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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Stage fright is perfectly normal! Just pretend everyone is naked! That's what I'm doing in the office anyway..
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I don't know what is worse--that you personify rocks or that you then pretend they are naked personifications.

 
Last night I posted something on math and it snowballed into a real mess.
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You’re taking credit for Odetta’s math problem post of which you were one of several commenters? Quoting isn’t the same as posting...

Nobody got in trouble. Just needed to clean things up for the folks who are a few days behind on catchup.

 
guys don't take this the wrong way but I hope you guys can release the game into beta and a final product soon and release some dlc so then you can earn a little bit of profit because then you can stay in business all this new free content is great and all but you aren't really making money off of it

 
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also if you guys are on @roland or mm there is a bug where if you fall a certain distance you will recover some health you may wanna fix that it can range from a little to a lot of health regain i'd say it happens at like 8 blocks up to 13 blocks up hopefully this helps sort the issue

 
guys don't take this the wrong way but I hope you guys can release the game into beta and a final product soon and release some dlc so then you can earn a little bit of profit because then you can stay in business all this new free content is great and all but you aren't really making money off of it
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You can not release a game just for the sake of it if its not finished yet

 
You can not release a game just for the sake of it if its not finished yet
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I think he's just concerned they are making no money on all these updates they release.

But he prob doesn't realise that new people will still be buying the game and also tfp will have an accountant and have already accounted for x amount of years they can sustain the updates with the money made on kickstarter and from sales made over the years.

 
I think he's just concerned they are making no money on all these updates they release.
But he prob doesn't realise that new people will still be buying the game and also tfp will have an accountant and have already accounted for x amount of years they can sustain the updates with the money made on kickstarter and from sales made over the years.
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Yep. Plus that poster probably didn't take into account the 'protection money' I have to pay to TFP in order for my rock collection to remain safe.

Accidents can happen, you know..

So when Roland shows up at my door, I know I will have to pay up.

 
You couldn't spec deep early game before. If your not 1-2 shotting most weak sauce zeds by level 20 now you didn't spend your points wisely. There are much less zeds in POIs too, so I think it balances out right. I don't go asking for features willy nilly, it was a snooze fest without the speed boost with no level gates. Overall it feels so much more realistic too, zombies in dead rising kind of lunged when you got close, this was a way of doing something similar that helps them never really walk the same anim in sync like before.
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I figured you would balance it out with that rage mode. I was just pointing out rage mode in a17 would have upset the great balance. I'm super hyped for this feature in a18 though.

 
guys don't take this the wrong way but I hope you guys can release the game into beta and a final product soon and release some dlc so then you can earn a little bit of profit because then you can stay in business all this new free content is great and all but you aren't really making money off of it
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According to MM they have sold like 8 million copies. I think they are fine.

Full released games die. With AE every update is like Christmas and I'd bet they sell alot more copies. I dont think DLC has the same effect.

I have no numbers or anything to back this up. Just a feeling.

 
Yep. Plus that poster probably didn't take into account the 'protection money' I have to pay to TFP in order for my rock collection to remain safe.
Accidents can happen, you know..

So when Roland shows up at my door, I know I will have to pay up.
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Now I'm picturing Roland showing up to teach a lesson in division.

 
Just wanted to get in on this. If the ramp takes four meters to rise one meter (aka four pieces) then it is a 14 degree incline.
For it to be 11.25 degrees it would need to only rise about 0.8 meters. Is that the case that it won’t rise a full meter?

Of course— if it works it works whatever the degree measure is.
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If we can safely assume a 1 meter ramp is 45 degrees, we work down in halves from there. So the half ramp is 22.5 degrees and takes 2 meters to reach a full 1 meter of height. Cut in half again and its 11.25 degrees and takes 4 meters to reach 1 meter in height. Vertex positions on the incline on the 3 blocks are at 1.0, .5, .25.

 
If a relatively simple thing as a bridge will not be included into the game due to performances issues (.. really?), I fear for late game content which might or might not be included post-A17.
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It was too busy for a long bridge and a waste of polygons. Its a good practice to be conservative not lavish, and its typically never one thing that kills performance but 5000 little things that "could have been optimized" but weren't.

 
I get what you’re saying, but for me seeing all the roads lead right up to the water’s edge and stop ruins that beauty you’re trying to achieve. It looks broken, like roads that run straight into cliff faces.
In the interest of getting a “very pretty” baseline, perhaps the generator could stop trying to construct roads that would cross water, the way it has (finally) stopped trying to construct them on top of steep mountain slopes. Or even if the road dead-ended 10 blocks before it hit water, that would look a lot less alien, a lot more like something humans would actually build, without requiring any more polygons.
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Why can't you just pretend the apocalypse collapsed the bridge and drop it? Its not like I said never, its icing on the cake we need more time to make the cake.

 
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