PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary
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saltychipmunk
Refugee
p.s. What the hell happened to the price of video cards!?? I knew they'd gone up, but these things are more than double what I paid two years ago. Thanks for nothing Bitcoin!
bit coin farmers really arent whats going on anymore. the fact of the matter is that the demand is too high and they are simply selling for what the demand is.
And one thing to consider is that you can do far more with a gpu than just mine bitcoin or play video games. hell we are already on track to get to a point pretty soon where we actually wont have enough energy production on the planet to handle all the computing going on.
Jost Amman
Hunter
Yeah, but you didn't explain WHY demand is up... I know the answer, but I can't tell you here because it'd violate the forum rules.
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FranticDan
Survivor
I'm loving the new Prefab mechanic of pressing a button or picking up the house key and it OPENS the door, my complaint is that the door remains LOCKED. Why? Can this please be changed so they get unlocked as well?
At the very least, the house door key should unlock the door.
At the very least, the house door key should unlock the door.
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Ricowan
Refugee
This is the best alpha so far, great work!
I'm on my first play through still, on the morning of day 7. I've found a cooking pot, two grills, and the bacon and eggs recipe twice. I've found at least four acid, sold them all to the trader. I play self-enforced hardcore, so no deaths yet. I've been infected twice, but I have plenty of honey. Lots of food, but eggs are too rare IMHO. I have two stacks of meat waiting to be turned into bacon and eggs. Wolves and a bear. I'm playing mostly strength with some other trees scattered in. Melee all the way, I don't have any kind of long-range weapon, only found a level 2 pipe shotgun on day 5, which works fine for most things. I sell off *everything* I won't use immediately so I can afford some of the rarer items from the trader. I bought a forge on day 6. Still LOTS of pois I haven't explored yet within a km of my home.
Looting everything in site, doing about one trader quest per day, I don't seem to have any issues. Random is random though, I might just be lucky with this map. I have a good horde base set up so we'll see if this playthrough will continue past day 7. I didn't know about the reward pack after 10 quests so I might do more of those now.
My only complaint is that the trader I spawned next to on day 1 is Rekt, and I can't forking stand that guy!!!
I'm on my first play through still, on the morning of day 7. I've found a cooking pot, two grills, and the bacon and eggs recipe twice. I've found at least four acid, sold them all to the trader. I play self-enforced hardcore, so no deaths yet. I've been infected twice, but I have plenty of honey. Lots of food, but eggs are too rare IMHO. I have two stacks of meat waiting to be turned into bacon and eggs. Wolves and a bear. I'm playing mostly strength with some other trees scattered in. Melee all the way, I don't have any kind of long-range weapon, only found a level 2 pipe shotgun on day 5, which works fine for most things. I sell off *everything* I won't use immediately so I can afford some of the rarer items from the trader. I bought a forge on day 6. Still LOTS of pois I haven't explored yet within a km of my home.
Looting everything in site, doing about one trader quest per day, I don't seem to have any issues. Random is random though, I might just be lucky with this map. I have a good horde base set up so we'll see if this playthrough will continue past day 7. I didn't know about the reward pack after 10 quests so I might do more of those now.
My only complaint is that the trader I spawned next to on day 1 is Rekt, and I can't forking stand that guy!!!
DominionZA
Refugee
Dynamic music system doesn't work in A20, just me? Just silence all the time, despite it being on. no combat music, no exploration
faatal
Fun Pimps Staff
faatal
Fun Pimps Staff
I've not seen that. Can you try it with Dynamic Mesh disabled or Mesh Distance shorter or Land Claim only on?
BFT2020
Hunter
Day 2 - Survivalist, Feral Sense on all the time, a wandering horde detected me in my base (I think it was because I was opening chests to make pocket mods).
I survived....though I don't feel like I did
https://imgur.com/a/Zo70fZQ
The horde size was larger than I would expect on Day 2 so I think my fighting / them banging on the walls brought in more that were curious.
Loving Feral Sense
I survived....though I don't feel like I did
https://imgur.com/a/Zo70fZQ
The horde size was larger than I would expect on Day 2 so I think my fighting / them banging on the walls brought in more that were curious.
Loving Feral Sense
ssrjazz
Refugee
I have had this same issue. Looking at the center of a large city will drop the frame rate into the 30’s and 40’s on my 2080 super even when running @ 1080p60 with gfx quality set to medium and motion blur disabled. Look away from city center and it is back to 60fps. Will try experimenting with the suggested tweaks
icehot
Refugee
Yes same here, when I first load the game I'm getting between 100 and 120 FPS on the outskirts of the city, even looking in. But after a couple of hours of play it drops to around 80 fps, also start getting stuttering even though the FPS is still in the playable range.
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BlashaKente
Refugee
Hmm didn't see functional stations removal in the patch notes, thanks for letting us know! I was about to go on a hunt for a workbench so I could craft an SMG (bought recipe for 2.5K dukes on day 7).
A nerf that WAS in the patch notes however was Honey from stumps and good lord y'all were not messing around! Outdated wiki states 40% drop chance, looking in block.xml I see:
<block name="treeStump">
...
<drop event="Destroy" name="foodHoney" count="1" prob=".2"/>
Am I reading this right the chance is down to 20%? Feels more like 2%. Chopped maybe two dozen stumps before getting honey but may be bad luck.
All great changes. Most of the fun for me is adapting to the game so long as the challenges feel fair and surmountable.
Long live the primitive age of Alpha 20!!
madmole
Fun Pimps Staff
Blackstrap uses gunpowder not acid.But how am I going to sustain my blackstrap coffee addiction now? Regular coffee ain't STRONK enough, bro!
dcsobral
Survivor
Well, third party as in I wrote it. It is publicly available on github, though it does take some technical expertise to install and use. If you are up to it, https://github.com/dcsobral/seedGen
An alternative would be to not allow decoration on the trader protection area. That way there wouldn't be anything to clean up.
madmole
Fun Pimps Staff
Na, it's not a bug. Infection comes from wolves too and they aren't zombies.Maybe a bug?:
Uninfected bears can infect you.
If that's how its suppose to be, will chickens and rabbits get you infected or just anything that bites?
If its in the air, does beathing air have a chance of infecting you? That would make the gas mask head piece the most important thing in the game.
Suspicious behavior:
Two vultures waited until I started reloading then BOTH attacked immediately. I had waited for them to come in for about 15 seconds, as they were attacking the out hanging right above me.
That was an anti-fun moment.
As in not conducive to enjoyment.
As in "Trollish" behavior (for a modern vernacular).
The answer is, of course, to play the "Circus" theme song during all combat.
dcsobral
Survivor
Does anyone use recog or fort bites? Has anyone crafted recog or fort bites? It feels like there's no reason to ever go above Physician 1, and even Physician 1 is a stretch. Steroids is good but loses most of its value very early in the game. Fort Bite is just not good enough for its downsides and cost, and Recog is pretty good but awfully expensive. Comparatively, grandpa moonshine is also very expensive but it is worth the cost. Higher level Master Chef brings way more benefits than high level Physician, which is truly strange when you think about it.
madmole
Fun Pimps Staff
I'm not sure if it was done but I told them to make steroids debuff all broken leg movement penalties so it has late game value. Maybe that didn't make it in?
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