PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[madmole]

Just ordered two msi rtx 2060 z cards for $800.
7 Days to die a18 costs a LOT!

We have some optimizations coming soon, but you can't go wrong buying better video cards if you are into gaming, they will serve you well.

 

[Mechanimal]

From the release notes: "Faulty and poor quality items have one mod slot, fair and good quality items have two mod slots, great quality items have three mod slots, and fine quality items have four mod slots."

OH, thank you. I totally missed that detail from the release notes. I just got even more confused with a level 4 piece of armor with only 2 slots. But now I get it. Learnt.

 

[Syrex]

k, a funny haha moment (I can say after the fact, gotta go change skivvies).. My character is in a mine, I'm following this iron vein (did i mention I love the ore/ore finding in A18, well i do) anyways... I'm waiting for cobblestone to finish making in my inventory and I have my junk turret setup to watch my back so I figured I'd alt-tab out to read recent posts. Hear a thud, immediately followed by my turret go off, then a growl.... Ok, I may need a new mouse.. I jumped in chair, mouse went flying... LOL

 

[wolffblood]

I can see your concern with you also need to consider this. Once he built something he doesn't need to build again (unless destroyed) so eventually he'll build all that NEEDS to be built, and either will do other things or start building for the sake of exp. it's all a scaling balance, he gets a boost but it will plateau, yours is (harder) but will get easier and faster later.

I guess my friend would be an extreme case cause he actually builds full blown towns. Because of this, he never feels like it will ever end (one map he had was past some 100 days and he wasn't even halfway done with the town he wanted and that's all he did). It was pretty cool. Thing is I feel like i need to build for sake of xp since game lvl seems to be increasing faster than my lvl and being able to have the perks to keep up with the zombies increasing in strength . I may just go only into spears to max out the benefits on it to be able to kill better since bows is kind of meh now (need sooooo many arrows) and I'm having issues with other forms of melee, heh. Just have to see, but it's not very cool when the killer won't be able to kill as easy as the builder, lol.

 

[AtomicUs5000]

I’ve noticed that hitting things with certain things doesn’t give you stuff. Like a club on grass, a spear on crops. Is there some general rule that determines what can be used? Does it have to be a tool or fists?

 

[Adam the Waster]

Yeah We need more mutated animals.. Look at that bear from the film Annihilation. !!! - we need things like that.

i was thinking more like the bear from metro but that could work too lol

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We have some optimizations coming soon, but you can't go wrong buying better video cards if you are into gaming, they will serve you well.

YEAH

so i don't have to play on potato mode!

 

[madmole]

here ya go... and I am not upset, the game looks smooth and great. I come from old school when anything over 30 FPS was awesome.
Also, I had not changed my settings grafix wise. They were at Medium and I was getting 60 FPS. I went to Ultra last night and continued to get 60 FPS and OMG the game looks awesome.

Running:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Processor

GeForce RTX 2070 - 8GB

32 GB DDR4-2666

1 TB WD Blue SSD

Resolution: 1920x1080 16:9

And I get a solid 60FPS never up or down... is there some setting I am missing to set max FPS?

Vsync limits frames to your monitor refresh rate so turn that off to get more than 60fps, but beware of ugly screen tearing. I'd leave it on, 60fps is butter.

 

[madmole]

Definitely worth the effort. Doing buried supplies quests gave me a beaker and a T3 baseball bat, as well as several high-end food recipes. Do those buried supplies, people!

I've been saying it repeatedly They are rare once you get to T5 and so beneficial early game I do them and have the rest of the game to clear zombies or fetch.

 

[madmole]

So something I have noticed with Random Gen. You almost never get skyscrapers but get like 30+ gun factories. Is there any way to guarantee that you at least get one of each type of large POI?

A19 should have better selections of POIS.

 

[SnowDog1942]

Snowdog! Wanna have this one?

What, I like short women...... and men

 

[Slingblade2040]

if like me you don't like the horde nights ending so early just log out and back in for a 2nd or 3rd round of horde night. but please don't complain if you burn through resources for doing this. this is mainly for getting levels faster, atleast that's how I view it.

 

[JaxTeller718]

Can we keep the discussion to A18 game play, bugs, performance and not discuss our past business decisions? And leave the drama at your discord, we're trying to run a business here. All we care about is fixing bugs and getting the performance problems solved so people can enjoy the software. Roland you too.

Message received. Everyone in my Discord has actually had nice things to say about this Alpha, but ill just stay there from now on.

Im sorry if my post came off looking like a condemnation. Was actually intending it to cut through the noise and present that this Experimental is a success in my opinion since so many are working together to try and help with stuff.

I get it, I have worn out my welcome. Hopefully you got to see my 2 subsequent positive posts.

 

[madmole]

No, i most definitely was not.I was pointing out the reality of having this kind of (hyped) experimental release, to this forum.

It doesn't matter, in a day or week or month we'll have it running great and all that is left is a great game to buy and play. This is just a small road bump on the path to glory.

 

[Roland]

@madmole

when playing A18

i could not find the Steel bat! or the sticky grenades???

did you take them out or???

Sticky grenades was my fault--I got confused with the C4 that you can stick to things. Trust the patch notes more than the first post.

 

[MechanicalLens]

I've been saying it repeatedly They are rare once you get to T5 and so beneficial early game I do them and have the rest of the game to clear zombies or fetch.

Doing so buried supplies quests early on definitely paid off; if you saw my previous post, I purchased a pink AK-47 from the trader on day 4.

 

[madmole]

I am googling to see if TFP own stock in GPU Makers
Pros:

-- A18 is going in the direction I appreciate - that is the game play, the questing and the books/weapons/tools and XP. I really enjoyed - still only level 5 but so much better then A17.x

CONS:

-- its EXP and I am hoping then y can fix graphics so I can play with out buying the new "MM special edition GPU card"

We have two areas we think will help with maybe one optimization coming out today perhaps. That said if games are your main hobby, or this game is.... A beast rig would be a good investment. I pay 3500 for my pc and it will be top of the line for 3 years, thats just 3 bucks a day to smash pixels as hard as humanly possible and its worth it to me, and I can deduct it from my taxes so for me its a no brainer to have a sweet rig.

 

[Roland]

Can we keep the discussion to A18 game play, bugs, performance and not discuss our past business decisions? And leave the drama at your discord, we're trying to run a business here. All we care about is fixing bugs and getting the performance problems solved so people can enjoy the software. Roland you too.

yessir!

 

[madmole]

@madmole

when playing A18

i could not find the Steel bat! or the sticky grenades???

did you take them out or???

there is a mod that makes it look like its steel.

 

[Stonx]

I've been saying it repeatedly They are rare once you get to T5 and so beneficial early game I do them and have the rest of the game to clear zombies or fetch.

The buried loot appears to generate at weirder depths than previously.

In A17 the box was typically about 3 voxels deep - always above the stone layers.

In A18 I had two loot jobs in the Snow biome in gentle slopes. The first one was visible from the surface with zero digging required. The second had me dig out the 9x9 square of the loot indicator flashing red and then the 9x9 tiles below that right to the stone layers. I had to give up looking because I can't craft anything that will let me excavate rock with any speed and the hunger rates are extreme - even worse in the snow biome! Basically I'm eating maybe 3 deer and a couple of wolves a day! :beguiled:

 

[madmole]

So I've given you a bit of ♥♥♥♥ the past few months, and there are some things i can sit here and nitpick (so much loot) BUT you have basically proven me wrong. You seemed to have steered the ship from 17 towards more fresher waters and the anchors are at the ready for a nice smooth landing.
Good work. As soon as these fps issues get all figured and sorted I would go so far as to say even though i miss my LBD dearly, the new systems you guys came up with are an adequate replacement. Enough for me to almost be ready to leave the memories of it behind and fully accept this new system. And for me thats big.

17 felt like such a chore to start up and play, with 18 I am waking up daily itching to get back on game. Thank you for making me a believer again.

Thanks Jax. That's what happens when I steer the boat, happy faces Which is why my new avatar is perfect for this alpha. I'm happiest doing design and balance too.