PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

    Votes: 2 66.7%

  • <img alt=":)" data-src="" src="___base_url___/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Total voters
    3
Status
Not open for further replies.
Watched the recent video, and now it makes me want to spec in fortitude when A18 comes. It does show how different it'll be from the current version.

 
Pre orders were doing fine before Kickstarter. We were reluctant to do a kickstarter because we were already extremely successful in pre orders. Kickstarter might have actually hurt sales because we had a key distribution problem and disabled sales for over a week when sales were booming, so we maybe have lost more revenue than gained. We greenlit on Steam, KS was just a tiny fraction of revenue and it had a bunch of ambitious features we were forced into, honestly we might have been done and by now and done better without it.
Click to expand...
I thought the kickstarter was very successful for you as you got more then double then the goal. It's reported TFP deleted their contact details as they got bombarded with emails etc. Which complicated things with Tripwire Interactive whom had to do a takedown and thought that was the reason TFP lost sales for over a week.

Have to ask, it's been 5 years after the estimated delivery that will the "5x5 grid Crafting System" be included as listed on the kickstarter? I noticed it was in game then was taken out.

 
"Ammo is too underpowered! Big buff needed!" Lol
Click to expand...
It feels like its not in balance yet. Make more bullets but reduce the damage per bullet isn't a good idea IMO.

- - - Updated - - -

I thought the kickstarter was very successful for you as you got more then double then the goal. It's reported TFP deleted their contact details as they got bombarded with emails etc. Which complicated things with Tripwire Interactive whom had to do a takedown and thought that was the reason TFP lost sales for over a week. Have to ask, it's been 5 years after the estimated delivery that will the "5x5 grid Crafting System" be included as listed on the kickstarter? I noticed it was in game then was taken out.
Click to expand...
TFP thought it was a clunky way of doing things and I have to agree. What is gained by having it?

 
You should have first asked gently, and made dinner for romance class. Not take it directly.
- - - Updated - - -

There's only one of us in here romancing stones or rocks.

- - - Updated - - -

Wash your hands before waving them around, young man!
Click to expand...
especially after what you and snowdog have been doing.

 
What about rocks?
Click to expand...
giphy.gif


=)

 
giphy.gif

=)
Click to expand...
Hehehe! :D

- - - Updated - - -

I wouldn't worry too much about it. I thought pedantry was banned before waking up to a two page conversation about processor architecture. :-)
Click to expand...
Lol yeah.. This dev diary has long stopped being a dev diary. More a 'dev free-for-all'.

 
If you find all the parts to the 4x4 (or any vehicle) in Pass-N-Gas boxes, you can assemble the vehicle at the workbench with no perks/levels required. An oversight perhaps?
Click to expand...

Huh. *Shrugs* I assumed it was a feature because you could do the same back in A16 with a minibike; the book was only need to craft (and repair?) the parts, but you could find the parts out in the wild.
Click to expand...
Can we find wheels out in the world? I always had to make mine. I don't recall ever finding any but then maybe I never looted enough. Finding 4 wheels by Day 3 still seems damn lucky to me.

MADMOLE.

In your video I noticed 2 things. These are not me telling you how to play just observations.

1. You didn't seem to have any of your storage crates sorted and it looked like you were having some trouble finding stuff when it was coming down to the wire.

The Golden Rule I was told was ABC - Always Be Sorting.

2. When you were shooting the zombies in your killing corridor you didn't take the oppotunity when there was a lull (for just a few seconds) to reload your weapon.

The Golden Rule I was told was ABC - Always Be Reloading.

Yes, I know. A lot of players have said The Golden Rule is ABC - Always Be Crafting but I didn't find that amusing enough :D

I also know that having to explain your own joke is lame but I just didn't want the multitude of posts I would get about it ;)

 
Can we find wheels out in the world? I always had to make mine. I don't recall ever finding any but then maybe I never looted enough. Finding 4 wheels by Day 3 still seems damn lucky to me.
Click to expand...
Yup, you can find wheels out in the world. They can be found in cars or, much more commonly, in garage storage boxes. You can find any vehicle parts or materials to make vehicle parts in garage storage boxes. (:

 
If you find all the parts to the 4x4 (or any vehicle) in Pass-N-Gas boxes, you can assemble the vehicle at the workbench with no perks/levels required. An oversight perhaps?
Click to expand...

Yup, you can find wheels out in the world. They can be found in cars or, much more commonly, in garage storage boxes. You can find any vehicle parts or materials to make vehicle parts in garage storage boxes. (:
Click to expand...
Good to know. Am in process of trying to make a couple of 4x4's for the group. Will have to do some wrenching and looting I guess lol

 
Good to know. Am in process of trying to make a couple of 4x4's for the group. Will have to do some wrenching and looting I guess lol
Click to expand...
Just make sure you go on a scavenger hunt for Pass-N-Gas boxes. Lol The places they always spawn are Joey's Used Cars, Pass-N-Gases (of course), Water Work Treatment Plants (I'm assuming you know the super quick way to the loot room?), the old brick fire stations (not the bright red ones), and more often than not, the Gearz POI.

 
Just make sure you go on a scavenger hunt for Pass-N-Gas boxes. Lol The places they always spawn are Joey's Used Cars, Pass-N-Gases (of course), Water Work Treatment Plants (I'm assuming you know the super quick way to the loot room?), the old brick fire stations (not the bright red ones), and more often than not, the Gearz POI.
Click to expand...
You seem to be watching all the videos of JaWoodle to get to know all these places.

 
Just make sure you go on a scavenger hunt for Pass-N-Gas boxes. Lol The places they always spawn are Joey's Used Cars, Pass-N-Gases (of course), Water Work Treatment Plants (I'm assuming you know the super quick way to the loot room?), the old brick fire stations (not the bright red ones), and more often than not, the Gearz POI.
Click to expand...

Ok Thanks

 
MM, I just saw the latest video and I have to say I'm disappointed at no dogs, vultures, bears and very few demolishers. And they only came in the end when you were running around outside.

I would love to see some blow up in your dart trap corridor or inside your base with that increased block damage they got after your day 84 video.

If I understood it correctly, their block damage got buffed from 500 to 5000 after your day 84 video. Which is also shown by that demolisher making a huge crater in the ground in this video.

Imho demolishers are a nice addition to the game but this increased explosion block damage needs a rethink/rework to get into the right spot. Like the ability to take them out without detonating them, just like we can do with cops.

It would be nice if you could experience first hand how quickly they will wreck all your hard work if you get unlucky and get swarmed by a few inside your base like in the day 84 video.

Anyway, keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to A18, hopefully this year and hopefully without demolishers blowing up my base every horde night :)

 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top