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Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

  • A18 Stable is Out!

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The deserts are red since the Oxygen Catastrophe.

Mass extinction, brought on by zombie bacteria ... from a certain point of view.

 
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MADMOLE
can we get an external program for the ui please like you open the program and the ui is in boxes and you can simply drag them around or expand or miniaturized the windows.
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You bet. Its called Unity and Ngui. Have at it.

 
I don't think that pure builds are intended. They are nice for a challenge but for a normal playthrough you need points in different attributes.
I have a strength build but I also invest points in fortitude. I think it blends pretty well and I'm also a fan of self-sufficiency. So it's only natural to have points in living of the land.

As for the shotgun, I see the double-barreled shotgun only as a weapon for "Oh S" moments. With a pump shotgun you can walk through a POI like a terminator but melee is also very powerful.
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Yeah unless you are crafting heavy armor perk isn't what I'd call a must have. I get by just fine without it and put in the advanced fittings and an atheltic jacket and I'm running circles around zeds, but I don't have to, I have heavy armor.

Doing a pure build is not intended, I always get perks out of every tree except agility, unless I'm doing agility.

 
Just trying out Alpha 18 stable - I am playing on a dedicated server and noticed that when I'm on foot, everything is working just fine, but whenever I'm riding a vehicle (doesn't matter which one) adjacent chunks are not loaded. I am bounced back when I'm about to enter a new chunk and have to exit the vehicle, so the new chunk is loaded. Then I can board the thing again and go on, until the next chunk wants to load.

Just to clarify: I can stand on the next chunk's border while riding a vehicle and wait there just fine, but the chunk still won't load. It will only load when I'm on foot.

A friend of mine, who is playing on the same server, says he doesn't have that issue, so I'm assuming it must be connected to one of my settings, but I'm at a loss determining which one. Tried every setting, no change. I thought it would be connected to the viewing distance, but no, that's not the case, apparently.

Is this a bug, or can one of you guys recommend something to me which I could try?

 
@MADMOLE:
You had talked about adding it as a perk or book in the past for players who prefer it....I never even craft and rarely even use found ones because they are just too iffy to target well. I'd say I've wasted at least 1/2 of them trying to guess range. They cost a lot of resources to make, so it ends up being a big waste of them with the current system.
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I have no idea what you are talking about and no desire to scroll back 10 pages to see what I was talking about. Maybe start with "On the topic of shotguns" or whatever it is we were talking about then I can respond.

 
That which was already there but if you build something new it should also look new.
What is the point if we can build something new but it looks like it has been uninhabited for 20 or 30 years ?
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You are assuming there is a home depot to get fresh lumber, drywall, primer, paint etc. Even if there was it would all be faded and moldy from weather and time. We assume players would scrounge up salvage to build with, reclaimed wood, sheets of metal, crude broken bricks/concrete for cobblestone, etc.

 
Been trying to get along with the attribute system since it's launch, sometimes feel like I'm fighting the system to build my character. Find a sledge first few days I'm eager to go Str build, but it has no survivability. I mean Str weapons are just as close quarters as Brawlers, actually all melee is close quarters cept maybe spears, but Brawler gets most of the survivability. Heavy Armor+Cardio = no stamina worries, getting massive damage reduction on top of Pain Tolerance and Healing, yikes.
For solo melee it's hard not to go Brawler build. Possible, but on harder difficulties you gotta spend points well for when those greens show up.

Run n Gun and Cardio feels like they should be swapped too. I mean I get Cardio pairs well with Heavy Armor, but being agility based feels it should make you run further? Also SMGs are super rare compared to ak47, harder to proc Run n Gun with pistol/magnum.
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ehhh, Cardio is much more endurance/fortitude based than agility based in real life, trust me on that one. Where as run and gun would be being quick and accurate enough with your hands to reload without slowing down from a sprint., which is very hard to do without practice.

Also a note for solo it's much more viable now to splash 4-5 points into fort for durability stuff and still play a strength melee character. at 5 points you can have 3 in all the important stuff, like heavy armor and natural healing and that's actually enough. Also get a cigar for the +1 strength saves you 3 points on maxing str you can spend on anything else instead.

 
SexRex doesnt do anything for running around. You cant run 10 feet in full armor without perks.
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Sure, but SexRex makes power attacks cheap so that you can use more for running. With the same argument the FORT guy can't do power attacks without SexRex, in theory. Practically it may need balancing, I can't say anything about that

If you are going to snip my quote, keep the main points there, it is not like you did it for space. Just to leave out the main points of the post to suit your reply.
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I do it so it is clear what I'm replying to. A few others do this too or use Bold text instead (maybe I should use Bold too?). It isn't to discredit or remove your points, I assume people have read your complete argument before if they follow the thread or can klick on the small icon near the title to go to the original post.

 
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A crawler crawled towards me by my motorcycle and completely damaged it 100% in like 2 seconds.. and worse, it would not repair using repair kits.
I chalked it up to a bug and just replaced it. I'll use the broken one as a lawn decoration...lol! Thats why the game isn't gold yet.. $hit happens.
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yep. it's an alpha bugs are expected esp. in the experimental builds. The Creative menu is a very useful tool.

Speaking of tools has anyone else noticed that the wrench perk seems to be not affecting mechanical component gain anymore?

 
@MADMOLE:
You had talked about adding it as a perk or book in the past for players who prefer it....I never even craft and rarely even use found ones because they are just too iffy to target well. I'd say I've wasted at least 1/2 of them trying to guess range. They cost a lot of resources to make, so it ends up being a big waste of them with the current system.!
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I know it's not necessarily the solution you want but you CAN throw explosives without Lighting/pulling the pin first. Me and my boyfriend spent ~30 minutes practicing and getting a feel for the range at different throw strengths that way. That said it would be nice to have an indicator

 
Since I was giving exactly the same answer in my post without making you understand, which seems to happen to my posts quite frequently; Is it my general use of english that makes me hard to understand (I'm not a native speaker) ? Too long sentences, too complicated phrases maybe?
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your example pic showed a split away while his was a single line daisy chain. think it was a combination of the pic and phrasing that didnt convey your meaning.

sorry if you meant the same thing. happens to me too alot.

 
The issue is looting things that are useless for survival. Its not an issue currently as dye is destroyed when you scrap the shirt it comes in. Someone was asking for it to eject the dye into the inventory when you scrap it, I say no I don't want that clutter. If someone wants it, they can remove it before they scrap the shirt.
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Agreed 100% with this.

 
ehhh, Cardio is much more endurance/fortitude based than agility based in real life, trust me on that one. Where as run and gun would be being quick and accurate enough with your hands to reload without slowing down from a sprint., which is very hard to do without practice.
Also a note for solo it's much more viable now to splash 4-5 points into fort for durability stuff and still play a strength melee character. at 5 points you can have 3 in all the important stuff, like heavy armor and natural healing and that's actually enough. Also get a cigar for the +1 strength saves you 3 points on maxing str you can spend on anything else instead.
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Yes I wear nerd goggles with a cigar for lower entry level to what I need.

 
Yer I'm spending points in different trees too for a more balanced character. Rigid is probably what I'm trying to say, Brawler gets a lot of survivability and sneak is Agility. Atm my starting characters is either one of these two trees. The other trees aren't really my playstyle.
I think the problem for me is weapons being under attributes. For example if I started a new game with a friend, we both like to be tanky, say I wanted to be a tanky spartan, I'd have to earn more xp just to be as tanky as him just because the spear is in another tree. I'm having to spread my points and the annoying thing is I don't actually want anything else in Perception, I just want to be a tanky spear guy.

And it's the same for any weapon combo that doesn't follow 1 attribute.
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This i kinda agree with. I sorta wish weapons were separate from stats but then they'd probably have to level gate the perk levels for weapons again and that's messy.

 
Na, people need to pay attention. Warning pop up boxes are annoying and in a game like this where there is no pause in menus it can get you killed. We could make stuff with mods unscrappable, that sounds like the best solution. Who would want to scrap a mod, let alone a gun with a mod in it.
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That would be great as long as dye being on the item didn't block scrapping the item.

 
your example pic showed a split away while his was a single line daisy chain. think it was a combination of the pic and phrasing that didnt convey your meaning.
sorry if you meant the same thing. happens to me too alot.
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Thanks for the information, I need to work on my phrasing. Probably I forgot to mention that I was standing on the middle of the three trigger plates.

 
True, but don't expect to be living in a place like this in the post-apocalypse. Lol
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Over time, everything rots. Houses decay, the roads will crumble, the world will reclaim what was once lost to nature, back to its natural green self. Cities will collapse, windows will shatter... It doesn't have to look ugly. But if you're used to living in a comfy modern or Modern home, it's not going to look pretty after a while. :p
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The thing is we don't know how long it has been since the zombie outbreak; a few months; a few years; decades.

 
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