MechanicalLens
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I see you've changed your profile pic. Looking good. *Thumbs up*
Also, guess who just got a crucible schematic and a bacon and eggs schematic from the same bookcase on day 3?
PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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Also, guess who just got a crucible schematic and a bacon and eggs schematic from the same bookcase on day 3?
madmole
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Thanks that was 3 years ago after I just lost 35 pounds when I first took to heart the diet I'm still using now. I'm working my ass off getting back into shape (much better than then). I peaked in 2018 then got a bunch of injuries but I'm all healed now and every year I want to get in better shape somehow than before.I see you've changed your profile pic. Looking good. *Thumbs up*
Also, guess who just got a crucible schematic and a bacon and eggs schematic from the same bookcase on day 3?
It feels so rewarding finding schematics! Remember to hit every mailbox, most are duds but I found two books in one once, so they are worth checking for sure.
MechanicalLens
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Well, keep it up! Regarding the picture, I would dare not go near water like that! (Aquaphobia, honestly.) I just might begin hitting up the gym again sometime.
Oh, I certainly will! As a matter of fact, the first mailbox I hit up gave me the Spiked Knuckles schematic, and since I am going a mostly Fortitude (partially Strength) build, that find was absolutely perfect. In addition, the trader just rewarded me with the Iron Knuckles schematic, so I've just completed the set! Now, if only if the trader wasn't 50 blocks above sea level on top of a giant near-vertical plateau. Lol. Going to and fro from the trader is a royal pain to say the least.
Edit: Also, I've learned not to mess with the boars early on. My first death was to a boar within the first five minutes of me spawning in. Lol
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Drithyl
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I was having this same issue when I first joined my friend's RWG game, where settings had no difference because performance indoors was good, but outdoors was tanking hard. It happened when looking at distant terrain specifically just like you're saying. Turns out that madmole was right about it being a RWG generation bug. The distant terrain looked particularly blurry. But after restarting the game once that world was working fine.Occlusion is off. That was one of the first things i turned off.It doesnt make any difference in FPS. NNot in this case anyway.
Like i said, there is 0 FPS difference between ultra and low quality settings when looking at mountains/terrain. That should never be the case.
Turning Texture Streaming off made it work before restarting too, but after restarting it, it worked fine even with Texture Streaming on and increasing the settings back.
Socrastein
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Madmole I was honestly worried about A18. I thought it would be solid, but not amazing. You spoke SO highly of A17, best ever amazeballs etc., but it was just solid, not really amazing. So knowing your hyperbolic style I tried not to get too worked up when you said books were amazeballs, looting was better than ever, best alpha since the big bang, etc.
BUT OMG IT'S AMAZEBALLS BOOKS ARE SO COOL LOOTING IS BETTER THAN EVER!!
Got REKT hard by a forest feral (?!) trying to sneak around on second night. Stealth plays well though so I distracted with rocks, got my bag back, then played cat & mouse for 5 minutes straight with my weak little crossbow, finally avenging myself quite satisfactorily.
One of the first books I found gives you chance to find acid in cars and med piles. OOOOH I could feel the subtle warmth spread down from my neck as a little dopamine hit me. Good lord. The perks are just so interesting with unique little boosts just strong and cool enough to make you feel like you just leveled a tiny bit.
The visuals have improved so much OMG! And SO MANY high quality new models: the first time I saw a soda fountain machine I felt myself grin. So many little additions and "ooh! that's new!" moments are just delightful :tickled_pink:
And I'm so glad I looked through options and turned on the dynamic music. YES! WOW. Absolutely perfect. Not too much, totally fits the theme, feels amazing to hike around to creepy/cool tunes.
I was very excited for the spear but it feels ridiculous. It's just way way way too slow when thrown. If you're going to huck a spear, even as a noob, that thing is going to fly, however inaccurately. But this little granny lob so slow someone could easily just snatch it out of the air if they had decent athleticism: sad. So sad. Even when their heads explode, they feel like they *shouldn't*. It's like when someone shoots a car a couple times in a movie and it explodes in a fireball. Nah. I want their head to explode because I MOTHER FLIPPIN' HURLED a spear through their skull at some impressive fraction of C. First iteration though, so I'm sure it'll only get more badass and feel as VIOLENT as it deserves to feel. That's the best way to put it actually: the throw does not feel violent at all.
But back to how amazing A18 is. My wife played for just an hour with me before having to reluctantly go to work, and she was geeking out hard. It's been very hard to get her to play this game more than casually with me - she'll play here and there for stints but bore of it. Graphics have always been one issue. Upgraded her CPU and got her an even better video card than I have (that's rare!) and she LOVES how it looks. Not only can she turn settings higher but the new textures, models, icons, ore nodes, etc. just blew her away and she was like "OMG OMG I can't believe I have to work! They added so much!"
For what it's worth we were both big fans already, especially me. Now we're just kind of in awe of how good this game continues to get. I have had very little Steam Alpha experience. Bought Starforge and the developers just released and ran while that game was still in Alpha Dog♥♥♥♥.3 if you know what I mean. Bad taste left in mouth, yeah? But The Fun Pimps have given me literally the exact opposite experience. I went from one extreme to the other. You guys are just so awesome and this excellent, very unique game just got a massive upgrade in the amazeballs factor. Bravo.
BUT OMG IT'S AMAZEBALLS BOOKS ARE SO COOL LOOTING IS BETTER THAN EVER!!
Got REKT hard by a forest feral (?!) trying to sneak around on second night. Stealth plays well though so I distracted with rocks, got my bag back, then played cat & mouse for 5 minutes straight with my weak little crossbow, finally avenging myself quite satisfactorily.
One of the first books I found gives you chance to find acid in cars and med piles. OOOOH I could feel the subtle warmth spread down from my neck as a little dopamine hit me. Good lord. The perks are just so interesting with unique little boosts just strong and cool enough to make you feel like you just leveled a tiny bit.
The visuals have improved so much OMG! And SO MANY high quality new models: the first time I saw a soda fountain machine I felt myself grin. So many little additions and "ooh! that's new!" moments are just delightful :tickled_pink:
And I'm so glad I looked through options and turned on the dynamic music. YES! WOW. Absolutely perfect. Not too much, totally fits the theme, feels amazing to hike around to creepy/cool tunes.
I was very excited for the spear but it feels ridiculous. It's just way way way too slow when thrown. If you're going to huck a spear, even as a noob, that thing is going to fly, however inaccurately. But this little granny lob so slow someone could easily just snatch it out of the air if they had decent athleticism: sad. So sad. Even when their heads explode, they feel like they *shouldn't*. It's like when someone shoots a car a couple times in a movie and it explodes in a fireball. Nah. I want their head to explode because I MOTHER FLIPPIN' HURLED a spear through their skull at some impressive fraction of C. First iteration though, so I'm sure it'll only get more badass and feel as VIOLENT as it deserves to feel. That's the best way to put it actually: the throw does not feel violent at all.
But back to how amazing A18 is. My wife played for just an hour with me before having to reluctantly go to work, and she was geeking out hard. It's been very hard to get her to play this game more than casually with me - she'll play here and there for stints but bore of it. Graphics have always been one issue. Upgraded her CPU and got her an even better video card than I have (that's rare!) and she LOVES how it looks. Not only can she turn settings higher but the new textures, models, icons, ore nodes, etc. just blew her away and she was like "OMG OMG I can't believe I have to work! They added so much!"
For what it's worth we were both big fans already, especially me. Now we're just kind of in awe of how good this game continues to get. I have had very little Steam Alpha experience. Bought Starforge and the developers just released and ran while that game was still in Alpha Dog♥♥♥♥.3 if you know what I mean. Bad taste left in mouth, yeah? But The Fun Pimps have given me literally the exact opposite experience. I went from one extreme to the other. You guys are just so awesome and this excellent, very unique game just got a massive upgrade in the amazeballs factor. Bravo.
Odetta
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You gotta go windows mode THEN lower your resolution. Just going into windows mode isn't gonna help that much.Tried windows mode, didnt help. Running good old 1080p, same as in windows. RX480 8GB with a 4.2Ghz quadcore and 16GB ram. FPS will fluctuate between 20 and ~160 FPS depending how much terrain is on screen. (this is with the low quality preset)
I'm sure it'll get resolved soon enough, and turn out to be some tiny thing that has no logical reasoning behind it.
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Also, people saying they have no issues and people saying they *do* have fps issues is subjective. Some people are happy with 40 FPS after all...
@Doctor3D, what are some of the FPS numbers you're getting?
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Any modlets installed. Even from the mod launcher i was getting errors. Disable/uninstall then verify your cache.
Gareee
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Thanks! I don't feel it most days, but others.. lol!
Same here as well.. I was high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and on 7 meds for them. Lost weight, ate right, and now I onoly take supplements because of the age thing.
On a bright note, I found with medium textures I could bump my res from 1080p to 2k and only loose 4 or 5 fps. That extra res makes up for the texture quality loose, so things look much better.
(for reference again, i7 6700, 15 gb ram, 1060 3gb)
I'll be investing in 2060s though at least, because its about that time to upgrade anyway, and having a better 7 days experience is worth it to us. (two systems, so like $600-$700).
Gareee
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@Fataal:
With our 3gb vram 1060s, medium textures boosted performance up to 60 fps, with some occasional drops. Experimenting, I kicked it up to 2k, and have only lost 4-5 fps! We could never play a17 at 2k, and the higher res goes a long way towards making up for the lost texture quality.
AtomicUs5000
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Bravo on the infection system. The first few days were always my favorite, but this is icing on the cake.
One of my first games in A17, I found something like 50 cooking pots on day 1. Some POI kept repeating and it almost always had one. This time, I got a little nervous about finding one. Great work on that too. This is the first time I have not been able to start a base on the first day. I usually have a small tower surrounded by spikes with a mine started inside to spend the night. This time I spent it in the snow biome crouched on a small chunk of what remains of a ceiling in a remnant.
Rage mode is awesome. Even when they don't rage, I feel like they still creep forward sometimes when they take their swings... although I could just be imagining that... or perhaps it's because of choosing a harder difficulty, I don't know. What I do know is it really changes things for the better. I already can't imagine playing without it.
The only thing I saw that bugs me so far (but only just a little bit) is that the prey animals are a little too easy to catch. I had tons of meat on day 1 just chasing deer with a bone shiv. I think the problem is that they forget that you are a threat to them. You can stab, let them run, and then wait. They usually stop running right before they get too far away. Then you just walk towards them until you get maybe about 7 or 8 meters away and run at them... they don't move until you get a couple stabs in. Repeat a few times and dinner. I also clubbed a couple rabbits to death... that was a little harder to do.
One of my first games in A17, I found something like 50 cooking pots on day 1. Some POI kept repeating and it almost always had one. This time, I got a little nervous about finding one. Great work on that too. This is the first time I have not been able to start a base on the first day. I usually have a small tower surrounded by spikes with a mine started inside to spend the night. This time I spent it in the snow biome crouched on a small chunk of what remains of a ceiling in a remnant.
Rage mode is awesome. Even when they don't rage, I feel like they still creep forward sometimes when they take their swings... although I could just be imagining that... or perhaps it's because of choosing a harder difficulty, I don't know. What I do know is it really changes things for the better. I already can't imagine playing without it.
The only thing I saw that bugs me so far (but only just a little bit) is that the prey animals are a little too easy to catch. I had tons of meat on day 1 just chasing deer with a bone shiv. I think the problem is that they forget that you are a threat to them. You can stab, let them run, and then wait. They usually stop running right before they get too far away. Then you just walk towards them until you get maybe about 7 or 8 meters away and run at them... they don't move until you get a couple stabs in. Repeat a few times and dinner. I also clubbed a couple rabbits to death... that was a little harder to do.
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dan
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The stun baton is awesome, but the range on it is shorter than any standard club, so if you are going to use it, you're going to be hit. But with any other club you can stay just outside of the z's melee range and still hit them. I was going to focus on a build around the stun baton as a main weapon but soon changed my mind when I realized I was getting hit by every single Z I attacked with it.
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