PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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ZombieSurvivor
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This is going to be a really really stupid question that I'm sure I already know the obvious answer to but hell now is my chance to ask someone in the gaming industry thats in charge of a game.
Are there any plans to make children zombies? and if you do not mind why not?
The thought of a child zombies scares the hell out of me and maybe the ability for them to run through a 1 meter hole in game.
I'm sure the answer is no and for obvious reasons of course, but I had to ask lol.
This is going to be a really really stupid question that I'm sure I already know the obvious answer to but hell now is my chance to ask someone in the gaming industry thats in charge of a game.
Are there any plans to make children zombies? and if you do not mind why not?
The thought of a child zombies scares the hell out of me and maybe the ability for them to run through a 1 meter hole in game.
I'm sure the answer is no and for obvious reasons of course, but I had to ask lol.
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ZombieSurvivor
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I've never played minecraft. I could see that being ok in that pixelated game but for a game that can accurately represent a child zombie...thats another story. I would imagine it would be a major PR disaster.
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dcsobral
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So, MadMole is using electricity in actual game for the first time, and doesn't like the lights. That's nice, but it's also the _first_ thing one learns about electricity, ever since alpha 16. Please, please take into consideration the following, which you might not have stumbled upon. I'll try to be concise and to the point, but I'm not very good at conciseness, I'm afraid.
1) Electric fences are SUPER laggy. They were not used on MadMole's horde night video, so I suspect he hasn't experienced them, and how laggy they are. Try electric fences on horde night. It doesn't need to be everywhere. Just a single electric fence, across that iron bar thing the zombies were climbing. Try that on blood moon, please.
2) Balancing electricity requirements is tricky. If you know ahead of time what you are going to do, maybe you'll plan the consumption requirements right and never see that. If you use it often, however, you'll time and again find yourself in a situation where power provided does not meet power consumption. If you have things activated by timer relays or sensors, it is _very_ easy to find yourself in that situation, and very hard to diagnose it! I doubt this playthrough will have been enough to realize that. It really takes frustration of having it happen over and over to really sink in. Please add a fuse, circuit breaker, or just plain have the generators turn off or even break if power consumption is excessive, but have things fail in visible ways instead of silently!
3) If you haven't used solar banks, you don't know how broken they are.
3.1) A simple solar bank/battery bank setup will often stop working as intended if you stay away from the base for an extended time. Maybe you left at night, and the battery bank was on when the chunk unloaded, maybe you left are morning, and the battery bank was being recharged or not being recharged when the chunk unloaded. Maybe you left during the day and returned at night, or vice versa. Maybe you exited the game away from the base. I don't know what triggers it, but the banks will simply stop working as intended. The batteries will get used up and not recharged during the day, often enough for me. I think there are other abnormal conditions, but in my mind it all turned into a big "it doesn't work".
3.2) Remember item 2? Try having a solar bank feed connected to more devices than it can power, and then try to do anything useful. Fight a roaming horde, for example. Open and close stations and containers, moving stuff around, crafting. Things get absurdly laggy, and the reason isn't apparent. I'm not sure it happens right away -- it feels like it creeps on you, like some sort of resource leak.
1) Electric fences are SUPER laggy. They were not used on MadMole's horde night video, so I suspect he hasn't experienced them, and how laggy they are. Try electric fences on horde night. It doesn't need to be everywhere. Just a single electric fence, across that iron bar thing the zombies were climbing. Try that on blood moon, please.
2) Balancing electricity requirements is tricky. If you know ahead of time what you are going to do, maybe you'll plan the consumption requirements right and never see that. If you use it often, however, you'll time and again find yourself in a situation where power provided does not meet power consumption. If you have things activated by timer relays or sensors, it is _very_ easy to find yourself in that situation, and very hard to diagnose it! I doubt this playthrough will have been enough to realize that. It really takes frustration of having it happen over and over to really sink in. Please add a fuse, circuit breaker, or just plain have the generators turn off or even break if power consumption is excessive, but have things fail in visible ways instead of silently!
3) If you haven't used solar banks, you don't know how broken they are.
3.1) A simple solar bank/battery bank setup will often stop working as intended if you stay away from the base for an extended time. Maybe you left at night, and the battery bank was on when the chunk unloaded, maybe you left are morning, and the battery bank was being recharged or not being recharged when the chunk unloaded. Maybe you left during the day and returned at night, or vice versa. Maybe you exited the game away from the base. I don't know what triggers it, but the banks will simply stop working as intended. The batteries will get used up and not recharged during the day, often enough for me. I think there are other abnormal conditions, but in my mind it all turned into a big "it doesn't work".
3.2) Remember item 2? Try having a solar bank feed connected to more devices than it can power, and then try to do anything useful. Fight a roaming horde, for example. Open and close stations and containers, moving stuff around, crafting. Things get absurdly laggy, and the reason isn't apparent. I'm not sure it happens right away -- it feels like it creeps on you, like some sort of resource leak.
AtomicUs5000
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He's talked about this recently. Basically he said they are discussing the addition of small child-sized creatures, but well beyond the form of a human child.
falloutcloud
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Maybe a dwarf/little person zombie?
MechanicalLens
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Or some sort of a zombie imp of some kind?
AtomicUs5000
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Looks a little like baby Wights.
I still think Wights should have the ability to turn dismembered zombie body parts into Thing-like creatures.
MechanicalLens
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Yeah, it's unfortunate that wights have no special properties, imo.
Demonoid74
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lol I was using those same models in a test world I made last year...they actually aren't terrible and running thru tall grass at high speeds was kind of cool...
ZombieSurvivor
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oh my, that is friggin' scary!
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Chronic Cougher
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lol. I'm kinda hoping to get an answer from Madmole why no children because you never really see kids in any game that you can hurt. I always assumed it would be extremely bad PR. I'm more curious as to why the gaming industry does not go down that road.
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