about puppet problems, yes, I have similar experience with arrows going past them. My theory is that puppet optimization, that made them non-colliding with environment when not in agro state, had somehow spilled into agro mode. To my layman eye it looks like some animation puppets do when agro has a wrongly set "non-colide" flag. And when you shot at them at that temporary state arrow goes past them.

[@oynlengeymer2434]

I feel like infrastructure is hardware layout in the teams offices, including development software maybe? When you think of it in gaming terms as it was listed under the tasks of programmers... idk to me that like hinting at an engine upgrade which we know won't happen, so maybe just editing the already heavily edited ue4 version the have

[@tasteslikeoctober5811]

100 percent agree about the traders. Setting up my server, it took me almost 3 whole days to disable everything they buy and sell, then another 2 days choosing/limiting what they sell and buy.... it just takes away from looting when everything is already available at the traders

[@Janzer_]

I will say in pure hardcore survival when 1-2 hits can get you killed, and every hit you make counts, having melee attacks swing through bodies even though they visually connect or having puppets teleport around ends up being this: I'm no longer challenged by the game, I'm simply challenged by the bugs. It becomes player versus glitches, instead of fair survival gameplay.

[@Saazm]

Melee have been broken in 1st person view so long I remember, before v4.0. And there is another thing that's quite new, lag before supply drop will appear. Sometime it's massive even on a almost empty server?!

[@TroyArchAngel]

The big problem with the game is not mentioned here. Unrealistic new spawning system. Before spawning were more adjustable with setting on how fast the next respawn happens. Now it's just seconds between respawns. This is why I left the game it became so unrealistic now, which is the reason why I bought the game in the first place for the realism it had and puppets spawn in the distance that it was very hard to see them. Because the spawn radius was much larger before. Now it's very small that you can't snipe a puppet 100m away......there is none. Maybe just 50m spawn radius now. I have nothing against horde because at least we have settings to switch them off. But the respawns are the BIG problem for me and the small radius of spawning. For me if this doesn't change RIP Scum

[@savani10]

Excactly what I've been thinking recently. You should be able to play the a survival game WITHOUT the need to use the traders. And you are able, UNTIL you need to respawn. The respawning system, which is not cheap, is forcing you to pick up stuff you DONT NEED, and to go to the traders to sell it. We need another way to secure our respawns. I am not sure that should happen with the Fame points.

[@johndoe4004]

the traders should be a turn on or off feature, honestly i agree with the survival aspects but the problem with traders is they should in some way push you into doing dangerous missions if you're gonna have ammo and guns so easily (at least pve servers, i dont know how or if you would ever want to balance it for pvp, seems weird)

[@Marz78963]

This new spawn system is crazy. Even on PVE / Easy based server. You can enter a military building, kill the one or two puppets in the room. And while lock picking a safe 2 heavy puppets and 1 beeper just fall from the ceiling right on top of me and then boom. It seems to be more of a delay. As what I do now is enter the room. Walk around and then exit. Wait a few seconds and then the puppets will spawn and I can go in and clear them out along with the now present beeper and then loot the room without worrying about them just falling from the ceiling again. But then, there's a catch to this. As soon as you exit and move away from that room by a small distance it tends to reset the spawn. The bodies will now be gone and they can respawn at any moment. This doesn't count any hordes that may occur. This is just the initial group that spawns. It's odd and often frustrating.

[@stephaniesayer7191]

I've been seeing the same issues, especially the arrows appearing to pass through the puppets. Some of this may be related to their new movement which results in them jumping spastically (for no apparent reason sometimes) and very fast/high such that I wonder if I'm actually hitting where they actually are or not seeing a jump. Also seeing horde spawns that are too deep for the situation at times, particularly when arrows are occasionally ineffective. Another thing I've noticed is that suppressed weapons pretty much act like un-supressed weapons in that they attract nearby puppets and spawn hordes. I can't get far enough away to snipe with a VSS without them despawning but if I close they act like I'm using a shotgun. I'm still having great fun and playing a lot but some of the new issues are bordering on frustrating.

[@chrisgriffis1694]

Absolutely this has happened to me as well. arrows just passing through puppets. and I have tried this on multiple servers. It's an issue that spreads across every server so it has to be a game issue. Also for adding dynamics into the game with regards t puppets as far as time of day, what about this. have server settings for puppets for day time and night time. You could set them up to be not as fierce during the day but then have a seperate range of adjustments once night kicks in they ramp up in terms of speed agility strength and health. also if you wanted it to still be full hardcore just turn up all the puppet settings for both day and night. That would be one way to have a dynamic range with puppets. But fix the damn hit boxes first! lol

[@shaunprior4691]

Aye, nice to see my clip being used, I still think hitboxs and issues with arrows and melee as I've had issues with this in recent times and the past with hitting pups in front of me and nothing happens, and I still think traders should work on some kind of fame mapped in with the new missions system coming soon, my though is if you have the right fame and have done the lets say intro missions you get to trade with the trader you've done the missions for, so you can't just join the server raid a bunker get loot and sell things so you can purchase a kit outright.

[@Saint7331]

guy below me nailed it. players keep saying the same thing. "we loved your game until you ruined it with this encounter system for the love of god please revert it or bring drastic changes so it FUNCTIONS like it did before." then the devs go "we hear you guys! we did bugfixes! also heres a new trailer and a survey about random shit you might want in the game! also the encounter system stays! HAHAHAHA" then a month later we get another update with a bunch of random shit nobody cares about and the puppets are still busted as fuck, we still cant control their spawn distance, amount, depsawn time, despawn distance, render distance, nothing. its hopeless. games dead and it wont be fixed. i know we dont wanna admit it, but its over. they dropped the ball and its just over.

[@Grantykinss]

I wish that the traders where actually TRADERS. No selling items, they should’ve made it so that you can trade baked beans for some bandages for example. It would’ve been so much better and less of a crutch as you said.

[@breceeofficial]

I've had trouble getting back into it since 0.85. The hunting changes (it was my absolute zen prior to 0.85) alongside the system to track fleeing animals, and how few wild animals there are now is such a step backwards. The audio for spawned animals seems much less accurate since the changes as well (sounding right up close when they are far) so it is hard to gauge the distance since then. Also, bring back the old Fame system. I gladly picked thousands of olives XD. The puppet spawn changes are the other downside. I miss seeing a place loaded with puppets and working out how to get in - popping off a few puppets from a distance in the meantime. I hope they can give us a choice between all the spawning systems and dealing with any performance issues would be a personal choice. Maybe 0.80 legacy servers perhaps? :P Am also glad to see that the arrows passing through puppets is a recognized issue. I thought I was going mad haha.

[@foundryrat1282]

Hi RayKit I noticed the same thing with the arrow issue especially when I use the plain wooden arrow. I was a little leary on the hord system but now I like it. The only other thing that I really want fixed soon is the way that the puppets open doors and jump through the windows, that's why I turned that off on my server until they fix it.

[@slayerdude18]

atm i just want that puppet stuff to get fixed, it stopped me having fun in the game, i dont even go into abandoned bunkers anymore because of the crap that is happening. as soon as they actually get it fixed tho im gonna jump straight back into it. i have faith in em and i hope they dont dissapoint

[@user-thebittersweetlifegaming]

hey Raykit, what do you think about taking away the crafting tab and let the players learn on there own?

[@farmerslim8837]

Great video as always dude, I've played this game from week one and to me now this isn't the game it was suppose to be (it's lost direction). Replacing the fame point system with a big emphasis on trading was a big turn off for me and my friends. People don't craft to survive they just loot for stuff to sell (rinse and repeat). The horde system is great in concept and works with vanilla settings but if you play on a hardcore server with big puppet numbers and one hit kills it makes the game unplayable again due to the money respawn system. It's got to the point where it's not enjoyable to play anymore when playing hardcore which makes me sad for a game I very much love. I really hope the devs come up with a better solution or scrap the traders and bring back the fame point spawn system.

[@punktrixter5442]

I can't even play any more, fixed the loading screen like 3 times already uninstalling -reinstalling , deleting files etc etc but this time after spending hours working on getting the game going it just wont load past the black screen so I moved on to Once Human and I'm enjoying gaming again. I'm done with scum.

[@AIKIDOSILVERDALE]

Stopped platying. no other game I've ever played has had this many ongoing bugs, since day one. if its not one thing, its another. fresh spawn is fun for like 4 game hours then once you're geared its a game loop. unless they add a decent LORE to justify the fame, and reward initiavie, it'll die. Quests, NPCs should have been in the game YEARS ago, not high heeled boots and a metabolism system that is ridiculously detailed and largely hinders gameplay. Covid or not, no game should take this long to get right.

[@SyPhEnOG]

Yes, both myself and another member of my squad have died to the very same issue you clipped. Arrows passing right through, puppets clipping through walls, fences etc., and odd spawn of a puppet right next to, or on top of you. I won't go on a long rant, but I love the game and would like to see issues like these addressed.

[@sekedargaming9622]

They need to learn from State of decay 2, how to make the zombie animation and the melee attack works

[@Ayns.L14A]

Hi Ray, i finally took the plunge into multiplayer a couple of months back, but i play with my own self imposed rules, i have no base , no bed, no looting mil poi's, no shoot first, I survive on what I can bow hunt , yes there are definite issues with the puppet hitboxes and arrow pass through, there is also a problem with the hunting system, at least on the server i'm on, the random animal spawns work fine,(bears, boars, wolves, donkeys, chickens, goats even stags and does) however, the old hunting mini game system that was left in for some reason seems to be either not spawning animals or they are spawning underground, you can hear the animal, but it does not appear even when in the middle of a field...after at least a couple of hundred hours hunting there has not been a single animal spawn from the mini game system, ( and I was one of those people who enjoyed it ) I've even had the server owner spectate me just to confirm I wasn't being crap..Please if you get the chance please mention it to the devs, I have left comments on the community page but have only had a reply from Death Whisper saying that yes both systems are still in game.

[@flash1259]

I've been hunting for over a month now to get some Steam achievements. Almost every time I think a sound is part of the mini game I move on and ignore it. I've tried a few times. I hear the sound. Then I go that direction. Sometimes even see the tracks. Then hear the sound in the opposite direction. When I start that direction all the sounds stop and as far as I know it's over. I've looked and never found another track or heard another sound. I also have an issue with tracks disappearing. i see the tracks once and they're gone. I can't see them again.

[@Ayns.L14A]

@@flash1259 I've found that walking everywhere helps, Chickens spawn all over all the time, goats donkeys normally around the edges of forests, bears in clumps of bushes in the open , the only deer i found were just west of the dam on the southern bank of the river, these have all been random spawns, it's got to the stage where if i hear a beasty and i see the mini game trigger i just ignore it, oh and boars are spawning in twos or three now so watch your back..

[@alonsoquijano9555]

we also need the possibility of hosting servers fro free without our friends, without having to rent an external one.

[@lemarbrown9224]

First Problem: Although rare I have not been able to hit puppets with some ranged and surprisingly melee attacks well and yes this stilled happened in single player as well Second Problem: Puppets sometimes do spawn magically when I'm exploring bunkers even when I made no sounds Im not pressuring the devs nor am I asking the comment section to create a fuss ( although unlikely) I am simply sharing my thoughts and issues the game is still very playable. But know this SCUM is a game that made its way to be one of my favourite game over the years, the developers did a fantastic job with the game and considering where it is at compared to other survival games is nothing but phenomenal and unique. Most of their updates have me filled with anticipation, nervousness and expectancy. I hope this game continues to receive the love and attention it deserves to shape it into a masterpiece.

[@CJS-kl7vo]

9 times out of 10 if I run up behind a puppet and take a swing with a katana, the blade goes right through with no damage to the puppet. So I would agree the issues apply to melee as well.

[@flash1259]

Same here. Even when I run up in front of them. The puppets don't seem to have that bug. All of their hits register on me.

[@flash1259]

I haven't tried a lot of other games like Scum. Have you checked out the hordes in No One Survived? There's zombies with a long range attack, toxic zombies that explode, there's crawlers, and a BFZ. Think a Mr. Brenner that can be killed. There's also a lot of traps for the horde nights. Maybe spinning blades or flame traps manual and powered spike traps also log and steel barricades and more. Now there's even a stand for the gatling gun that can be used at the horde base. It's more focused on PVE though and doesn't have nearly the online community Scum has. It's also only been in EA for around a year and a half and has an even smaller dev team than Scum has.

[@twalsh05]

They never should have added the traders, either that or make it so the server owners can run a version without them. I.e different map where the area isn't even there like the old days.

[@Janzer_]

server owners can highly customize traders to where they can shut off most items

[@twalsh05]

@@Janzer_ yeah I play on a server just like that

[@Smoked786]

The miss in melee was always there. You really get it with karambit knifes in 3rd person. Ive seen this problem since hell rides update. Today you notice it more, since spawned in puppers are kinda more janky. Also spawned in puppers move trough base walls, if your base sits near an poi. The horde system would be a nice addition. The spawner system per se, would be good for animals, especially birds, or in future rats and so on. The big problem is close quarter spawning. Making scouting and scopes useless in pve. That system is more fitting for Call of Duty Zombies, wave like shooters. World and poi puppers should spawn like the old system, as sleepers. The new system has a better usecase in animals and hordes. There also seems like theres no cap on puppers. If you sit in a bush and a rager with 6 people drives by, the police station will completly respawn and all puppers charge you, even if youre obscured. Also in consideration is the "dead" feeling many get. Most friends stopped playing. Twitch primetime around 550ish viewers. Most ingame player numbers result from asian servers full with bots.

[@TheLoneGunmanLG]

Great Video Bro! and its all true, died to many times to that bug! it sucks!

[@RayKit]

Thanks mate! Devs have a lot to deal with but we got their backs!

[@Janzer_]

Definitely a lot of moving parts. I hope the developers are able to continue moving forward positively.

[@voidbby5407]

being a solo on your server with limited shop just isnt doable if you have a family and job

[@Grumpskin]

Good vid, thanks for covering and updating on scum , enjoy your content keep up the good work and wish you all the best

[@casual.wardog]

I can't enjoy the game in the current state. I'm playing games to have fun and right now I'm having fun playing other games.

[@emmanouilanastasakis8547]

Even in this state the game is far from competition...

[@jimmydunn202]

@@emmanouilanastasakis8547 we are at 0.95 man! This is supposed to be the final stretch to release not 'back to basics' and unplayable, broken mechanics and servers. There's so much that needs to be fixed and added at the last stage with servers and the game already creaking and falling over. The maths don't add up.

[@smokedoggxxl]

I think your opinion is shared by the majority of us that bought scum! I still hope they make changes to the spawning and make it more of a true survival game, roaming npc's and missions would be nice too, but they really need to fix what they already have.

[@the_stig_90]

hay ray! is this an Arozzi desk?

[@michaelwest4594]

making money for respawn in my opinion is one of the dumbest things about scum, its survival. I would rather them allow you to just respawn on your bed and then maybe punish you in other ways like, now my max stamina and health are much lower and the character has broken bones and needs to take it slower until they recover.

[@GetnBrains]

making a little money is thee easiet part of scum, if ur having issues with that, just find a new game bud

[@michaelwest4594]

@GetnBrains Re read what I said "bud" never said it was hard, it's just simply dumb game design for a survival game. Looting, to go sell, to be able to respawn is fucking dumb.

[@flash1259]

I have also played Hold Your Own. When I die it doesn't cost anything but, I loose a considerable amount of points on a couple of my stats. In NMS survival saves I loose my inventory in my backpack. In a permadeath save my save is deleted and I have to start a new save. It doesn't matter that the death was due to a glitch in the game.

[@rachelheav857]

To be honest i havent seen arrows going through puppets like your vid shows.... seems like it might be your host or your server.... because i havent seen it on the servers i play on..... As for the people complaining about the horde system.... i think its great and people just have a skill issue..... i go loud to get as many hordes to pop as i can i love it I fully agreed with you about the traders being a crutch.... i hate it. i start fresh and i have to get gear so i can horde items so i can go back and forth to the trader selling stuff just to have the cash i know ill need just to survive..... before the traders dropped i played on a server with a human trader with cash only no card and it was great.... 90% of the people i played with then have quit as they think its not as good

[@ivyfoo502]

It's been over 6mths. The horde/puppet system is broken. Devs have chosen to ditch us for Chinese pay to win servers. Hong Kong servers are down rn and player count is less than 2,000. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know, then I don't know what will.

[@ssakos4844]

how devs have destroy game after 0.85v you forgot to mention...the game in late 0,85v it was more stable from all versions and they manage to broke it.. 2 major patches after the game it's fktup. + you need to barrow NASA pc to play pvp.

[@mikeyinglis80]

Mate, I can take our conversations back to 0.8 and me saying 'indentity crisis'. The 1.0 is looming and it needs definfing what it is. Looter shooter or crafter builder. Or let the mods decide like day z.

[@cybergrinder]

thanks for the video!

[@francizupancic5167]

i agree with you Ray but i dont understand is how can mods help devs? isnt when you mod some game like taking over the game cause i see the dayz like that there is 80% moded maps and guns and stuff vanila is 20% and some mods way more interesting and fun. I hope i am wrong and like you say moded scum will be so much better we will see i just hope that metabolizm and all regarding survival is fixed hehe nice video and have nice day.

[@dfactopossante]

Fame Point system should be locked on, no turning off

[@loadtoad]

Mrs. Toad got hit from behind from (what she thought was a puppet), ran forward and turned around. IT WAS A BEAR!!! YESSSSS!!! FINALLY. I'm crying tears of shear joy!!! RIBBIT!

[@h1c4s]

Who are You and what have You done with RayKit (I mean that red-beanie-guy)?

[@LagunaFox]

This isn't anything new with arrows going through puppets, when I was playing on private PvE servers I always recommended to people that you shoot puppets with arrows from as far away as you can land them, headshots be damned just go for the body. For this exact reason, you never know when a random arrow will just go through a puppet and do nothing. This was happening to me BEFORE they changed the puppet spawning system. The change to puppets hasn't helped it any but yea it has been a thing for quite awhile at least when I'm playing on a server. I don't have the greatest internet myself but the fact that it happens to other people that claim they have great internet, I don't think it has anything to do with our connection and it is entirely how the server side client handles or tracks puppets themselves.

[@maozedong5035]

the main problem i have is puppets and overall boredom waiting for 1.0 and hopefully things will look brighter than it is now

[@olie.1491]

Just Survive, Miscreated and now Scum. So lucky for me

[@baltimoregaming273]

It doesn't have an Early Access Price

[@Airborne_all_the_way718]

Stopped playing in .4 i feel it fell off after. I respectfully ask at what point is "early access" no longer an excuse? And relying on modders to fix it is pretty lazy in my opinion

[@flash1259]

I started playing a little after .5 came out. I've asked a few times that after 1.0 is released what the excuse is going to change to.

[@josvanommen7129]

that why iam a brawler for now works good for me and only use it when shit hits the fan like missing arrows or melee

[@jehjeh37111]

All I freaking know is that I drove off the earth into outer space and lost my car with gobs of stuff in it that I spent hours upon hours to find! That pisses me off!

[@Zinedamzy]

Never fill up the car with good stuff, sell directly or put it in your base, never drive around with all the good stuff.

[@Kamenskk]

I started playing in 2021. Scum was amazing back then. Most of the added content ruined the game, especially the puppet system being annoying asf and useless. The new bunker systems were trash. The Fame system is shitty, a lot of things need to be fixed in this game, and years pass and they don’t.

[@Lyn-uh2mb]

I agree that they should focus on pve side and as you said pvp is the sprinkler at the top... I believe pve is 90% of the game and 10% is pvp so we most certainly we need more things that we can do as pve

[@jkuehl176]

I'd like to see them go away with the bank cards and move them to the BCU. We use BCU locks and collect them from our enemies when we kill them. Why not be able to set a 1 or 2-digit pin code on your BCU at the bank? If your BCU is captured, they still get 3 tries to unlock it at the bank, then the BCU is not usable, and they will need to kill you again to try 3 more times... It will eliminate the constant respawning and dying and also make players think twice about doing risky things to protect their BCU. Just an idea...

[@GhostRider-eq3ki]

I want to play as a wolf or bear even a puppet maybe a evil bird that well rake out eyeballs even a shark ! We should have 2 on server one main person second a bear mutant ECT that way we can make players really fear everything it might not be ai ! Maybe even level your wolf bear ect with skills and your bear must eat keep warm find a den ect ! I just think it be so much fun to pal around with a team mate but as a wolf that can see good in the dark and has better hearing ! Also we must be able to tame beast I must have dogmeat with me !

[@TheFormActually]

Scum is not even remotely the game they advertised back in the 2018 -2019 era. Has almost nothing to do with survival anymore. It's a leisure "Sims" game in a stranger setting . Prisoners farming and goofing around, etc.. PvP nowhere to be found. PvE has never been more broken and immersion breaking ( both wildlife and puppets ). Netcode makes the game unplayable and rubber-bandy ( still, 6 years later ) Engine limitations will prevent any significant step forward in terms of modding since foundations of the game are terrible ( as everyone predicted back in 2018 when they promised million features ). Modding in dayz succeded cos the game recieved a massive engine swap/upgrade which made the game super optimized and stable with solid netcode. And scum still has the same issues with the game since day one, cos it's still UE4 and nothing will change in that aspect. And devs are obviously not as competent as everyone hoped they would be.. Modding isn't guaranteed anymore and it will not come with 1.0. as it was mentioned in one interview post jagex merge iirc. Ever since they aimed toward console and after being bought by Jagex they went from yes to modding to "maybe post release".. even though they never officially confirmed it. it was always a speculation/projection from the community side. this game has been in development for around 8 years now. and it's been in EA for 6. saying "It's in early access" as an excuse for all the basic issues it still has is embarrassing at this point, both for company and anyone defending it. EDIT: it's important to say that , the game was advertised as this crazy PvPvE where prisoners are fighting each other in this harsh environment for entertainment of some crazy rich elite. But the community that stayed playing pulled devs into direction of obscene PvE ignoring PvP gameplay loop. So I guess Rich people are now watching random convicts lead a somewhat normal life ? ..

[@Pirate_tat87]

Yeah I pretty much gave up on the game since the horde system

[@talonodyssey]

Game expectations currently exceed server capabilities, unless you get it just right you'll see issues all over the place, plus it's not just limited to this game, it's an industry wide problem. One comment that was made in an interview between a streamer and one of the dev's (i forget who made this) was the curent tech to manager over 40 players and have the game running as expected doesn't yet exist. I sympathise with the guys building the game, having said that the game should have released back in 0.5/0.6 and given to the mods.

[@UnifiedEntity]

They need to: Fix. The. Damn. Physics.

[@POGCZ]

hopefully the game will have a good quest system. good inspiration is quite tarkov. The merchant doesn't give much if you don't fulfill the tasks and you don't have a good reputation. Thanks to this, PvP could also be balanced. I'll keep repeating myself, but he definitely has to disable reshades and the like... And there I'll put the possibility of color adjustment, plus the GPU app, but not night-to-day adjustment... Unfortunately, Tarkov bans me for this... I would also allow it mods and map editing and added different zimbies and mutants..... If you don't find changes, the game will be played like PUBG and any survival will be a completely useless implementation and in the final the game will die

[@tyl3r992]

Games going in the wrong direction they initially made the game out to be in my honest opinion

[@apeck100]

Rome wasn't built in day we have to have more patients this game will turn into a master piece once it actually gets near completion look at day z for example everyone had high hopes and the devs kept passing the game around like a joint 🤣these devs spent more time on this game then iv seen in awhile then with most companies

[@aliviper476]

With all respect, Ray, you are still too soft on the devs. They act like they care about the community and are willing to listen, but in reality, it's something else. This same issue happened in the Tarkov community, where the devs only took feedback from streamers and content creators, isolating themselves from their player base. It all went downhill quickly after that. SCUM has huge, massive core problems, and the loss of passion for this project from the devs is more visible than ever. They are responsible for SCUM as a finished project. They gained a lot of new and casual players with the past few arcade updates and massive marketing they did on Twitch. But that doesn't mean we, the OG players who bought into the original idea of SCUM, will tolerate what they have decided to do with this game, thanks to Jagex. I stopped reaching out to them and discussing the game since they're pushing the 1.0 release. Now, it's just a waiting game for many of us to not have the early access excuse and be able to share the truth with everyone interested in SCUM after 1.0.

[@GetnBrains]

1000% , if he says anything bad.. hes gonna be in the dawghouse with them and hes been here for a long ass time and doesnt wanna ruin that so close to launch which i completely understand but someone who holds power here needs to call them out big time

[@flash1259]

@@GetnBrains I don't know if it's true but, I've read that's at least one reason Luthais doesn't have an item in the game. I don't have an issue with the way Ray criticizes the devs.

[@anthonytsigonias]

Even DayZ fully launched and its a great game. We can stop with the low-budget copycats now and stick to the king

[@oceanaa967]

Why do I barley see puppets even when I set it to x10 they all hide in the bushes dosent feel. Real some shuld be wondering the streets

[@alexpena4091]

Would be cool if i stead of killing each other instead if the zombies we form a survival town whereaybe one group of players are hunters another group gathers junk to be ysed to make things a more elite group could do bunker runs for the benefit of the survival town etc etc would really be even more of a pve than it is now were we have to watch every where for a player ready to kill us and destroy our base

[@carlosj.c.d.9855]

You got lucky it was a normal puppet,for me it was tha bomb XD

[@rbgamecommunity]

My biggest issue with this game fighting with your hands and knives and other weapons apart from the guns idont like it from day one, in dayz and others zombies games fighting system is much better scum it is bit frustrating and irritating many people in my community feel the same pain, for the rest the game has potential

[@TheVirtuaStig]

I love how you guys refuse to acknowledge that the game is dying because the devs refuse to release the server files so I can host my own server without having to sell my kidneys to host one. P.S. Day Z has more players daily than SCUM.

[@P1DZz]

💯💯

[@GetnBrains]

the issue isnt the bugs, the issue is the simplicity of the bugs that worked fine before the update.... REVERT it back until ya figure it out FFS.. The lockers being empty by brennar should be INSANELY EASY 2 fix??? if not, revert it back to what it was until you figure it out???? Same with the building issues. EVERY part of this game has considerably gotten worse and worse every update! loot/lockers, zombies, building, PVP, raiding, stuff regarding the base, driving, flying, weird random noises that are 100x to loud and i can go on and on. the issue isnt that these things are being worked on and buggy, the issue is they are getting WORSE every update and take months to fix the simplest shit! how long could it possssibly take to fix the lockers being empty/not resetting for bunkers? that shit is beyond worrying!

[@klz-gaming]

The game is now boring O.7 was the best release, they need to let the modders at it for me thats the only way this will improve.

[@oynlengeymer2434]

I can deal with the weird puppet spawns. But jogging and a wolf just spawns in front of me (it was the sound in a bush , I turned away and it was on me in seconds) there was no pre-cursor warning like the howl. because they spawn in so close now. Melee on a hardcore server (any sever) against a broken wolf is impossible. They just stun lock you and your hits dont at all stagger them if you do land one, may as well be the shark if you only have melee. Miss the days of the wider spawns where we got a warning howl first.

[@CloudzGamingGG]

Haven't played in months. RIP scum.

[@SaltyFrank]

You don't seem to like the traders. How about if there's no more fame requirement to buy things, but the NPCs can only sell items that players have sold to them? A fresh server is going to have some bare shelves, but the NPCs could pay more for items they don't have in stock. Maybe have them have a lowest price they can pay after they get too many of any certain item. Prices wouldn't be based on the current server population, but instead on the current shop inventory. Maybe that would encourage more trades between players instead, but then you'd need an MMO style trade window feature at the trader towns. There are also never enough bicycles. I want to be able to carry a bicycle on my shoulder like we do with a log and be able to store bikes inside of larger vehicles. Imagine finding a bike frame and tossing it in your truck until you find some more parts.

[@flash1259]

You'd probably like the traders in No One Survived. Very little inventory. Their inventory only respawns at intervals you set. The loot in the game only respawns at intervals you set and can also set for no respawn. You loot a container and there's never anything in that container again. The game is also having its issues now. The vehicles and weapons aren't nearly as good as the ones in Scum. If you like very fragile vehicles and not very many accessories for weapons it might be for you. Even with the best protection my big 6 wheel truck almost had the protection destroyed by a zombie stuck by the drivers door. Since one of the latest updates they have added special items at the traders you can buy with zombie parts.

[@Mr_Solo_Dolo]

this game is dead before full release, it lost me about 3 updates ago. A new map may bring me back though whenever that comes.

[@bpehanek]

It woud bee cool to hawe in game , random cheasts and keys to open it ,something like helycrashes. Pupets need to hawe beter loot. And in general pupets are 80% of the game, the focus in pve is all on surviving pupets, and that is kinda boring .

[@takozvani1986]

It's not a pupets problem anymore it's a CHINESE!

[@TheDirtyGrinch710]

yo

[@RayKit]

Hey :)

[@TheDirtyGrinch710]

@@RayKit haha you said to drop a comment if we were their that long hahaha

[@ivek3940]

this game has taken a turn for a worse and for now is a steaming pile of dogshit that i still play hoping one day its gonna be better, when i could just go to dayz and have fun, they are making stupid decisions and adding unnecesery stuff

[@robertmu]

SCUM needs a shake-up. The game is heading in a direction it wasn't originally intended for. Why would someone fish on a full PvP server? There is absolutely no incentive for players to engage in farming, for example. Not selling marijuana is okay because of international drug trafficking issues, but why plant it then?

[@neckbone2045]

Their version of the horde system is awful

[@Static5233]

I just miss SCUM, before the map expansion... we all felt like it was minutes away from being amazing. It just feels like so long ago now and we have had so many detours. Over all physics/movement behavior for puppets,players,and animals have been very bad for a long time. Personally these should have been fixed before map expansion and traders... More hunting and farming less trading and raiding

[@TRESYKES]

The game is plain. i will repeat myself untill something changes. Its EASY game made HARD. There is no real threat so they made character out of paper. Also i cant force myself to move 57234 bricks and scrap and anything by mouse. Half of the time game is wasted in inventory managment. Game is time consuming without returning back too much. I have 1.5k hours before 0.7 I loved to learn the game and explore the map, later i was just getting on to chat with server. Also because community events like races and stuff. Game base is GOOD untill you know the map. 7dtd can be generated map, custom maps, mods. Cant wait for SCUM mods, thats it. DAYCYCLE SHOULD BE 4 HOURS MAX, or you log on to server after work on same daytime. P.S i want dog partner in game to follow me.

[@LtZorg85]

"beta", "not completed". 5 years now. I think it's the same scam like Starcitizen.