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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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I just charged in through the room of an apartment building. Inside were several ferals, military soldiers, cops, and regular zombies. I was cocky, I admit it. "You're all gonna die!" I bellowed with sheer arrogance. Ten seconds later, I was trying to escape as they cornered me, and I was laughing (but almost crying), "I'm gonna die...! :( "

Classic me.

Don't do what I do.

 
I believe I can fly. *Singing* I believe I can flyyyyyy
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This has only happened to me twice so far, feels so random and out of nowhere.

Second time I was on the motorcycle, so it's not just the bicycle and minibike.

Now let's see if it ever happens in the jeep. Anyone?

 
Sounds like a bad design then. ;) Seriously though, if you think its essentially a waste, why keep it?
Oh don't confuse my personal tastes for what I think is a great perk to have in the game. I slowly like to make my games harder and harder for additional challenge, like Skyrim I turn up the difficulty, added survival mods, weather mods, combat mods etc. I feel more reward for overcoming impossible odds.

So I design perks people that I think people will like. Like if I ever get down to 25% loot, maybe lucky looter will feel essential then. I personally would rather wait to see good loot and spend perks on smashing heads faster. I can level and have lucky looter for free, so I think its a waste. Kind of like saving money and buying an expensive item with cash, its a waste to pay interest on payments. My pragmatic nature I suppose.

My fort build I didn't buy one lucky looter perk and it was my favorite game. I didn't get a minigun until level 50+ I think. I had an amazing ak so that had to do.

My next game was perception and I bought 3 ranks of it I think and it seemed to change the economy and I felt like I was shorted the fun of grinding my way up naturally.

My current game on day 21 with a q2 double barrel shotgun. Its a piece of crap but its all I have :D The trader had a q3 pump but I passed on it, I thought I'd get something better by now but I haven't. But I have more fun scrounging than having it all handed to me. It feels more rewarding I guess, Im in it for a 100+ hour game so I don't want it to feel over at 50 hours because I have all the great gear already.

 
Honestly, I do my best to never visit a trader, and by that I mean the only reason I go there at all are the quests. I *HATE* being about to just "buy" something. I get some people like yourself, like them. But... I wish there wasn't the reliance being put on them that there is.
Maybe someday rwg can disable them for people who don't want to do them. A mod perhaps. Or a mod that beats up their inventory to just basic crap materials like fishing weights and q1 crap, some clothes, more like a crappy garage sale.

 
I just charged in through the room of an apartment building. Inside were several ferals, military soldiers, cops, and regular zombies. I was cocky, I admit it. "You're all gonna die!" I bellowed with sheer arrogance. Ten seconds later, I was trying to escape as they cornered me, and I was laughing (but almost crying), "I'm gonna die...! :( "
Classic me.

Don't do what I do.
You should have ate your fortbites! You could have told a different story.

 
I just charged in through the room of an apartment building. Inside were several ferals, military soldiers, cops, and regular zombies. I was cocky, I admit it. "You're all gonna die!" I bellowed with sheer arrogance. Ten seconds later, I was trying to escape as they cornered me, and I was laughing (but almost crying), "I'm gonna die...! :( "
Classic me.

Don't do what I do.
stealth is the best way to play this game. I was looting a weapon factory and on helicopter pad there are about 10 zombie. I shoot arrow (been level 4-5 only) and kill one at a time, standing at same position to kill all. Never have to walk or run from position. But a slight mistake like using gun will get me killed for sure as couple of them were feral.

 
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@MechanicalLens

Question when your bike goes flying, is this happening on single player, multiplayer (if multi are you host or client) or dedicated server? Are you the only player on when this happens?

 
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If you figure out a repro.... let us know please. Are you hitting a specific object?
Nope, I'm just travelling along the same flat path I have done a hundred times, and it happened randomly. It's happened twice now; spawned in a repair kit and first aid kit for obvious reasons. :) I fear there is no way to reproduce it though, since one second you're travelling on flat ground you've driven on many times before, the next you're hundreds of blocks in the air and screaming like a little girl. :( (Well, that's what I assume others do. I never scream; I only sing catchy tunes or phrases.)

But if I do find a way to reproduce it, I'll be sure to let you know first thing. :)

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Which is why we slowed leveling and removed level gates :) The game is great now :)
That I cannot deny. :) Trust me, not reaching end-game by day 18+ feels awesome. I can actually get invested into a world.

 
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@MechanicalLensQuestion when your bike goes flying, is this happening on single player, dedicated server? Are you the only player on when this happens?
It's happened twice to me; single player. It's happening to a lot of other people, too. I don't know about multiplayer though.

 
It's happened twice to me; single player. It's happening to a lot of other people, too. I don't know about multiplayer though.
awesome just what i wanted to hear. Bug hunting time, yeah baby! let the fun begin.... I was able to reproduce vehicles going haywire in A17 see if I cannot come up with steps to repro this flyin' MF (motherf***in) bug. :)

 
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Ah, I know you are having fun, just wondered how it goes in similar config as we have.The "radiator" bug is indeed only in desert, don`t wanna speculate any ♥♥♥♥, devs (Kin - high five!) made RWG look fantastic and its just the beginning.

Gonna use this bug btw, will build a horde base in the middle of it and watch demolishers having a harsh time :)

Got an auger book on day 8, already made one, some sweet diamond mods I have learned from books will help, too.
Yeah there are some positive points for the new rwg, but i don't know if it's such an improvement over a17. I'm thinking of the same biomes in the same layout on every map. And the cities are all squares.

 
Argh hit the sort button on your pack its killing my OCD, and my OCD is super mild lol.
No, with actual OCPD, using the sort button would trigger you because both the order and placement is automatically wrong.

I don't use the sort button because it puts items in a completely arbitrary order instead of keeping the food/drink items in the lower right corner or whatever is "right".

 
No, with actual OCPD, using the sort button would trigger you because both the order and placement is automatically wrong.
I don't use the sort button because it puts items in a completely arbitrary order instead of keeping the food/drink items in the lower right corner or whatever is "right".
So many games do inventory "wrong". =) But yes, essentials, things you wan to keep in your pack, always go in the bottom right, since everything new is always dropped in the upper left. Much easier to keep track of things that way.

 
The only place where auto sort is useful is in pre-sorted chests, like ones that only have food items. There I can see it being beneficial.

 
Maybe someday rwg can disable them for people who don't want to do them. A mod perhaps. Or a mod that beats up their inventory to just basic crap materials like fishing weights and q1 crap, some clothes, more like a crappy garage sale.
What I'd like to see for them are basically a few levels of configuration:

TraderWares

0 = No Traders

1 = Crap stuff for resources

2 = Ammo and weapons

3 = Schematics

4 = Books

etc... so I could set them to whatever type of thing "makes sense" for my game. I get you aren't redesigning them now (or possibly ever), but it'd be a nice change. You'd of course have to have a way to do all the quests otherwise, as I do think they are cool. I just don't like them tied to traders.

 
I know this is just fluff, but I have noticed this texture error across every single apartment building I've visited in my world; nowhere else does this texture issue show up. It's beside the stairwell in the parking garage.

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