PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[madmole]

I think what Madmole was talking about, food poisening and barfing, is a great idea. It'll be another thing, even though small change, that makes the game a bit more challenging. I'm always down for that.

I played for hours and didn't barf. Not going to knee jerk and change it though until we gather more data.

 

[ZombieSurvivor]

You could have just bought a USB Sound Blaster or something and used your current headset. That is what I had to do when my home built pc had the same issue with onboard sound. The mic would not pick up anything.

Thanks for the tip. I did not know that was a thing. These head phones are now going on 3 years old and i'll be needing to buy another so your advice is greatly appreciated

 

[madmole]

Oh snap I did not know you were a veteran. I am as well. I served in the Army from mid 2006-december 2010. Wassup brotha! Its always weird saying this to another brother in arms but thank you for your service . Its weird between brothers I know lol, I like to still say thank you just incase a civy has not thanked them in while. I'm assuming you served in the Navy?
Man I ate some MRE's that were dated back in the early 90s. That scared me the first few times lol..I was like yo this cannot be safe! Those MRE last forever I tell you what.

I remember when MRE's were invented, I served from 84-92.

 

[ZombieSurvivor]

I remember when MRE's were invented, I served from 84-92.

*fist bump* respect brother! Thank you for your service. I doubt you older cats get thanked enough once years pass since your service.

EDIT: You guys had some awful MRE's back in the day. They have come a long way since then, and i guess they have gotten even better since I got out in 2010.

 

[madmole]

I would also like the animals to be tweaked. Far too many of them. Within the first week you have a meal (well, meals) fit for a king and all his servants.

No can do, I hear a wide variety of stories about this, Faatal couldn't find an animal to save his life, and stooped to buying the animal tracker perk, where I have hundreds of meat stacked up, and then there is multiplayer to consider.

 

[Amanitasec]

Release the Kraken!

 

[MechanicalLens]

No can do, I hear a wide variety of stories about this, Faatal couldn't find an animal to save his life, and stooped to buying the animal tracker perk, where I have hundreds of meat stacked up, and then there is multiplayer to consider.

Come to think of it... Fair enough, fair enough.

 

[Roland]

I’ve had a few of each type of game where there seem to be no animals and then the other type where there are bucks and does and boats having orgies. Random is best so every game is a bit different. Sometimes you’ll have excess and sometimes that will be the big early game struggle. Variety.

 

[Roland]

Release the Kraken!

Do you have a jar of sand? This kraken is not to be messed with....

 

[MechanicalLens]

I’ve had a few of each type of game where there seem to be no animals and then the other type where there are bucks and does and boats having orgies. Random is best so every game is a bit different. Sometimes you’ll have excess and sometimes that will be the big early game struggle. Variety.

It's funny, I was having a long conversation about half an hour ago where I mentioned the word "variety" several times. You've convinced me. Good day, good sir.

 

[Amanitasec]

Do you have a jar of sand? This kraken is not to be messed with....

I have a jar of starving hope. I need to put some nourishment there. A18 seems to be perfect

 

[madmole]

Country road, bring me home... to the place I belong! :music:

Hah, yes the cool vibe without the disastrous release I hope

 

[unholyjoe]

I have a jar of starving hope. I need to put some nourishment there. A18 seems to be perfect

<chokes while drinking coffee from new 7dtd cup>

its the unseen things that are not perfect. those sunzaguns wont stay down

 

[ZombieHorde]

I think you can go to the locked symbol thee it should tell you what requirements need to be met

Ah, yes, there it is. Although that then makes the 'error' (why I can't skill to that yet) incorrect. The lock says that I need Intellect 5 and Level 25. Well I unlocked level 6 of Intelligence before, however I'm only on level 18.

Madmole's been pretty good with the forum lately. I wonder if he'll take note of this for the fix? Not a MF bug, though. Just one to fix whenever.

 

[Trankitas]

Hehe nice work!
Take your time with the release.. I started playing the Witcher 3 last week.. That'll keep me occupied for a while.

Great game, enjoy!

 

[ZombieHorde]

If you eat food, you can only heal up to the shadow bar. (The shadow bar is damaged health, thus effectively reducing your max health).To remove the shadow bar, use medicine which gives max health.

That's not what I'm seeing. I've eaten food and my health remains at 56/100.

In fact, I just took painkillers and the buff says 2m, but my health remains at 56????

Or are painkillers not 'medicine' in this case?

The higher the resistance, the better you can tolerate the heat/cold. So more is better.

Ah, so it's resistance. So if the temp is 120F and my desired temperature is 80F and I have a hat that gives heat resistance of 10, then I need to find some more clothing that gives me heat resistance of 30?

Again, this doesn't seem right because everything I'm seeing as a positive heat and cooling resistance. If I put on a jacket, I'd expect it to add to my discomfort in the heat?

 

[hotpoon]

I saw that someone said "smart zombies aren't immersive" a week ago.
1. Zombies aren't real anyway and can vary.

2. We have to be challenged somehow in an ever-changing voxel world.

3. The game can not support the number of dumb zombies to make the game equally difficult.

4. Since when is having smart A.I ever a bad thing?

I'd rather have the game be dynamic and a challenge where the zombies hunt you than mindlessly blow away brain dead zombies just because the developers had an idea what zombies are supposed to act like. Resident Evil 4 had "zombies" shooting guns and talking. I kinda prefer that more than zombies because it brought more to the table.

From A12 to A15 the game had plenty of dumb zombies and ran better. A16 introduced sleepers which sounded great on paper, but I think could have been implemented better, but still had plenty more dumb zombies than A17 and ran perfectly fine.

If the game can't support lots of zombies now, then something else should be cut in my opinion (even graphics) because gameplay is more important.

 

[ZombieHorde]

I also found the new stamina/health system confusing at first and I'd had it thoroughly explained to me beforehand.
There's something about it that's either counter-intuitive or poorly communicated which is making it harder than it should be. I've no idea exactly what part is confusing nor what could be done to make the information easier to comprehend. There's an issue here, I just don't know what it is goddamit! If it's an issue for a veteran what hope does a n00b have?

YES! Exactly. I like the system...even though I don't understand it. But what I don't like about it is that I don't know why I'm not gaining health through food or painkillers.

 

[hotpoon]

Read the ingame journal on those topics?

As a web designer by trade, I'm always making sure that my arrogance of what I think works best doesn't get in the way of user friendliness. Nobody wants to (or should need to) to read help files. Nobody had to read help files to figure out what to do in previous alphas because the whole system was logical. Now it's not, and that is why the same questions keep popping up.

 

[ZombieSurvivor]

YES! Exactly. I like the system...even though I don't understand it. But what I don't like about it is that I don't know why I'm not gaining health through food or painkillers.

The block bar represents the cutoff point for max health. The more your max health drops the longer that black bar gets.

easy way to restore max health is use regular bandages. this will not give you health but will restore max health so that you can use other things to restore your actual health back up.