PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

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Dear developers, perhaps @faatal or @madmole, will there be blocks with particles in the game? Or just additional visual effects, for example, sparks from faulty electric lamps, steam from an air duct, smoke, drops from a pipe in some basement? In addition, to enhance the atmosphere of the post-apocalypse, I think it would be interesting to see some blocks with animation - wobbling lamps, curtains that move in the wind, slowly rotating fans, and so on. The animation on the trees looks great, I would like to see something similar in the houses. Are there any plans?

 
Occasional random zombie with a mining helmet would be fun during horde night.

see them running around outside in the dark, the get into the building and the random light moving around would be a fun sense of danger or panic.

 
Gazz said:
Yes. Torches are an example of blocks with particles.
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I understand that torches, burning barrels, body bags with flies, forges, etc. are blocks with particles 🙂 I mean, will there be more of them? And will it be possible to put, for example, flies separately from bags?

 
Games'n'Grumble said:
Dear developers, perhaps @faatal or @madmole, will there be blocks with particles in the game? Or just additional visual effects, for example, sparks from faulty electric lamps, steam from an air duct, smoke, drops from a pipe in some basement? In addition, to enhance the atmosphere of the post-apocalypse, I think it would be interesting to see some blocks with animation - wobbling lamps, curtains that move in the wind, slowly rotating fans, and so on. The animation on the trees looks great, I would like to see something similar in the houses. Are there any plans?
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In the creativemenu there are two blocks that release smoke. One in white and one in black. A friend and I built a room with forges and connected them with large pipes that goes through the roof. There we stacked two stone blocks and on top of that this smoke block. and damn does it look like a perfect chimney and I love this detail. This made our base 100x better. Sadly it doesn't have a hitbox and is still a bit buggy sometimes. The wall of our base randomly starts to smoke when the animation begins but that stops after a few seconds so no problem^^

I hope this blocks is craftable in a20 or somehow can be bought from traders. That would be awesome^^

 
In the last 3 patches the corefeature was canceled. The content was announced but close to release of the patch comes a message it wont be in it.

The giant zombieboss, the bandits, the flying drone.

Additional awaited NPC system and pets/follower, survivor rescues, build a NPC village...

Can you give a sneak preview to any of this contents? Will any of this things be in A20?

The last patches are pretty good but the gigantic cherry on the cake was stolen! What happend to it?

 
playlessNamer said:
In the last 3 patches the corefeature was canceled. The content was announced but close to release of the patch comes a message it wont be in it.

The giant zombieboss, the bandits, the flying drone.

Additional awaited NPC system and pets/follower, survivor rescues, build a NPC village...

Can you give a sneak preview to any of this contents? Will any of this things be in A20?

The last patches are pretty good but the gigantic cherry on the cake was stolen! What happend to it?
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Giant Zombieboss: Cut from the game. Won't be included ever in this game.

The Bandits: Will not be in A20 but the player animations as well as the new models for the NPCs in A20 are all more steps towards bandits.

Flying Drone: Ready to go for A20. Won't be postponed again.

NPC system: If you're talking about reputation or the random encounter system then there is no word on when or if those systems are coming to this game at this point.

Pets/Followers: Replaced by the drone. The drone is the evolution of the pet/follower idea. There will not be other pets or followers in the vanilla game other than your faithful drone.

Survivor Rescues: No word on when or if such a feature will make it into this game. The stretch goals mention NPC characters (which could be fulfilled by bandits) and merchants.

Build NPC village: Most likely not happening for this game. This feature was mentioned as a dream feature by Madmole but is not listed in any of the original goals. What is listed is an NPC controlled safehouse.

There are lots of things the developers would love to do beyond the scope of their original goals that will become part of their next game. Their focus is on getting this game finished so they can achieve some of these dream features that couldn't quite make it for this game into the next one. 

 
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I want to see these things!

tier 0 AR, solder zombie, New hunting rifle and Marksman rifle, and Tier 0 rifle 

 
Roland said:
Giant Zombieboss: Cut from the game. Won't be included ever in this game.

The Bandits: Will not be in A20 but the player animations as well as the new models for the NPCs in A20 are all more steps towards bandits.

Flying Drone: Ready to go for A20. Won't be postponed again.
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Sounds sad, instead of powerful enemies and raiders, we will get a flying smart homemade drone in the non future zombie post-apocalypse. All those robotic things looked weird. 

What's next? Space satellites with death rays and teleportation devices?😁



 
bachgaman said:
instead of powerful enemies and raiders, we will get a flying smart homemade drone in the non future zombie post-apocalypse.
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You do realize that A20 is not the end right? 😀 It is simply the next step forward and this particular step will not have raiders. But that doesn't mean TFP have replaced raiders as an enemy with drones as a follower in their overall plan. You just have to learn to enjoy each new step as it comes and then you won't be prone to so much sadness. Also the game is set in the 2030's in an alternate reality so drones fit just fine.

Finally, the trailer you reference shows Days 1-7. If that is the way you want the game to play then simply start over as soon as Day 8 rolls around and you will always play in the environment and tech level that you feel the game should represent by that trailer.

 
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Adam the Waster said:
Some new things :D


I want to see these things!

tier 0 AR, solder zombie, New hunting rifle and Marksman rifle, and Tier 0 rifle 
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Atm looks soo good i hope on some of them will be bloody hand

And i hope there wil be jokes on tombstones like : " Here rest Johny Stell wood , he was (unreadable) but fortunnatly he is dead" , " 1878 - LT. Michael Pierce- Rest in Pieces. If anyone found rest of his blow up body parts bring it here!" , " Here lies - Emilly Jefferson. She was rude as witch. She burned with her house. Case? we don't think so"  , "Here lies a John Werned - thief , liar and handsome man. When he was hang - Navgane mans were happy but their wives less" "Here rest Tom. He loves Marry. He saw her so he felt to the river with his minibike. Love kiling my dears" , " Here lies Jeff . Jeff is dead.  We hope so  at least".  " This grave belong to Carl Willson the worst mayor of this town.  We prey he will never comes back"

 
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