PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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madmole
Refugee
I never cheat items in. I have 3 ranks of lucky looter, so luck + perk investment, so I hope I got extremely lucky or lucky looter perk is getting nerfed. It will take more looting to know for sure.level 6 AK at day 7....luck or cheating?
If luck I'm glad to see we can find high level weapons early on
The worst cheating I do is rarely teleport to get my stuff when I die a long ways from my base and there is no chance of getting it because of ferals deep in tier 5, like I died at dusk and I don't want to drive a full real time hour to get my things. Considering I could use the option "drop nothing" on death I don't feel like its cheating, but like I said in my 100 hour previous game I might have done that twice fairly early on. Normally I go get my stuff the hard way.
madmole
Refugee
Yeah I saw that. I blocked it off with spikes and my cheese ramp had most of them coming up that. I've never made a cheese ramp before, but they were jumping the gap (2 meters) so that was a surprise, I took a few pieces off (I didn't upgrade the frames) and they were still a few making the jump occasionally. A few were around back messing around, but most of them stayed out from underneath. Later on a couple got in there but I jumped down and rekt them since the main horde was over.
I just posted where I'm building, its beautiful
I was SO happy to get out of the snow biome.
madmole
Refugee
We'll see we once the base 18 plays nice we can talk about it. To me it was always just a pain in the ■■■, like we already have jerks sandwiching you in pois as is, I don't know if its even needed. I mean it had its moments for sure, it just makes you do more prep storing your stuff in boxes.
madmole
Refugee
Its just an idea gaining traction, not on the roadmap yet. We hired a guy highly recommended by Faatal, so perhaps he will do it or work with Faatal to make it happen. Bandits first probably.The maxAlive can definitely be gamed that way, but the way I see it, if they're coming in from the outside while you're trapped inside, or if they're inside coming at you while you're surrounded, it's the same experience. Hella'fun.
I know, I know, dead horse, but at least my way you aren't bored outside.
Who's in charge of the targeted encounter code? I assume faatal? He hasn't steered us wrong yet so definitely something I'm looking forward to.
I think you are going really have even higher faith in him when 18 drops, 17 was like core job done, lots of great framework, 18 is like making a game with all that engine for 10 months, the difference is night and day, just loads of little polish things that can't be noticed until you play.
falloutcloud
Refugee
Happy birthday and grats on the key! That’s a very nice gift
madmole
Refugee
You need to just start massaging that rusty part of your brain to think in abstracts.
Like once you learn a bit of the level tricks you know theres loot behind paintings, sometimes safes are under couches, etc. Now imagine the perk says "I've committed to studying where people hide their BEST ♥♥♥♥, like a compartment behind the safe, etc" and abstract that into finding better stuff. At the end of the day its like your 10 levels higher. Your going to find that stuff eventually, you just find it a bit sooner.
I've never used it until now. Still finding loads of brown, and there is a chance to find pink at level 0, but its slim. Its slim late game too just not as slim
Blake_
Captain Obvious
Fact: You will miss it. (2 to 8 bugs left by Friday 20 current speedy rate).
I would love to see you tweak mid-late game with the perception/int build, so the best thing for us common folk is an October 2 with Madmole playing his game.
(--runs away in the distance with a huge Neon "Off topic" sign post--)
ZombieSurvivor
Banned
oh....roger now it all makes sense. Thanks for explaining that
madmole
Refugee
There is an xml command that you can add that bypasses the animation, you can see it on the new books in the book videos. Its there for a reason, if you can spam eat a bunch of things or spam heal with a bandage It kind of removes too much pressure from the player. Waiting to bandage is good for game play because you can't fight back while you are bandaging and it adds tension.
Mechanimal
RangerRedd
Nice, man the game really does keep looking better and better, anticipation boosted even more.Yeah I saw that. I blocked it off with spikes and my cheese ramp had most of them coming up that. I've never made a cheese ramp before, but they were jumping the gap (2 meters) so that was a surprise, I took a few pieces off (I didn't upgrade the frames) and they were still a few making the jump occasionally. A few were around back messing around, but most of them stayed out from underneath. Later on a couple got in there but I jumped down and rekt them since the main horde was over.
I just posted where I'm building, its beautiful
Jumping a 2x gap eh, was that normal before? I always kept such gaps at 3 or more, but although I never built ramps like that, I did work similar methods into a few POIs I modded for horde night which basically did the same thing. If they managed to get so far along the path made, which rarely happened, they would fall and have to start over. So same principle.
Sounds like you kept them out from underneath, not so ■■■■■■■ 1st horde night. The one time I used that POI was actually in an MP game, it was beyond night 7 and there were 3 of us up there... so tons more Z in total. They clumped up below and were taking out our floor. Good times. At the end of the night we noticed our neighbors still up top and this noob girl one-shot it in the face the nano-second we took the door down. Twas memorable, wish I hadn't had coffee in my mouth when it happened, my poor keyboard.
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