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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

    Votes: 2 66.7%
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    Votes: 1 33.3%

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The luck continues. ;)
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Nice looks like you are having fun.

 
Whatever happened to 'dead is dead' mode?
I really enjoy the suspense of playing a game where everything is lost if you mess up once. At the moment I just quit/delete the save and restart, but it'd be awesome if the game just facepalmed you instantly back into the main menu without having to manually do it after being forced to wait out the whole respawn thing.
We're not putting effort into something that takes you 2 clicks. We want to do it, I see it mostly having value on servers where it deletes your profile and you respawn as someone else and your land claim goes dead.

 
A18 - Traders per map?
how many traders should there be on an 8K map
I've seen up to 5, but heard rumors of only 1 are possible, but that was a few weeks ago before some fixes were made. Drive down every dirt road you find to uncover them.

 
@Faatal
The new commands - I am thrilled to report after playing until 3AM thinking it was midnight - helped tremendously. I have not been in a desert biome yet in my playthrough, but I can say the burnt forest biome is still taxing. But, I get between 28 - 35 FPS when mountains are in view in the burnt areas, and up to 50 when it's just flat ground in my view. I am now in the ~60 range indoors, 50 - 60(holy mackerel!) in outdoor snow biomes, and 40 in grassland/forest areas outdoors. Granted, again, potato settings, but man the game looks great even on those settings lol.

For reference: I used gfx st budget ; gfx af / dt / pp set to 0 ; and I played with gfx st at 450 -- not sure if that did anything or not.

For fun note, I almost bit the dust that night. I just got done looting a poi and was taking my heavy armor off to get running and heard a dog, then 2. I spun around with my spear to see many dogs. I threw my spear into the gut of one of them then saw two zombie bears behind them. I pulled out my smg and noped out anyway spinting my ass off. Luckily, one of the zombie dogs must have been a good boy in the previous life, for he found me with my level 5 modded spear sticking out his side haha. Got it back. Good times.

BTW @Madmole , I think high performance running shoes needs to be mildly nerfed, at 2 ranks of Cadio and the shoes on my stamina doesn't drain, at all. But, they may be rare to get so who knows. I get lucky sometimes.
Poor man's bicycle?

 
Day 14 Blood Moon was a blast. My first play it was a bit boring but this one was great. It lasted til about 3am which is the longest one yet. Dogs and all. Here is my horde base for it.
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The most primitive ♥♥♥♥ ever i know but I dont ever build anything cheese. I build as if it were reality because that is the challenge for me. Going to start building up and upgrading it now, with a tower. The machine gun is BEAST though. Used up all the rounds but it was amazing. Going to start perking into it now.

I know I am usually on the negative side, but I had to let you know my experience with horde night. Ive been disappointed with it, but this one was damn fun and exciting. A18 keeps surprising me.

Moving on to b143 now and wiping. Look forward to an all new experience.
Awesome you had fun. I've had rough starts and great starts so you can't play one character and judge it 100%. This is why I try not to react to feedback too much because generally there are a lot of variables.

What did you do just stand there in that opening and wack them with a club?

 
@Madmole.. if the machete could use the slash power attack as well.
Man, I used to live for a machete... now I have so much more fun toys to play with I haven;t even bothered considering one.

(Oh, and wouldn't you know it, looted a crucible right after the update that had some steel drops added.)

Day 46 horde night was GREAT! I'm going to have to add either blade or dart trap defenses though to thin the herd.

I read farm boxes can't be gotten with the shovel anymore.. can we still move them within our land claim? (I was thinking for rearranging farm beds once you have a decent amount.
Nope. Maybe in the future we can allow more blocks to have that function, I think its hard coded to the workstations.

 
Bringing up some older thoughts here...


I think this is an excellent idea and I've been imagining this since you brought it up months ago.

A few zombies models like this where you cannot easily differentiate between them unless up close, maybe even with a very dumb, inexpensive AI... but not to replace the existing zombies we see in hordes fully, but more as a filler to give everybody the larger horde sizes they want while also breaking up that weird feeling you get when you see a group of the same zombie type.

I'm not just speaking for the blood moon horde, but especially for wandering hordes. They could even be very weak and decrepit, taking only one or two hits to kill regardless of your level. They would be 0 challenge by themselves, but they would still be contributors to the group zombie damage buff, they would distract players from the real threat (the current zombies), and perhaps at times get in the way of the player trying to target those current zombies. In effect, all current zombies become special.
I want to delete the cheerleader and football player, they are mostly immersion breaking and use that precious vram space for some more generic ones or these special blood moon zombies. Faatal was talking about some ways to add many more zombies too so these guys could help fill out those ranks. Kind of like the latest seasons of the walking dead they are more skeletal and hard to distinguish we could make a few variants and have a whole horde of these and it would look fine.

 
I want to delete the cheerleader and football player, they are mostly immersion breaking and use that precious vram space for some more generic ones or these special blood moon zombies. Faatal was talking about some ways to add many more zombies too so these guys could help fill out those ranks. Kind of like the latest seasons of the walking dead they are more skeletal and hard to distinguish we could make a few variants and have a whole horde of these and it would look fine.
TRYING NOT TO GIVE IDEAS!!!!!!

yeah i can agree with that. you got normal zombies , solders and more..'

then there these very bright colored zombies and one running at your like a crack head!

 
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