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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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MM I don't know if you are planning on doing anything with the music in the game or not but it would be cool if you could find someone to redo the old Cop Killer song by Body Count and turn it into Zed Killer. Just something cool to think about. Keep up the good work.

 
Possibly, those are easy to do, but I'm not sure how powerful starter weapons should be.
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I agree on early weapons being too powerful & I think a way to do it is add it to the Perk System so it is not a beginning Ammo or reason I called it a buff. The damage also could increase as the player increases his or her skills, maybe we could Forge Chain Links for Ammo to Entangle the Zeds Limbs. Glass & Lead Weights are found early game & should be a good source for Ammo in the Blunderbuss, just limit the Damage until you increase your Skills or read a Book. I just feel the Blunderbuss is a very versatile weapon meant to hold different types of Ammo or Shot. I think I was a Pirate in a former life, Arrrggghhh

I would like to shoot Trophy's, Candle Sticks & Door Knobs out of them, maybe a bigger Blunderbuss as you level up or maybe 1 of those mini Cannons they had mounted on the Ships. We could work them into our Base Builds or when we get Fishing & a Boat we could mount it on that, Arrrggghhh

By the way being a Fan Boy from the very beginning I am really happy with the changes in the Game & I have gone back to Nav to see all the changes there until RWG is fixed, so much to see there & happy with that also, Arrrggghhhh

Let me explain, I know a Blunderbuss is like a Cannon, the Cannon I am referring to is the small Swivel Cannon on the Bow. This Cannon could be taken ashore for Expeditions, Hunting for food & supplies or burying treasure. It could be mounted on a Tri-Pod with it's Sling Shot like Yoke,

Oh, oh, oh, can we get a Sling Shot Too Please...

 
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I just feel the Blunderbuss is a very versatile weapon meant to hold different types of Ammo or Shot. I think I was a Pirate in a former life, Arrrggghhh
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The style of blunderbuss used in the game is _literally_ a hand-cannon. Any style of ammunition you can use in a cannon can be used in a blunderbuss... with varying degrees of effectiveness. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cannon_projectiles

Different ammunition types would make the blunderbuss a Swiss-army knife* of a gun. Need to clear a lot of zombies? Grape-shot. Need to kill a really hard zombie? Solid-shot to the head. Need to burn everything in a room? Carcass-shot.

* Not to be confused with the Swiss-army sword which, although useful, suffered from an overly large handle.

We may have to prod some modders to get varied ammunition for blunderbusses but i'd love to see it in vanilla.

 
The style of blunderbuss used in the game is _literally_ a hand-cannon. Any style of ammunition you can use in a cannon can be used in a blunderbuss... with varying degrees of effectiveness. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cannon_projectiles

Different ammunition types would make the blunderbuss a Swiss-army knife* of a gun. Need to clear a lot of zombies? Grape-shot. Need to kill a really hard zombie? Solid-shot to the head. Need to burn everything in a room? Carcass-shot.

* Not to be confused with the Swiss-army sword which, although useful, suffered from an overly large handle.

We may have to prod some modders to get varied ammunition for blunderbusses but i'd love to see it in vanilla.
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I didn't feel I needed to do a book report on the history of a Blunderbuss to ask for more Ammo, that's why I asked to forge Chain Links, for Grape-Shot, Arrrggghhhhh

We can make Lead Pipe but I do not see the need for a Zip-Gun, get my point...

 
Maybe the Blunderbuss should be able too shoot out any item put into it.

The damage depends on its economical value.

Would be useful to get rid of overstock.

 
Uh... i don't know how I feel about that.
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How have you felt about gas barrels? They are far more of a space saving measure than this would be. Each barrel makes over a half block of gas (600) and can stack to 500. That is 300K PER STACK. You can fit over 13 million gas in your inventory alone and this certainly has more of an impact than stone - a resource that you never need to take anywhere.

This has been in the game for a long time as well and yet not a single mention anywhere that this is OP or broken. Because you need to use one storage box rather than 5 does not really affect balance as much as it is simply a QOL issue. If I have a million stone I would like to be able to store it - after all I must be max level from simply collecting that much resource.

 
i think the stacking in pallets should be for raw resources only and not for used everything else to circumvent normal inventory limits. :)

 
What's going on with lights in A17? There are only 2 different ones we can hook up to electricity a simple light and the trash barrel flood light. We had many more industrial options in A16. And for A18 I would like to see the yellow tripod work lights be able to be hooked up with electricity.

 
i think the stacking in pallets should be for raw resources only and not for used everything else to circumvent normal inventory limits. :)
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Its only for ores, and only AFTER you find that one book.

 
Its only for ores, and only AFTER you find that one book.
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There should be a new achievement for one hundred pallets crafted for every resource that can be crafted into a pallet....

Also a book collector achievement for those who are able to collect every single book there is.

(Just put me in charge of achievements :) )

Achievement Get: Blood Moon Boner

Survive a blood moon horde while killing 20 zombies with only a bone shiv.

(I got a million of 'em...)

 
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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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Occlusion culling is in a prototype state. It works, but needs a lot more refinement. Don't know what version it would be released in.

 
Wait. You need a book to know how to throw sacks in a pile?
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Man, I need to get my children to read that book because no matter how many times I tell them they still haven't perked into it...

Yes, it's laundry instead of rocks but still!

 
Wait. You need a book to know how to throw sacks in a pile?
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As the ALS challenge proved, you can't ask people to dump a bucket of ice water over their head without someone taking it as an opportunity to get themselves a Darwin award :-)

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

― George Carlin

 
As the ALS challenge proved, you can't ask people to dump a bucket of ice water over their head without someone taking it as an opportunity to get themselves a Darwin award :-)
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

― George Carlin
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Was that a direct quote? Pretty sure stupider is not correct, wouldn't it be "more stupid"? If so, shame on you George Carlin lol...

 
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