PC A20 Developer Diary Discussions

Fanatical_Meat said:
Personally I believe we will see an A20 experimental/highly unstable playable build by the end of August.
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We have to launch the game first and see by ourselves, the game won`t be perfect at any sense as experimental build.

Devs have not planned any big changes in the game engine or mechanics. I`m pretty sure quite a few people have already tested the latest game build behind closed doors. Most of the confirmed changes deal with visual enhancements, game-stage/biome balance. Amazingly shocking blunderbuss is going to be replaced with more content. Better map generator with custom elements/objects created by PIMPs will be available, mods and so on. Only God, SKYNET, devs, and people involved know what is to be expected... something tells me we are already testing at least a chunk of stability for A20 with A19.5 version...

 
TWORDY said:
We have to launch the game first and see by ourselves, the game won`t be perfect at any sense as experimental build.

Devs have not planned any big changes in the game engine or mechanics. I`m pretty sure quite a few people have already tested the latest game build behind closed doors. Most of the confirmed changes deal with visual enhancements, game-stage/biome balance. Amazingly shocking blunderbuss is going to be replaced with more content. Better map generator with custom elements/objects created by PIMPs will be available, mods and so on. Only God, SKYNET, devs, and people involved know what is to be expected... something tells me we are already testing at least a chunk of stability for A20 with A19.5 version...
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unholyjoe said:
please send me the winning loto numbers for june 2021. :)
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Fanatical_Meat said:
Sure

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you both don't bother with timeline. last time when you done something like this snowdog won , bought tfp ( i won't tell details but it was a kinda hard deal in new vegas), and he change 7dtd into zombie porn tyccoon ( i know how it sound but it was one the most "normal" thing what he done)

 
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Fanatical_Meat said:
Personally I believe we will see an A20 experimental/highly unstable playable build by the end of August.
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I'd be incredibly surprised.

The vibe in the forums is that the hype train is sitting cold and the train crew is at home sleeping.  Once we see a dev stream again, the train will start warming up.  Once the A20 streaming applications thread goes up, we will probably be a month out.

Or they could be keeping it a huge secret and exp will drop Monday.

And maybe Elon Musk will show up at my house with a free Cybertruck Plaid.

 
Roland said:
Experimental versions aren’t great for a long term game anyway
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What is even the point of a "long term" save anyway, do people really stick with one save long enough for experimental updates to matter? I usually just play one save until I hit end game and have an established base etc, then get tired of raiding the same Shotgun Messiah and Shamway and take a month or two break then come back and start again. The funnest parts to me are honestly when you are leveling up and still have a reason to actually explore and find new items and upgrades and things are still a danger etc

What would you even do if you just kept playing one save long after having a horde proof base and having full build and items lol

 
Fanatical_Meat said:
Personally I believe we will see an A20 experimental/highly unstable playable build by the end of August.
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probably end of  October or early November or even going into December  but the only answer is its done when its done is what i can assure 

because with all the new features they are adding they need to take extensive tests to make sure everything is functioning as expected and that may take a long time but im not a game dev so my view may be not fully valid.

 
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Khalagar said:
What is even the point of a "long term" save anyway, do people really stick with one save long enough for experimental updates to matter? I usually just play one save until I hit end game and have an established base etc, then get tired of raiding the same Shotgun Messiah and Shamway and take a month or two break then come back and start again. The funnest parts to me are honestly when you are leveling up and still have a reason to actually explore and find new items and upgrades and things are still a danger etc

What would you even do if you just kept playing one save long after having a horde proof base and having full build and items lol
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Its called zamping (posh zombie bashing + camping) mode.  Derived from Glamping (glamorous camping)...😅

 
Khalagar said:
What is even the point of a "long term" save anyway, do people really stick with one save long enough for experimental updates to matter? I usually just play one save until I hit end game and have an established base etc, then get tired of raiding the same Shotgun Messiah and Shamway and take a month or two break then come back and start again. The funnest parts to me are honestly when you are leveling up and still have a reason to actually explore and find new items and upgrades and things are still a danger etc

What would you even do if you just kept playing one save long after having a horde proof base and having full build and items lol
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for me i try different things when i hit end game etc. exploring my ability to build bases and see how they hold up against hordes or just have some fun like levelling dishong tower and then...regretting that because your fps tanks for understandable reasons but i just have a lot of fun with this game since in a18 i had a world which was on day 106 with 60 minute days its just each to their own people play differently im currently on a a19 save and im on day 60 i did have another one from experimental but that got corrupted eventually 

 
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Khalagar said:
What is even the point of a "long term" save anyway, do people really stick with one save long enough for experimental updates to matter? I usually just play one save until I hit end game and have an established base etc, then get tired of raiding the same Shotgun Messiah and Shamway and take a month or two break then come back and start again. The funnest parts to me are honestly when you are leveling up and still have a reason to actually explore and find new items and upgrades and things are still a danger etc

What would you even do if you just kept playing one save long after having a horde proof base and having full build and items lol
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wife and I have a long term game, we look up the population of an area, and that is our target zombie count before we call an area cleared.

 
In a19 coop. as party leader and host, I kept getting a bunch of conditions on first hit, yet the rest of the party rarely got any. also in coop as the server if I was in stealth and that chopped down say a burnt tree or opened a trash can. they could be 300 away and still it was my stealth meter that moved from 19 to 82. even tho I was standing still. The reverse tho is not true. my actions do not affect their stealth.

now that I set up a dedi server, these issues no longer exist, it is only in coop steam server that this happened. we tested every tree type and trash can. their actions no longer affect me. and I am also no longer getting 3-4 conditions on a single hit.

Has this issue for coop been addressed and corrected in A20?

 
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wolfbain5 said:
wife and I have a long term game, we look up the population of an area, and that is our target zombie count before we call an area cleared.
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What area? A county in Arizona that encorporates mostly Mojave Desert vs one that has Phoenix could result in two very different lengths of games.

Greenlee County: 8600

Maricopa County: 4.6 Million

 
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