PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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I should clarify I am still having fun but knowing how unplayable it is for a lot of people makes me not want to dive very deep knowing there should and probably will be an update very soon addressing the terrain lag.

 
See, some people (like Me) beleive the standard of gaming GPU should be high and better settings @ 60FPS +, and others, (you i assume) think low-medium at 45-60 fps is good gaming. Try playing a beautiful game (Ark,Halo idk) on low and get 40 fps and say thats fine, hell might as well call minecraft a AAA game deserving of a noble prize equivalent award!
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I play THE game... you play another game.

Clearly I enjoy my game more, so sorry for you.

 
Yeah both friends with whom i always play say it's pretty much unplayable at the moment. So I'll be all alone :(

Well.. still got my rocks of course. And snowdog hiding behind the curtains..

 
Infection is no joke in the first days. I was in the same boat. Couldn’t find enough stumps in the green forest to keep it down... had to trek it to the snow biome and didn’t leave until I had a decent stock of honey. Good times, nonetheless.
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The new infection system is much better than the old one. The infection does not affect you immediately and you will be informed about the current state of the infection. You know the honey works, but you also know it's not enough. But you buy yourself some time.

 
What's the level cap now? I hate not being able to get every skill in the game, sure it takes time but time and hard work should pay off. I like starting off as a weakling then becoming the terminator.

 
I should clarify I am still having fun but knowing how unplayable it is for a lot of people makes me not want to dive very deep knowing there should and probably will be an update very soon addressing the terrain lag.
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I really look forward to this update, which will give at least 40 fps, enough for me. In the meantime, I'm trying to run at 20 fps, but it's such a thing, not a game

 
Question about GUI.


Faatal, whether there are plans to increase the number of animations when icons grow when hovering over them with the mouse (adding intermediate sizes for smoother animation)?

Now we have only two - initial and max, unlike the smooth animation of growth in the old GUI.

 
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I play THE game... you play another game.
Clearly I enjoy my game more, so sorry for you.
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I Honestly cannot for the life of me, understand how people game at horse #$^! settings. That would make me go bonkers and quit PC gaming all together!!!

#PCmasterrace

 
Yeah both friends with whom i always play say it's pretty much unplayable at the moment. So I'll be all alone :(
Well.. still got my rocks of course. And snowdog hiding behind the curtains..
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And you got me, but 11.114 km away approx.

 
Whenever I try and make a brand new world with RWG in the experimental build, every time I end up in an infinite straight ravine in the desert.20191008152520_1.jpg

 
We're trying one weapon out to see how it feels, if we like it we'll go wide.
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Just my 2 cents but the power attack with the sledgehammer should be a full horizontal swing to take advantage of the aoe knockdown.

 
I'd be curious to know if B134 would fix my performance problems and the problem does indeed lie in changes between B134 and the later build.

Unfortunately i don't have access to B134.

 
What's the level cap now? I hate not being able to get every skill in the game, sure it takes time but time and hard work should pay off. I like starting off as a weakling then becoming the terminator.
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300. IMO its kind of pointless, you don't play skyim or fallout with every perk, you make a build with strengths and weaknesses. I typically restart after 100 hours or so around level 80, its enough for me. With one tree maxed out around level 50 if your smart, you will be a killing machine. Being a killing machine in all weapons is pointless. At 100 hours you will have most the books and pretty close to the best gear, so its kinda meh after that IMO. But to each his own, I don't think anyone can get to level 300 though without cheating even with max xp settings, and be sane. MIght take 4000 hours on one guy, its unknown.

 
I'd be curious to know if B134 would fix my performance problems and the problem does indeed lie in changes between B134 and the later build.Unfortunately i don't have access to B134.
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100% agree. I would assume lyes in whatevere got chaged from 134 to 139

 
Then it turns into A17 where you need every perk in the game just to feel basic. Not everyone thinks building or mining is fun. The best tools are under "loot".
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I understand your point of view. But the same thing can be said about mine. If you have every tool gated behind 1 single perk, then how is it different to a17 int? Your point stands as there is only one tool to do one thing efficiently in tiers and yet...

This is a tricky one. The best move then is to level tool quality according to the player progression. A similar system to HP and stamina. You get to level 10? Ok orange. You get to level 20? Ok yellow and so on.

Tools are tools. You are forcing Miner and Building and Gatherer and Harvester and Repairing tipes to choose Miner69r.

Does this suggestion bring level gating back? Nah. It's just like an enemy auteleveling system while limiting exploits and , as you say, you can also get'em in loot.

 
Please don't try to hem me in with your complaint. I have what you would consider to be a 'low end' graphics card but am having no problems with playing the game.
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Agreed. I've been playing since A9.0 on my trusty 7 year old 2500K with midrange cards (260 &gt; 560 &gt; 760) and everything looked and played fine. For A18 I went a bit crazy and got a whole new system especially for it - a 9900K (OC'd to 4.9GHz each of the 8 cores) with a 2080RTX Super (Slightly OC'd), 32GB RAM, and the performance and appearance has remained roughly similar with me now playing in 4K res?

Whatever causes slowdowns in the game doesn't seem to be something that throwing money at CPUs, GPUs, RAM, faster SSDs etc can currently fix - seems like the game is still just unoptimised yet. Not that longterm players with thousands of playhours (2300 and counting...) judge the alpha state game on such things. We come here for the gameplay and anything else is a plus.

 
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