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  • A18 Stable is Out!

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You're kind of acting like what they are releasing is the intended end product but faatal specifically said they are still working on it. They don't exceed player speed....yet. Maybe your tone came across incorrectly through the text.
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Actually they can. A raged nightmare speed zombie using the faster walk types is faster than the player.

 
Already said - the animations have to be synced with the speed so that zombies don't slide etc - the point is choosing that speed.
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Not a sync issue. A run anim at whatever play speed you give it is animated and also moves at that speed. The problem was a run animation in the blend tree would not play faster than 1x regardless of entity speed values fed into the blend tree.

 
...tfp should make their own and add the key at the end ... :)
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But, only if:

1. They don't publicize it.

2. It's for a really limited number of uses...

BTW - You and Adam the Wasterer got some kind of Master/Grasshopper thing going?

 
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Thats different, If I'm not mistaken that doesn't stretch your image into a piece of distorted crap.
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I wasn't addressing that, just my performance running 3 Mon. in WSF regarding Lag, FPS & overall gameplay. Even with the Cursed 7DTD memory leak I have only had minor performance problems. When we had the problem with the big cities or towns & Z Spawns the buildings were falling down & it was like your player was moving in slow motion. Soon as you backed away from the Town it would stop but you could still see it all tumbling down. I am serious about the Graphics though & that was my other point that the graphics from the early Alpha's & now are like night & day, giant leap for Z-Kind.

Has Crossfire been addressed yet or is it going to be down the road if at all. That's the only other concerns with my PC, not using both cards in Crossfire.

You guys really nailed it with all the new systems though, I went back to Nav because of the problems in RWG last Alpha & can't wait to create a new World again.

So what happened with the original Story Line from the Early Alphas, it disappeared. It used to be you got attacked by Bandits & they stole all your stuff. They left 1 Bandit behind to kill you but he felt sorry for you & he left you in your Tidy Whitey's with a can of Chili, Water, bandage, etc...Hence the Old Saying "Naked & Afraid"

Why did we get rid of it?

I might have quoted the wrong post...

 
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That would not be hard to do, but I don't know that we want to do it. There is something to be said for some consistency with enemy types. Should a demolition model be able to have spider behavior and jump around or be a crawler? I don't think so. Arlene's walk is a recognizable aspect of who she is. Maybe she can start as a crawler? Every run type? Don't care for it, but possibly more variety.
Short answer: yes and no.
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Several zombies share the same animations (zombieSteve, zombieFarmer and zombieUtilityWorker, for example). At the very least, it would be nice to get them some unique animations.

Personally, I think all crawlers should spawn with one or both legs missing like they used to, and can be of any "normal" zombie torso, not just the zombieSteve model.

Bonus suggestion: since you have the Nightmare speed tweaks in the works, how about adding a Naruto speed option (faster than vehicles), and give all the zeds Naruto Run animations? :D :D :D

Happy A18 Stream Weekend!

 
That would not be hard to do, but I don't know that we want to do it. There is something to be said for some consistency with enemy types. Should a demolition model be able to have spider behavior and jump around or be a crawler? I don't think so. Arlene's walk is a recognizable aspect of who she is. Maybe she can start as a crawler? Every run type? Don't care for it, but possibly more variety.
Short answer: yes and no.
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But why we need to recognise Arlene as low end zombie, or fat cop as mid level? why cannot occasional a fat cop comes running and he cannot spit, but Arlene can spit, but cannot run? I mean why not randomise their individual attribute. I am not saying make it default, but optional or attach to game settings. Having those variation make it totally uncertain, and we treat all zombie with respect and fear from it?

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At least make it available for Modder to randomize this action. I know they can set and extend XML but they still cannot randomize it, maybe just add a Check if random=true, randomize properties or read from XML?

 
Currently zombies of the same type have same speed and thus walk in groups (when wondering horde) and it doesn't look very good. A group of cheerleaders, then a group of nurses etc. When I was playing some mod it had their walk types randomized and so zombies in a horde were spread more even. Not to mention that variety was very welcome.

 
Actually zombies will rage from any damage and on nightmare level they will be raging most of the time as the percent chance of rage goes up with each tier of difficulty.
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Keep in mind, rage % chance when damaged is based on game difficulty. The rage speed they increase to is based on their current move speed. A walker would never rage to nightmare speed. Not yet anyway.

 
Keep in mind, rage % chance when damaged is based on game difficulty. The rage speed they increase to is based on their current move speed. A walker would never rage to nightmare speed. Not yet anyway.
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This is a very clever way of increasing difficulty without turning enemies into bullet sponges, nice

 
For the AI in open terrain: if they are in a group (lets say more than 3 around):

I think it would make sense for some of them randomly not walking towards the target-player, but rather to a random location 10 meters around the players position.

Then switch to attack the player.

This random change would make a larger group surround the player, and attack from different angles, not just cueing up in a line for the player to backtrack and pick out the front-zombie.

 
Keep in mind, rage % chance when damaged is based on game difficulty. The rage speed they increase to is based on their current move speed. A walker would never rage to nightmare speed. Not yet anyway.
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Stacking rage with each portion of damage taken? With a diminishing chance each time damage is taken?

 
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