PC Alpha 21 Dev Diary

[beerfly]

I see. Thanks ! 

But, what happens if one of them steps out of this square inch ?

 

[Survager]

I hope the bandits will sit by the fire, play the guitar, tell stories about zombies and jokes )

 

[meilodasreh]

If a bandit loses a fight with a zombie, could they "turn" into a zombie bandit?

Yes! And when a bandit loses a fight against another bandit, he will become a bandit bandit!

...wait...that doesn't make any sense at all!

Let's just stay with what you said.

 

[Nevergrey]

I hope the bandits will sit by the fire, play the guitar, tell stories about zombies and jokes )

And contrary to the guys in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. you will even understand what they say.

 

[Matt115]

I hope the bandits will sit by the fire, play the guitar, tell stories about zombies and jokes )

I hope they will work just like minecraft pillagers 

 

[Morloc]

I hope the bandits will sit by the fire, play the guitar, tell stories about zombies and jokes

Arch-Necromancer Morloc

 

[wolfbain5]

any plans on opening up some new hotkeys? well the option for players to customize a few more. personally getting tired of the nvg and the flashlights being on the same button.

 

[faatal]

Maybe have 4 Bandits being the most to spawn for an encounter and turn off further zombies spawns due to noise or feral sense attraction to avoid heavy performance hits.  Also scripted bandits ambushes instead of sleeper spawns in certain POIs would be interesting.

@faatal About Graphic APIs, have TFP consider DX12 for performance boost instead of Vulkan, since Unity has issues with Vulkan ?

Sure, I've looked at it, but it works about as well as Vulkan in Unity. Unity is supposedly making a push to improve DX12 support. I saw it on their roadmap. Maybe next year.

 

[Laz Man]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510073218442403852

 

[Beelzebubs Ghost]

35 minutes ago, Laz Man said:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510073218442403852

What's this? It obviously can't be an April fools joke - not on the 2nd of April anyway...

Just curious, regarding A21 - any news from any developer on more fire based weapons?

Or does anyone know how to mod fire arrows to inflict indefinite burning? 

Thanks.

 

[Red Eagle LXIX]

@Kinyajuu

Something nice I noticed on A20 that I hope gets a bit expanded in A21:

RWG Generated Worlds, mapinfo.xml now contains the seed originally typed to generate the world.  This is great for those who forgot what they input.

<property name="GenerationSeed" value="Eagle's Nest" />

However, without the values of the settings used it is still missing information necessary to recreate the world.

Hopefully in A21 we can also get a record of all the setting used (ex plains, hills, mountains, random, rivers, lakes, craters, cracks, towns, wilderness POIs).

Also for A21, it would be nice if the generator copied/saved a version of the rwgmixer.xml used with the generated world (similar to how saves create a config dump for the XML files).

 

[unholyjoe]

@Kinyajuu

Something nice I noticed on A20 that I hope gets a bit expanded in A21:

RWG Generated Worlds, mapinfo.xml now contains the seed originally typed to generate the world.  This is great for those who forgot what they input.

<property name="GenerationSeed" value="Eagle's Nest" />

However, without the values of the settings used it is still missing information necessary to recreate the world.

Hopefully in A21 we can also get a record of all the setting used (ex plains, hills, mountains, random, rivers, lakes, craters, cracks, towns, wilderness POIs).

Also for A21, it would be nice if the generator copied/saved a version of the rwgmixer.xml used with the generated world (similar to how saves create a config dump for the XML files).

the good news is... 

 

[Kalex]

The number of bandits that are spawned at any one time. Say a bandit takes x2 the performance of a zombie, then I would not want more that half of them in the world compared to the number of zombies a computer can manage and still have a reasonable FPS. Now that does not mean the world will have bandits everywhere. That depends on game play goals. I would like bandits to be rare, because this is a zombie game and 99% of the population is dead or a zombie.

zombies and bandits are going to fight each other right?

 

[Blake_]

@faatal do you know if RWG 'generation speeds' will be faster in a21 or if there are any changes taking place to have maps process faster in any way for the new alpha?

 

[Outlaw_187]

Haven't heard anymore about the new outfit system. Is this still a thing or did it get scrapped? 

I'm trying to keep an open mind about it but a part of me is hoping it's scrapped. The more customization we have the better. 

 

[Kinyajuu]

@Kinyajuu

Something nice I noticed on A20 that I hope gets a bit expanded in A21:

RWG Generated Worlds, mapinfo.xml now contains the seed originally typed to generate the world.  This is great for those who forgot what they input.

<property name="GenerationSeed" value="Eagle's Nest" />

However, without the values of the settings used it is still missing information necessary to recreate the world.

Hopefully in A21 we can also get a record of all the setting used (ex plains, hills, mountains, random, rivers, lakes, craters, cracks, towns, wilderness POIs).

Also for A21, it would be nice if the generator copied/saved a version of the rwgmixer.xml used with the generated world (similar to how saves create a config dump for the XML files).

Already way ahead of ya there
A21 genned map contains these
<property name="Generation.Seed" value="" />
  <property name="Generation.Towns" value="Default" />
  <property name="Generation.Wilderness" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Lakes" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Rivers" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Cracks" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Craters" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Plains" value="6" />
  <property name="Generation.Hills" value="0" />
  <property name="Generation.Mountains" value="0" />
  <property name="Generation.Snow" value="4" />
  <property name="Generation.Forest" value="7" />
  <property name="Generation.Desert" value="4" />
  <property name="Generation.Wasteland" value="3" />

 

[AtomicUs5000]

Will the "Random Event Manager" see any work in A21?
I am picturing walking down a road and seeing a small horde of zombies munching on some dude until they notice something fresher.

 

[Red Eagle LXIX]

Already way ahead of ya there
A21 genned map contains these
<property name="Generation.Seed" value="" />
  <property name="Generation.Towns" value="Default" />
  <property name="Generation.Wilderness" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Lakes" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Rivers" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Cracks" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Craters" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Plains" value="6" />
  <property name="Generation.Hills" value="0" />
  <property name="Generation.Mountains" value="0" />
  <property name="Generation.Snow" value="4" />
  <property name="Generation.Forest" value="7" />
  <property name="Generation.Desert" value="4" />
  <property name="Generation.Wasteland" value="3" />

Oooh, do I see biome values there?  Does that mean we can adjust them?

 

[Roland]

Oooh, do I see biome values there?  Does that mean we can adjust them?

Yes, and thanks to Kinyajuu's confirmation I updated the first page. This feature is in fact already in and I generated a map yesterday that had a teeny tiny speck of forest surrounded by all the other tougher biomes.

 

[Blake_]

Already way ahead of ya there
A21 genned map contains these
<property name="Generation.Seed" value="" />
  <property name="Generation.Towns" value="Default" />
  <property name="Generation.Wilderness" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Lakes" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Rivers" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Cracks" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Craters" value="None" />
  <property name="Generation.Plains" value="6" />
  <property name="Generation.Hills" value="0" />
  <property name="Generation.Mountains" value="0" />
  <property name="Generation.Snow" value="4" />
  <property name="Generation.Forest" value="7" />
  <property name="Generation.Desert" value="4" />
  <property name="Generation.Wasteland" value="3" />

That is amazing. With that level of control we can create some custom wonders in a minute. Thank you very for coming by!