PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[hotpoon]

You bite your tongue, Claptrap is awesome lol.

lol. I used up most of my bullets on trying to murder claptrap to get him to shut his piehole, and then ran out of bullets when I needed them most...

 

[Hek Harris]

Pretty sure Claptrap is a reincarnation of Jar Jar Binks. This guy will always be here when you hope him elsewhere.

 

[madmole]

How to Survive 2 has a very similar system to what you have now in a17.
RE: New Book Art...Love It!

I made a suggestion a long time ago that you could make old-time posters like that and put them up around the world where they would make sense. Obviously only if you had the extra time but I personally would love to see more of your artwork in the world as art itself. You'd have to make them look more worn out than the books since they would have been on walls exposed to the elements for years post-apoc and all but they sure would add a very nice personal touch to the world outside of the normal game world assets that one would expect. Getting each artist to come up with 2-3 shouldn't be all that much work and the visual payoff would be huge IMO of course. This would give modders a more personal way to showcase some of their artwork as well.

Peace

Now that Unity has texture streaming that shouldn't be a huge issue, which is why I had them drawn up at a decent resolution, I was going to have the designers hang a few book "posters" in the stores and players can collect them and hang them in their bases.

 

[madmole]

I wonder if Madmole is creating all the arts for the books, 100+ books, that's a lot of arts. At least 20 arts after taking into account volumes.

No each volume has the same cover art, so its more like 11-13 covers. We hired guys that are way better than me at art so all I do now is game design, balance, technical art, technical animation, quest design and spearhead major tasks.

 

[madmole]

I don't want to sound negative, but I like Book system that is one new, one new type of zombie, couple of new weapon and RWG seems the only thing for A18 as of now. Do you have any list which are game changing or impact game like books. It seems so little for naming A18. But seems more of A17.xx something .. Not that I am complaining, just been curious what you guys plan to work for a18.

Smaller alphas will be better for everyone. It won't take near as long to qa, and with less scope it will be a lot easier to focus balance a few new features as they go in instead of 50 new features.

Over 100 new perks, 3 - x guns, tons of new art, major perk reorganization, lots of new or updated POIs, new random gen, occlusion culling, 1 new zombie, a new outfit to wear. I think you are undervaluing all the effort needed to bring this to light. There are some new quest types too, the perk menu is re-arranged so no more tiny fonts. We're doing a lot of polish work alongside new content to improve the experience.

I'll announce a few more things when they get underway but right now this is the jist of it.

 

[madmole]

They already said that they wanted shorter update cycles after a17 and that a18 would be polish, bug fixing and some new content. I'm fine with that pacing. You won't have game changing content forever.

Which some people hated. A17 was too much to swallow for some people and such a big build we're still fixing it. Smaller quicker updates with a focus on bugs and performance from here on out is better for everyone.

 

[Jackelmyer]

Making requests on behalf of what you think the public wants?
And there are people in this thread saying modders have a high opinion of themselves? Always make requests for you, not for some perceived greater good or on behalf of what you think the public wants.

I agree though more deco blocks. I disagree no more options. The 200 percent XP setting has already wrecked any balance Im trying to maintain with my mod.

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That's on the overhaul modder to allow these options. Like my Night Terrors. I will never allow people to turn them off. If they wish to do so they better learn how to mod. They are part of the experience.

As for installing your server with them most server rental companies offer these options, and for people who use dedi builds the launcher is the best way to pick and choose which mods you would like to install to your pc. Unless you mean something different?

Don't get yer primaddona panties in a bunch.

I do put consideration of things that I want. Generally speaking, if it's something that I think would be beneficial to a broad audience, then I'll argue for it. Otherwise, I'll dump a silly list into Pimp Dreams and move on.

Don't agree with making requests "just for me". Bare minimum, it's a weaker position to ask for things from. And... It's frankly disgustingly self centered in my mind.

200% XP wrecked YOUR mods balance? And I have a high opinion of myself?

When did 7 Days become YOUR game alone? You're a modder. Figure it out.

An average player would rather have a good native collection of options. Not some convoluted secondary installation process.

 

[Lonestarcanuck]

We need a cannibal book so we can eat zombies, "the hunter becomes the hunted"
(in Bubba's voice)

Zombie gumbo

Zombie and potato

Zombie stew

Zombie a la mode

Zombie steak

Zombie zombie

That's... That's about it.

I like it and it needs to have a Cajun Flare to it. we will need some pepper plants and Shrimp. also need to be able to make Sausage.

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So speaking of Cajun. we need a Deep South Zombie who is Creole and drops Spices/Hot Sauce/crawfish/shrimp and the Zombie Recipe book

 

[Guppycur]

I like it and it needs to have a Cajun Flare to it. we will need some pepper plants and Shrimp. also need to be able to make Sausage.
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So speaking of Cajun. we need a Deep South Zombie who is Creole and drops Spices/Hot Sauce/crawfish/shrimp and the Zombie Recipe book

Wife and I have been hitting every bar event and festival that hosts crawfish this season ... Been a delicious past few weeks.

Looking forward to the big one in Spring at the end of April...

 

[Ouch Quit It]

No each volume has the same cover art, so its more like 11-13 covers. We hired guys that are way better than me at art so all I do now is game design, balance, technical art, technical animation, quest design and spearhead major tasks.

Slacker

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Smaller alphas will be better for everyone. It won't take near as long to qa, and with less scope it will be a lot easier to focus balance a few new features as they go in instead of 50 new features.
Over 100 new perks, 3 - x guns, tons of new art, major perk reorganization, lots of new or updated POIs, new random gen, occlusion culling, 1 new zombie, a new outfit to wear. I think you are undervaluing all the effort needed to bring this to light. There are some new quest types too, the perk menu is re-arranged so no more tiny fonts. We're doing a lot of polish work alongside new content to improve the experience.

I'll announce a few more things when they get underway but right now this is the jist of it.

Finally, the fireman zombie is being implemented

 

[Jackelmyer]

Ironically, the pimps have given us unlimited deco blocks, via modding ability.
...at no point will everyone be satisfied with vanilla. Ever.

With 1500+ hours of Vanilla played, I respectfully disagree.

Unfortunately A17 kinda killed a fair amount for me. So I'm roughly stuck at that number and waiting to see how the rest plays out.

 

[Guppycur]

With 1500+ hours of Vanilla played, I respectfully disagree.
Unfortunately A17 kinda killed a fair amount for me. So I'm roughly stuck at that number and waiting to see how the rest plays out.

Disagree with what homie? That 1) they've given us unlimited deco blocks or that 2) no one will be satisfied with vanilla, ever?

...because 1 is true and you just proved 2 yourself. =)

Come to the dark side... custom blocks... they're not evil and are nicely implemented in vanilla now.

 

[Jackelmyer]

Disagree with what homie? That 1) they've given us unlimited deco blocks or that 2) no one will be satisfied with vanilla, ever?
...because 1 is true and you just proved 2 yourself. =)

Come to the dark side... custom blocks... they're not evil and are nicely implemented in vanilla now.

You wicked bastard lol.

I do need to look more into this. I did more modlet reading and it seems one may be able to create a simple zip file for extraction and package it up for simple setup even with new blocks. If that's true, I just might come over.

You're still a wicked temptress of a bastard. Like... A hard to tell cross dresser. But I see your Adam's apple sir! :-D

Disclaimer: much love to cross dresser's. Apologies for lumping the likes of Guppy with ya's.

<3

Side note... Disagree that people can't be happy with vanilla. I both proved and disproved my point. I never said I wasn't complicated sir. Though Vanilla is the most common way a game is played. So I hope people can be satisfied with a Vanilla version of this game. Else it's screwed.

 

[Jackelmyer]

lol. I used up most of my bullets on trying to murder claptrap to get him to shut his piehole, and then ran out of bullets when I needed them most...

*GASP!*

YOU'RE A MONSTER! All Claptrap ever wanted was a friend! QQ

 

[Kojak013]

Please, for the love of all that is holy, change the schematics from single use to a permanent blue print

 

[madmole]

Slacker
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Finally, the fireman zombie is being implemented

Its a tiny book icon so I doubt distinction between volumes would even be noticed, and would eat considerable atlas space to have unique ones. So a bit of a bang for the bug thing, and game limits thing. We might though, we'll have to see how it looks and plays with the same icon per book in each series.

 

[madmole]

Please, for the love of all that is holy, change the schematics from single use to a permanent blue print

Depends on how we sort of crafting quality.

 

[SxR]

Please, for the love of all that is holy, change the schematics from single use to a permanent blue print

When I first started playing, this was my automatic assumption.. when it was consumed, I was like "whaaaat.." ;U

.. permanent blueprints would be nice. ;b

 

[quilmeshou]

Depends on how we sort of crafting quality.

hey madmole, whats up. i have a simple question. i cant connect to public servers. i know that a lot of people is having issues with multiplayer. is it going to be fixed soon or kinda? sorry if i bother you with this

 

[Trankitas]

When I first started playing, this was my automatic assumption.. when it was consumed, I was like "whaaaat.." ;U
.. permanent blueprints would be nice. ;b

Maybe 3 tiers of permanent blueprints. (ex: tier 1 you can craft tier 1 and 2 items, tier 2 you can craft tier 3 and 4, and tier 3 you can craft tier 5)

Tier 6 items can only be found in the world.