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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

    Votes: 2 66.7%

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This is a ridiculous statement. I had an i3, with 750TI card and 8g of ram and ran a16 WAY better than 17 ever ran. I literally had to go buy a new pc just to ensure i could run it properly.
Man im not trying to be a troll or a jerk here but this statement is a flat out lie.

Are you talking about texture streaming? which makes the game look like crap? Or lowest of the low settings? Because medium settings, i can tell you 2.whatever gigs isnt happening.
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Yeah exactly. On my old laptop A16 ran excellent (on average 40 FPS on high settings). Then A17 dropped, and about 50-75% reduction in FPS. Had to buy a new gaming laptop in order to run it properly (granted, this was not the main reason for buying a new rig).

 
Hmm, I we will not see it in A18 how did unholyjoe mad this video:
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hmmm... not sure what you are pointing to here.

its fixed in the future patch, i believe that was hinted... i just dont reveal new content nor build numbers. :)

 
hmmm... not sure what you are pointing to here.
its fixed in the future patch, i believe that was hinted... i just dont reveal new content nor build numbers. :)
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Oh my fault, the quote tag was mistakely moved.

the part "Hmm, I we will not see it in A18" was not my text but the guys I reacted to.

He said we will not see the fix even in A18. I refered to your post for showing that he is probable wrong.

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thank you whitelion and you are correct.

 


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Did you read the memo? A17 uses 2.8 gigs of ram, A16 used 6-7. All of our programmers are currently working on optimizations as well as half the content team. So put your potato back on your desktop, I'm pretty sure we've got you covered.
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All those with 3 to 6 gigs of ram REJOICE, even tho it runs like a turd compared to A16.

 
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There is any sound enhancement planned for A18? You kinda hear Zombis two blocks away making footsteps sometimes

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All those with 3 to 6 gigs of ram REJOICE, even tho it runs like turd compared to A16.
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Someone said TURD????? The Return of "A human turd" in toilets for A18 CONFIRMED

 
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Oh my fault, the quote tag was mistakely moved.the part "Hmm, I we will not see it in A18" was not my text but the guys I reacted to.

He said we will not see the fix even in A18. I refered to your post for showing that he is probable wrong.
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No, what he said was: "...it's broken in A17, but it won't be [broken] in A18." English is subtle. I added the [broken] for clarification.

 
Sadly this is the truth !I bourght a new PC to and with 6/12 cores/HT and an RTX 2080 the game runs with 40 - 80 frames on high settings without shadow reflextion.... . My girl friend cant play anymore (her i7-3612 / GTX 680m 4GB is to slow). Same for my friends (lags on MP server, backsteps in loved features after 2 years)

I hoped for oclusion culling to solve performance problems but again I got disappointed as faatal a few days ago said this was pushed back...

Who cares about mem useages these days ... you can upgreade it for small price but GPU / CPU upgreads are expensive!
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Occlusion was not pushed back. When it is done it should be in whatever the next major release is. That would not be A17.x, since A17 is pretty much in bug fix mode at this point. The more we work on A18, the harder it is to branch fixes back to A17, so I'm all for getting A18 out the door and stop fiddling with A17.

 
Although it was worded badly, IMO what MM was intending was that getting players hooked within the first few hours of play is where the focus has to be for Gold, so optimization and bug fixes are key, also on default, the game has to be interesting and relatively straightforward to play and progress.

IMO there will be more content and things for experienced players, all the various setting etc for starters allow everyone to set the game up how they want to play.

I've had over 2000 hours out of the game rarely played passed day 150, haven't played with any mods and only occasionally played RWG.

Still enjoy the game with each Alpha and personally I'm looking forward to the changes coming in A18.

 
They are "working on optimization" since15.whatever and havent got it till now.They made it worse frm update to update and screwed it on 16.4!Afterwards they destroyed the Performanc completely!17.0 and onwards are Not playable anymore!Despite i have an I3 with 8GB ram and i cant play it ,not even on the lowest setting!
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Odd....My wife plays on an old windows 7 laptop with only 6 gig of ram with no trouble. Of course she did a little research, optimized her machine, listened to feedback and reduced her resolution. Not unplayable for her "shrugs"

 
Because dismemberment is broken in A17 but won't be in A18.
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Well, animal dismemberment was broken, which now works. AFAIK zombie dismemberment worked, but only through perks. A18 will still have that , but also cosmetic dismemberment, which means when an animal or zombie dies you may get a dismemberment. You can even get dismemberment on a corpse if you hack on it.

 
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