PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Just make sure you're choosing the right ones. Some of these streamers haven't streamed 7 days in months, and ONLY play when new alphas come in before dropping it like a bad habit. Hopefully you ignore those reactions because they're just streaming for the numbers and no one needs feedback from those types.
Grumbuls is one of the good ones. Legit player, plays for months on end.
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Watching new and inexperienced players can serve the developers as much as watching very experienced players such as JaWoodle or Glock9.

Its different type of feedback from each.

Making the game as accessible as possible to new players is essential to reduce frustration early in the game and keep them playing until they experience the more advanced content.

The internal QA just cant simulate the perspective of a new player.

 
Stats are random, so a blue might be a POS but generally isn't. It generally keeps you in the orange and brown for a while, but there is always that lucky rare drop, but we might have to nerf it more.
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I know it's not a hight priority thing but since there are a lot of stats to compare now, could you guys change how the stats display... (A18.x)

@madmole
Please change how the stats comparison numbers show FROM:

Brass Knuckles (selected) - Steel Knuckles (on mouse over)

Melee Damage - 14 (+10)

Power Attack Damage - 26 (+16)

Block Damage - 4 (+5)

TO:

Melee Damage - 14 (24)

Power Attack Damage - 26 (42)

Block Damage - 4 (9)

IMHO it's way better.
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@MadMole:

Thanks for the random loot and random loot stats. Especially the ability to also potentially loot higher tier stuff early game (with a very small percentage ofc) makes looting a great endeavour. The random stats make it worthwhile over a long period of time.

And the books. In A17 I either used all 30mins buff directly or just put em somewhere, it was too tedious for too limited a gain. Reinventing the wheel ...eeer, the books just uses so much of the game's potential, it's gonna be so much fun

I think you guys are about to mess with my professional and private life, as I am afraid 7d2d will be a huge part of it. Granted, I bought my gf a copy already, so ...

well, I guess I just wanna say: Great job on A18!

 
Just make sure you're choosing the right ones. Some of these streamers haven't streamed 7 days in months, and ONLY play when new alphas come in before dropping it like a bad habit. Hopefully you ignore those reactions because they're just streaming for the numbers and no one needs feedback from those types.
Grumbuls is one of the good ones. Legit player, plays for months on end.
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Grumbul's is good. I jump around to big and small. I want to see all kinds of situations. I even watched the big German stream a bit. Had no clue what they were saying.

 
Incorrect, the traders wares keep me broke all the time late game. Once you feel like you aren't saving for that big vehicle drop any more, you start blowing money on concrete, bullets, bullet supplies, cement, every book you haven't read yet, mods you want, etc. A rare pink gun can take 8k.
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I agree for all these elements (this is the change in gameplay I've been waiting for a lot of alphas). But we were talking about food and I don't think there will be a shortage for that. Finding food has never been a problem and this is why I'm very excited about the new disease system. I'm sure I'll change it quickly to increase the probability of getting sick.

 
I'm sure it was mentioned before but the loot balance does seem a little concerning, kinda like how it was when A17 was first released. There are loot boxes and iron reinforced chests that are easy to get to, and less zombies so they're less defended, then they drop lvl 3 AKs and whatnot on day 2

 
We’re getting it Monday.

The streamer event is both for testing and for marketing... which makes it twice as useful.

There could be a third reason for it, such as The Fun Pimps want to point and laugh at you, making it thrice as useful for them. Whatcha gonna do bout it?

 
And I respect and understand that, all I am saying is you still can limit yourself to streamer video and don't have to active in forum for this weekend. even if you launch for all of us. You can choose to limit yourself.
Streamer video is not really a Testing event, it is marketing event. Experimental release is testing event. :) But, you guys are doing good. Just that your comment about getting info from event seems little off to me.
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Except the forum is still going to fill up with messages that someone has to go through.

Players could still use RWG to make a bad map, then be stuck with it or have to start a new game after we fix it in a few days. We did find some floating buildings in our PREGEN maps.

Streamer video event is whatever I get out of it. If it helps marketing great, but I've got bugs to fix.

Plenty of info: Saw the garage door exploit in action. Glancing blows doing some odd stuff to groups. The vehicle shoot to the sky bug, which no tester has caught a video of before it launched you. FPS drops which we only tonight have found a repro for. Rage boosts in action, which I am tweaking. Stair jump designs, which I plan to adjust destroy area for. Some AI standing around. Why? BM kiting (and complaints) that I am further increasing Nightmare speed for. Disappearing trees that I made an adjustment for.

 
Except the forum is still going to fill up with messages that someone has to go through.Players could still use RWG to make a bad map, then be stuck with it or have to start a new game after we fix it in a few days. We did find some floating buildings in our PREGEN maps.

Streamer video event is whatever I get out of it. If it helps marketing great, but I've got bugs to fix.

Plenty of info: Saw the garage door exploit in action. Glancing blows doing some odd stuff to groups. The vehicle shoot to the sky bug, which no tester has caught a video of before it launched you. FPS drops which we only tonight have found a repro for. Rage boosts in action, which I am tweaking. Stair jump designs, which I plan to adjust destroy area for. Some AI standing around. Why? BM kiting (and complaints) that I am further increasing Nightmare speed for. Disappearing trees that I made an adjustment for.
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I assume you know about this issue? (:

Timestamp: 18:10

 
Generally we are a group of gamers (board games and/or computer games) so the topic was agreeable to many and looking at the screen was natural when you sat on the sofas/chairs in front of the TV and were talking about it. Nearly the same would have happened with anything running on the TV, even commericals. Listening to it was difficult to impossible though because of the noise of our own and the other guests talking.
I'm not saying that nobody in that group is watching streamers, in fact I know 3 of them do, with two of them being minors. But I don't think the evening changed the habit of anyone in the slighest.

https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?111778-Alpha-18-Dev-Diary!!&p=1026506&viewfull=1#post1026506
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those pics are awesome! Good times looks like.

 
Just make sure you're choosing the right ones. Some of these streamers haven't streamed 7 days in months, and ONLY play when new alphas come in before dropping it like a bad habit. Hopefully you ignore those reactions because they're just streaming for the numbers and no one needs feedback from those types.
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And if they normally stream other games, they are still showing our game to an audience who might not even know that it exists. =)

 
Is there a known timeframe for the release on monday ?

In the patch notes it does say:

Expect a public experimental to follow sometime Monday afternoon October 7th.
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So that would be midnight to the morning of tuesday for europe?

Is that still correct or something like: " We just dont know if there will be a bug we want to fix at monday, so we wont say anything about a time frame." ?

PS: Just to know if it is worth to wait monday evening or better just get enough sleep for tuesday evening ^^

 
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Is there a known timeframe for the release on monday ?In the patch notes it does say:

So that would be midnight to the morning of tuesday for europe?

Is that still correct or something like: " We just dont know if there will be a bug we want to fix at monday, so we wont say anything about a time frame." ?

PS: Just to know if it is worth to wait monday evening or better just get enough sleep for tuesday evening ^^
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Add 6-7 hours for european players. If experimental A18 is released at noon in Madmole's timezone, it's 6 PM for me, for example.

 
Best guess: Madmole wakes up at the rooster crowing, he is in top mood, jumps in his shoes, goes to the office, takes a coffee and presses the red button. At that moment, it's nine o'clock in the morning ...

 
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Best guess: Madmole wakes up at the rooster crowing, he is in top form, jumps in his shoes, goes to the office, takes a coffee and presses the red button. At that moment, it's nine o'clock in the morning ...
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And then, fire envelopes everything!

 
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