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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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It might be more time of day but a lot of times it is just simply as easy as opening a chest to eat & drink, there she is again kind of thing.I'm only on day 3 & don't like prefab 03, gonna try 02 & I will track her spawns next game.

This is not a new complaint of mine, I have mentioned this from the day she was put into the game.

I honestly don't think she was needed, she took the Spiders job as a scout for the Wandering Horde.

I would like to see more Wandering Hordes with a scout than this screaming witch. Why is a screaming witch in a Z game anyway.

I am the 1st to criticize turning off a Z in a Z game but she isn't really a Z now is she...

Burn her at the Pointy Stick...

She is not game breaking for me but again it's the annoyance of being bothered by her all the time.

What do I do when a game annoys me? I stop playing it as do others.
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Its so easy to get around this. I could go to day 100 and not see one screamer

 
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It was also impossible to complete. Even went into DM mode and checked from top to bottom for the chest and nothing. Earlier I had a chest spawn under a road next to a house, kinda seems unintended maybe?
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I see fun.. not sure what you see..he he

 
I'm thinking of starting an official campaign to change the game title from "7 days to Die" to "7000 rolls of duct tape"
I get it, duct tape is great stuff.. but damn I spend a significant portion of the game either farming tape, farming resources to make tape, or making tape.
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well duct tape can fix anything even like your car , morgaege , and even your friends when they don't shut up lol

 
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All shirts pants and coats have 1 mod slot.
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Sorry I can't repro. I might have had the First Person or Camera detached. there were 2 of us on motorcycles and all I saw of myself was my helmet on the bike. like I was a passenger.

 
Sorry I can't repro. I might have had the First Person or Camera detached. there were 2 of us on motorcycles and all I saw of myself was my helmet on the bike. like I was a passenger.
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confirmed... drugged players in game. will be adding de-toxing next. :)

 
We already looked over the changes. Texture loading and shaders were not changed between those builds.
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If the fps drops come from GPU memory filling up or GPU IO being overloaded, couldn't it be that some other computation on the GPU just hogs too much memory or IO and the texture and shaders are just showing the result because they are another big contender for a lot of memory and IO and more importantly use a variable amount if you just look around ?

Regarding missing backpacks, I died in a game of A18 b139 (I think, the previous one anyway) and went to the backpack marker. There was nothing there, it was in the desert outdoors so no roofs or anything. I used god mode to clip downwards to look below to see if it sunk somewhere or something but even though I could always see the marker the backpack was never to be found. I lost all of my best items and just deleted that game and have since been playing no drops.
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SInce it often happened that vehicles were floating miles up in the air when they bugged out, possibly the backpack is there too.

Two observations..
One, with two people starting out on nomad, the difficulty difference between adventurer and it is amazingly high.

With under double digit kills for two players and the first clear quest, we ran into feral military guys and wights! That was day two, again under 10 kills each. Either nomad needs to be turned down a notch or two, or there needs to be another difficulty between nomad and adventurer.
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IMHO you are just wasting your breath if you don't specify gamestage, options different to vanilla and the poi you visited in your quest (quest even tells you the internal name of the poi).

 
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Sorry I can't repro. I might have had the First Person or Camera detached. there were 2 of us on motorcycles and all I saw of myself was my helmet on the bike. like I was a passenger.
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I had this happen once as well. Had Debug on and had accidentally hit god mode and when I got on motorcycle I had same thing. Got off turned god mode off and fixed problem. Didn’t try to replicate so maybe not related.

 
Anyone else have this problem on their rented server? I set the drop on death to 2...backpack only.. in the xml. However when someone dies, you drop your toolbelt. Any explanation or fix..

Also FYI..when in fly mode, you cant go through a door or window anymore.

Coughs * Airport POI * Coughs

 
I am having a FPS drop in the desert when I have textures up to full. In the forest biome I have around 35 to 65 usually 45 to 50 FPS but I drop to around 15 FPS in the desert. I haven't been around the snow biomes yet with full textures so I have no ides if I suffer FPS drops there as well. I only get those drops when I have full textures set, on half I don't have any FPS drops at all but the game looks bad.
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Yep, same here but for the snow biome. I've tried to disable fog/snow when I get the drops but no dice. Half textures for me for now until hopefully more optimizations come in.

 
well 2 deaths from going afk and leaving 4 forges and a Chem station running. bunch of screamers a large enough horde to put a blood moon to shame and me being dumb enough to run into a hornets nest to try and get my backpack back. at least nothing broke but they did all magically despawn which really made me rage. it's like they all went OK he had enough...see ya next time kid and they all walked off talking trash about me.

oh well I guess it's a sign of what's to come for say 42 horde at game stage 133. I hope I get to see a demolisher and how he does against a steel base.

 
Had the exact same issue. Dug down and up, nowhere to be found. Eventually figured out how to noclip and it was still nowhere (at least near the backpack icon).
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in A16 or A17 I once had chest buried in POI, I found it one of Chimeny in house. I bring the whole house down (like in Dark knight, burn the whole forest). And then I see the chest hanging in area. as everything falls through but not this buried chest. maybe try that.

 
Did I miss where it was said and or brought up about the Gallows being added?
It be cool if we could hang people for roleplay reasons lol.
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This reminds of other games that allows you to grief people lol...

Savage lands: tie up and drag away people

Dayz: handcuff and force people to drink bleach.

 
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It was also impossible to complete. Even went into DM mode and checked from top to bottom for the chest and nothing. Earlier I had a chest spawn under a road next to a house, kinda seems unintended maybe?
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You should post this in the bugs section so the right eyes get on it.

 
There is no way a screamer will spawn with what you are describing. I built a 10x10 base and upgraded a lot of blocks, etc and mine constantly and have never spawned a screamer. It takes 2 forges, 4 torches and a campfire about 12 hours to get one to come, and once you kill her it will take a long time again to get the next one. Are you cutting down 500 trees in that area?
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You and I must be playing different games. Ive seen you put several times that screamers dont pop up often. But we have at MOST 4 forges running at a time, no torches cause headlamp accessory OP! If everything if running 4 forges we get at least one screamer every 5 minutes. Ran out to the desert with an Aug to mine up some sand and got about 5 of them to spawn in the 15 minutes I was there.

 
Having now played my first half hour of A18. I can already tell this is going to be great. My first impressions

1. games overall aesthetics looks great

2. Player movement/actions feels a lot more fluid and smooth

3. Music gives the game a unique and more immersive feel

4. Looting feels a lot more like A16 which is awesome

5. The way the zombies rage, has now actually made the game a little more challenging. (I love this improvement to AI)

@TFP Nice work! Thank you for getting 7 Days to Die back to its former glory....you have no idea how relieved I am that the game is as it should be once again. :02.47-tranquillity: I never lost faith and today, I am glad to see that my loyalty was not in vein. Keep up the great work you guy/girls are doing over at The Fun Pimps. =)
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DO YOU HAVE TO TURN MUSIC ON? NEVER HAVE I HEARD IT YET @ DAY 13

caps lock sorry work programs need items entered in caps...welcome to program of the early 2000s

 
DO YOU HAVE TO TURN MUSIC ON? NEVER HAVE I HEARD IT YET @ DAY 13caps lock sorry work programs need items entered in caps...welcome to program of the early 2000s
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Yeah my dynamic music was off for some reason. I had to enable.

 
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