PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[madmole]

The things that stands out to me is that the decals on the roads look exactly the same still...

Alpha 1 still has some assets in there. We'll get to them eventually.

 

[bdubyah]

Oh, no doubt. Just poking.

 

[Odetta]

Alpha 1 still has some assets in there. We'll get to them eventually.

Are you gonna get FrankieonPC1080p to do another video when you go gold? He'd probably ♥♥♥♥ himself at how much the game evolved from the early alpha.

His fans too.

 

[madmole]

Some people might like this:

+Added: Air conditioners and new car radiators models drop radiators when destroyed. (Joel)

 

[madmole]

Are you gonna get FrankieonPC1080p to do another video when you go gold? He'd probably ♥♥♥♥ himself at how much the game evolved from the early alpha.
His fans too.

If he wants to he can.

 

[Odetta]

Would be sweet, he's the reason I bought the game in the first place.

 

[Aero]

Are you gonna get FrankieonPC1080p to do another video when you go gold? He'd probably ♥♥♥♥ himself at how much the game evolved from the early alpha.
His fans too.

Is he still doing stuff online somewhere? His last YT video is from over 2 years ago.

I watched him years ago... then forgot about him for a bit and when I checked again, I noticed he didn't post a video for a while... and seems like still not.

 

[Eliphas the Inheritor]

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

Yeah Madmole, want me to screenshot how it looked when Rick and his group left the Atlanta Camp? Nice and bright! Right now I am looking at the Walking Dead with my wife, started again from season 1 and try to watch it till the last episode. Do you really want to me to search in every episode to prove you that there is nice weather in the Walking Dead? I am not being sarcastic at all. And I am talking about weather, not zombies.

First photo it's just cloudy, second photo it's just smoke and 3rd is just night or evening time. Any more proofs?

Are you talking about zombies or weather? I think you totally misunderstood me, because I was talking about WEATHER, not zombies. I would like to see zombies with a gray tone, grey clothes, more skeletonish face and gray skin like in the Walking Dead (like the pictures you showed me), but to make the weather like that? That's a NO.

 

[Viktoriusiii]

And that Viktorius guy is very close to getting a fridge filled with books hurled his way.

Nice! Is that like a preorder bonus, where I start every new game with a fridge and some books in my inventory?

Lovely Can I chose which bookseries is in there or is the fridge a lootbox with random books every time?

Also nice to see in your latest video, that books are actually worth more than ~100 dukes (~2000) that were once mentioned.

Spoiler

Nothing here to see :smile-new:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


which makes the 50xp even more laughable

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[Odetta]

Is he still doing stuff online somewhere? His last YT video is from over 2 years ago.
I watched him years ago... then forgot about him for a bit and when I checked again, I noticed he didn't post a video for a while... and seems like still not.

He's been MIA for a while now but just recently dropped some hints he might be returning. I see him as a funny version of jack frags. Dude still managed to gain 500k subs with an essentially dead channel lol.

Here is the video if you want to take a trip down memory lane:

Also @Madmole, since the Demolisher was revealed can we get a hi-res image of him? He looks badass but on the stream you can't really get a detailed look at him.

 

[Guppycur]

What’s wrong with Ross Perot?

He's dead.

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Exactly. I did my research over multiple alphas on this. People complain and they are just uneducated. We don't just slap random things in, I put a lot of work into researching things before we add them to the game and try to ground everything in reality as much as possible, and only break those rules when it doesn't serve the gameplay god, which is always king.

*Cough* fire demon *cough*

 

[Guppycur]

If I want XP, I don't want to obtain obscene amounts just by pressing a button. I'd rather get my fists into the action. By your logic, we should be getting 100 XP for every crop we punch, since we harvest them only once every three days; but that would be highly unbalanced. I'll summarize my thoughts with this simple sentence: It's fine the way it is. Again, if TFP choose to change it in the future, that's their prerogative. You can suggest, but not spam.

Think of reading a 2nd book as an abstraction of reading a second book on the same subject. You don't necessarily gain new knowledge to gain a skill, but you gain a better understanding of the subject to get more experience in it.

...now, isn't that worth more than 50?

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These terrainfillers only create "biome blocks", not make special trap blocks, but that goes a long way.
Instead of a square you can blend a round / jagged "flat surface" into the overall terrain now. Pretty useful tool although it has barely been used, yet, in A18. =)

Yeh I know I'd have to make my own trap blocks.

 

[Survager]

If this ever happens I will uninstall!! You're a horrible person if you want to kill something that looks like a child! :cocksure:

Are you uninstall this game after that? ))

 

[RipClaw]

I hold the button using auger/chainsaw and I always get screamers and frequently.

I tested it with the auger in an iron mine far from my base. It took less than 5 minutes until the game spawned the first screamer. I kept the button pressed and the auger was only stopped when the auger was refilled.

I still have to test it with other materials because the theory is that not the auger increases the heat in a chunk but the noise of hitting iron.

EDIT: I have switched on the debug mode and have the heat displayed. It's actually the hits on the iron that increase the heat. With stone and gravel the heat does not rise. Since the auger hits the iron often in rapid succession, the heat rises very quickly compared to a pickaxe.

 

[sillls]

Exactly. I did my research over multiple alphas on this. People complain and they are just uneducated. We don't just slap random things in, I put a lot of work into researching things before we add them to the game and try to ground everything in reality as much as possible, and only break those rules when it doesn't serve the gameplay god, which is always king.

That's cool. Where you planning to make other shapes of the lead ore so they look more random?

 

[TSBX]

Will the new one deposits show up distinctly on the map like the a16 versions did, making them trivial to see without marking them?

 

[Zombiepoptard]

Yeah Madmole, want me to screenshot how it looked when Rick and his group left the Atlanta Camp? Nice and bright! Right now I am looking at the Walking Dead with my wife, started again from season 1 and try to watch it till the last episode. Do you really want to me to search in every episode to prove you that there is nice weather in the Walking Dead? I am not being sarcastic at all. And I am talking about weather, not zombies.
First photo it's just cloudy, second photo it's just smoke and 3rd is just night or evening time. Any more proofs?

Are you talking about zombies or weather? I think you totally misunderstood me, because I was talking about WEATHER, not zombies. I would like to see zombies with a gray tone, grey clothes, more skeletonish face and gray skin like in the Walking Dead (like the pictures you showed me), but to make the weather like that? That's a NO.

I think that the wasteland should have more of these run-down house then the suburban Forrest areas. The forrest is were people set up shop but the wasteland and other areas are where people explore late game usually. Also, The Walking Dead is depressing and ugly. That's why I and probably many others grew tired of it. My favorite undead movie was the Evil Dead 2 because it was a fun colorful movie that had charisma. P.S don't ban me lol I'm a legacy batman forum poster lol.

 

[Eliphas the Inheritor]

I think that the wasteland should have more of these run-down house then the suburban Forrest areas. The forrest is were people set up shop but the wasteland and other areas are where people explore late game usually. Also, The Walking Dead is depressing and ugly. That's why I and probably many others grew tired of it. My favorite undead movie was the Evil Dead 2 because it was a fun colorful movie that had charisma. P.S don't ban me lol I'm a legacy batman forum poster lol.

Well, I got nothing against the wasteland being depressing and ugly, at least the weather in other biomes like the forest should be quite nice. To be honest, I liked the depressing thing in some cases, but not always. I don't think that the game should feel depressing all the time or nice all the time. Madmole totally misunderstood me when I was talking about weather, he thought I was referring to zombies. I watched many other zombies movies and I didn't like any of them, really, I never got tired of the Walking Dead, I could watch all the seasons, especially the first 3 seasons all the time without getting bored that easily, it depends on taste.

For me, the only things missing in this game are npcs and bandits, compound crossbow, a better character editor (we don't have that many options), a grabbing system like they had in the Walking Dead Survival Instinct where zombies would grab you and some zombie editor, it would be nice to have that, I really dream to make zombies look like they look in the Madmole's photos in his reply to me. You can't really edit zombies in the archtype.xml, it's not very...easy. So again, it depends on taste, preferences...

 

[Zombiepoptard]

Well, I got nothing against the wasteland being depressing and ugly, at least the weather in other biomes like the forest should be quite nice. To be honest, I liked the depressing thing in some cases, but not always. I don't think that the game should feel depressing all the time or nice all the time. Madmole totally misunderstood me when I was talking about weather, he thought I was referring to zombies. I watched many other zombies movies and I didn't like any of them, really, I never got tired of the Walking Dead, I could watch all the seasons, especially the first 3 season all the time without getting bored that easily, it depends on taste.
For me, the only things missing in this game are npcs and bandits, compound crossbow, a better character editor (we don't have that many options), a grabbing system like they had in the Walking Dead Survival Instinct where zombies would grab you and some zombie editor, it would be nice to have that, I really dream to make zombies look like they look in the Madmole's photos in his reply to me. You can't really edit zombies in the archtype.xml, it's not very...easy. So again, it depends on taste, preferences...

Trust me he wasn't talking about the zombies. Unifying the zombie's looks would be cool though so to give more of an identity and differentiate to zombie unique types. In a game that I have been playing for over 600hrs I do not want to suddenly start having it's mood be changed into a depressing gray mess. My problem is pois mostly. The skybox just seems like you're wearing sunglasses. NPC's are probably being worked on in the background as we speak I hope.

 

[Eliphas the Inheritor]

Trust me he wasn't talking about the zombies. Unifying the zombie's looks would be cool though so to give more of an identity and differentiate to zombie unique types. In a game that I have been playing for over 600hrs I do not want to suddenly start having it's mood be changed into a depressing gray mess. My problem is pois mostly. The skybox just seems like you're wearing sunglasses. NPC's are probably being worked on in the background as we speak I hope.

I agree with what you said.