Thanks for your work, and looking forward to playing 1.02. I've had lag-hit issues on plenty of servers before, but I only play Necropolis on SP. I think it may just be a sync issue with the animations for climbers as you all have discussed. Not a big deal at all -- for now I just rely on arrows or traps to drop 'em.
For this version the difference is really small, I wanted this to be out and playable. I will scale it, the 50% reduction of vendors will indeed make the MP version easier to build with. I will scale the amount of zombies and rate at which they come for this mode for the next version, so at some point the difference will matter. Also its not only the first day thats changed, but you probably already know.I've tried both MP and SP versions. Here is the comparison.
MP:
I've bought leather made forge, bought workbench and chemistry made powder and pipe bombs. Made iron bars in forge. Bought some iron bars too.
Bought flagstone, made pole, made defence from it, upgraded to cobblestone. Nice. Made some fences in workbench. Helped a bit.
Bought 14 dynamite, yey!
The only thing i haven't got is mining helmet, but got night vision - ok too.
Result - first night survived. 6 pipe bombs left and some ammo for smg.
SP:
Leather - nope, flagstone - nope, workbench - nope, forge - nope, chemistry - nope, rebar frames - nope. Dynamite or other explosives - nope. Molotovs in general stock only lol.
The only useful for me that i found was mining helmet.
I bought 3 leather armor and scrapped to leather to make forge. Bought wet concrete blocks, built wall, upgraded when dry. Built another wall. Made plates from bricks and tried to use it instead of poles. Made iron bars in forge. Made powder myself, have made some pipe bombs before night.
Result - base dead. Not enough explosives and too bad defence. No pole - no life
So in MP with 4 vendors i bought everything i need to survive.
In SP - nothing was available from what i need. Bad luck? Sure, always
From what i saw, the only difference for MP is one more Stage of zombies. Like on first Night in SP it is Stage0 and in MP it was Stage1.
Total count pretty much the same.
In MP i've got couple puke and one fire puke. In SP i've got 2-3 puke and no fire puke. Difference is very small.
So if i choose what version to play, i would definitely choose MP. Even beacon is same size lol.
I just don't see any reason to choose SP version, even when playing solo.
By the way, how it will work with few players? Before it was beacon for each player and each beacon spawned 1 group of scouts each 4 minutes. So 4 players = 4 beacons = 4 spawns.
But now... 1 beacon, so zombies total count in MP and SP is the same? Regardless of players count? Or additonal player triggers additional scout spawn too?
Rabbit doesn't seem to disappear. I didn't test it deep though.
It seems there could be maximum 1 trader settlement inside each of necropolises (big and small). But there are also other cities without traders so... and i'm not sure is it possible that you will have a bad luck and will have no traders at all. But definitely there is a hope that you have traders out here
Yeah I would have sworn I added that ability, but seems I made a typo lol, I will fix that bug, thanksRabbit doesn't seem to disappear. I didn't test it deep though.I think npc also despawn like bandits etc.
Maybe the difference is how they were spawned. Entities spawned with prefab spawn block (like traders) may stay forever.
The ground is actually ok. If you place some plate (for example) on that asphalt, it becomes normal. Also if it was not asphalt but normal block instead, it would be ok too. Only that MP beacon is actually 21x20 and one side gets a gap when i change asphalt to concrete block in prefab. And there are small gaps on all sides of course, i wonder if developers will make smooth blocks + terrain connections...
I saw your asphalt has an ability to upgrade to concrete block. Well, almost has, there is strange cementMix item
Upgrading asphalt to concrete also helps, so now if i want normal explosions, i need to do the upgrade.
Yeah traders should be able to spawn in the cities, but they might not. But probably best to not worry about them until you actually do find one.
There is a known issue that the mod launcher for Windows 7 users does not download correctly from GitHub, I think SphereII has a way to fix that. I am not sure you are using that OS. If not there may be some other issue. I have heard more people have it. Make sure the Mod Launcher is updated as well. If it still does not work/ this isnt whats happening be sure to post this issue in the Mod Launcher thread. SphereII has a better chance to fix this for you than I do. If all else fails, you can download the mod directly from my Drive link in the first post. I will update it to the latest version this weekend when I have more time.
There should be a chest in the main asphalt area where you spawn, its usually behind you where the box should almost always spawn. There are a few seeds that may not have a correct city (it will spawn with elevation) or where there is only a road. If you notice this you should try a different seed (game name). You can use the preview tool in the game to see if your seed is correct, it will show a loop like road with a few squares between them that are the asphalt POIs. One should have beacon in its name if it spawned correctly. In a future version I will try and make it more intuitive and hopefully I can make it spawn 100% reliably. If it keeps failing for you, use cm in the console and then use the creative menu to get a beacon to place.
If you die in Horde Mode you lost, unless you are playing multiplayer perhaps.
The task is to protect beacon. If you blow yourself up with dynamite, it doesn't mean you're lost i guess. If you return to backpack and take everything back before zombies can breach - good then.