PC A20 Developer Diary Discussions

I bet Fataal would love to answer questions all day.  Unfortunately he also has a ton of work on A20 right now so most of us are okay with him answering our questions when he has the free time to do so.
I thoroughly agree.  If only there was a job title for someone who managed social media for the devs, passing messages back and forth in a clear and concise way.  Some sort of social media... manager?

That's funny. I hope you were joking there. I would never trust a millennial with something as grossly simple as washing the dishes, let alone managing a community.
Unfortunately not, if you're looking for someone too scared to lose their shot at "the big time" to argue back with forum rats then anyone over 30 has likely become too jaded and contrarian to do it, myself more so than others.

 
Unfortunately not, if you're looking for someone too scared to lose their shot at "the big time" to argue back with forum rats then anyone over 30 has likely become too jaded and contrarian to do it, myself more so than others.


Sorry, but in my book, experience comes first. But I suppose we can agree to disagree on that.

 
This is an overflow area for things not considered relevant to the development.  It's literally an area set aside for irrelevant discussion.  placing or leaving anything in here denotes it as to be avoided by the devs so they don't have to search through crap for questions.  

Why would a dev come in here?
Who can guess why they click on any particular thread in the forums? But they do

read around and mostly lurk when they do other than posting in the dev diary.

It took three weeks and me


Why give three weeks ANY credit....?

 
n2n1 said:
this is better... i didn't like "glowing speederman"

Now i like three new models. Stripper, dog, and burnt.

Gaser/gazer ... or whatever his name is - it looks bad. The old "guy in the Hawaiian shirt" is nicer.

Why do these screenshots appear on the forum after the "social networks"? The developers do not consider the forum to be the main platform anymore?
thats cuz i find them first and post them. or someone else does. Madmole ill wait for my paycheck (dukes only)

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MechanicalLens said:
The amount of people spreading the false rumor online that Alpha 20 will be releasing within the next month or two is insane. Could any member of TFP staff confirm this is not true? Concrete evidence is needed if I'm going to clear this up with anybody so a direct quote would be nice.
Probably started with them hearing a target of “Spring” from a dev or dev stream.  Trust me on this one - NOT gonna happen.

 
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Probably started with them hearing a target of “Spring” from a dev or dev stream.  Trust me on this one - NOT gonna happen.


Not to mention I've seen plenty of smaller creators (not going to mention names) all hinting at, "A20 is probably not that far off." Well, they're just setting themselves up for disappointment. *Shrug*

 
Who can guess why they click on any particular thread in the forums? But they do

read around and mostly lurk when they do other than posting in the dev diary.

Why give three weeks ANY credit....?
As you and I both know the forum rats tend to get more rabid the longer the devs stay away.  Why do they get more agitated?  Largely because they don't know when, or indeed if, the next interaction will take place.

Keen Software House, for all of their flaws, had something good going with "Update Thursday".  Of course, being Keen, they tried to post regular game updates at the same time which was a horrendously stupid idea and gave me no end of amusement watching the same bug get fixed and unfixed on a regular basis.  Regardless of that, the weekly update thing was good, all it takes is a single sentence from each department about what they're working on, possibly the occassional amusing anectode.  Do that once a week on a regular day and it'll help the community feel more included and less like a puppy with separation anxiety.

This would likely make your job much easier and slow down the rate of posts being shovelled out of the way.

 
So would posting in a relevant thread. Moderation comments and how they are handled is NOT relevant to a development thread... You're proving the point more and more each and every off topic comment you make in this thread.


Agreed. At this rate a new thread should be created that specifically holds criticisms against moderators and the dev team. The thread would be nicknamed "trash".

 
Agreed. At this rate a new thread should be created that specifically holds criticisms against moderators and the dev team. The thread would be nicknamed "trash".
I disagree. Criticism should be always allowed, even and especially if you don't agree.

As long as the discussion remains healthy it should never be "trashed"; redirected if OT? Yes, but never trashed.

 
MechanicalLens said:
The amount of people spreading the false rumor online that Alpha 20 will be releasing within the next month or two is insane. Could any member of TFP staff confirm this is not true? Concrete evidence is needed if I'm going to clear this up with anybody so a direct quote would be nice.
If I understand correctly, Richard said something about it at 1:31:30 on video. Yes, this is all "not official", but you yourself asked where such rumors come from :)



 
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1 hour ago, Games'n'Grumble said:
If I understand correctly, Richard said something about it at 1:31:30 on video. Yes, this is all "not official", but you yourself asked where such rumors come from :)



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He is being WAY overly optimistic, he is a glass half full kind of guy. The forecast since a17 is 10 months from stable to stable give it or take (June 2021 rings the 10 month bell) . Experimental might come sooner but expect June Stable IF they don't go nuts (we benefit when they do ). Still a few months from now though. Hold the Kraken train.

March Experimental is just not gonna happen unless they severely cut corners, and that would be bad for us and bad for them because of bugs. In the meantime Alpha 19 is a blast to play either way.

 
archergod said:
From experience on A19

Are there going to be any adjustment in tools. I feel like Impact driver is kinda worthless. It take too much stamina for automatic tool and animation (though is good) but appears to be taking more time to do job. 

Similarly I used a Ak47 Quality 6 and M60 Q1, the aiming and hit ratio of M60 is way better than AK47. 

Sometime, I hate animation when I aim on Zombie Body (chest) when in bunch of 3-4  and fire a bullet and can see bullet been missed and hitting at my AIM pointer on ground [through zombie body] and zombie get no hit. I mean either the bullet goes in different angle, but if projectile is through body why it doesn't hit.. Aim in this game is just random number. Often hitting a distance zombie (at 12-15block away) is more accurate then hitting one in 3-4 m/block distance.


AK 47 is tier 1 of automatic weapons, M60 is tier 3. So this is to be expected

Shooting follows RPG rules (this IS an RPG game). Look at the crosshairs when firing. If the target fills only 50% of the circle your crosshairs form your chance to hit is only 50%. Hit or miss is then determined by pure chance.

The size of your crosshairs is determined by accuracy. Which can be increased by mods, weapon quality and perks I think.

n2n1 said:
Why do these screenshots appear on the forum after the "social networks"? The developers do not consider the forum to be the main platform anymore?


Has been done this way for a looong time. Since the pictures drop here shortly after forum viewers are considered to be well informed.

 
So after 3 playthroughs I've been getting a little bit used to the regular old 7D2D formula I do believe. To shake things up, I've made a few adjustments for my next playthrough. ;)  I'll be calling it "Nyctophobia". Settings include 90 minute days, Warrior difficulty, Nightmare speed at night / Walk during the day, no air drops, no loot respawn, default everything else. Standard stipulations include a ban on curing infection with honey and very minimal interaction with traders. As for the "nyctophobia part"? 12 hour day cycle and 12 hour night cycle. I'll also be upping zombie dog spawn rates as well as replacing some forest night spawns with feral cops, feral wights, and feral soldiers. I'll also ban myself from raising the gamma above 10. Should be interesting. ;)

 
What are the chances of solar panels ever showing up? Or potentially the ones we find on top of buildings being able to be hooked up and functional?

 
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