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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Yeah Norway is beautiful. I've worked there for some time.. It's a great place to live!
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Rock's!!!!

im planing on drawing some zombie ideas on paper and then draw it on Micro paint

or i may make a video to show my ideas so

A I can explain it better

and B so you guys can make fun of me

 
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I plan on watching various streams and chatting.
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I look forward to your comments on Jawoodle's videos trying to break your ai with his tunnel of death! (I hope the new ai changes can wreck it so I'm not tempted to do something similar.)

Sadly that boy doesn't have the bandwidth to stream, so he'll only be posting his videos on Youtube.

It must be fun trying to come up with evil ways to thwart us cheesing the ai!

 

Faatal, would you be behind the artificial intelligence of the bandits? If so, how do you see it as a challenge?

 
Interesting. Would you say AI is the biggest bottleneck preventing more zombies at once?
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As far as I know this has been the case for A17. I tested low res textures on zombies and allowed much more on screen without heavy fps losses, but shutting off the AI always increased the fps significantly as well. Having a ton of zombies, say 100+ alive at once you will see the AI bottleneck and cause many to just idle for a couple of seconds.

I hope Faatal has something cooking to make it more efficient, would love to be able to get more zombies on at once.

Maybe a much simpler controller could be a solution, one for filler zombies on Hordes/bloodmoons and then the more expensive one only reserved for sleepers and world zombies.

 
please bring back upside down drawbridges in A18, i want my elevator back :offended: ( used it in pvp servers instead of ladder )

 
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please bring back upside down drawbridges in A18, i want my elevator back :offended: ( used it in pvp servers instead of ladder )

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You know its ungodly easy to add full rotation to any block in the xml, right?

 
please bring back upside down drawbridges in A18, i want my elevator back :offended: ( used it in pvp servers instead of ladder )

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Less glitchy stuff the better, to be honest. (sorry hatch users!)

Madmole mentioned he would like to look at a block railing system that would support rails/elevators. I could pull out the quote somewhere, but yeesh.. good luck sifting through posts lately :p .

Agreed though, some sort of elevator system would be a great addition, I liked Conan's implementation (I mean, if a barbarian can have one, why can't we? We can make motion sensor turrets for crap sake), it was slow as heck but the option to go vertical or horizontal was quite nice.

 
Rock's!!!!

im planing on drawing some zombie ideas on paper and then draw it on Micro paint

or i may make a video to show my ideas so

A I can explain it better

and B so you guys can make fun of me
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Hmm.. Rocks..

 
i play only pvp multiplayer servers, its not possible
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There’s a good chance it won’t work anymore in A18 even if you change the rotation.

Things like these are fun, but one should not get too used to using them since at any moment the bug that allows it can get squashed.

 
I played Alpha 9.3 recently to see how the game has changed since then. Back in 17.4, this is the same POI I stayed back in 9.3. Lol Cool!

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I played UO for a couple months actually, got bad memories from all the PVP jerks that specialized in picking on the weaker people around the towns. I had just outgrown the newbie zones and tried several times to make it to the next area to hunt but they would hide on the edge of the city safe zone and hit you with insta-kill spells before you even knew they were there. Was not part of a large guild so had no way of fighting back. To this day it is the only game I ever truely rage quit and a big part of the reason I still dislike unlimited PVP.
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Yep, that was a problem in its early days. Lots of player griefing. I even got scammed out of 200k gold once when a thief stole a 2 story house deed from me immediately after I both it from an npc vendor outside of town.

Their approach to lbd wasnt all that bad. There was a player cap so you could max out more than 7 skills per character. Just took forever to do so.

 
Yep, that was a problem in its early days. Lots of player griefing. I even got scammed out of 200k gold once when a thief stole a 2 story house deed from me immediately after I both it from an npc vendor outside of town.
Their approach to lbd wasnt all that bad. There was a player cap so you could max out more than 7 skills per character. Just took forever to do so.
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But if you chose the right ones to max you were pretty much unstoppable. Pretty sure that is where the term tank-mages came from.

 
Thinking alike. And no I didn't steal that from MM. Probably my dad or grand mom or kindergarten teacher.
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@faatal

question?

will there be new normal zombies in the future?

and will there be different types like

infected father , female biker , business woman , putrid male etc

 
Today I tested my Two Towers of Turmoil to their absolute limits. I had nothing to worry about. 4 hordes, 64 max alive for all of them. Here is the aftermath:

(They seemed much more content with staying underneath me along all four corners or running around the ramps, destroying spikes along the way, then targeting the tower itself. In fact, only once did they do that, and only because I stayed in one corner for to long. Also, almost all of them were irradiateds.)

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I think I just struck gold here, with this classic design. ;)

 
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