PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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Mid game this might change. But early game players will go into spears, and then likely stay there for melee.Until guns play a role.
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Meh. I think the primitive spear is the best of the primitive weapons but switch to the club as soon as I find a tier 2 or tier 3. It's not the end of the world if first-time players stick to the spear and then experiment with other melee later in the game. More experienced players probably already have a preference. I feel bad for knife users. The knife seems like a complete no go and the machete just can't compete with the clubs and hammers. I enjoyed the knife in earlier alphas but it was less than ideal with the rage mechanic and the speed changes/damage reduction haven't helped any. It really needs a better stun mechanic.

 
Meh. I think the primitive spear is the best of the primitive weapons but switch to the club as soon as I find a tier 2 or tier 3. It's not the end of the world if first-time players stick to the spear and then experiment with other melee later in the game. More experienced players probably already have a preference. I feel bad for knife users. The knife seems like a complete no go and the machete just can't compete with the clubs and hammers. I enjoyed the knife in earlier alphas but it was less than ideal with the rage mechanic and the speed changes/damage reduction haven't helped any. It really needs a better stun mechanic.
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I am currently owning with my machete agility build. I have never felt the need to pull out a club or spear for melee.

 
You cannot be serious. While the crafter has to spend SP & loot 2 beakers. You suggest that a chemstation can be bought at any time from any trader? Even boosting the discountbonus you get from the tradingskill. Making buying fare more overpowerd that it is already.
IMHO Traders should be nerved not buffed. All tier items above quality one not in secret stash should be downgradet to quality one. And the itemquality in the secret stash should be related to the level of secret stash. You want to buy Q5 Items than perk into the traderskill. You don't want to spend points into that skill? So why should you be rewarded with the option of buying the finest items?
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I am currently owning with my machete agility build. I have never felt the need to pull out a club or spear for melee.
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To each their own. I have 4 points in the knife perk and a Q6 machete. I still prefer the baseball bat even though I only have 1 or 2 points in the club perk and have may 3 points in strength total. I find the knockback/stun of clubs to be more useful than the bleed of knifes.

 
Mid game this might change. But early game players will go into spears, and then likely stay there for melee.Until guns play a role.
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Well for me it is about multiplayer. Depending on lag, zombies can get in some laggy hits, so I stay away from melee.

Usually throw spears at the start, although the range is long enough that you could probably melee with it in multiplayer.

Although, the stone spear can 2 headshot regular mobs, but a max level stone spear with maxed out spear skill is still a 2 headshot kill... so if I am throwing spears, I am probably getting rex first lel.

If they every get more than 1 stone spear back in your bar, when you pick them up, I might mostly throw spears, heh.

 
I programmed it that way. Deemed it nicer to the player.
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Altho kinder to the player, it makes him not much different then the cop imo...not asking for a buff/nerf as I havent even experienced one live yet. 😂

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You know who else is a prefab guru lol.....
This guy called Laz Man apparently he is going to do every THE WALKING DEAD place lol :-D
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I heard he is semi retired...something about baby horde nights or something...😂

 
Altho kinder to the player, it makes him not much different then the cop imo...not asking for a buff/nerf as I havent even experienced one live yet. 😂
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I heard he is semi retired...something about baby horde nights or something...😂
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No retirement. No retirement allowed lol tfp govt ruled out any retirement allowance lol

 
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Say goodbye to that stack size.
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btw do you have any plans to polish the RWG? i have tested Pregen01 and pregen03 and they make a big % of the map only terrain, cities and towns are way to apart from eachother, it makes the initial exploration to choose a place to live very tedious. And could the towns be bigger? with less zeds in pois now i can clean a whole town in like 1 day (real life time) wich kinda forces me to re-settle very often wich is annoying.

 
Hey MM! Just wanted to buzz in and give some straight feedback, because i'm not sure if u read the "official" feedback thread. My feedback conserns mining tools. Especially Auger. I've restarted everytime a new exp build has come alive. So now I've tried about 10 different games. And in my opinion, Auger is quest reward waaaaay to often.
I am mining atm with Q3 auger atm and i got it on day 2 from quest reward. I've yet seen a steel pick of any quality. And i think this is way to OP. I'm getting way more augers than steel picks in my games. I think they rly should be tuned a bit. As a player, i would like to see augers waaaaay later, not right off the bat, like now it seems to be the case.

Maybe completely remove augers from the quest rewards? Or make them way harder to obtain? In my mind, they are supposed to be late game tools, not Day 2 tools.

I'd love to mine with steel pick but can't do, because there just ain't one. I've gotten steel pick like once in my games. And like 6 augers. Needs some balance there, imo. I feel too overpowered on day 5 to mine with Q3 auger. That is why i will scrap my Q3 auger and continue with Q2 iron pick, which is crafted by me.

Cheers!

-Kipster
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Probably random, I'm on day 33 or so and haven't got a steel pick or an auger, I'm still using my green pick I crafted myself.

 
btw do you have any plans to polish the RWG? i have tested Pregen01 and pregen03 and they make a big % of the map only terrain, cities and towns are way to apart from eachother, it makes the initial exploration to choose a place to live very tedious. And could the towns be bigger? with less zeds in pois now i can clean a whole town in like 1 day (real life time) wich kinda forces me to re-settle very often wich is annoying.
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I’m playing Pregen01, and I spawned on the border of desert and forest with about five towns within 2kms of each other. (The trader options are kind of slim. I just started some map exploration to see if the others are nearby.)

The towns are a little small, but the quests keep respawning the buildings making it work.

 
(Sorry for typos, misspelling etc, i am from Finland and a little drunk atm)
So, it's evening of day 6. I've just got my Q3 Auger up and running with mods and i decided to make a shortcut to the trader, which was just like 100-200m away from my home. But between me andthe trader was a hill, that i did not want to climb over and over again. So i started to make a tunnel. I had wrenched about 3000 fuel before, so i started mining. At first, there was notghing to report, just mining trough rock as fast as i could, refuiling time to time. Then, the night came. I continued on, when i heard a scream, different from what i've heard before. So that must be a wight! I turned 180 on my heels, stopped mining and ran home as fast as i could, yes, i got spooked. But when i got home....

I went in from the front door and i was greeted with screamer, in my bace, chilling. Killed her (Rip u beatiful woman) and then i saw it. My warehouse room was breached, that effin female dog had destroyed THAT chest, where kept all my vehicle parts (i had one gyro, one truck, one motorcycle) and some top end clothers for hot or cold biomes.... ALL GONE because i ignored the back wall, which was made from plain wood. Ofc she plowed trought that while i was mining. i also lost 4 beakers. And before i realised that the beakers were there to, i specced into intellect, so i could build chem bench. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it! So back to square one. Luckily trader has a working bench. But it can't rally make up the gyro parts, truck parts, motorcycle parts and all the other things, like mods and those elusive beakers!

But still, i just love it! Game punished me for my arrogance and did it the hard way! So off to looting more car poi's or non existent hostipals in my rwg!

I just fricking rly love this! Just nerf the Auger drop from quest rewards and omg imma gonna have a joygasm, maybe with snowgod, together, like bros, with tissue....?

-Kipster

Edit: Yes, Snowgod is used to know as snowdog. But he is god of joygasms, right?
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That is awesome. I'll check the code on it.

 
Day 16, horde night. 60 minute days, 64 max alive, 20% AI block damage. Always walk. Spent the first hour or so outside on my fighting platforms then went inside to fight from behind my wooden bars. Actually used the junk turrets, which I swore not to do but they were really fun and effective.
Horde exhausted by 01:50. No glowies, police or demolishers yet.

At one point I was behind my wooden bars and it really felt like I had a massive horde on the other side, I couldn't see past them. And it ran really really well.

Congrats fun pimps!

Oh, and by the way. I bought my son a gaming PC. We're starting our first co-op game at the weekend.
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Nice we should sell them on our store, I hear PC stock is rising because of Alpha 18 lol.

 
Bring weather back.

I would love to see weather being back in the game. I really liked it when it was in the game a few Alpha's ago. It had flaws but it was nice to see.

Now the only things I see is overcast look sometimes. I never see rain anymore.

I want to hear thunder and see lighting and have the effect day and night.

I would love to see it cross over boimes to please.

Thanks.

 
Mid game this might change. But early game players will go into spears, and then likely stay there for melee.Until guns play a role.
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I decide what I'm using before I kick off the random world gen. You can get a couple ranks right away and be using whatever you want to specialize in. There is no waiting, you just do it. Leather wraps for brawler, wooden club for strength, etc. The only one you have to wait for is stun baton every other build just get right into it and perk melee immediately. A perked anything is better than an uperked anything IMO. As long as you spend those early game points correctly you can make any primitive weapon badass. Stone sledge I'd get one perk for it and one for sex rex right away so I can use it better. For fort I put 1 into brawler, 1 into regen, and two on the attribute since I won't have an AK right away. Two into brawler on my first level, etc.

I don't spend points on heavy armor until I can actually craft it. The armor rating is just as good with no perks and movement diminish good enough with mods.

 
uhm...bow and for that matter crosbow is not a firearm. I kinda get the reasoning for guns needing parts as that is hardly something you jury rig yourself, but wooden bow?
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You know I meant damn good and well "ranged weapons" FFS its T2 it uses parts, period. We can rename it advanced bow if it makes you feel better.

 
*pokes the bear*

Wouldn't a recurve bow be more T2 than a bow with bits of metal on it?

Just havin' a bit of fun.

Should add an Atlatl to really mess with people. Huge range but, the arc or aiming would suck. T1 insta kill if you can actually hit anything with it.

 
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