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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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I like where you're going with this, but you might have to rename it, never know what would show up from the red light district, right?
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So I as just perusing the cons out there that tfp would be a good fit at...

...there are really quite a lot of crappy cons out there... Mostly anime ones to give people excuses to cosplay, but not a lot of serious cons that a reputable vendor would want to show their wares at.

Sad.

 
He was a demolitions expert soldier before he turned.
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I really hate to bother. Though would it be too much to ask to have the damage of the explosion from the upcoming Demolisher be a modifiable integer?

I strongly believe much fun can be had with both your vision of how much damage the explosion should do. As well as my miniature nuke level of explosions of a simple modded tweak.

 
You guys asking to see stuff you should know its basically nothing then content overload towards the end because everything typically wraps up at the end. Perks are about 98% done, books are about 50% done now. Still a lot of terrain textures to redo to work with the new splat map system, and lots of little details to do on the new weapons. I plan to be first testing maybe by the first of June and that will give me a full month to fix bugs and balance before experimental hits.

 
I really hate to bother. Though would it be too much to ask to have the damage of the explosion from the upcoming Demolisher be a modifiable integer?
I strongly believe much fun can be had with both your vision of how much damage the explosion should do. As well as my miniature nuke level of explosions of a simple modded tweak.
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Of course it will be modifiable. Not sure if it will be an int or float though.

 
I really hate to bother. Though would it be too much to ask to have the damage of the explosion from the upcoming Demolisher be a modifiable integer?
I strongly believe much fun can be had with both your vision of how much damage the explosion should do. As well as my miniature nuke level of explosions of a simple modded tweak.
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A18 experimental drops July 1st.... we heard it her folks!

 
A18 experimental drops July 1st.... we heard it her folks!
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Odd you would quote me on that. I have said to friends of my community that A18 has a potential release date of July 1st. Due to July 1st being the end of the first half of 2019

Here is what the very first page says on this thread via Madmole

Madmole "Also, Alpha 18 waits for noone or no feature. If a feature isn't ready it gets disabled. I can't give a release date but I can assure you its in the first half of 2019."

 
Not sure. Pimp Con 2020? Sounds like it could be cool.
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So I as just perusing the cons out there that tfp would be a good fit at...
...there are really quite a lot of crappy cons out there... Mostly anime ones to give people excuses to cosplay, but not a lot of serious cons that a reputable vendor would want to show their wares at.

Sad.
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Almost nothing I post is in a serious nature, not sure if I came across in the right way. I was referring to actual pimps/hookers, etc. Kinda like "The Girl Next Door" kinda convention

 
Almost nothing I post is in a serious nature, not sure if I came across in the right way. I was referring to actual pimps/hookers, etc. Kinda like "The Girl Next Door" kinda convention
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We knew. Why do you think Guppy went directly to searching after your post...? ;)

 
You guys asking to see stuff you should know its basically nothing then content overload towards the end because everything typically wraps up at the end. Perks are about 98% done, books are about 50% done now. Still a lot of terrain textures to redo to work with the new splat map system, and lots of little details to do on the new weapons. I plan to be first testing maybe by the first of June and that will give me a full month to fix bugs and balance before experimental hits.
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Most of us know that a vid-dump happens shortly before a release. I think some are using it as a roundabout way of asking "is it nearly done yet?".

Have you just mentioned a date? You know that always go well :-)

 
Those are called auto turrets. Hey I would love recruiting survivors as much as anyone, but until we get MUCH better performance allowing players to have pets/npcs is off the table.
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I don't get it. We have zombie's zombie birds, traders and all sorts of animals. Each with there own programs and behaviors. You all boast about improving performance and graphics at the same time and do it well.

Every time an Alpha drops peoples jaws hit the floor and amazed of all the improvements you all make.

Yet at the same time it seems that you undersell yourselves. Why?

I can find the ground work for friendly NPC's. that have been tucked away in the game for years. Heck even modders have used them to a limited degree in making there own friendly NPC's.

I could understand pets being off the table but not NPC's.

They could make the game so much cooler and it would not take the graphics anymore than a zombie moving around and farting.

So why not finish it and see how it plays out? :)

 
Skyrim is my favorite game of all time. Mods keep it alive. I hope 7 years after gold 7 Days mods are keeping us alive like they have Skyrim. I have 3k hours in skyrim and almost 1k in special edition lol. I don't even play that much, but 2 hours a day adds up.
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Oh, god as long you don't go Todd Howard, don't go there. -shudders- 7 Days to Die Remastered now available on Windows 6000! I have nothing again Skyrim Special Edtion.

 
Skyrim is my favorite game of all time. Mods keep it alive. I hope 7 years after gold 7 Days mods are keeping us alive like they have Skyrim. I have 3k hours in skyrim and almost 1k in special edition lol. I don't even play that much, but 2 hours a day adds up.
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Have you tried Enderal yet? I did because they redid skills/talents just like you guys did. (And I wanted to experience another game that did away with LBD to try to have a more informed opinion.). It does feel different at first, but then you get used to it and just play the game.

I am waiting for a couple more mod updates/fixes and plan to retry it (Skyrim) in VR. (Unless TFP and/or Guppy come out with a VR enhancement to 7D2D - cuz then the rest of my life is all set...)

 
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Checking back I see it was really you starting the topic, but you were arguing for less info on clear quests(!), nothing more. But lets not get into "he said, she said..." any further, generally you and Roland want less information, but you propose to give others who still want the pointers in clear quests only(!) a solution they might not really want.
I don't think it is difficult to see that "permanent radar" is quite different from a situational radar in clear quests whose most important use case is to find the last zombie in a big POI.
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Then that was poor wording on my part, as I only intended it as an example. Was late, and I was working off little sleep. XD

 
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Have you tried Enderal yet? I did because they redid skills/talents just like you guys did. (And I wanted to experience another game that did away with LBD to try to have a more informed opinion.). It does feel different at first, but then you get used to it and just play the game.
I am waiting for a couple more mod updates/fixes and plan to retry it (Skyrim) in VR. (Unless TFP and/or Guppy come out with a VR enhancement to 7D2D - cuz then the rest of my life is all set...)
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I did a unity scene in VR and played a bit with the hand controllers, but I didn't get any farther :)

That part was super easy... Just use the VR camera controller instead of the fps one... The rest was of course beyond me.

I did have a chat with someone knowledgeable once about it and the impression I got was that it really would come down to the UI.

Sure, we can hack together a VR experience but you'd still end up having to press a button to loot, etc, whereas if it was done right you'd be able to pinch your fingers, lifts lids, open cupboards...

I say do it right or don't do it at all.

I think rift support is a Kickstarter goal so who knows... I doubt that it's even a consideration this late in development.

 
Are there plans to give the demolisher zombie special AI that reflects it's demolition expertise in a past life?

 
Are there plans to give the demolisher zombie special AI that reflects it's demolition expertise in a past life?
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Probably not. They're zombies, they don't remember their past life, as they are dead, just reanimated with some virus. They may just run up and explode.

 
I did a unity scene in VR and played a bit with the hand controllers, but I didn't get any farther :)
That part was super easy... Just use the VR camera controller instead of the fps one... The rest was of course beyond me.

I did have a chat with someone knowledgeable once about it and the impression I got was that it really would come down to the UI.

Sure, we can hack together a VR experience but you'd still end up having to press a button to loot, etc, whereas if it was done right you'd be able to pinch your fingers, lifts lids, open cupboards...

I say do it right or don't do it at all.

I think rift support is a Kickstarter goal so who knows... I doubt that it's even a consideration this late in development.
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No worries. You kind of stated that previously. I was being slightly flippant. I am sure A18 will suck a few more hours out of my life. And maybe 7D2D 2 w VR will suck another $20 out of my life savings... (btw - if there's a Kickstart round 2 AND it includes VR, i might donate slightly more than $20...) (Heck - maybe even if it doesn't.)

 
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