Hek Harris
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Nope. My grandfather did that and screwed up the inheritance. He thought it was funny.
PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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ZombieSurvivor
Banned
@tfp
I'm assuming you guys are aware of the texture streaming bug?
EDIT: i called it a bug turns out its not(faatal clarified it)...although I suspect there is a bug...ill write up a report if i ever narrow it down.
I'm assuming you guys are aware of the texture streaming bug?
EDIT: i called it a bug turns out its not(faatal clarified it)...although I suspect there is a bug...ill write up a report if i ever narrow it down.
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Jarod_Silverstar
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Faatal -
I know you have plenty to work on but I am still seeing some interesting behavior regarding graphics, just tested it on this new build and still getting it.
In short, while FPS is good, and I am running at pretty high graphics settings, I can tell my system is working a LOT harder when I am outdoors vs a POI. My first indicator was that after a minute or so outside, the cooling fans in my machine speed up (making a lot more noise), but when I go into a POI they will slow back down after a moment and stay, until I go outside again. The other strange twist is that it only slows down in remain POIs, not underground, not in player built spaces and I have tried turning on and off distant terrain and AF which has made no difference as far as I can tell.
Do you have a suggestion as to what logs or data I can collect for you to research this behavior?
I know you have plenty to work on but I am still seeing some interesting behavior regarding graphics, just tested it on this new build and still getting it.
In short, while FPS is good, and I am running at pretty high graphics settings, I can tell my system is working a LOT harder when I am outdoors vs a POI. My first indicator was that after a minute or so outside, the cooling fans in my machine speed up (making a lot more noise), but when I go into a POI they will slow back down after a moment and stay, until I go outside again. The other strange twist is that it only slows down in remain POIs, not underground, not in player built spaces and I have tried turning on and off distant terrain and AF which has made no difference as far as I can tell.
Do you have a suggestion as to what logs or data I can collect for you to research this behavior?
ZombieSurvivor
Banned
lol naw if they needed the help they would ask. its very easy doubt anyone at tfp will have a problem figuring it out. there fine lol... :cocksure:
Gareee
Tester
@Madmole:
If world generation is staying how it is, PLEASE consider adding this feature request in a18 or a19:
Either a game option to choose medium or large biomes, or a new biome.raw file with biomes half the current sizes.
I played with the biome.raw file, and its very easy to do, a half hour's work at best.
I know you like large biomes, but here is my justification for this:
In my 70 day playthrough, I never saw wasteland, snow, OR desert until day 66, where I spent two full days map exploring. At that point I finally DID see both wasteland and snow.
I was seeking desert though, because I needed to craft gas. I finally looked at the generated biome.png to see where desert was on the map. I had started far SE, and desert was far NW.
This means I never saw a snake, coyote, OR mountain lion either. It doesn't matter whats in those other biomes if new players never even see them. If you want to hook new players they need a taste of that biome diversity. I spent probably 80% of my time in ugly burning lands with only vultures as wildlife (and as a result, no huntable food other than an occasional spawned wolf pack) , 19% in forest so I could hunt for food, and the other 1% or 70 play hours as I travelled hunting down biomes on the map in game.
I can easily do this myself editing that biome.raw file now, but the option for more diversity to balance the play environment really needs to be back in vanilla. Flipping or rotating it to change it up is fine, but the biomes just need to be smaller so players actually see them or can locate them.
Going forward (if this is how they are going to generate biomes from now on) I'd like to either see game options for small, medium or large biomes, or provide a few different biome.raw files, and randomly choose one of them to flip or rotate for map generation.
None of this is really difficult to do, so once someone has critical a18 fixes off their plate this would be a good easy way to add biome balance to the game.
Please bring this up to the team to consider.
If world generation is staying how it is, PLEASE consider adding this feature request in a18 or a19:
Either a game option to choose medium or large biomes, or a new biome.raw file with biomes half the current sizes.
I played with the biome.raw file, and its very easy to do, a half hour's work at best.
I know you like large biomes, but here is my justification for this:
In my 70 day playthrough, I never saw wasteland, snow, OR desert until day 66, where I spent two full days map exploring. At that point I finally DID see both wasteland and snow.
I was seeking desert though, because I needed to craft gas. I finally looked at the generated biome.png to see where desert was on the map. I had started far SE, and desert was far NW.
This means I never saw a snake, coyote, OR mountain lion either. It doesn't matter whats in those other biomes if new players never even see them. If you want to hook new players they need a taste of that biome diversity. I spent probably 80% of my time in ugly burning lands with only vultures as wildlife (and as a result, no huntable food other than an occasional spawned wolf pack) , 19% in forest so I could hunt for food, and the other 1% or 70 play hours as I travelled hunting down biomes on the map in game.
I can easily do this myself editing that biome.raw file now, but the option for more diversity to balance the play environment really needs to be back in vanilla. Flipping or rotating it to change it up is fine, but the biomes just need to be smaller so players actually see them or can locate them.
Going forward (if this is how they are going to generate biomes from now on) I'd like to either see game options for small, medium or large biomes, or provide a few different biome.raw files, and randomly choose one of them to flip or rotate for map generation.
None of this is really difficult to do, so once someone has critical a18 fixes off their plate this would be a good easy way to add biome balance to the game.
Please bring this up to the team to consider.
Jedo
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I was clearing one of the apartment building POIs, and I was on the fourth floor when a wandering horde ("event horde"?) showed up. I had heard some banging, but since I wasn't stealthing, I had assumed that it was a zombie in another room which I had disturbed. As I turned to leave the room, 8-9 zombies walked in, leaving me nowhere to go. What could I do? I ran to the balcony and jumped down a level ("Hardcore parkour!"), then barricaded the hallway for when they pathed down to my new location. As they came down the stairs, I pulled out the shotgun that I had just found and started blowing them away.
All of that to say, fun times. I'm loving this alpha. Thanks, TFP!
All of that to say, fun times. I'm loving this alpha. Thanks, TFP!
Callum123456789
Active member
bug found: gas barrels don't have the explosion effect or sound when destroyed
Guppycur
Well-known member
It's fun (my mods parameters are up to 10) but the XP notification totally ruins any surprise. Hate that damn thing.
...but the time does help against them conga lining, and especially if they REALLY rage, like for more than a nanosecond? You basically create your own ferals.
Roland
Moderator
Don't believe faatal. He just coded the game. My post count is way higher than his. I'm your ticket to the truth. Those baby blues of his are designed to take you down strange paths and invite you into windowless carpeted vans.
Go gather those land mines while you have your window of immunity. Don't waste those precious moments.
Callum123456789
Active member
ahhhh yes you do have a higher post count all hail the postian!
jorbascrumps
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Well I figured out how to reproduce the texture streaming bug, took 1 minute to figure it out. that was easy so it should be an easy find and fix for TFP.
I really hope this is a joke. Just because you could repro doesn't mean it'll be an easy fix. And then you don't offer to explain how you've done it? TFP have asked for your help, that's what experimental is. Why don't you compile into a thread, have others confirm your findings, and then share that? Instead you come here spouting nonsense and refusing to actually help them.
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