PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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    Votes: 1 33.3%
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FOV is off topic now and resolved. Users can type in a console command until we get performance under control. One mans "this has no impact" is another mans Achilles heel.
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You just had to say it was temporary. You confused and scared people. Аnd the fact that you come up with cover - makes people to feel that it is forever.

Yes FOV is not free - it increases load proportionally.

 
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We are already using 2019.1 and have the incremental garbage collector activated for A18.
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Awesome!

Is that live in 17.3 b18 i.e. the latest Steam experimental version?

Or will it be in next patch or A18?

 
Food spoilage in most games is still a non issue. All it is, is a 10 second distraction. Ark, oh I'm out of food, I'll take my dragon and get 120,000 meat in 10 minutes, I'm good for ages now. Subnautica: Oh it spoiled. Its just not as healthy as it was and I can go outside my base and grab 500 fish in 30 seconds.
Balance is the key here and spoilage is a feature to simulate balance but at the end of the day, all that does is provide you with busy work and is a distraction from goals. We're taking measures to reduce how easy it is to get food from farming by adding nitrate to fertilize the ground and lowering the max yield of crops with perks, etc. I'm not against spoilage, but I'm against adding features when its not even balanced yet.

And the thing is, its not even that great. Food should be an issue early game but later on we want bigger and more interesting problems.
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Apologies. I got sucked in. I’m happy to wait for the balance changes before revisiting the possibility of spoilage.

 
Food spoilage in most games is still a non issue. All it is, is a 10 second distraction. Ark, oh I'm out of food, I'll take my dragon and get 120,000 meat in 10 minutes, I'm good for ages now. Subnautica: Oh it spoiled. Its just not as healthy as it was and I can go outside my base and grab 500 fish in 30 seconds.
Balance is the key here and spoilage is a feature to simulate balance but at the end of the day, all that does is provide you with busy work and is a distraction from goals. We're taking measures to reduce how easy it is to get food from farming by adding nitrate to fertilize the ground and lowering the max yield of crops with perks, etc. I'm not against spoilage, but I'm against adding features when its not even balanced yet.

And the thing is, its not even that great. Food should be an issue early game but later on we want bigger and more interesting problems.
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I think more enemies with varied abilites would help. Now we just have, meleeing zombie, other than 1. Spiders for example when they jump should be able to hit the player for decent damage in a jump attack. Right now spider zombie jumps in front of me I am just like "Oh your delivering yourself to me? how nice *Cracks it over the head with a sledge before it can swing*" One mod I play had feral vultures that could spit at you like cops, they could also take a few whacks too, they were pretty durable.

 
I think more enemies with varied abilites would help. Now we just have, meleeing zombie, other than 1. Spiders for example when they jump should be able to hit the player for decent damage in a jump attack. Right now spider zombie jumps in front of me I am just like "Oh your delivering yourself to me? how nice *Cracks it over the head with a sledge before it can swing*" One mod I play had feral vultures that could spit at you like cops, they could also take a few whacks too, they were pretty durable.
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Feral vultures that vomit are vanilla. We codenamed them Joeltures before release. :)

 
I don't think you guys can really have that discussion yet because you obviously talk about the way it works in A18 whereas the other guy talks about A17. And in A17 he's absolutely right, the Iron Reinforced Club is better than a machete even though those aren't the same tier of weapons.
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'They' can't talk about it yet becasue it's A18? I'll wager MM is absolutely right about how it is or will be implemented in A18. And what's the title of this forum?

 
I’d like to take this moment during the lull in conversation to report that the spear is amazing.

/whole new game

 
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