PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[stallionsden]

Well my fps is still tanked. Even tried the gfx dt didnt change a thing.

 

[archergod]

I'd hate that though, once you find an awesome weapon it would suck seeing it go. I get that it would keep you on the hunt for something, but there is something to be said about reaching the top of the hill. Rust has that and I hate it. They don't even have random stats where you can find something special. Its just grinding for the sake of grinding IMO.
I like pvp games to some extent, IMO stealing someone's "special" gun and armor or legendary items when we get them will feel very cool, and killing them and getting it back would be awesome as well. IF everything degrades there wouldn't be stealing that unique weapon.

I'm not against it, but I'd like a way to restore it like pay a trader for a proper repair, but I can tell you a lot of people wouldn't like it. I just don't think its truly needed at this point.

I too like it the way 7DTD do it. Why degrade to finish it. suppose if a gun part is degrading, we repair to replace it there itself. it is all fiction, and we don't lose our favourite weapon.

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FYI, I upgrade game and my FPS is still same and I am still getting that shader warning, I shared with team before. So, nothing change for Gfx as of now, I didn't spend hour on it yet, only try for 5 minutes.. maybe in long run/new area it make difference.

 

[Odetta]

Damn

 

[archergod]

Damn

Thanks for nightmare ..lol,

Jokes apart, they look cool man.

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I think I miss something, I can now craft steel spear in my game, but it ask for Spear parts, (B139), but I cannot seems to find it in my crafting menu (even in lock state). So, cannot I built a spear until I find it in loot?

 

[madmole]

Does that mean the Flurry of Blows buff will be added to individual weapon perks? Like Pummel Pete?

Possibly, Proably put the finishing touches to perks by 19, 18 feels really pretty tight. We'd like to code in telemetry so we know what perks everyone buys so we can identify the weak ones and give them some love.

 

[madmole]

It turned out to be an extremely large wasteland / burnt forest that took me forever to get out of.When I did, it was large desert which also took me forever to get out of.

Basically, it took me this entire time since I posted that.

And some people want 16k maps. Thats great and all, but I wouldn't mess with that, my time IRL is more important than walking 2 real time hours to get out of one biome.

 

[madmole]

Feel free to keep posting your horde nights even if we're busy playing the game ourselves .

I will once they get a little more interesting.

 

[madmole]

Well my fps is still tanked. Even tried the gfx dt didnt change a thing.

We'll keep beating down memory use, hang in there.

 

[madmole]

I too like it the way 7DTD do it. Why degrade to finish it. suppose if a gun part is degrading, we repair to replace it there itself. it is all fiction, and we don't lose our favourite weapon.
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FYI, I upgrade game and my FPS is still same and I am still getting that shader warning, I shared with team before. So, nothing change for Gfx as of now, I didn't spend hour on it yet, only try for 5 minutes.. maybe in long run/new area it make difference.

The big fixes are yet to come.

 

[Odetta]

Possibly, Proably put the finishing touches to perks by 19, 18 feels really pretty tight. We'd like to code in telemetry so we know what perks everyone buys so we can identify the weak ones and give them some love.

That would be super smart.

Btw the noise a silenced double barrel shot gun makes is adorable, please never change it lol.

 

[madmole]

Thanks for nightmare ..lol,
Jokes apart, they look cool man.

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I think I miss something, I can now craft steel spear in my game, but it ask for Spear parts, (B139), but I cannot seems to find it in my crafting menu (even in lock state). So, cannot I built a spear until I find it in loot?

Yes those parts are in loot or scrap iron or steel spears to get them.

 

[faatal]

I ran into the dreaded choppy world generation bug too, even on Nvidia... Guess I should just use a pregen? I'm a little sick of waiting 15 minutes each worldgen to see if it comes out okay. Hope this gets solved soon.
As an aside, what the heck changed in the last few Alphas to make worldgen so intense? I remember it would take like, 2 minutes tops to roll a world; now it's an extremely intensive set of work that takes ages. You also spawn in the same exact spot every world start; is that intentional?

The spawn location randomness is actually from the world name you give it. Try another name or add a number on the end.

 

[madmole]

I pieced together a minibike on day 15. Sometimes I cave in and buy the bicycle perk but my trader is close to a town so travel time to quests hasn't been horrible.

 

[Aldranon]

I like food contamination. It makes sense and gets to the point.

Me too. Some chemical and radioactive contamination would be around for 100's of years. And some... I'm looking at you plutonium, has a half live of 7000 years and that's the most radioactive isotopes of it!

 

[madmole]

Me too. Some chemical and radioactive contamination would be around for 100's of years. And some... I'm looking at you plutonium, has a half live of 7000 years and that's the most radioactive isotopes of it!

Most people like it I think. Its here to stay.

 

[AtomicUs5000]

And some people want 16k maps. Thats great and all, but I wouldn't mess with that, my time IRL is more important than walking 2 real time hours to get out of one biome.

Funny thing is this is just a 4K map. I just happened to travel the worst path possible. I didn't have many options though because I was kinda near a corner of the map. I thought traveling diagonally would be the best way to go, but it didn't work out that way.

This terrain was rugged and there were dogs everywhere, so there were many times I had to go around things which made it take even longer.

It wasn't a horrible time though. Just had to keep my eyes open and stay safe. I will say that if it were even bigger on a 16K map, I wouldn't be very happy about it.

 

[Trankitas]

Trankitas your video was kind of funny lol.

Thanks man, I tried with C4 too, but they didn't went too far lol. I did that video in 15 minutes, I could do better but you know...it takes time!

 

[faatal]

Well my fps is still tanked. Even tried the gfx dt didnt change a thing.

Any post about low performance needs to provide systems specs (CPU, RAM, GPU, VRAM) and some settings like screen resolution or you will just get poor guesses from us. Even if you posted it before, I am not hunting around for it.

Always check your resolution after an update. I've seen might get changed to 4k, since I have a 4k monitor.

 

[Aldranon]

There is: Every other level

Oh a comedian as well! Trying to steal my job here???

***At Al's Marina and Comedy Central, we encourage new comedic talent on Saturday nights "Drink Fest"... as contact grenades are given to customers! ***

 

[joecrack]

Hello! Low FPS at below average settings. 17 alpha was better than twice. CPU - AMD FX-8320E, RAM - 24GB DDR3 1866, GPU - GTX750 Ti, VRAM - 2 gb. Developers, help. advise how to increase FPS!