[Suggestion] - Wood Cutting

[Korbi Dallas]

Been playing Epoch for 2 months now and we all love it, props to you devs for breathing new life into the game.

 

Anyways to get to my point, we were discussing how many endless hours we spend cutting wood for crafting and thought is there a way to add a new toolbelt item a CHAINSAW. Make it like a generator where one has to fuel it up and it cuts down a random number of trees before running out reduce the animation by a third ex. 15 to 5 for larger trees? Or instead of giving you 15 wood piles give you 7 lumber substituting wood piles for lumber when using a chainsaw reducing the animations by half? That way also saving time from converting wood piles to lumber! We think it would be an awesome tool to add in game to save everyone time and add more immersion to epoch :D . IRL it takes 2 experienced men an hour to cut down and dress a large tree with axes, whereas, one man with a chainsaw can do the same job in ten minutes.

Also is it possible to add in a chance for tools like axes and knives to break like crowbars and toolboxes?

[Joganaught]

I sure hope they add the chainsaw, i don't see why they wouldn't. They could even make it to were you can craft one. Also hope you may use it as a weapon, be funny to chase zombies with it. Be messy :D

[Gostrydr]

There are already a few topics about adding chainsaws, and Awol said in one of them that they are considering it.

We may actually do a chainsaw... 

 I hope they do  ;)

[Gimmic]

I do feel like a chainsaw could be reasonably balanced.

 

Chainsaw:

+ Improved melee damage

+ 1/3 tree chopping cycles

+ Improved damage against wooden walls

- LOUD unmuffled two stroke

- Requires jerry can / fuel

- Heavy

- Uses weapon slot

- Requires scrap maintenance?

 

 

Plus it would be fun to chase a newspawn with a chainsaw.. now we just need a hockey mask outfit..

[Sli]

Plus it would be fun to chase a newspawn with a chainsaw.. now we just need a hockey mask outfit..

 

That's some sick banditry right there!

 

This has to be implemented as a sort of 'weapon' item that takes up a primary slot and slowly consumes jerry cans rather than magazines in order to be used. It wouldn't be the same if it was just a toolbelt item that you right clicked on to activate, or right clicked to 'remove from toolbelt'. Can we get a lumberjack outfit to match?

[Shizweak]

Some players on our server where discussing the same thing, in the end we ended up adding lumber packs to the store because the amount of time people put into cutting trees to build wood floors was negated by the fact they could be destroyed with pretty much any heavy weapon in a matter of seconds (or even crashing a helicopter into a steel roof, would destroy the wood floors below).

 

I think the chainsaw would be a great addition, with an extremely loud noise - it would make you think twice about using one close to any populated area!