PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[DaVegaNL]

Roll a new seed and make sure it takes 15+ minutes to generate, or just play pregen01 or 02.

In my case it happened on a 4k map, so it only takes 2 min of generating. It happens once in a while. Only seen it once so far.

 

[madmole]

maybe your settings are insane and not nomad?

I know how stealth works. Usually I kill ferals though.

 

[GrapeDrink]

Maybe you already made a bunch of heat.

Nah, this guy is right about screamers. I run augers non stop in mines away from main base and get probably 6-8 per gas tank reload. Last time they couldnt find their way down so when I popped out of the mine shortly after there were 10+ sitting out there waiting on my ass. That was exciting

 

[madmole]

Say madmole...
Will you be adding more book sets ?

I love looting for them and of course my greedy nature would love more more more.



They making my looting really fun trying to collect them all... (bit like pokemons)

I'd like to do books on spears, brawling, junk turrets and stun batons unless baseball books applied to them.

Am I missing anything else?

 

[Adam the Waster]

I personally love the Island RWG design!! Don't change just add polish and rivers and bridges!!

yes then i can build my bridge base and act like i keep people in!

but i cant cuz i play alone

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I'd like to do books on spears, brawling, junk turrets and stun batons unless baseball books applied to them.
Am I missing anything else?

Grenade/bombs , sledge hammers...... that's it i think unless you count shovels and claw hammers , and wrench as a weapons

Plz add my football book idea and more makeshift weapons!!

 

[unlike them]

Bicycling along roads in the desert during the day I frequently get a kamikaze vulture out of seemingly nowhere. Always attacks right away. My health doesn't matter, has happened at 100% more often than while slightly wounded. Is this working as intended?

Vultures attacking people in vehicles is intended game mechanic.

 

[Hek Harris]

When I break a block, I have strange particles that appear. I feel that it dates from the last update. I modified some settings but it doesn't change anything. Nvidia 1060 6go. Did anyone else notice that ?

Same thing for glass :

 

[GrapeDrink]

Idk honestly I'll have to do more testing.
Did you see my updated post about the wall safe, gun safe, reinforced chest, and hardened reinforced chest loot container party bug. its on page 2227.

I had something similar. Was in a party and I was doing a quest in the shotgun factory. The rest of the guys came up and helped me finish it. I had the guy with LL 5 and googles open up the final chest and every single item was level 1. We had also cleared the factory once before in a party just to clear it in general. But we actually got good loot the first time. Not sure if that played into it at all.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Vultures attacking people in vehicles is intended game mechanic.

then grab them vulture and break there wings and throw them off a cliff......................

that's what i would do!

 

[Kattla]

I'd like to do books on spears, brawling, junk turrets and stun batons unless baseball books applied to them.
Am I missing anything else?

Pimp your ride, volume 1 to 3, learn how to make vehicles look cooler, and also drive a bit faster.

edit: At least faster, or more damage to the enviroment. Make them look cooler is kinda difficult, given their current look.

 

[madmole]

@MM
This post may be a little long but its critical. I posted a few days ago about a potential bug when looting certain loot containers. The issue; when you loot a wall safe, a gun safe, reinforced chest, and hardened reinforced chest, you only get T1 gear (Guns, armor, tools, or anything with a Tier value) regardless of what your Lucky Looter or loot bonus is. I did some testing last night and I have been able to localize it and repeat it with predictability.

When I am in a party with friends the bug happens. we are both within a lvl or two and GS is at 160ish for each of us. My friend has Max LL and has Lucky Googles equipped as well. I on the other hand have 0 points into LL and I am using Nerdy Glasses. I got on like 3 hours before my friend did and was out looting when I noticed I was getting various tier lvls of gear from the aforementioned loot containers. When my friend finally logged in we partied up and immediately I started only getting T1 loot from those specific loot containers only(as well as he did). 100% of the time we were looting those specific loot containers while in a party we only got T1 gear. So i would clear a POI drop party and loot and get varied tier quality items. I would rejoin the party and loot a new POI while in that party and sure enough, BOOM T1 loot.

In Conclusion when in a party you only get T1 loot from wall safes, a gun safes, reinforced chests, and hardened reinforced chests. I have tested it. I am at work today when I get home I will make a video showcasing the bug and will post a link to it here. Possible issue may be the LL bonus while in party is disabled? idk?

We'll check it out.

 

[Adam the Waster]

When I break a block, I have strange particles that appear. I feel that it dates from the last update. I modified some settings but it doesn't change anything. Nvidia 1060 6go. Did anyone else notice that ?

i wished my game looked like that!

(if i could take a screenshot i would but idk how!)

 

[Kattla]

(if i could take a screenshot i would but idk how!)

Try the F12 key, unless you have different keyboard layout.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Pimp your ride, volume 1 to 3, learn how to make vehicles look cooler, and also drive a bit faster.

that would be cool! and maybe it could be for stuff like that and vehicle mods , like a mounted MG for the truck , SmG on the Motorcycle , cabin for the minibike and motorcycle. ETC I CAN KEEEEEP GOING!

 

[madmole]

Yeah it is really close to perfect for solo. Just did my day 28 horde last evening, actually about the same results as Auger had haha, cept I used more grenades. Man those grenades and moloys are great fun - love the effects of the nades especially.
I'm wondering about steel tools requiring steel tool parts, though. I was lucky enough to find a steel fireaxe like on day 8 or so, but I've been stuck with the iron fireaxe ever since. I found the crucible schematic, crafted steel and then noticed I had to go find steel tools to scrap to get the parts to craft the pickaxe lol. I kinda get it, but at the same time it kinda defeats the purpose maybe. Granted, I did find another steel fireaxe to scrap to get the last few parts I need, and really the iron pick was good... idk, perhaps I'm being nit-picky.

I do love all of those recipes and schematics, especially the books though. Although the weapon crafting ones idk, kinda seems like by time you can read one that you're not perked into crafting a level 1 of that gun is rather pointless, both to use and to sell. Perhaps in some way - by reading one - you can have a chance at learning the next tier of level to craft? Not the perk, just the ability to craft a higher level.

We are doing some balance, people are getting good gear too soon. This will restore crafting as all the brown guns you find will be crafted into something better, until the loot catches up with you, then later game you will probably loot something better than what you crafted early game. Its not going to be brown forever and there will still be a chance for purple on day 1, but generally we're stretching the crappy gear out a little more is all to make crafting more of a thing again.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Try the F12 key, unless you have different keyboard layout.

but then how do i put it here? copy the URL?

 

[Vintorez]

Really enjoying almost every change made in A18, though I think the base dismemberment chance given by attributes quickly makes stronger but more expensive weapons irrelevant. Not much point in using a magnum when I have a 30%+ chance to pop a head with my much cheaper and more versatile pistol.

An idea would be that each individual weapon has a dismemberment multiplier that is factored into the base chance from attribute. Like a Wooden Club could have a 0.25x dismemberment multiplier that would turn your 40% chance to 10%, while weapons like the Revolver and Sniper Rifle could be like 1.5x or even just 2x for guaranteed dismemberment at Rank 10.

Also what seems to be a bug I found is that lockers prevent block placement in a 3x3 area around them. I can provide an image from where we had this issue.

 

[madmole]

at less you can run the game! lol

The next patch will reduce vram use even further so hopefully you can play again.

 

[GrapeDrink]

Any good mod setups for level 6 knuckles? I'm rolling with serrated blades + the flaming mod (which makes it hard to see anything with the fists staying center screen and the flames taking up all the area around them :/ ) but I really dont know wtf to put on them otherwise to fill up the extra 2 slots (or 3 if I dont want to deal with constant flames blocking my fov)

 

[Peakit]

but then how do i put it here? copy the URL?

There is an "Insert image" option on new reply/post. Icon looks like a picture of a tree.