PC V2.0 Storms Brewing Dev Diary

[Arma Rex]

Hello Again! The 2.0 Storm's Brewing Dev Stream, Streamer Weekend, Experimental and Stable are all coming soon. Schedule Below.View attachment 34441

It looks like they changed the ground texture to burnt grass with a bit of building rubble. Good choice, having the ground primarily rubble looked weird, especially the mountains.

 

[Adam the Waster]

It looks like they changed the ground texture to burnt grass with a bit of building rubble. Good choice, having the ground primarily rubble looked weird, especially the mountains.

I noticed some small green grass too

 

[faatal]

It looks like they changed the ground texture to burnt grass with a bit of building rubble. Good choice, having the ground primarily rubble looked weird, especially the mountains.

Yes. Some of us, myself included, hated the rubble everywhere.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Tho I do like the rubble I think the wasteland looks much better due to it.

 

[Grandpa Minion]

hello
does anyone have a link to the 2.0 streamers on new forum?

 

[EvilPolygons]

Yes. Some of us, myself included, hated the rubble everywhere.

The current texture used for the wasteland has never made sense as a primary biome texture, imo. So I'm glad that's changing. But I hope you guys are keeping the terrDestroyedStone block itself because it's great for decorating POIs.

 

[Laz Man]

Yeah, I figured it was a non-starter from a performance perspective. The thing that takes it right off my wishlist, though, is your second point there. In my head I was kind of conceptually locked onto the idea that a player would be inclined to duck into a POI to escape the effects of a storm, and that it would be fun if the storm could have alternate ways of making that shelter spicier than expected. Additionally, the limited number of T5 POIs means I've run through all of them so many times that I kind of yearn for the game itself to change them up.

But if storms are frequent (and I kind of suspect in the wasteland they will be) then that would just turn every (wasteland) POI into a dull slog.

Mainly I'm just excited for what storms are going to bring to the game, and kind of wondering out loud how they could be leveraged by modders to bring some wild additional chaos.

Apart from the new T5s, the existing ones have all been have updated with new tech. which in some cases drastically changed how some of them play.

 

[Laz Man]

I'm going to go insane if I don't get more 2.0 news soon, SOMEONE LEAK SOME PATCH NOTES OR VAGUE HINTS AHHHH

There are lots of new item icons...

 

[Laz Man]

There's a lot I'm looking forward to in 2.0, but improvements to wilderness road generation are at the top of the list. Probably because I'm weird, or OCD, or whatever. But those ugly, buggy terrain malformations at POI RoadExits have kinda ruined RWG for me lately. I really hope those are gone for good.

I think road exits are improved but there might be some edge case bugs yet to squash.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Another round of those? Ok

There are lots of new item icons...

Hope the iron icon looks better like a peice of raw iron and then scrap metal or something.

Any new decor???

 

[Laz Man]

It looks like they changed the ground texture to burnt grass with a bit of building rubble. Good choice, having the ground primarily rubble looked weird, especially the mountains.

Good observation!

 

[Laz Man]

Another round of those? Ok

Hope the iron icon looks better like a peice of raw iron and then scrap metal or something.

Any new decor???

Yes, but not sure if available outside of creative mode. Maybe can ask during the dev stream.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Yes, but not sure if available outside of creative mode. Maybe can ask during the dev stream.

Damn always keeping a brother down lmao

 

[faatal]

The current texture used for the wasteland has never made sense as a primary biome texture, imo. So I'm glad that's changing. But I hope you guys are keeping the terrDestroyedStone block itself because it's great for decorating POIs.

It is still there and still used, but the terrain slope rule that made it show were removed and now it only appears as part of the biome decorator random block choices.

 

[KirillWright]

Yes, but not sure if available outside of creative mode. Maybe can ask during the dev stream.

It would be nice to bring back the sawmill from A17 and let us craft all the decor there

 

[Space4Ace]

It would be nice to bring back the sawmill from A17 and let us craft all the decor there

Sawmill? Do you mean Jack's Lumbermill?

 

[Laz Man]

It would be nice to bring back the sawmill from A17 and let us craft all the decor there

Isn't that one still in the game? I think it was updated in a previous alpha. It's a wilderness POI.

 

[Mungo]

Before we had the on-the-fly block menu, we had to use a tablesaw like a workbench to craft specific shapes. It's still in the game, but just decorative.

 

[Oip]

Will there be any new ambient SFX for being inside shelter during a storm, like hearing rain on the roof/windows or hearing howling wind through the walls?

 

[Space4Ace]

Before we had the on-the-fly block menu, we had to use a tablesaw like a workbench to craft specific shapes. It's still in the game, but just decorative.

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So that's what he meant; the table saw and not the sawmill like he wrote.