PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

    Votes: 2 66.7%

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    Votes: 1 33.3%
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Yes they really complete the role play with abilities and gear nicely in most of them. Theif/assassin/stealth builds will be insane now.
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Can we get more Ammo Options for the Blunderbuss PLEASE...

Like, Lead Weights that can remove limbs or decapitate Buff

Glass to cause a Bleeding Buff

Maybe even a Gasoline Soaked Cloth to ingnite the Zeds on fire Buff

 
you can only stack like 1200 rocks per slot. Craft those rocks into a pallet that is 1000 rocks in it, and stack like 10 pallets in one slot.
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Wouldn't be kind of broken? I mean, you could store in a tiny chest like 40+ pallets... (40stacks x 10) x1000 = 400.000 rocks in a chest.

Just saying...

 
Thank you for the updates on a18 first and foremost. It’s great to see new things coming down the pipe and this is sure to make people excited about the game again since a17.

I wanted to thank madmole for finally saying that mods are not currently supported. While I asked directly and just got a bunch of grief for simple questions, it’s nice to have an official stance. Please next time just directly answer the question and not make it some one off comment to a person asking you if you play mods. I get that maybe you missed my comment/question but given the fact that it was the subject of debate for days it’s kinda disheartening.

Not disheartening in the way that I’m going into a corner and crying. Disheartening that you refuse to post an official stance on modding and it’s current state.

I’m glad there are HD icons coming. It’s good to play catch up with modders ;)

 
We did remove quality from vehicles. We'll be fleshing out the loot list. Players cannot craft high end guns in the new design without a schematic. So you can craft a hunting rifle, but not the sniper rifle. You can craft a pistol with the pistol perk, but not a magnum. So you'll have to find them or find a one shot schematic to craft them. This should help a lot. Pinks are uncraftable as well, so if you want pink, find or buy.
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How do bows and crossbows fit into that schema?

A lot of players (myself included) prefer the "feel" of using bows to using guns, so it would be great if gameplay was allowed to trump realism and high end bows (needing a schematic) could be good enough that you wouldn't have to switch to using guns if you preferred to go down the bow route for aesthetic reasons.

 
Can we get more Ammo Options for the Blunderbuss PLEASE...
Like, Lead Weights that can remove limbs or decapitate Buff

Glass to cause a Bleeding Buff

Maybe even a Gasoline Soaked Cloth to ingnite the Zeds on fire Buff
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Possibly, those are easy to do, but I'm not sure how powerful starter weapons should be.

 
Wouldn't be kind of broken? I mean, you could store in a tiny chest like 40+ pallets... (40stacks x 10) x1000 = 400.000 rocks in a chest.
Just saying...
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I think that is the point - you can craft items to easily store mass amounts of them.

 
Thank you for the updates on a18 first and foremost. It’s great to see new things coming down the pipe and this is sure to make people excited about the game again since a17.
I wanted to thank madmole for finally saying that mods are not currently supported. While I asked directly and just got a bunch of grief for simple questions, it’s nice to have an official stance. Please next time just directly answer the question and not make it some one off comment to a person asking you if you play mods. I get that maybe you missed my comment/question but given the fact that it was the subject of debate for days it’s kinda disheartening.

Not disheartening in the way that I’m going into a corner and crying. Disheartening that you refuse to post an official stance on modding and it’s current state.

I’m glad there are HD icons coming. It’s good to play catch up with modders ;)
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In more stunning news...A18 is not out yet. That's official.

 
Wouldn't be kind of broken? I mean, you could store in a tiny chest like 40+ pallets... (40stacks x 10) x1000 = 400.000 rocks in a chest.
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That only affects those who already have way more rocks than they can use up and at that point it no longer makes a difference. LOL

 
We did remove quality from vehicles. We'll be fleshing out the loot list. Players cannot craft high end guns in the new design without a schematic. So you can craft a hunting rifle, but not the sniper rifle. You can craft a pistol with the pistol perk, but not a magnum. So you'll have to find them or find a one shot schematic to craft them. This should help a lot. Pinks are uncraftable as well, so if you want pink, find or buy.
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That's music in my ears! Thanks

 
Thank you for the updates on a18 first and foremost. It’s great to see new things coming down the pipe and this is sure to make people excited about the game again since a17.
I wanted to thank madmole for finally saying that mods are not currently supported. While I asked directly and just got a bunch of grief for simple questions, it’s nice to have an official stance. Please next time just directly answer the question and not make it some one off comment to a person asking you if you play mods. I get that maybe you missed my comment/question but given the fact that it was the subject of debate for days it’s kinda disheartening.

Not disheartening in the way that I’m going into a corner and crying. Disheartening that you refuse to post an official stance on modding and it’s current state.

I’m glad there are HD icons coming. It’s good to play catch up with modders ;)
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Dude it's been that answer since a5 and prolly even earlier lol. Even the big report forms state they don't support mods and for a bug report no mods can be used.

 
The last few months I've done quite a few optimizations:
Fixed Allocations in AstarPath (less garbage gen).

Added Optimization: Entity Ticking (Entity ticking is now time sliced across the estimated amount of frames between ticks if any).

Added GameRandomManager and GameRandom classes (less garbage gen).

Changed Entity to not push if has root motion (AI, expensive) and not to push other if it can't be pushed.

Added Block IsCheckCollideWithEntity which CheckCollisionWithBlocks uses to only do bounds checks on blocks needing it (x2 performance).

Added MovementFactor &lt;= 0 check during CreateBlocks and removed check from other code.

Changed TickEntities to use frame count instead of time and to defer some entities for the next tick (any extra frames will tick).

Changed Physics AutoSyncTransforms to off (faster).

Added new Character Controller (for non players, 15%-20% faster).

Removed Entity wallSurface and some old code.

Optimized entity events/effects.

Optimized Progression/Effects events.
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What about occlusion culling? And can we expect these optimisations next update?

Thanks for the hard work!

 
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Supporting modding means supporting the modding interfaces (like the XMLs or file formats), to guarantee the mods will work still in future versions regarding the mechanics of the game.

That would heavily restrict their flexibility to make necessary redesigns of game system.

It would basically say: we dont want to implement more fancy features anymore, just add more content.

-&gt; if modding is officially supported, it should be after the gold version, unless you think the game is already perfect as it is...

 
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