PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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Viktoriusiii
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Snow no!
Snow YES!!!
Rep me if you got that reference (does this count as "rep begging"?
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Zombiepoptard
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I don't think you get what I'm asking but ok I'll throw the towel on this one. Also, I've been waiting for bandits since alpha 14 so carry on doing that lol.
madmole
Fun Pimps Staff
I think Rick got them something close and the company tweaked it for the finish.Ah, shame about the small run, makes sense, and kudos for not trying to profit much; I was comparing to GoT mugs which yeh, would probably have a larger inventory.
...who did the art on it?
madmole
Fun Pimps Staff
So I go to all the work putting in the crucible in loot, at traders, etc and I find the one thing that was there the whole time, the crucible schematic. So happy, and it will be nice in future games finding one various ways, etc. Now I can make steel!!! Day 54 level 50.
Quantum Blue
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(While I am replying to MM, if Gazz, faatal, Roland or UnholyJoe would like to answer as well, that would be great.)
I assume you play 'naturally' (surviving, not building a castle or bedrock day one, not necessarily hunting down every zombie, etc.).
How do you handle wandering hordes? Do you 'clear' them? Do you go after them whenever you notice?
Are you basing near a town? (r u basing at all?) (I believe MM said he based near a trader once.)
With all the looting (not derogatory by any means) do you find yourself at your base much?
Are you exploring at night?
Basically a small sense of what your 'style' is for A18 - especially if it's different than previous Alphas.
Thank you
Demonoid74
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Oh look at me , I get to play the game before you all! Aren't we all hoity toity fancy pantsy!
lol just messin' around , keep up the good work and get this version nice , cleaned up and polished before release...so we do not have to listen to a few people female dog endlessly about some minor issue or other...
Blake_
Captain Obvious
Crucible is supposed to be a hell yeah find. Isn't it being in loot a little bit too much?.
The schematic does already do the job as it is found in loot, does it not? Those three ways to find it certainly makes things easy.
OCD pre a18 balancing here :greedy_dollars: :greedy_dollars:
Edit: Actually , 4 ways to find crucible from what you just said: 1-loot 2-schematic in loot 3-trader 4-schematic in trader.
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ecv
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Shouldn't it reduce CPU load to remove all possible paths from the calculation beforehand? It's the same as occlusion really. If the zombie can't see it, don't compute it.
If these calculations would be done per grid and vantage point, and not per zombie, it would only be done when a block significant to the calculation breaks or gets placed.
It is a bit odd that a zombie will climb up stairs to find a hole in the roof instead of attacking the door in front of it on ground level.
If grid based isnt on the menu, perhaps you can take out paths that are too far outside the direct line to the player. If the zombie has to deviate more than say 10 degrees, it's out of the calculation.
Unless you've left a trail by using that hole yourself. I'd love zombies reacting to a trail the player leaves. That's coming with a18, right?
The golden rule of dynamic pathing is always culling as much as possible beforehand, it's usually cheaper to calculate what's not needed and then calculate the load than to explore all possibilities.
In my experience at least.
Roland
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I play naturally by which I mean my activities are governed by daily objectives I give myself like "I need wood" or "I need food and water" or "I need cobblestone" or "I want to scavenge" or "I want to do a job or trade with the trader". My activities are not governed primarily by "I want to level up". Leveling up and gaining xp happen as I play and they are hardly ever the reason for doing things. Now, thanks to the xp bar I sometimes notice that I'm close and I do admit at those times I annoyingly start thinking in terms of doing some things to "top off the bar".
In the beginning when it takes several hits to down a zombie I only interact with them when they come right at me-- usually when I'm exploring a POI. I don't clear them, I usually lead them away and kill a few. When they are passing by but not right at me I usually let them go and don't kill a single one. Later, when I can kill them in a single hit or two I am more aggressive and will clear a horde but I usually don't take time to go after a horde that isn't pointed right at me if I'm in the middle of something else I want to do.
I usually upgrade a POI for the first two horde nights. My current favorite POI is a remnant of a building (usually in a town) that exists in A17. It is a three story corner of a building with the first floor filled with destroyed stone, the second floor has an enclosed room (and a desk outside) and the third floor also has an enclosed room. It is easy to reinforce and surround with spikes and to defend. Usually during the second week I start my own base usually near the trader and start transferring my stuff to it. Then I spend the second horde night in the POI not caring if it gets destroyed and not planning to replace spikes etc.
I don't stay at my base much at all. Ever since A16 I lost my fear of going out at night. In A16 the stealth was OP and the zombies completely broken at night so it was simplicity to do whatever you wanted. In A17 you were so much faster than anything else there was no fear. Just run away and you were safe. In A18 it is tougher but now I'm a habitual night crawler so I still go out and chop trees dig clay and mine rocks so I can spend my days scavenging. I spend bloodmoon at my base to defend it but otherwise I'm out. Once I find operational workstations in the area I mark them and use them instead of making my own so I'm making my rounds to those as well and I love doing quests so I'm often traveling to those locations.
I do everything at night except try and clear POIs at least in the beginning. I might try doing it once I can one-shot zeds with the sneaking bonus but if there is still one thing I'm a bit too scared to do it is to do close quarter fighting in the dark with sprinting zombies. But out in the open world they are the easiest things in the world to avoid and kill when necessary. Once I start building my base I usually do most of the laying of blocks and such at night because once my walls are high enough it is completely safe to do so. I haven't sat still in a dark base waiting for morning since A15.
I never looked at xp and leveling as the main point of the game. When those elements were added I treated them as icing on the cake so my general style of play has never changed from when there wasn't any levels or xp to even think about. I tried as an experiment back in A15 where I played the game focused on spam crafting and running from trader to trader selling oil barrels and such but it wasn't for me.
ecv
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If I were to forget my bag of cocaine at your place after a fun evening, would you blame me for you snorting it all in one go and nearly die? Because if it's there, you have to take it?
Really, don't dismiss the advice to get some help to learn self control. You can end up in a very bad place if you always have to use all options just because they are available. And I can tell you: that's not normal, that's some strange impulse you've got there. No offense meant, just concern
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