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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Me any my grave digging bike

I just built a bicycle and was heading out North in Navegane to pick up a supply drop that landed in the snowy region near Perishton. the supply's landed in the mountains just East of the town and so I got off road to go there, but got stuck in the foothills. So I got off my bike and dug out the steep snow that was blocking my path.

Meanwhile my bicycle didn't like the ground it was sitting on so it started digging it's own hole. I turn around and the thing's dug a hole three blocks deep. I had to jump in after it just to get it to stop. As you would expect, the hole was like walls. So I had to pick up my bike and dig my way out.

Pouring rain and freezing, I got out and made my way to the supply's.

 
Hey Madmole, what about adding a treasure zombie? :-D

One that only attacks on horde night. But also is a random spawn outside of horde night that runs away.

:-D

With a Gamestage adjusted loot table too!

Zombie Pimp. lol

His wandering horde would be feral strippers.

 
Hey Madmole, what about adding a treasure zombie? :-D
One that only attacks on horde night. But also is a random spawn outside of horde night that runs away.

:-D

With a Gamestage adjusted loot table too!

Zombie Pimp. lol

His wandering horde would be feral strippers.
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THIS IS GENIUS.

Really, a zombie you have to chase to get great loot? Incentive to leave your base on horde night? A pimp? Zombie stripper body guards?

This is all way too good not to be in the game.

 
THIS IS GENIUS.
Really, a zombie you have to chase to get great loot? Incentive to leave your base on horde night? A pimp? Zombie stripper body guards?

This is all way too good not to be in the game.
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lol. It'd be fun. Though I was thinking he'd be in the final wave or two of horde night to encourage dropping out of your base and grab his loot bag.

When it's not horde night, you have to chase him as he runs away while brawling with his harem. lol

 
How many have you been in to backup your assumption that people are going to build a load of wagons and leave them to rot? :-)
How are we defining apocalypse? A decent war? No wagons after WW1.

A natural disaster? Not many wagons after Fukishama.

Plague? Ebola doesn't cause people to spontaneously build wagons.

I can see wagons fitting in to certain areas but they'll likely have to be POI specific.
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I actually hope they make the wagon a stand alone prefab as well, not attached to buildings. I would definitely use it in the desert, like I use the rest of the wild west prefabs, to dot it here or there.

 
I hope loot tables and scaled loot is addressed in A18. even in A17.2 with loot goggles and 4/5 in looting skill I am still finding mostly gargage at level 60.

 
There is military stuff wip. If you watch TWD they are using horse drawn old wagons because all the gas is gone.
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For all you "wtf?!?" people out there, I live in South Dakota and there are quite a number of these wagons in the touristy parts of the state. Simmer down people.... (and yeah, we all know where the inspiration came from...)

-A

 
Sure, here you go:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1103722114299785216
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Do you ever see electrical systems getting some love or is the system mostly complete?

Electrical traps and gadgets right now are really bare bones and do not have a finished feel to them. I would particularly love to see some logic gates - it is annoying as hell that I cannot attach a wire to a switch and a motion detector. It is overly limiting. And CCTV - that would be wonderful as well. The basics for CCTV are already there - same thing as the spotlight with a different activation point.

 
New Weapons: M60 Heavy Machine Gun
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Oh boy, I hope we will get better ways to get access to ammo now ... otherwise that will be a let down...

Those latter game stage with radiated zombs could suuuuure use more ammo in the drops ...

 
Always love more blocks but what about simple painting textures? Painting gives you access to a pitiful amount of options atm - particularly for my storage containers. It would be nice to see more existing textures opened up for use and at least double what we have now as it pertains to containers.
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Do you ever see electrical systems getting some love or is the system mostly complete?

Electrical traps and gadgets right now are really bare bones and do not have a finished feel to them. I would particularly love to see some logic gates - it is annoying as hell that I cannot attach a wire to a switch and a motion detector. It is overly limiting. And CCTV - that would be wonderful as well. The basics for CCTV are already there - same thing as the spotlight with a different activation point.
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There is a mod that makes CCTV work. Which results in massive fps drop unless you have a beast of a computer.

My guess is they won't lose time on such thing. It seems the way from now on is "if you can mod it in, there's no use in adding it" and it's the right call.

 
Oh boy, I hope we will get better ways to get access to ammo now ... otherwise that will be a let down...
Those latter game stage with radiated zombs could suuuuure use more ammo in the drops ...
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This would be a pretty fair stage balancing set of perks.

Perception Perk:

Eye For Ammo: 15%/20%/25%/30%/35% more Ammo found when looting. Thought there was a perk for it already. Meh.

Int Perk:

Grandpa's Way Of Ammo: same % or similar % to get more ammo crafted per ammo made.

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There is a mod that makes CCTV work. Which results in massive fps drop unless you have a beast of a computer.
My guess is they won't lose time on such thing. It seems the way from now on is "if you can mod it in, there's no use in adding it" and it's the right call.
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Uuuh... No? Okay so Bandits are out. Scratch all the new deco's. Scratch the new books. Actually. Put a stamp on the game. Call it done.

And... To bring back a point of Roland's... This would be an example where a modder can get away with content additions that TFP will shoot for a higher (less beast machine intensive) quality.

 
The goal is for the game to go out, not to be done. Not the same thing.
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You should rethink how the world works in 2019. Not being harsh on you, but its just selfish to do what you discribe and such an attitude is unfamiliar for devs.

P.S. Don`t you dare to teach them on that ;)

 
Always love more blocks but what about simple painting textures? Painting gives you access to a pitiful amount of options atm - particularly for my storage containers. It would be nice to see more existing textures opened up for use and at least double what we have now as it pertains to containers.
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I too would like to see them re do the way painting textures are stored in file so modders can create more in game. I been told ATM it's in a format that can not be added to which is a shame.

 
There is a mod that makes CCTV work. Which results in massive fps drop unless you have a beast of a computer.
My guess is they won't lose time on such thing. It seems the way from now on is "if you can mod it in, there's no use in adding it" and it's the right call.
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I would disagree. Vanilla electrical systems need depth. CCTV functions are already present making it a simpler add.

And the frame rate drop is exactly why mod it in is not an answer for basic functionality or utility. Some of these features should be in with quality control.

 
There is a mod that makes CCTV work. Which results in massive fps drop unless you have a beast of a computer.
My guess is they won't lose time on such thing. It seems the way from now on is "if you can mod it in, there's no use in adding it" and it's the right call.
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Have you checked the CCTV mod out lately? I think you might be surprised, it's not that much of a fps hog anymore.

 
Have you checked the CCTV mod out lately? I think you might be surprised, it's not that much of a fps hog anymore.
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I have pretty good specs, don't know for you but i think low-end would just die to a few TVs close to each other.

As for the guys saying i'm tryin to force my point of view on the devs or something.. Madmole said they were dumping all unnecessary stuff to go gold ASAP.

my guess is CCTV would fall to this. I don't know how far they are with NPCs, but making good ones will probably take a lot of ressources..

If it gets in, i'd love it you know, but i imagine it won't.

 
Its not on the plate. There might be a "restore power" quest though where you have to repair a generator.
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Thats a shame really. Was really looking forward to seeing it expanded. Is it possible in the future to get it to somehow work with other classes? Like Campfire can't work with it currently. Could help modders make things like electric stoves and such.

 
I have pretty good specs, don't know for you but i think low-end would just die to a few TVs close to each other.

As for the guys saying i'm tryin to force my point of view on the devs or something.. Madmole said they were dumping all unnecessary stuff to go gold ASAP.

my guess is CCTV would fall to this. I don't know how far they are with NPCs, but making good ones will probably take a lot of ressources..

If it gets in, i'd love it you know, but i imagine it won't.
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Npcs and bandits are a Kickstarter item and madmole stated if it isn't a ks the it won't so yeh we gonna have bandits (altho they be near gold time) and npcs don't see why people are arguing this lol

 
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