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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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im loving the dynamic music tracks! sound so sinister and cool
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Same here. I used to shut off music but now it's alright. Sometimes it fits perfectly with my situation. And I usually hate music in games, immersion breaker.

 
WIth B149, crafting went from almost useless to too good. I have a suggestion:
* Revert crafting quality to B143, with no random stats;

* Add an option to attempt to craft an item at a one higher quality;

* Make the 1-higher items have random stats, but have the "worse" range be bigger than the "better" range, significantly;

* Make 1-higher crafting prone to fatal failure, losing the materials for no gain;

* Make 1-higher "better" range exceed loot range.

That should keep the focus on looting what you need instead of crafting what you need, but allow people to spend an uncertain amount of time and resources to get something truly unique through crafting.
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I think they only need to revert the ability to craft purple quality. You still need to loot to be able to craft and with the random stats you could very well end up crafting a dud. Plus, you can only craft those things you've perked into so if I perked into clubs I'm still going to be wanting to find a purple AK47 that I have no ability to craft.

Not only that but to craft my high quality baseball bat I'm going to have to loot and scrap for all the parts I need which cannot themselves be crafted. Looting is still very necessary in the current meta but now crafting isn't pointless either.

 
It could be nice if repair was added to the dial menu of repairable items, or a hotkey that could do the same.IE: r for normal reload, and shift+r for repair. Or another key.
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Yeah that would be good. Falling off my base during the thick of horde night on Warrior having my AK break on me twice using AP ammo definitely was a chore to open inventory then click AK then click repair lol. Thanks to Fortbites it didn't matter :D

 
Yeah that would be good. Falling off my base during the thick of horde night on Warrior having my AK break on me twice using AP ammo definitely was a chore to open inventory then click AK then click repair lol. Thanks to Fortbites it didn't matter :D
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If your heart is beating faster, it's a good design :)

Edit : well, if your heart breaks maybe your family can do a trial to TFP, but it was a good design.

 
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Ryzen 5 3600 not good enough??
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I have a I5 9600k, it's a little bit better than yours. I have the game installed in a Samsung EVO 960, maybe that's why? I don't know really

We shouldn't have such a different performance.

 
Another suggestion: add individual multipliers to game options when applying GS. That way things like sleeper, roaming horde, blood moon and loot can work at different scales.

 
No. Nightmare speed is a setting for zombie run speed in your options. If you want you can now set up zombies to run faster than you when they run.
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It is the 4 game settings for zombie speed in Basic settings. Change Walk and Sprint in those settings.
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Yes I'm playing Nightmare settings but they're still slower than me, even the fast female runners I can run away from. So that's why I thought maybe they get faster as gs goes up?

 
Ryzen 5 3600 not good enough??
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Update your BIOS, optimize Windows for performance. That's a good enough processor.

If your heart is beating faster, it's a good design :)
Edit : well, if your heart breaks maybe your family can do a trial to TFP, but it was a good design.
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Haha indeed true. I admit I got the "in the zone" heart pounding at that moment when I landed and my AK broke shortly after.

 
Yes I'm playing Nightmare settings but they're still slower than me, even the fast female runners I can run away from. So that's why I thought maybe they get faster as gs goes up?
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So just to be clear: There is Nightmare difficulty setting and then there is Nightmare speed settings. When you say you are playing nightmare you are talking about the speed settings and not the difficulty setting right?

EDIT: nevermind. I had a brain fart. Insane is what I was thinking....

 
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So just to be clear: There is Nightmare difficulty setting and then there is Nightmare speed settings. When you say you are playing nightmare you are talking about the speed settings and not the difficulty setting right?
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Wait there's a Nightmare difficulty setting? I thought Insane was the highest.

 
With only 2 GB VRAM, many of the full quality textures won't fit in VRAM, so the GPU is reading them from system RAM, which is much slower.
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Hi faatal, thanks for the response. Does the snow/desert biomed have higher quality textures in them? Just curious, why the drops are specific to those areas and at weird intervals. Are you guys seeing that on your end as well or are those unconfirmed issues?

 
Feathers need a buff (finding more of them in nests) and I don't even like using the bows.

Compared to guns and ammo it seems like an unnecessary nerf.

I love that we can go guns blazing from the start but I know some users prefer the bows.

Vulture harvesting is not really viable unless you live in or are in close proximity to a desert.

Forget about using the bow on early game hordes too, just not enough arrows, even if you harvest vultures.

Edit: you also reduced the nests out in the wild, which is... insane when coupled with reduced feathers.

 
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Hmm. Tbh I'm not 100% sure, however you can try something like Nvidia Control Panel - Adjust desktop size and position - No scaling - perform scaling on/off : GPU. It could be that your GPU is scaling your resolution based on your desktop resolution because it's not native (the game) compared with your desktop. Worst case, you can simply change your desktop resolution to whatever you want it to be in-game, and it shouldn't mess with scaling then. Play around with it - if you break something, wait 30 seconds or so, if you don't click "Yes" to the "Keep these settings?" question it'll revert back. Even if you get a black screen saying unsupported settings or whatever.
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My desktop is 1080p same as the game, but aspect ration scaling was checked. I unchecked it just in case, and I'll check to see if there are any performance changes.

Thats said, before I wiped that playthough I still did see the same slowdown after an hour or so, and did see the same slowdown others mentioned about the snow biome.

 
So just to be clear: There is Nightmare difficulty setting and then there is Nightmare speed settings. When you say you are playing nightmare you are talking about the speed settings and not the difficulty setting right?
EDIT: nevermind. I had a brain fart. Insane is what I was thinking....
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Yes I'm playing Insane difficulty and then for all 4 speed settings I put to Nightmare but I'm still faster than zombies. Business man zombie, cheerleader, putrid girl, etc they aren't catching up to me. Haven't got to any irradiated yet.

Edit: double checked i'm on A18 b149

 
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