PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[Mechanimal]

The new update feels a lot smoother. I didn't see any mention of optimisation improvements, but something was fixed, for sure.
The Jack o lanterns look AMAZING now that thier lights are fixed! (I just hope they are always around, not just a seasonal thing that gets pulled.l

My goal is to put one at every house in a city...lol!

I was just running around Diersvill putting one on every porch! The lighting on them looks so good now I made my entire base Halloween themed, now the entire neighborhood. Tonight I'm gonna run around knocking on(down) doors collecting treats.

 

[faatal]

I know zombies AI don’t strictly path to doors anymore. I’m still trying to figure out if they path to the weakest block or just the block closet to you. Sorry if it was in the patch notes lol

They path along the cheapest cost, which is the weakest blocks and shortest distances, but costs are affected by their intelligence, which has random variation for each AI type.

 

[Jugginator]

They path along the cheapest cost, which is the weakest blocks and shortest distances, but costs are affected by their intelligence, which has random variation for each AI type.

Damn, much more indepth than in the past yet I can handle 4x the amount of zombies on horde nights than in the past. Top notch work man, you weren't lying when you first got on and said you noticed some changes that could be made with a 50% performance increase. I don't dip fps at all on huge swarms.

 

[faatal]

Alright base builders, I need some help! I want to get a ramp to drive a 4x4 up, but using the ramp blocks whenever I drive up them, it does damage to the blocks from the 4x4 hitting them. Its a tiny amount and I can do it over and over and over before repairing, but on concrete it shows really early and it makes my brain hurt looking at them not look all nice and pretty. Anybody have any solutions for a ramp that doesnt take damage driving a vehicle up it?

Drive slow?

This change today will help for b156+.

"Fixed SDTD-11162 Drawbridges take damage while being driven over (increased vehicle's threshold to damage a block from 5 to 9 damage)."

 

[DaVegaNL]

Is it possible that ive seen a new zombie in one of the new poi's? She looked a bit like a nurse, but without the nurse-cap on her head. Her uniform or clothing was also more greyish..

Anyone else seen her?

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Fight is over guys, don't make me come in there and split your spines in half with my hands...I mean, look at my avatar...I'M HUGE

I'm huge as well.

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Lol, am concerned about DaVega and Snowdogs` silence at this time. And I prefer melee :brushteeth:

Sorry I was.. occupied.

 

[sillls]

Lol weirdos.

Look who's talking.

 

[JCrook1028]

I don't know how they're portrayed in the TV show, but in the comics they have a very large army of walkers that they have managed to find a way to control and direct. Definitely a real threat.

Same in the tv show, they have a horde of over 10,000

 

[sillls]

@ROLAND
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

Well, happy birthday. How old are you Roland? Good thing your a math teacher.

 

[faatal]

It's most likely garbage collection. One of the pimps said a while back they were going to change it to run when you go into the menu when there are no zombies around.

Yes and No. It is a unused resource unload, when a UI window opens, but it is on a 20 minute timer and the game freezes while that is run, so it would not feel like lag, but a pause.

 

[JCrook1028]

i got no one to play with. i tried to get my brother to play but he said the game was broken :/.

well, he's wrong Was he a console player by chance cause there that would be accurate, there's some serious unfixed bugs on that version.

 

[sillls]

At first the whisperers seemed awesome, I thought they were an evolved zombie showing some kind of intelligence but when they were dudes in zombie masks I was like pffft, dumb. It would have been more interesting if after feeding enough times they regain some intelligence and have sympathy for their fellow zombie brethren and hatred towards humans for not "understanding" etc. Having the zombies be a true antagonist again would be more interesting IMO.

Why not add that idea to the game?

 

[JCrook1028]

They tried to make you think they were evolved zombies by planting a couple false hints... but when I found out they were just people, I was so disappointed. By that point, the show was already leaning too heavily on interactions between people and drama. At one time they presented this concept that people are more dangerous than zombies, and it was good and interesting... but we get it already. When they were in the prison, you really had a sense of how bad things were. At what point did they decide to stop locking themselves up to go to sleep in case they died for any reason? Every single person you are with is a danger to your own safety.

The show has always been more about people and how they survive/adapt/change who they are than it was about the Zombies. Zombies are just the catalyst. People are the walking dead, not the zombies. That's from the owners/writers mouths btw, not my opinion.

 

[Doombringer101]

Is it possible that ive seen a new zombie in one of the new poi's? She looked a bit like a nurse, but without the nurse-cap on her head. Her uniform or clothing was also more greyish..
Anyone else seen her?

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I'm huge as well.

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Sorry I was.. occupied.

She has been around for a while, scientist zombie would be my description, found several in the meth lab type poi yesterday.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Well, happy birthday. How old are you Roland? Good thing your a math teacher.

ROLAND IS A MATH TEACHER!......................................................

I wish he was mine math teacher cuz shes a lazy bum and gets mad because out test our crap. even though she puts 2 notes on the broad's that looks like gibberish then lazily sits on her chain and plays solitaire. so i have to take my time and learn it my self!

 

[HungryZombie]

Jamming in the sense of having to click the reload button loosing some time, not disabling the gun.

Yeah I think that's the way to go with the mechanic, if they ever thought about adding it in that is.

 

[Jugginator]

It would have been more interesting if after feeding enough times they regain some intelligence and have sympathy for their fellow zombie brethren and hatred towards humans for not "understanding" etc. Having the zombies be a true antagonist again would be more interesting IMO.

SciFi had a show something kind of like that, was interesting. I cannot remember the name, but the series took a weird and uninteresting twist after the first season. The "intelligent zombie antagonist" knew he was a zombie of a sort, more intelligent than the others, led the others, and had sympathy and/or rage to certain scientist colleges for reasons.

BTW Happy Birthday Rolland, may your birthday trolland excursions be fruitful and Snowdog jumps out of your birthday cake in his birthday suit!

 

[Adam the Waster]

well, he's wrong Was he a console player by chance cause there that would be accurate, there's some serious unfixed bugs on that version.

he has a xbox and a PC battle station. its better then mine that he got me lol. and yes he played on console first and i think it taunted his opinion. i was the same for me but when i was some you-tubes played it and i got the PC. I got it and i love it.

 

[lord_ahriman]

For what I understood, you hit faster (more often) so your yield should be the same.
And happy birthday to a great moderator !

And happy birthday to Roland too.

DPS is the same, should be in patch notes. I thought the mining felt cooler swinging the tool faster but to those wanting to one shot or two shot I imagine it would feel like a step back, but in the grand scheme of things the amount of ore you pull will be the same. We're still tuning things I didn't think of this use case.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I'm not too concerned about yield, but being fast: I'm building an underground tunnel to the desert biome so I can easily get my oil shale mining outpost. It's not a big deal, but at M69er 5/5 I should be able to destroy a rock in 2 hits.

 

[agrastiOs]

If it was at night I think it is working as intended. There are even ferals at night on low gs levels.

Nah, it was the morning, fresh spawn.

 

[JCrook1028]

he has a xbox and a PC battle station. its better then mine that he got me lol. and yes he played on console first and i think it taunted his opinion. i was the same for me but when i was some you-tubes played it and i got the PC. I got it and i love it.

Yep, that makes sense then. He's tainted by the console game. PC isn't even close to the same game. Maybe someday he'll realize that.