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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

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I had a little issue....and it started like this ;

I really wanted to play a RGW, but could not do it in game, due to the weird generating bug that only generate every second row ( or thats what it looks like, but plenty of bug reports about that ) . So I thought I would be cleverer.

I downloaded the Dedicated server, and done my settings and created a sparkling new 10km2 map, and although it took a while, everything worked fine. I kept the server running, opened the client and logged in to my own server. No problem.

The world loaded, character loaded and the greetings passed, but as I was running and skipping towards my first grass fibre patch, all happy with myself, life happened. The game kicked out to main menu, with no error message...and me server was gone. It did however now appear under 'continue game' . So only available now as a saved SP game.

So I continued the game, and it loaded in fine, but all the starter quests, and equipment was gone. Completely empty inv and questlog etc.

Not sure how serious this is, but just a FYI...obviously if it's something worth looking in to I paste the log here.

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PS: Just on a side note. It's great to see developers so invested in their game. So many games out there with a lot of potential, but because the devs don't give a rats ass about communicating with the players, it always dies a slow horrible death...like with that infection from a stripper zombie...

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All the Safes, reinforced chests, and harden reinforced chests are not yielding correct loot. it appears that it is not taking into account of your Luck Looter + to Loot bonus... every time I loot a safe or chest at the end of the PoI i only get T1 gear and weapons..... Idk if anyone else has noticed this bug. my friend tested it where he had 5 points into LL and the lucky googles and he will get 6 weapons and armor but its all T1 only. Where I have the same thing happen to me and I currently only have 2 points into LL.

Gun bags appear to be unaffected, but it may be worth while at getting LL looked at

Other than that A18 is Incredible!! WOW!

 
@Faatal and those who use Radeon Cards:

Maybe I figured out a way to use RWG properly on Radeon cards (at least for my RX480) using the normal way (not dedicated server fallback).

The Radeon settings have an option to change operating mode from graphics to computing.

I switched over to computing for map generation, at got a playable map without the usual cliffs. Generating took around 11min for 8k.

Enter the menu and open global settings:

Radeon menu.jpg

Then enter GPU workload:

Radeon menu2.jpg

Switch to compute. Driver is reloaded then, so the screen goes black for some seconds.

Afterwards start generating your map (I've used seed: 'Zombiiiiie' with the same game name =West Yojowi Territory).

Game will start.

I need some persons with other graphics adapters to verify if it works with them, too

EDIT: It looks that it was only luck, I re-generated the map with workload set to graphics, and got the same result

 
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Day 8, looting frantically before my first A18 horde arrives. Got some decent stuff from a tool shop but encountered two random spider zombies on my way home. Now I'm infected. Marvellous. Chugged my only jar of honey in the hopes it'll clear up my 1.4% infection in time to fight.

 
Day 8, looting frantically before my first A18 horde arrives. Got some decent stuff from a tool shop but encountered two random spider zombies on my way home. Now I'm infected. Marvellous. Chugged my only jar of honey in the hopes it'll clear up my 1.4% infection in time to fight.
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Good luck mate ! Hope you make it.

 
hello madmole，A18 Officially made a military truck【M35A21/2 Ton 6x6 Truck]But this truck can't drive.Can you make a driveable military truck if you can？and hope there will be helicopters like UH1 in the update.maybe A19?

Thank you very much

 
Would it be possible for a dedicated server to push his (additional) prefabs for the client ? Maybe with an added checkbox:"Map has additional prefabs, do you want to download them ?"

Map download itself does work fine :smile-new:

 
erm lost my level 1 iron spear, thought id picked it up but obviously not - how can i cheat a replacement in please?
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Why not craft another one instead? That's the thing with the spear; if you miss, you might lose it.

 
Never played Alpha 17, i found it the most boring alpha they have ever done and had given up on the game. I have gone from giving up on the game to finding this the best Alpha ever. Well done the all at Fun Pimps. With LBD gone from the game i thought the game was dead and buried but i was wrong. The game is better than ever before.

 
I had a little issue....and it started like this ;
I really wanted to play a RGW, but could not do it in game, due to the weird generating bug that only generate every second row ( or thats what it looks like, but plenty of bug reports about that ) . So I thought I would be cleverer.

I downloaded the Dedicated server, and done my settings and created a sparkling new 10km2 map, and although it took a while, everything worked fine. I kept the server running, opened the client and logged in to my own server. No problem.

The world loaded, character loaded and the greetings passed, but as I was running and skipping towards my first grass fibre patch, all happy with myself, life happened. The game kicked out to main menu, with no error message...and me server was gone. It did however now appear under 'continue game' . So only available now as a saved SP game.

So I continued the game, and it loaded in fine, but all the starter quests, and equipment was gone. Completely empty inv and questlog etc.

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I guess this happens: When you created the world per dedicated server, the world data was stored in the same place as a SP game. Now the world showed up as a possible SP game, but when you "continue" there, you start as a new player. There is a serverconfig called "PersistentPlayerProfiles". If you had set that to true, you maybe would have continued with the same character

 
Why not craft another one instead? That's the thing with the spear; if you miss, you might lose it.
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erm lost my level 1 iron spear, thought id picked it up but obviously not - how can i cheat a replacement in please?
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I tend to aim for the chest and only throw in close quarters, and have a backup weapon when I inevitably miss.

also, been drawing 7dtd fanart for the past couple days in addition to my scarecrow character for inktober and not sure where I can post it on this forum so the general megathread is as good as place as any really.

7daysscarecrow.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CPobO3C.png

massive image compression, ree

 
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I guess this happens: When you created the world per dedicated server, the world data was stored in the same place as a SP game. Now the world showed up as a possible SP game, but when you "continue" there, you start as a new player. There is a serverconfig called "PersistentPlayerProfiles". If you had set that to true, you maybe would have continued with the same character
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Would it still do that if the dedicated server is installed on a completely separate drive ? Also, I have PersistentPlayerProfiles set to true, and my character did not die. I was exactly where I was on the map, 0 deaths etc.

 
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Small rant.

The text on the interface of the world generator has not changed in a few alphas and is still showing XUI in front of everything.

Why has this not changed yet?

Should look similar to this:

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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?
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It was me and the Mrs. She is bows, and Im melee. Sp basically. She crowd controlled the perimeter while i nailed the ones who made it through in that opening. We DID get overrun, so we jumped off and ran them around the perimeter there.

In the final 2 hours I pulled out the machine gun and opened it up. Incredibly fun. We lost most of our spikes and its going to need reinforcements plus more spikes and a tower. But I have not had that much fun and intensity on a day 14 horde in vanilla since probably A15 when the horde came all night and melee was crap and we ran out of bullets.

Today we go back to day 1 on b143. Looking forward to the new experience. I dont judge my game by a day 7 Blood Moon anymore. We cant. We are pros so of course we are going to wreck that one so i dont think its fair to judge the Alpha on 1 or 2 early game hordes. My idea is that day 7 is like a tune up. Get your basic defense up test it etc. Day 14 is where it ramps up a bit. Look forward to 21 and beyond.

 
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