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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

    Votes: 2 66.7%

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What's weird is that I updated my review for A18 and it never shows up? Maybe I have to delete it, then make a new one for it to appear on "recent reviews"?
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Show em' who's boss.
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It probably keeps the original date. The best thing you can do is thumbs up the good reviews and thumbs down the bad ones so the good ones are "most helpful" which is the first thing you see by default.

 
What is up with screamers?? Out of control! Keep coming and I have no Forge or Workbench, couple torches. I cooked some stuff - not much. Then she sees me when she "can't" see me!! Then calls zombies and another screamer - pretty soon it's like all hell broke loose.
I would expect that if I had like a wall of Forges and Mixers running. Are torches calling screamers?? Does Heat follow me from the Forge running at the Trader far away?? Is code borked?? Am I just really unlucky?
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Experimental fixes it.

 
Adapt and overcome. You, too, can survive the CM apocalypse!
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Its pretty silly, its a zombie apocalypse you don't get time to landscape. Maybe we can overcome the limitation but I was told hey you get 3 blocks whats it going to be.. um ok dirt/adaptive and gravel. Maybe asphalt would be more desirable than gravel?

 
Congrats!!! This is an insane record, and hope Overall Reviews reach Very Positive very soon!
Have you looked at my text fixes yet which you marked on your notes?
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Fixed some, broke others, refixed. It's complicated :D

 
It probably keeps the original date. The best thing you can do is thumbs up the good reviews and thumbs down the bad ones so the good ones are "most helpful" which is the first thing you see by default.
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Doing that now, I also noticed that reviews of friends that I know was voted as useful (all very positive) were no longer voted up. On the Store page I only seen 3 negative reviews with 19 positive so off the top of my head that's 85-ish% positive.

Steam reviews needs an overhaul but I'd prefer they don't use Open Critic which Epic now uses as its opt-in for devs where they don't use it if they don't see favourable reviews - always read between the lines in any review and make of it what you will.

 
I haven't tried them yet but what about the slugs? Maybe they can add incendiary rounds too someday.
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The problem is that slugs are single target, which is the opposite of what a shotty is usually used for, and switching ammo types for a specific zombie is too time consuming. The other problem is that slugs are insanely costly compared to normal ammo. I've never once crafted a shotgun slug because of how much they cost to make.

Just my 2 cents here, but Shotguns are in desperate need of a higher tier variant. This is after two games perking into them, let me explain:
7. I love shotguns
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I would kill for a Semi-auto shotgun with a bigger clip and faster fire rate or a "Street sweeper" Drum barrel auto shotty.

 
Yes but it doesn't really work that way. At some point the real struggle ARE the horde nights and as such you need a specialized weapon to face the horde. If I'm gonna resort to using my AK I might aswell just spec into FORT and thus machine guns. The odd dude in the wild is easily dispatched with a decent sledgehammer anyways. Let's also not forget the AK is better than the pump shotgun in pretty much every area : DPS (when you account for reload times), effective range, magazine size... We're talking a T2 being much better overall than a T3. And the T2 double barrel is just a terrible weapon overall.
I don't want all weapons to be equal in all situations, but when your 100% close quarter strength guy has both less survivability, less raw damage output, less effective range, less crowd control/area damage than his closest friend the tank machine-gunner, the discussion isn't really about making everything equal but balancing stuff out in the grand scheme of things.

Honestly the double barrel doesn't fit the game and should be replaced by the pump shotgun as a T2, and a brand new T3 shotgun should come into play. And give the shotguns some uniqueness, whether it is AOE damage with more damage/more spread, less movement penalty when reloading, anything really. In my book it only has drawbacks right now, expect for a lower skill floor.
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TBH the double barrel should be the T1 shotgun, Like What even is the blunderbuss, I main shotguns in every build and have never even fired a blunderbuss.

 
TBH the double barrel should be the T1 shotgun, Like What even is the blunderbuss, I main shotguns in every build and have never even fired a blunderbuss.
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The blunderbuss is the gimmick item that you only use one or twice for the sake of using it, like the night vision goggles. :p

 
Congrats Fun Pimps on beating your 2 year old record!!! Now it's 35579... Nice!Also, recent reviews are very positive, which is so nice to see. Great work guys!
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Would it be wrong of me to encourage everyone right now to go play the game to get to 36K....?

 
Would it be wrong of me to encourage everyone right now to go play the game to get to 36K....?
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I have 50 mins left on my college lab remote server cybersec exploitation challenge, have 2 more exploits, patching, proof and report to finish then I will :D

Not wrong at all tehe. Already having drinks, may as well have another while starting a new world

 
It annoys the hell out of me that there are 10 or so pissed off guys out there who camp at steam and thumbs up (making helpful) every bad review they can find. This makes the tiny amount of bad reviews there actually is parked on top of the first default review page you see. If you guys have some ♥♥♥♥s to give, you could go there and click thumbs up the positive reviews so we can drown out these 10 guys who are probably mad they got Banned and are marking every bad review helpful.
Steams system is stupid. No one review is more helpful than the next, and haters can skew the perception. Lets fight hate with love and give the positive reviews some love guys, thanks.
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Don't react to the bullying. It just energizes their efforts.

 
I have 50 mins left on my college lab remote server cybersec exploitation challenge, have 2 more exploits, patching, proof and report to finish then I will :D
Not wrong at all tehe. Already having drinks, may as well have another while starting a new world
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I read the word "cybersec" wrong. So, so wrong...

 
35,324 In-Game. I just don't want it spoiled by literally 10 butt hurt guys and steams dumb review system.
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Congratulations on the new record!

I went through and read some of the bad reviews, and saw one that put in a bad review just because he/she couldn't play his/her A17.4 saved game in A18 and couldn't understand why.

I explained that a new alpha would most likely require a wipe, and explained that he/she could always go back to old alphas if needed. He/she was happy to know about this and said that he/she would go back to A17.4, finish what he/she was building there off, and then enjoy playing A18.

It may be a good idea to write in the Alpha 18 patch note and the Alpha 18 Stable is out! announcement that a new save is required. It's an obvious fact for long time players, but for those who only started recently, and don't even know about this forum, it may be a bit confusing.

 
Would it be wrong of me to encourage everyone right now to go play the game to get to 36K....?
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Maybe tomorrow as most people are playing at 20:00 which requires that everyone has the game running in the build up to that time, I'm sure 36K is doable :smile-new:

 
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