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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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One could argue that you haven't shipped one either.
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But I have. TFP is not my first gig, and not even my first studio I've owned. I developed games indy, for activision, NC Soft, Dreamcatcher, etc.

 
If I may make a suggestion as to explain why some people (including myself) 'kneejerk' at this stuff - it would be this.
We have had certain 'features' added to the game - digging zombies being one of them for a start - which some people (again, myself included) do not like and wish could be turned off.

Having the option to disable features, certain zombies, or anything else can only be a positive thing. Choice. Lets say it together - choice.

C. H. O. I. C. E.

Did I mention choice? That way any selfish individuals intolerant to options - having things both ways and not only 'their way' could just shut their traps and play exactly how they like, and the rest of us can flip switches and enjoy, and be grateful to the developers for bestowing such wonderful gifts upon us to create our very own truly individual instances.

#LikeThat'llEverHappen 😂
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well you have the choice to totally "skip" screamers and their digging:

4 walls + 1 hole acting as a door + 1 turrent inside, you dont even need a hacth to block the way down to your base, they will look after the path of less resistance wich is the hole in the wallonce they cross the door bye bye. Or if you want to be cheap just double surround your base with wooden spikes, 1 spike kills a screamer, your problem is that you are trying to shut yourself up so hard that the path of less resistance for them is digging

 
I called him an idiot in retaliation to his insult, so seems fair to me?
I apologize for the harsh words MM but it’s difficult to tell if you’re serious or not when you call someone a peasant and tell them to meet you at e3 with their own game. I understand it must be frustrating when people haven’t played a18 to gauge anything off.

I’m just trying to fight the good fight with Guppy, a zombie game doesn’t need less zombies in the world.

I know you have random encounters planned but I can’t help but feel thats at least a year off.

Again, sorry for my anger but I am one of those passionate ♥♥♥♥ ones who kickstarted this game, and all the fallout, rpg and less zeds talk worries me.
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No worries man. We all love the game otherwise we wouldn't be here to talk about it. I turned up how fast the respawn and it has a nice effect of feeling like more zombies. Because they don't respawn for 4 days, but remember a lot of them die of old age and you kill them, so its a deceiving thing. What really matters is what you see, not what is there in a text file. By reducing numbers of actual ones spawned but making them respawn faster, we have less total alive, but more seem to be roaming about now doing stuff. So we gain performance and maybe have more zombies in some situations now.

I don't flat out disagree with people very much, most times we want the same things, but we can't do it all, so sometimes sacrifices have to be made for performance until we can engineer something way better.

 
How far have you taken that? Do we always spawn in temperate forest now or is there still a chance for snow and desert?
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Everywhere but wasteland, but in the future it might be just forest. Depends how harsh we want weather and other biomes to be.

 
Everywhere but wasteland, but in the future it might be just forest. Depends how harsh we want weather and other biomes to be.
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Having the player be guaranteed to spawn in the forest would be excellent, imo. It would create a sense of progression - you need to loot clothes that give you better and better heat/cold protection before you can venture out into those biomes.

But yeah, having the player possibly spawn in the wasteland... That was quite frustrating, and I could have seen that turning off new players. Good change. :)

 
ok, so we got a forum whore, Navezganes's perv and a ____ going full Orsey in a bar...

we need a third title to fill the blank

 
ok, so we got a forum whore, Navezganes's perv and a ____ going full Orsey in a bar...

we need a third title to fill the blank
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I don't know what this pertains to, but how about Milk Drinker? That's been bandied about before.

 
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