PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Hitting grass with a club or spear yields no plant fiber nor wood from the branchy shrubs. Is this a bug or intended?

Does getting wet do something again, or still in the works?

I noticed the destruction "bonus" is still in place. Does this have "feature" status now (hoping), or is it still considered a bug?

 
I must say, I agree with the guy. A18 is extremely good with my 10-20 fps outside. The food poisoning and dissentery system are to my liking also, after suffering them a bit. It was so rewarding when having died 3 times looking down on the rage system I started to resist and fight and eat, and suffer but eventually win something and you treat a simple schematic like it was a heavenly sign. But there is always a choice. A choice to risk and get off my ass and fight and run from crazy random ferals. Apparently nights are like that lol.
One day I spent 12 hours building a tiny tower to fight a wolf, when I finally made it, I shot the bastard only to notice he had a friend nearby. The tower was just a 2x2x2 of single repaired wood. Several weird shouts and gags and screams later I finally took care of them. As I was getting meat from the wolfie's bodies a bunch of steps scared the crap out of me. It was 21.37 PM. I've never seen a character run so fast. Never looked back, I mean, what could a level 2 guy do with 4 arrows, a stone spear and 15% infection on top of a couple of damaged frames against a Running McDonalds advertising gang?
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Glad you are enjoying it, give disabling AF a try it seems to double fps for most people.

 
@madmole
do you guys plan on adding bee hives to harvest? like they would spawn near or on POIs and if you get close you get a effect you and zombies with a bleed but its called Bees .

in other words are you guys ever going to add bee hives?
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If I am not mistaken, I believe MM has implied that with A18 they are getting close to not adding much more content. Bandits and water are going to be a couple very heavy 'lifts'. Anything else they add means they have to worry about using resources (code, people, time, etc.) on making sure those things work - as opposed to bandits and water, etc.

 
Hitting grass with a club or spear yields no plant fiber nor wood from the branchy shrubs. Is this a bug or intended?
Does getting wet do something again, or still in the works?

I noticed the destruction "bonus" is still in place. Does this have "feature" status now (hoping), or is it still considered a bug?
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Getting wet causes you to get colder, and I think that either they're working on making it so you can get sick or it's already implemented

 
@madmole
do you guys plan on adding bee hives to harvest? like they would spawn near or on POIs and if you get close you get a effect you and zombies with a bleed but its called Bees .

in other words are you guys ever going to add bee hives?
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No plans.

 
Oh snap, clubs and sledges are getting their animations improved? I'm so happy to hear that, cause atm the swing blocks the damn screen and you can't see what you're hitting.
As an aside, did the loot abundance settings ever get fixed properly? I remember hearing it didn't actually do anything in A17, and I'm kinda swimming in loot in A18 so I want to turn it down a little.
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Yes they are fixed.

 
If I am not mistaken, I believe MM has implied that with A18 they are getting close to not adding much more content. Bandits and water are going to be a couple very heavy 'lifts'. Anything else they add means they have to worry about using resources (code, people, time, etc.) on making sure those things work - as opposed to bandits and water, etc.
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true

 
I love to look for cooking pots in the burnt forest. When I start new game I head there and search for those 'corner of a building' ruins, they are everywhere, there is often a kitchen stove with a cooking pot/grill. And no sleepers so it is rather safe (apart from vultures).
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Those aren't a thing any more. I mean they are but its not so guaranteed like before. I just loot houses and find one usually on day 1 or 2 in a rare game.

 
new fps issue, it minor~ish but if you're crafting something and have the inventory open up, every time an item is crafted, you lost 30 fps. it doesn't matter if you have the item already or not, every "count" give a spike.

edit: correction, if you have several stack of something in the thousands, any item update while in the inventory give a lag spike.

 
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Hitting grass with a club or spear yields no plant fiber nor wood from the branchy shrubs. Is this a bug or intended?
Does getting wet do something again, or still in the works?

I noticed the destruction "bonus" is still in place. Does this have "feature" status now (hoping), or is it still considered a bug?
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You should get destruction drops with any weapon, but not harvest events, such as parts from a car.

 
You should get destruction drops with any weapon, but not harvest events, such as parts from a car.
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Hmm... all right, thanks.

I'll be starting it up again in about a half an hour. Not sure if the bug will persist for me to capture it... but if not, I'll keep my eye out for it.

 
to everyone at TFP you all have done an amazing job with alpha 18. I'm enjoying the hell out of the brawler style and I'm just counting down the minutes to get off work and play again. outstanding freaken job.

 
Noob question here: do battery tiers matter when making vehicles or tools/machines? I would assume that only affects battery banks but figured I'd ask before commiting since you can't remove them from vehicles anymore.

 
Noob question here: do battery tiers matter when making vehicles or tools/machines? I would assume that only affects battery banks but figured I'd ask before commiting since you can't remove them from vehicles anymore.
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Nope.

 
I was running 17.4 on GTX 760 with med/high settings 2560x1440 34-45fps. Alpha 18 laughed at me and called me a scrub even at minimum settings 1920x1080. So I literally went out and bought a RTX 2070 super ($600.00 /w tax) the day it released and now I'm running max settings 4k and rarely dropping below 60 fps.
I may starve to death in real life, but I'll be well fed in game. :p
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#DigitalSurvivor #HungryIRL...😅

 
Yes they are fixed.
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This is good news. Are interrupt animations being added by any chance to simulate a hit after overswing?

Re: power swings hitting multiple targets being OP, they could be gated by perks on how many you can hit at once(max of 3 or 4?) and each hit takes a little more stamina away. I believe bigger more chunkier melee weapons should get a the chance to multi hit through targets and knock them all down and middle ground weapons would only stun, so the sledge, baseball bat, maybe the iron club ect and things like the knife could be thrown. This would balance the fact of using these weapons as crowd controllers especially in the late game and make melee viable against always using guns. Guns could agro zombies more in an area of effect so wanting to use melee weapons is more balanced.

The power swing could be so much fun and varied. Its made the spear throwable, it could make the sledge a multi killing beast and countless other individual traits to each weapon could be fleshed out to want to use that weapon for a specific reason.

Edit: if interrupt animations are added it would negate hitting multiple targets(unless you specifically want it to as a feature) and would give the hitting feedback players desire.

 
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Noob question here: do battery tiers matter when making vehicles or tools/machines? I would assume that only affects battery banks but figured I'd ask before commiting since you can't remove them from vehicles anymore.
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Nope, use the crappiest ones you can find.

 
I been lucky in my recent game and I have tons of food. Tins a plenty, then wolves and pigs showed up and one town alone has provided over 150 meat.
Day 9 and not been sick once yet.

I may be fine for the next 30 days maybe beyond not sure... :)
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Careful, the game is good at pulling you into a false sense of security and then BAM. 😅

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I just got a stiffy
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As long as you dont start swinging it around like the new animation then we are good lol.

 
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