PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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madmole
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Biomes are large areas. It flips the map around randomly so cold might be south or north you never know. We want to improve it so its less predictable (once you figure it out you kind of know for sure what to expect) but its shippable for 18.I'm not exactly sure if Madmole is playing RWG but it looks like it. This doesn't show much but maybe rwg has changed?
ZombieSurvivor
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I'm glad to hear that. I was never a fan of the patch work biom layout.
Guppycur
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I *think* just yesterday I finally got a sort of handle on the food/water/health/stamina relationship, like how bandages affect max health but food affects health... They seem backwards. Food should affect max health and bandages health, no?
...still don't understand waters role though. Stamina seems directly affected by food too, which also makes sense.
madmole
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We're going to redesign it in 19. Imagine a standard (well new standard 18) debuff pop up called "Critical Injury" that subtracts 40 max health. You will need a medical item to cure it over time a certain amount. You'll see it subtract when you apply the medical bandage. Much more standard and easy to understand because it will be just like infection or most other diseases (how they are handled in 18).
Right now its just spam crafting common bandages to restore it, and its a constant thing. Its just dumb micro maintenance.
AtomicUs5000
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Glad you're still looking at it. Some days I imagine my character as a mummy with the number of bandages I've applied (or with one really oversized arm)
TWORDY
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Thank You.
Im waiting for next Alpha with huuuuge exctiement. I`ve already managed to convince few mates to put their hard earned money on this game and studio, but mainly to support people and families behind the project. You guys keep going no matter what while some of major league AAA titles and studios are scre*ing around while having tremendous budget and exceptional experience (pardons for my language). New textures, improved biom generation, improved animations and rendering, new content really adds to this game a lot. Stay brave and experiment as much as You can, who knows what can be seen next.
Thank You again.
Im waiting for next Alpha with huuuuge exctiement. I`ve already managed to convince few mates to put their hard earned money on this game and studio, but mainly to support people and families behind the project. You guys keep going no matter what while some of major league AAA titles and studios are scre*ing around while having tremendous budget and exceptional experience (pardons for my language). New textures, improved biom generation, improved animations and rendering, new content really adds to this game a lot. Stay brave and experiment as much as You can, who knows what can be seen next.
Thank You again.
ecv
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Catching up on posts. But will the dug-in boxes align with the terrain? Or will there be gaps?
And I will definitely miss a planted Hill full of flowers. Our server absolutely would mod the hoe back in, just to be able to plant on slopes, without making them look like a stacked terrace
DUST2DEATH
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It will be gaps and terraces as far as the eye can see. everywhere.Catching up on posts. But will the dug-in boxes align with the terrain? Or will there be gaps?
And I will definitely miss a planted Hill full of flowers. Our server absolutely would mod the hoe back in, just to be able to plant on slopes, without making them look like a stacked terrace
Aldranon
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For cold, it could be a simple formula: (Total insulation value of cloths = seconds before dropping one degree of body temp)
You could do something similar with heat, but it would not be as accurate.
Also:
If too cold: every point of Food used, body temp +1; Max +1 every 30 seconds
If too hot: every point of Water used, body temp -1; Max -1 every 30 seconds
Not perfect, but something like that.
Edit: Also the outside temp could be completely ignored if its within 1/3rd of the insulation values:
So 60 total insulation would have + or - 20 degrees of normal body temp.
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ecv
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Farming is one of the easiest things one can do. Put seed in fertilish ground. Wait. The amount of rain in the game is more than sufficient. Why shouldn't that be a day one thing?
It's way easier than hunting for sure.
So should we restrict game hunting to perhaps day 30? After enough target practice?
Farming should be easier and just work in any ground apart from dirt if you ask me. The plots are nice for decoration
MechanicalLens
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And they are... excellent.
Gazz
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Yeh, honestly if it wasn't for MM's vids I'da never known about the bandage spam method, and continued to wonder why my health never got higher.
This can pop up if
- your max health is lowered
- your regular health is completely filled up (up to the blacked-out part)
- you are eating food (or whatever) that adds "food healing" but no "max health healing"
This is the exact case of not understanding the health system and trying to heal with food when that is not possible.
This buff/message can only trigger every 5 minutes and it will trigger a maximum of 5 times for a player.
Yes, we have a journal page for that but most don't read that so I'd shove the one critical piece of it into their faces. =P
Gazz
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In a18 you can be lvl 5 or 6 forever. Several times I have asked for a way to cut down XP gain for myself (the opposite of nerd goggles) and now I got one without even trying.My playthrough is simple. Loot small garage and wasteland pois getting the same loot I would from a bigger, more dangerous ones, til day 5, then find some sturdy poi and chop out access to the top with my stone axe, then survive day 7.
...repeat method until I have enough stuff to start my own base.
Oh, and I die a few times in between due to fully owned stupidity.
Keeps the GS low, too, making my day to day lighter.
I don't always like to play the rat race. I'm fine with not having many perks and going looting/exploring instead.
I see almost everyone chase after XP and I cannot understand why. They are shooting themselves in the foot trying to "win" the game.
MechanicalLens
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Yeah, I was approaching a giant one time in Skyrim when he swung his arm at me and sent me flying into the stratosphere. Those giants have really good arms.
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