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will it ever be possible to make Long Rifles less dominate in raiding? I find it hard to defend my place from these nerdowells!

Sure. It's just a tricky thing to balance.

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Have you ever played Five Nights at Freddy's?

I haven't. Horror games don't really have any effect on me, so I tend not to bother with them. I spend most of my time with games that are based on mechanics rather than themes.

Will The Last Stand: Dead Zone be the last game in the series or will we see more of the series in the future?

I've learned something in the last few years. Never say never.

You seemed versed in the Song of Ice and Fire, or are you an Unsullied GoT fan? Either way, we should defiantly get some Valyrian Steel weapons.

I haven't read the books, so I guess I'm Unsullied. I am a fan though, I even have a Hodor t-shirt.
Valyrian Steel, check.

does DMU= more unis/rares? to clarify, i understand that it doesn't affect quality drops directly (just like looters), but i would like to see the numbers so we can put this debate to rest. Do DMU users scavenge proportionally more/less/equal amount of them to non-DMU users?

Running more missions will result in more loot. That's the only difference.
Non-DMU users can run just as many missions if they want to spend the fuel.

What kind of music do you like? Any good pump songs for when you're not having a good day?

For travelling around music: Amon Amarth, Lamb of God, Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Slayer, Genghis Tron etc. That and a fair bit of D&B, Dubstep nonsense, Dirtyphonics, Skream, Nero, Sub Focus.
For working music I mostly listen to soundtracks. I've had the Mass Effect 3 OST on repeat for the last few weeks.
On bad days, Sub Focus comes to the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3QfMQE5cg0ConOfTheArtist’s Video 118044859911 K3QfMQE5cg0ConOfTheArtist’s Video 118044859911 K3QfMQE5cg0

Is there a nerf to quality loot when you've covered a lot of areas on the map? There is a theory that a "fresh map" is better for finding uniques, which was implemented to combat uni farming by DMU users.

Nope. Just coincidence.

So who are all the devs and what do they do. If I recall, I think Steve is a programmer and so is Sev and Tom. Who are the other 2.

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Me - Designer / game director
Steve - Programmer
Sev - Programmer
Lisa - Artist
Simon - Artist
Tom - Production stuff, level design / audio etc

Would you consider adding better craftable LRs, similar to the bue FAL schem, but for each LR to make raiding more accesible?

Not really, considering I really don't like the fact that Long Rifles dominate raiding at the moment.

How many levels below mine can I loot without suffering a loot quality/quantity penalty?

It's been a long time since we implemented that. I'm going to say it starts kicking in around 5 levels below.

Add on to keyboard shortcuts question: I could put together a proposal on forums with bunch of keyboard mappings that would really help with micromanagement and concentrate on the gameplay if the answer is positive.

Sure, that'd be great.

Do you prefer making smaller flash games, or making something as massive as the Dead Zone again?

I think from here on out it'll only be larger games. I've got 6 people in the company now so we need to do larger things to get by.
What's funny is, Dead Zone for it's initial release only took 6 months. The Last Stand: Union City was 18 months in development. It helps to have people helping it turns out!
I do like making smaller games, but even my "small" games end up being large projects in the end.

Do you have a beard and do you guys have beard growing contest in November if you guys grow beards.

I do have a beard. I think I'd lose a beard growing contest to Sev. Pretty sure he shaves every 6 hours.

What is your opinion on people who use that chat? Normal or weird?

It's normal to want to communicate with people who like the same things as you.

So since the premium boxes were added, I haven't gotten any other types of boxes to drop. Is this intended?

Yes. New premium and regular boxes will start next month.

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