PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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For my first play through, I think I will focus on whatever gives you a spear bonus. Hated played almost exclusively with spears. Mostly throwing them. Maybe the iron and steel spears don't break, but it seemed like he made around 20 stone spears fighting in the apartment complex.

 
The new ore clusters might as well be the floating exclamation marks as is. The models and textures are perfect. Offset them by -.75 and they will look and feel a lot better in general.

 
Someone over at The Fun Pimps best be crackin' that whip at the Q&A testers. I've been feening for some 7D2D A18 and I need my fix ASAP! lol Hated I'm holding you responsible for any delays my friend :)

 
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Sounds good, would be much better if the POI reset when you take the quest.
By the way, will skin color ever change first person hands?
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Well no that would be bad. The best choice is when the chunk is loaded for you, otherwise some jerks might go in and loot it before you get there, for those people who take quests and do them 4 days later lol.

 
Since I don't quite know how skills and books intertwine I can not tell you an exact response so I will make a two parter:
Possibility 1:

you can buy perkbooktalents with skillpoints:

the books are not needed and 500xp is allright (still less than most zombies) since finding them is just a bonus.

Possibility 2:

skills and "book bonuses" are seperate and you can only unlock those perks (like 10% more damage with fireaxes against wood) by finding them.

Now the books are essential. While their bonus is not that great, it is a character improvement. Especially huge things like beeing able to craft lockpicks. If I am missing one book to finally be able to craft them, this is HUGE and my frustration of finding the other books over and over and only getting 50xp for it will be insane. "YES BOOK! Oh god just another waste... YES BO-... f***... FINALLY A BOO... FK THIS ♥♥♥♥! IMMA JUST CHEAT THAT STUPID PERK!!!!"

But if there is like a 2000xp reward for finding a book twice I can go: "well... its not the right one again, but at least it is worth the xp"

I am sorry that I do not know this but it has me confused for a while now, with perks like fireaxe doing more damage in the burnt biome beeing more or less useless and I would never buy it with perks, but others like beeing able to craft your own lockpick beeing such a hardrequirement for any stealthbuild, that it would be close to the first things I would buy.

If you could elaborate what you can buy with perkpoints, that would be great (or show that in your next video)
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You don't need to craft lock picks. You can find them or buy them at traders. You can always use your trusty pickaxe if needed. I wouldn't want them buyable via perk points, that ruins the accomplishment of collecting them all.

 
Unless you are being sarcastic, you are so wrong its not even funny. They deliberately choose desaturated dirty old clothing for the zombies so they are clearly undead. On top of that they post process it with a sepia toned filter to make it look desaturated, depressing and ominous.
https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/FTWD_506_RG_0211_0459_RT-1-1014x570.jpg

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/cb05dcb21fb7203e67813c7c64b9b346014bc48d/c=0-185-3600-2219/local/-/media/2016/02/15/USATODAY/USATODAY/635910975427054576-The-Walking-Dead-zombies.jpg?width=3200&height=1680&fit=crop

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-walking-dead-twd-talking-zombies-whisperers-jesus.jpg

https://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/v3/fan/image?url=https://undeadwalking.com/files/2017/07/FTWD_501_RG_1212_0435_RT.jpg&c=sc&w=850&h=560
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Yuck! I think that they over did it with the fog.

 
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They're not quite a game changer, but getting them all would be very strong. So much, that MP co-op should focus one guy as the looter and during hoard night give him the best gun and most of the ammo.

So far, the best set of books! :D

 
Well no that would be bad. The best choice is when the chunk is loaded for you, otherwise some jerks might go in and loot it before you get there, for those people who take quests and do them 4 days later lol.
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I guess on a server this means you just not need to pick up a quest unless you tend to do it, being slow means others can beat you to the prize... :D

 
They're not quite a game changer, but getting them all would be very strong. So much, that MP co-op should focus one guy as the looter and during hoard night give him the best gun and most of the ammo.
So far, the best set of books! :D
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I would disagree a bit. The fact books are being brought back will make looting more desirable and rewarding when one finds that book he/she is so desperately seeking. The biggest complaint from everyone i played with regarding A17 was the removal of books. In my opinion tons and tons of players are going to be so excited for the fact books are being brought back and in a much deeper way as well.

 
The cracks IMO need to be a little more subtle.
You can still maintain the atmosphere with just ease back on the grim on the texters. I don't think the players want to feel depressed they just want enough dinge so that it fits and it looks good at the same time. We make bases and homes out of these pois.

I know I start these rants frustrated because I'm looking at the footage and just thinking to myself do people not see a problem with this.

I come to the conclusion that voxel games are hard to look at as it is. Having textures that have a lot of visual noise and being multiplied in copied can distract from the more detailed decoration. Stop making the excuse that it's the apocalypse that's why everything looks so gray and a lot of the walls have no contrast to the floors and ceilings.

One block texture has 4 paint chips and looks like it's made out of concrete. Just make a simple subtle drywall texter that has a little bit of grim on so it doesn't pop out like an eyesore. Please
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Dude our art team made Rage and various Doom games. Let our art team do their job. It looks better than it ever has and if you think otherwise you need your head or eyes examined, as id games are always praised for their art. I'm sure 7 days will look amazing when its finished we're in the best hands money can buy. As I said its a WIP and until the new renderer comes online and every texture is redone its not going to look right.

 
The new ore clusters might as well be the floating exclamation marks as is. The models and textures are perfect. Offset them by -.75 and they will look and feel a lot better in general.
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I disagree, I had them sunk into the ground and they became small stones. Spend 3 hours looking for one and you might change your tune.

As of like 2 days ago, deco was enabled on mountains. Previously it didn't so ore was pretty rare. Now ores are kinda everywhere so the video is misleading as to how much ore will be available on release. We'll drastically reduce it so its an exciting find instead of stumbling over it. In that context, it needs to stick out so you can actually spot that one needle in the haystack.

 
P.S Madmole and Roland are great forum dev posters and I like when you respond to my frustrated posts.
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Oh I read this after banning you. Maybe roland can unban you. Just kidding, but I felt like it. And that Victorius guy is very close to getting a fridge filled with books hurled his way.

 
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