PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Open rear hatch, insert junk, fire load.

Huh, the turret and my mother both come with the same set of instructions.
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ha!

whats worse?

you said it or i laughed?

long and loud.

 
Possibly. Maybe when we get the special blood moon zombies they can be sturdier than the normies. The issue is people making trenches and zombies dying or turning them all into crawlers which makes the horde night a joke. So if we could do it to normal zeds it would be funny and cool, and it wouldn't matter so much if the horde zeds were more immune to things like that.
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from the time A15, i did a version of zombies that have come on the nightHorde and not lose his legs on spikes. The solution is simple and working.

 
///// a17 was a rough launch and that isn't good for anyone.
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That's true....It is a pity that for all these shortcomings and scandals have hidden from discussion and praise - the big work that was done for the birth of A17.

I think all this will recompense in A18, right? ;)

 
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Possibly. Maybe when we get the special blood moon zombies they can be sturdier than the normies. The issue is people making trenches and zombies dying or turning them all into crawlers which makes the horde night a joke. So if we could do it to normal zeds it would be funny and cool, and it wouldn't matter so much if the horde zeds were more immune to things like that.
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Could you make Zeds "ragdoll" once they hit the ground? Just to not see them fall from 10 meters and land on their feet like gravity is a joke to them.

 
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Have you ever played Plants vs. Zombies? The solution to your problem is right there! ;D
When the players have so many tools and freedom to build all sorts of defensive structures, eventually the zombies must adapt as well...!

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/plantsvszombies/images/d/da/HDLadderZombie.png/revision/latest?cb=20141002004324
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Yeah I love the original. That is the idea with various new zeds coming at different game stages to keep hordes challenging without adding 15000 zombies on screen.

 
I just wanna throw this idea out there. What if we got rid of all "Quality" items in the game? Purple, green, yellow, etc., and instead implemented a system that automatically adjusted the quality for the player based on their build? For example if a player is speccing into an archery build and they have max perception, when they find a compound bow the the game automatically attributes it to the player as a Max quality/Purple quality bow. This would be ONLY while being held by the player. In other words, the "quality" of the weapon would be only as good as the player's ability to use it. That means no early farming for stacks of Dukes to quickly buy high level gear and be OP by day 3 Then that way, there wouldn't be any reason to have 6 different copies of the same item in the game's data registry. We could even have a similar method for armors, and other non-weapon items.
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You are confusing skill with quality. We have both systems. Deleting quality would just further diminish the reason to go loot, something nobody liked about A16.

 
Hello, Joel!Can you please tell if there will be forest biome rework/optimisation for making this biome spawning more plains? As far as i know, plains are now forest's subbiomes. After playing a lot of A17 i noticed, that there are a lot of trees in the forest biome, sometimes i can barely see new POI's. To be honest i miss those green grassy hills.

Best regards to you
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I'm waiting for a size probability on sub biomes so we can add plains to forests and deserts, and have generally thinner trees in the forest with patches of thicker areas. Good for performance and visuals.

 
I'm waiting for a size probability on sub biomes so we can add plains to forests and deserts, and have generally thinner trees in the forest with patches of thicker areas. Good for performance and visuals.
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that sounds awesome

 
I'm waiting for a size probability on sub biomes so we can add plains to forests and deserts, and have generally thinner trees in the forest with patches of thicker areas. Good for performance and visuals.
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Yeah, whatever happened to the Forest biome and the plains biome? Were they removed in Alpha 17 for a particular reason?

 
@madmole a query of the 11 weapons that brings A18 are 11 different weapons? or are the total with the stone-metal-steel?

example

stone spears +1

metal spears + 1

steel spears +1

Total 3 weapons already?

or are 11 totally different weapons without counting their evolutions?

I hope you understand my ugly English

 
Yeah, whatever happened to the Forest biome and the plains biome? Were they removed in Alpha 17 for a particular reason?
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Performance, more precisely, to take some strain off the terrain shader.

Updated: Just spotted the custom tag-line &lt;happy dance&gt; :-)

 
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Performance, more precisely, to take some strain off the terrain shader.
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Oh I see. I kinda missed the plains biome though, considering that Arizona does have places like the plains. The forest was an okay biome but didn't have much distinction, especially since they added pine trees into those forests in A16. I hope they make a comeback, as they looked really cool.

 
Thanks for the update!Small question; 140 schematics.. Does that mean you've added 140 new items to the game? Or are most of them 'old' items but locked behind schematics?
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Mostly old stuff that was given with a perk, is now a book or schematic to unlock it so you don't have to buy the perk. We're trying not to force anyone to have to have any one particular attribute.

 
That's true....It is a pity that for all these shortcomings and scandals have hidden from discussion and praise - the big work that was done for the birth of A17.I think all this will recompense in A18, right? ;)
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I'm hoping so. I feel pretty warm and fuzzy about the designs, but until the rubber meets the road, its hard to tell. I'm planning on playing like today or as soon as I can cook RWG. It's not all there obviously but strength and agility builds should be 100% so I'll try one of those.

 
Yeah, whatever happened to the Forest biome and the plains biome? Were they removed in Alpha 17 for a particular reason?
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The constant struggle for texture memory and they didn't really have a clear purpose. We wanted to redo all the trees and redoing them was going to be a lot of work for very little return. One really good forest is better than two mediocre ones. Spectrum swapping, why is this forest colder than the other one, just a lot of stuff. Its nothing a sub biome can't handle better once we get larger sub biomes.

 
New junk turret model: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7NIttxUcAAaiYF?format=jpg&name=large
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Joel, each weapon now has several types of ammunition. I propose to add to this tour such ammunition as small stones and POTATO! )))

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