PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Edit: Second spelling error found. ("Wolves are common predator...")

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Fixed, thanks!

 
This is the kind of video I wanted to see - mining is what I love.
Question - While in the nitrate/lead mine you mentioned "I guess I could use nitrate for farming" what do you mean? Nitrate had nothing to do with farming in A17.x

PS: I love the new nodes and how minerals look - kudos to the Art/Graphics team on making things look so much better!
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Are you trolling here, trying to reignite the farming gate?

Thanks, I designed and tasked the entire system, it needed to be intuitive. I love mining now for the first time since the old gravel mines were removed.

 
Because it's the same game throughout but with different weapons.
Level 1, kill easy zombies with a bow. Takes 5 shots. Loot is crap.

Level 50, kill medium zombies with a modded crossbow. Takes 5 shots. Loot is medium.

Level 100, kill harder zombies with a rifle. Takes 5 shots. Loot is better.

...there is no valid *reason* to "succeed" in this game.
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Well there is survival, and feeling of progress. And of course my favorite Texas Diner's sign on the wall that says "It ain't braggin' if ya done it".

 
@MM/TFP - what is the logic behind Master chef inside the General Strength Perks? it use to be in INT and that kinda made sense.
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INT guys have medical expertise to heal their wounds, bodybuilders I mean strength guys use food to heal. The fort guy uses natural healing to heal. Agility and perception avoid damage with ranged/bombs and stealth/bows so they don't need a way to heal.

 
Oh, I've said I suck at this game from the very beginning, and have never pretended to know it all; I leave that to the professional quake players. =)
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Maybe if you had a constitution variable, and "good" food fed into that? That way eating healthy could help stave off all sorts of illnesses?
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All food except canned has a risk of food poisoning now, unless you buy the metabolism perk, so "good food" is kinda debatable. Canned foods don't fill you up and are safe, the best foods are the cooked recipes like 17, but that wasteland grown post war foods carries its risks and benefits.

 
With regard to a change of experience gain in settings, a pop up window would be a good thing: "It's not going to be easier, on the contrary, are you sure you want to increase the difficulty? (you idiot)"? Or just a tooltip when mouse is over.

I play with 200% xp waiting for A18 : it's easy for 4 days then it becomes very nasty. Love it. Short runs are good too, don't remove this feature, please. (my nephew thinks the game is called "Day One" because that's what he reads at the top of the screen every time he watches me play. Survivalist, always sprint, dead is dead : enjoy the map, the next will be worse...)

 
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I do get amazed people say "It's taking you 5 years and it only took 1 for &lt;insert AAA game here&gt; to come out!" when that's only because they don't see the 10 years prior to any kind of announcement...
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Hahah yeah even Bethesda has turned into a ♥♥♥♥ show lately taking over 10 years to get us another Elder Scrolls. They used to create a masterpiece every 3 to 4 years max with 1/4 the size team they have now, so I'm not sure what the delay is all about. Probably because consoles are piles of crap and hold devs back from making great next gen games. They are developing on 2019 pcs and current gen consoles are like 10 year old pcs.

 
I really miss the wellness system and how eating good homecooked food was rewarded by directly making you healthier. Honestly that's probably the reason why farming became fruitless in the first place, many of the dishes that awarded wellness also needed fresh crops. When wellness was removed, so did the incentive to grow your own food. There absolutely needs to be a benefit to eating prepared dishes, maybe chili dogs up your fortitude for 10 minutes or something like that. Or just bring back the wellness system in some format, it was pretty good.
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Yes, food isn't done, I have plans for it.

 
@madmole,

In the video, you stated you did not want your ladder to fall. Can you tell me if the mines can still collapse on you?

I know I had one collapse on me when I was playing the console version, but did not experience that in the updated Stream version.

Yet.

Thanks in advance.

Semper Fi

 
Madmole,
Thank you for the video! Nice to see it is coming along and we are getting closer everyday. I do have a question/ concern that has been mentioned and talked about a bit, but I am hoping for a bit more definitive answer.

You are on day 9 and I am concerned with the amount and quality of the loot you have found already:

The lvl 6 AK is the easy one, but there are many more

Lvl 4: Arm Armor, Blunderbuss?

Lvl 3: Leg armor, chest armor, mining helmet, iron pick axe, 2 javelins?

Other: BDU tops and bottoms, quite a few bullets/ shells, a grenade, hunting knife, 300 pills, lvl 2 wrench

It seems like that is a lot of powerful stuff for day 9. I am in the camp that loot found is WAY overpowered. It is not that it has to be all crap, but you have found a lvl 6 gun, the most efficient clothing in the game and all that other stuff by day 9.

Thank you again for the video and if this is the intent, then that is cool, I just wanted to flesh it out a bit.

Caz
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Well I have lucky looter and I do multiple quests every day, so I acquire a ton of good rewards pretty fast. Air drops can drop anything now not just food. Lucky looter may need a nerf or change.

 
I like all these A18 concepts as they are described, but will no doubt take getting used to, because so much of basic play in A17 required getting points into INT fast to do basic stuff (efficient resource mining, building horde-ready structures, tool making, exploring/vehicles, big POI clearing with weapons/ammo.)
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Yes its very nice because you make a specific build now and just have fun playing. The slow leveling isn't a problem to me because there are no level gates and you find a lot of loot that can improve your life. Random stats allow for a lot of variety in loot, just because I found a pink Ak doesn't mean its awesome. It could have a bum stat like durability.

 
Well I have lucky looter and I do multiple quests every day, so I acquire a ton of good rewards pretty fast. Air drops can drop anything now not just food. Lucky looter may need a nerf or change.
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If it needs a nerf it might not need to be a huge one. I find it ok in a17.4. Though I wouldn't mind a bit less frequency of t6 appearances. 1% less maybe? . Trader rewards on t5 quests give t6s quite frequently too.

 
Hahah yeah even Bethesda has turned into a ♥♥♥♥ show lately taking over 10 years to get us another Elder Scrolls. They used to create a masterpiece every 3 to 4 years max with 1/4 the size team they have now, so I'm not sure what the delay is all about. Probably because consoles are piles of crap and hold devs back from making great next gen games. They are developing on 2019 pcs and current gen consoles are like 10 year old pcs.
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...SO glad to read you say this... =)

 
Could we get an MF update or do you already know how likely this friday is looking? Sitting on needles here. :p
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20 MF's its not looking too good. We'll make the official decision tomorrow. MP and RWG stuff mostly. Junk turrets disappear of a dead body dies by it, which really sucks. Thrown spears against rage zombies goes right through them, another can't ship bug. Good thing I'm doing INT Perception build. RWG 8k won't work on radeon. Some RWG maps have no trader at all, towns spawning in rad zones. We'll get it, but its too much on one guy right now. 15% this Friday chance IMO, 90% chance for Oct 4.

I sure could use a couple more weeks to polish perception/intellect too. As much as I am having fun I'd like those builds to have my stamp of approval too. No idea if they are horde viable.

 
There are different pickaxes and having a ranch I have several. some have a flat side. although the artwork does not reflect it, a standard pickaxe, similar to a "pick mattock", has a pointed end on one side of its head and a broad flat "axe" blade opposite. A gradual curve spans the length of the head. The next most common configuration features two spikes, one slightly longer than the other. this seems to be the one the TFP Art team chose to display and is the wrong type to be using for digging.
this is what I was I think TFP should design as art as it plays well into MM's description of multi-use.

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That might be a good immersion animation update.. change the pickaxe model and if it collides with gravel or dirt rotate it in hand to the flat

scrape side. If it collides with rock rotate it to the point side.

I would imagine the hand is a separate model from the held tool, so that should be a pretty easy animation job, and there has to be a collision detection for the block type being mined.

 
But please explain then, why an experimental is experimental, and stable is stable. Maybe some didn't get the point.Anyone who opts into experimental should be aware there may be some bugs. Or lots of them.

That's why it's called experimental

I can't understand people whining because of bugs in an Alpha, and more accurate experimental Alpha.....

To my mind they should (pee) off and wait for gold!

The Mainstream is still on A17.4 branch. They won't be annoyed.

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Do you want to lose your Q6 junk turret? Do you want your spear to go right through a rage zombie and then get stunned and death looped instead of being victorious? You will be the one raging lol. They are MF for a reason, they are nasty game breakers. I know the hype is real as it should be. But being patient means it will be that much sweeter when you do get it. Bugs just ruin all the hard work we put into it.

 
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