PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

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After watching the dev streams, there is a 100% chance that I will focus over half of my skill points on strength.  Madmole was doing well in Ep.1 and I know he focused strength.

A20 seems to be a step up in difficulty (I don't know what difficulty level they used, however).

Dying twice in a survival game (if the first time was a computer/program/interface thing) is always a delete save file and restart for me as believability is gone after that.

So, strength for my first go at A20.

 
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I've been contemplating my 1st go at A20 as well. My comfortable go to is usually strength, especially early game, but I'd like to switch it up some. 

Maybe with the addition of the pipe weapons, may make it easier to start in intellect or agility 1st?

Then again, It'll feel as if I'm cheating on my lover to go outside my comfort zone.....ah decisions....

 
MechanicalLens said:
I am in complete understanding that you meant no ill will, and apologies on my end for being blunt about it, but what I'm properly learned recently is even a random user or community member - in no way distinguished like modders or TFP staff - giving out their predictions can stir up some pretty nasty rumors; the butterfly effect and all that. A20 probably won't be out for a while, but I believe it's for the betterment of the dev team that no one says anything beyond that, and even then, "when it's done" does its job nicely.
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Then that's on users to calm it down. 

 
8 hours ago, bdubyah said:

I know it's been brought up before, but listening to JaWoodle moan about it for the millionth time made me think about it again. Has there been any change on balancing the tiers and quality levels of items at all? Just using this bit as an example:



 
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Outlaw_187 said:
I've been contemplating my 1st go at A20 as well. My comfortable go to is usually strength, especially early game, but I'd like to switch it up some. 

Maybe with the addition of the pipe weapons, may make it easier to start in intellect or agility 1st?

Then again, It'll feel as if I'm cheating on my lover to go outside my comfort zone.....ah decisions....
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Yup, I feel the hype train coming!  :)

I like the Strength/everything else in about a 70%/30% split.  Then a "Forget this" elixir, once I can get max INT for steel and a motorcycle if I don't already have one.  I play that for awhile if I have two sledge turrets, because too much fun if they are place just right!

 
Aldranon said:
there is a 100% chance that I will focus over half of my skill points on strength
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I don't know if there's any dev that's as actually good at the game as Madmole, and basically any min maxer at this game knows strength is OP AF including Madmole  lol. Many devs don't really play their own game that much / aren't very good at them, like last stream where they didn't even know what perk  tree spears were under, so comparing someone like Madmole to them is cheating

There's not really a way to play the game for long without strength imo. Food, sex rex, miner 69, motherlode etc alone justify the strength investment to at least 5 or 6, but it also has what is undeniably the best ranged and melee weapon in the game if you are going for a try hard run.  Basically any build has to go 5 strength just for sex rex and miner 69 and at least 2 points of food crafting

Strength has the best non combat perks, on top of the best weapons in the game. The other trees barely have 1 good perk each, if even that.

All Perception has is the wrench perk which is far from mandatory, lucky looter which is a noob trap, and then the rest are just optional. Agility basically only has Parkour and nothing else that's even good since stealth is so bad / doesn't even work on the most important day of the week. Int is the only one close to strength imo, with robotic sledges and the quest reward perk and better barter

 
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Khalagar said:
I don't know if there's any dev that's as actually good at the game as Madmole, and basically any min maxer at this game knows strength is OP AF including Madmole  lol. Many devs don't really play their own game that much / aren't very good at them, like last stream where they didn't even know what perk  tree spears were under, so comparing someone like Madmole to them is cheating

There's not really a way to play the game for long without strength imo. Food, sex rex, miner 69, motherlode etc alone justify the strength investment to at least 5 or 6, but it also has what is undeniably the best ranged and melee weapon in the game if you are going for a try hard run.  Basically any build has to go 5 strength just for sex rex and miner 69 and at least 2 points of food crafting

Strength has the best non combat perks, on top of the best weapons in the game. The other trees barely have 1 good perk each, if even that.

All Perception has is the wrench perk which is far from mandatory, lucky looter which is a noob trap, and then the rest are just optional. Agility basically only has Parkour and nothing else that's even good since stealth is so bad / doesn't even work on the most important day of the week. Int is the only one close to strength imo, with robotic sledges and the quest reward perk and better barter
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And this is why all of my playthroughs are mostly Strength or Other/Strength.

 
SpaceBound said:
Hello Survivors, im assuming that Halloween deadline to release Experimental Alpha 20 will not work, any update on release date? I cant wait to lay my hands on Alpha 20!!
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I have it on good authority (a shaman in Papua New Guinea) that November 26 will be the day.

On the other hand MechanicalLens has found out via a friend of a friend sitting in the Vatican that it will be November 19, but he wants to keep it a secret and tries to distract with talk about "nasty rumors".

There is a rumor that the G7 states have intervened and demand TFP to not publish before Dezember. I have no information whether TFP will comply to this.

A well respected medium tried an ouija board and actually came up with November 12, but reading of a goose liver revealed the ghost to be a prankster.

 
Roland said:
The population who absolutely loathe watching other people play games will eventually die out. The rising generation accepts it wholeheartedly and their children are sure to embrace it as well.
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I know you meant "play *video* games" here...  The thing I find ironic is that many of the people who make fun of the people who like to watch other people play video games on Twitch or YouTube, are the same people who sit on their asses in front of a TV watching football, soccer, basketball, and/or baseball for hours at a time.  I mean hell, there are actually people who watch *bowling* on TV.    :)

Everyone is different.  Celebrate that fact, don't hate on it.  (this last bit is NOT directed at Roland)

 
meganoth said:
I have it on good authority (a shaman in Papua New Guinea) that November 26 will be the day.

On the other hand MechanicalLens has found out via a friend of a friend sitting in the Vatican that it will be November 19, but he wants to keep it a secret and tries to distract with talk about "nasty rumors".

There is a rumor that the G7 states have intervened and demand TFP to not publish before Dezember. I have no information whether TFP will comply to this.

A well respected medium tried an ouija board and actually came up with November 12, but reading of a goose liver revealed the ghost to be a prankster.
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#This just in!!!#

The CCP has informed the United Nations they will invade the Fun Pimps as they say the Zombie wasteland is their rightful wasteland!  They will reconsider if TFP release A20 as soon as possible, and not one day after!

#That is all#

 
Will A21 be released this time next year? Also after A21 will A22 be the beta version? 

In a perfect world this game would stay in alpha for the next ten years always updating to give us new experiences. To me 7 days to die is like a Linux distribution. Never complete always upgrading, always changing. 

 
meganoth said:
I have it on good authority (a shaman in Papua New Guinea) that November 26 will be the day.

On the other hand MechanicalLens has found out via a friend of a friend sitting in the Vatican that it will be November 19, but he wants to keep it a secret and tries to distract with talk about "nasty rumors".

There is a rumor that the G7 states have intervened and demand TFP to not publish before Dezember. I have no information whether TFP will comply to this.

A well respected medium tried an ouija board and actually came up with November 12, but reading of a goose liver revealed the ghost to be a prankster.
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Im guessing all of your posts are this accurate? 🤣👍

 
@faatal I have a few questions about the Feral Sense Option:

1. The option is said to double the overall range of the entities (except Zombie bears, which you said they have a bit less than double for balance reasons) How much is it in numbers for a normal Zd/feral Zd/animal Zd ?

2. Does the range differ from entity to entity? Like normal zd: from 25 to 50 range with the option and a Feral zd from 40 to 80 or something like that?

3. Does the feral sense option apply only to biome spawns and random hordes or does it affect in any way for example an already awoken sleeper within a certain range?

4. Are living animals affected or only undead entities (including dogs and Zd bears) ?

 
Roland said:
"enough" is subjective and usually never satisfied.

"Way way more than we've ever had ever in this game after years of prefabbers already playing around making prefabs anyway" is objectively true.
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true true. As long as they decoration so we can make specific type of prefabs. Like if I want to make a true bank prefab it kinda needs an ATM decoration block.

 
I have a question about the A20 release.

Do you know if the server configuration is gonna change or stay as it is currently? (server config file)

Any new lines etc.

Also I want Pretzels, Poor pretzel Truck driver musta got eaten. 0.o

 
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