PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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This is what I’ve been saying! The Journal tab is useless at the moment. It should trigger on screen tutorials as you do things to help explain them with the option to skip that tutorial or all of them (for us vets).
I’m happy someone else gets it.

Loc
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It's not that it's useless; just unrefined. You can't pause the game while you're reading it, the text style is messy and mostly text walls, there are no pictures for engagement and interest... Just my personal critique.

 
Regardless, you have to look at two sides. 500 players vs 1 million new players. And I'd hate to say it, but the majority of new players to any game are noobs. Idiots. Just saying. *Shrugs*
It's not that farming was too hard; it's just that it was too overly complex for something so simple.
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yep but for me... nothing in the game was hard,, i just didnt want to do any farming back in the day because if i wanted to play a farming simulator.. i'd bought one of the dozens out there. as it is now... i like having to gather the resources to make a plot and place it down where i want it and if i want to move it... i break out the shovel and i can get the plot placed in my inventory.

with all the argument over the plots... nobody seems to have mentioned that ark has plots you craft and place down too. :)

all this frees me up to go out bashing zombie skulls and petting the puppies and teddy bears..... &lt;runs away before rabbit sees me&gt;

 
I aggree. Can plant boxes be placed horizontally or even upside down ? It is absolutely necessary for my new architectural style combining Gaudi's naturalism with M.C.Escher's topology.


I love it when people start a dialog with themselves via alternate account :smile-new:
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Not sure if we let you do weird rotations or any of that. Might be able to grow upside down cor.

 
Regardless, you have to look at two sides. 500 players vs 1 million new players. And I'd hate to say it, but the majority of new players to any game are noobs. Idiots. Just saying. *Shrugs*
It's not that farming was too hard; it's just that it was too overly complex for something so simple.
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♥♥♥♥ting on your current player base’s concerns for some assumption of mass amounts of new players is a great plan...

Farming doesn’t need to be a simulation, but it was close to being something worth investing skill points and time into. It also helped with giving a balance of intense action and downtime. Without the time investment, imo, it takes away a possible play style and choice of how to spend time in a game that’s basically a race against time every week.

Loc

 
And that is how you shut trolls... Though I respect Jax and his work, and I know he is not troll, just that he get in middle of such cute comment.
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We have to make the game accessible and easy to get hooked on, he has to make it hardcore/diferent for those looking to extend the life of the vanilla product.

 
Will there be anything triggering my Trypophobia in A18?

(If so, please remove all of it. It's unfair that I need to suffer just to usher in some new feature.)

:nightmare:

-Morloc

 
Beer is a short term melee damage boost, works great with knuckles.
Coffee increases damage to ores and boosts stamina, drink 3 at once to stack the duration and mine all night!
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Yes ! Wanted these two be more effective and improve experience so much, thanks :)

 
A18 will go down as the: "Get off your lazy ass!" build. :) NOW, I believe, you have to explore the world... hard. Because GameStage will eat you if you piss around too much.

I love and hate the demo zombie, which means WELL DONE TFP!

No more working during hoard night for me, I have to engage at least THAT GUY! So now I will look and listen for him and unleash as much hell on him as I can!

GOD, how I want to play A18 now. :D
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Yes 18 is legit fun, I can't wait to get it out to you guys and transform the community. I'll say it again, don't turn up the XP because you need time to prepare for the impending doom and time to loot good gear to deal with it. You don't need 120 perks to be awesome anymore.

 
It's not that it's useless; just unrefined. You can't pause the game while you're reading it, the text style is messy and mostly text walls, there are no pictures for engagement and interest... Just my personal critique.
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By useless I mean it doesn’t help the player at the time it needs to be explained because it’s hidden in a menu. It doesn’t make sense to try something, fail at it, then 20 mins later when you’re in the menu doing something else, click the tab and be like “oh, that could have helped me 20 minutes ago!”. That’s not intuitive at all imo.

Loc

 
Very nice, testing the INT build.
I hope you can go full INT, it would certainly enlighten many of us who recently, erm, 'discussed' it 😆
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No I'm doing perception right now, but I could try perception/int but that leaves me a bit weak on armor but that might be fine. I did fid a turret last night plopped it down behind a rabbit and it instantly one shotted it at 2 meters away lol. Was awesome because the crude bow, is well crude.

 
Yes 18 is legit fun, I can't wait to get it out to you guys and transform the community. I'll say it again, don't turn up the XP because you need time to prepare for the impending doom and time to loot good gear to deal with it. You don't need 120 perks to be awesome anymore.
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I typically play either on 90 minute days (just to give me some more resource gathering time) or 60 minute days. I'm curious, how do you think a 90 minute playthrough will fair in A18?

 
O.O More repetitive than the same enemies just spawning randomly?(EDIT: more repetitive than lumberjacks in the snow biome? I'd love to see something other than that there.) I am with the crowd that fondly remembers the killfest that old cities were, but this is not that. This is removing a bunch of worthless spawns that are just there to fill space. I drive or run past that stuff half the time, anyway. I really think the tired old "OH LORD LET'S HAND OUT THE PARTICIPATION TROPHIES" reactions are just kneejerk reactions with misplaced anger. I am looking forward to better FPS and targeted encounters instead of spawning a half dozen zombies and pretending that that's a busy, immersive world.
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Except the cougars, apart from maybe one blood-curdling roar just before they rip the back of your skull off. As frustrating as it could be to die to them, I loved the jumpscare those things provided in Red Dead Redemption. I can't think of anything scarier in that game.
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If you think you're going to see a performance increase because by zombies were cut in half you are quite mistaken. I don't care what kind of potato you have, biome zombies never amounted to more zombies in on a blood moon... ...and if your PC could handle those then your PC could handle biome zombies.

Sometimes I would see a poi in the distance, and I might want to go investigate, but then I might see three or four snow zombies milling about, and I had to rethink visiting the POI because of those zombies. Now I don't even have to worry about seeing them. Straight to the POI so I can cheese that AI.

*Yawn*

 
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Couldn't have said it better.
I know I could be jumping the gun, but from the explanations from MM, it appears that the game is only going to concentrate on 4 survival aspects. Killing zombies, building your fort, looting and a small amount of crafting. You could say trader, food, gardening, perks, electricity, health, clothes and mining are becoming dumbed down systems that support the other 4, but are only less than 5% of the game now. Definitely don't seem to be the rich and rewarding systems they once were.
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Crafting pockets for clothing is now a thing I love to do early game.

Complicated farming didn't make the game rich, it made it clunky AF. Just because you managed to learn it doesn't mean it was a good design for the game. I craft a ton of stuff, just not magenta things any more. Thank god, end game was way too early.

 
Sleepers are not bad at all, but its a nature`s instinct for an animal to go out and look for food and water, or brains, wandering around. It is not inconvinience, it is how life works. Its nonsense that they will clear them from streets. I won`t talk about that anymore. Lets move on. :)
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i mean, these are zombies though, i think they already ignored how life works by existing

 
10 million customers? Of which max 10 thousand are playing simultaneously? I guess there's a 0.001% remark in there somewhere..
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Well 9 million of those are console users, and you already know how THEY feel...

 
TFP thank you all for this interesting place to talk about how awesome A18 is and all the features! better farming, less ninja wolfs, a return to books in loot, better mining, quests, new POI's, perk tree fixes, different ways to play the game, the list goes on and on! i only have 120 hours in the game i am a newb but im excited to play and love all the news you have posted. not gonna lie Madmole has me scared im gonna die lots of times from making rookie mistakes and playing it like alpha 16 or 17. good times ahead!

 
I like the new system. I'm surprised that no clay is needed in the recipe, but I accept that. The farming plots will save me space in my roof gardens.
Do you need a perk or a book to build the farm pots ?
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Nope.

 
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