lord_ahriman
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Day 112: 1103 pipe bombs, 200 shotgun shells and 1097 zombies killed. That was a nice 30 minutes of continuous fight (I play 120 minutes day).
PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!
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We just had a 5 player night 28 BM and we were in the upper stories of the 6 floor apartment building on a tier V quest when it started. Building unreinforced, unfortified, un-everything. We all lived but it was apparently crazy down below. One of our players reported the center of the lower stories is pretty much not there anymore. Gutted like a pumpkin. Building is still standing for the most part. I didn't go look, I'll probably return in a day or two to get the other loot and see the carnage.
My framerate was all over the place, I was the host, partly due to the pathing and partly due to that building always killing framerate near the roof(s). I kind of missed out because I didn't dare try to navigate the ledges with FPS bouncing around from 30ish to single digits. I understand one player wound up down on the ground for part of it and another was sniping everything chasing him for around 5 minutes real time. Then the sniper fell off a ledge and wound up partway down the building, alive still at least.
I really enjoy taking a structure like that and doing BM hordes with it. So much better than the ridiculous player built tower defense structures we used to make. The added gamble the Z's won't manage to take out enough structure to bring the whole thing down adds to it.
My framerate was all over the place, I was the host, partly due to the pathing and partly due to that building always killing framerate near the roof(s). I kind of missed out because I didn't dare try to navigate the ledges with FPS bouncing around from 30ish to single digits. I understand one player wound up down on the ground for part of it and another was sniping everything chasing him for around 5 minutes real time. Then the sniper fell off a ledge and wound up partway down the building, alive still at least.
I really enjoy taking a structure like that and doing BM hordes with it. So much better than the ridiculous player built tower defense structures we used to make. The added gamble the Z's won't manage to take out enough structure to bring the whole thing down adds to it.
MechanicalLens
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Don't say its name! It's the alpha that shall not be spoken of; simply saying its name poisons the air around us.Of all the A17 hate this is the worst I’ve seen—wanting us to go back to March of this year and edit out all references to ever having been involved with A17 takes the cake.
Jugginator
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I think LBD should come back, and zombies shouldn't be able to damage walls... uh oh, I think I got the infection from the poison...
Quick, you look like a wizard, cast a cure spell plz. I have 700 gold.
MechanicalLens
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Let me consult Sauron first. I'll get back to you on that one.
P.S. I'm an Istari, folk sent to your world to observe and aid when needed. Due to our appearances however, we're often confused with wizard-folk.
Jugginator
Moderator
Please tell Sauron I'm sorry for what I did last Tuesday. Snowdog coerced me to do it.
Hey, appearances are all that makes a wizard a wizard. This is a grand need for aid - the poison is rather contagious. The database had an error just now after I posted that I got the infection.
MechanicalLens
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Sauron wishes to contact you himself. You'll need a Palantir to communicate with him. (Or what do you kids call them these days? Smartstones?)
ZombieSurvivor
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You ever think that some times the men in black might be ♥♥♥♥ faced on the job and accidentally have the ♥♥♥♥♥ looking thing pointed the wrong way and accidentally use it on drunk self?........It really isn't that bad of an idea.
Agent K: Agent J I think you might be a little to drun....
Agent J: naw man I'm good....
Agent K: *closes eyes*
Agent J: man I'm so...........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czI4d8ziaPA
Agent K: what was that?
Agent J: I don't remember...........
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wolfbain5
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Day 35 horde vid up for dead is dead
a small tour of home, no demolishers as of yet, some cops, a few irradiated. didnt have to use much ammo
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?135043-Wolf-v-s-the-evil-dead-7day-edition
a small tour of home, no demolishers as of yet, some cops, a few irradiated. didnt have to use much ammo
Jugginator
Moderator
Definitely don't disagree there, it makes the terrain/underground beautiful.
I did find a mod that removed the microsplat, kinda making the terrain look old school.
Average 70 FPS outdoors on the same settings as before on a higher resolution which previously I got 30 FPS on a lower resolution.
40 - 60 FPS on high-textures on a slightly higher resolution (1600x900).
I did this on GLcore, though, haven't had time to try it out on DX11. But, previously with the microsplat there was nominal difference between GLcore and DX11, infact the GLcore had stutters every 30 seconds or so, so unsure what to do with assumptions on that info lol.
faatal
Fun Pimps Staff
I added a Terrain Quality slider which will be in A18.2.
Low - 3x3 terrain chunks. Simplified shader (testers have gotten up to x2 FPS and that was before the 3x3 reduction)
Medium - 3x3 terrain chunks
High - 4x4 terrain chunks
Ultra - 5x5 terrain chunks (what you have now)
Low - 3x3 terrain chunks. Simplified shader (testers have gotten up to x2 FPS and that was before the 3x3 reduction)
Medium - 3x3 terrain chunks
High - 4x4 terrain chunks
Ultra - 5x5 terrain chunks (what you have now)
Jugginator
Moderator
You are the man, Stan. As much as I like pretty, it's good to have options for those of us that don't have beast computers
Btw, your AI optmizations def do well with zombies. I spawned 75 demolishioners in my world just for funs, after the initial lag from the spawning, I maintained 30 FPS haha.
ZombieSurvivor
Banned
Again...music to my ears. Time will tell but I'm sure I'll be able to say, good job sir.
Damocles
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I think the distant texture for certain landscapes (especially forest) could use an updated version.
While the desert looks nice on distant vertical surfaces, the forest texture (stone on slopes) looks very tiled, and overshadows the terrains natural diffuse shading. It makes mountain-slopes look like a tiled blob in the distance.
A version with less contrast would help.
While the desert looks nice on distant vertical surfaces, the forest texture (stone on slopes) looks very tiled, and overshadows the terrains natural diffuse shading. It makes mountain-slopes look like a tiled blob in the distance.
A version with less contrast would help.
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