PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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Hi Madmole
Loving the new content and the new lighting model as well, what did you change with the fog?

Do you have any ideas on what the end game of 7D2D will be?

Loving the game

Keep the updates coming.

Anni
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Thanks! The fog is new, how it looks will continue to change until 19 is stable.

There will be no true end game, but kill the boss type quests.

 
that is true but to most people when they hear "desert" they think Cactus , Aloe , SAND! , Jashaw trees and CAMELS!! . Snow isn't really the Top of peoples List in terms of what's in a desert.
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To be clear, there isn't snow in our deserts, but a snow biome can be adjacent to a desert. Not a big deal at all to us.

 
if u dig under the ground and place 2 dirt blocks above, horde will not only ignore u but will also dissapear at morning. was that fixed?
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Are you still on Alpha 16 or something? You aren't safe underground since A17.

 
Are you still on Alpha 16 or something? You aren't safe underground since A17.
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A18.2 b5 I tried that and it worked. I wasn't safe only when I put 1 block above me. But 2 blocks make it safe. But i tried that only at first few hordes.

 
A18.2 b5 I tried that and it worked. I wasn't safe only when I put 1 block above me. But 2 blocks make it safe. But i tried that only at first few hordes.
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Zeds probably had a path where blocks with lower HP were around and didn`t have the destroy all mode to dig to you.

 
New, well probably highly used Impact Driver!

https://twitter.com/7DaystoDie/statu...367262720?s=20

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So will the Alpha updates still be spread out by a year or will they roll in faster cause I remember madmole mentioning this a little bit?

 
Guys, the details, perfect.

Offtopic, are there any specs in mind on the auto shotgun, such as damage or range ?
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I'm kind of hoping players will be desperate to find tier 3 weapons to keep up with the radiated impending doom. That might happen now, or A20 or so. Depends, we need to replace the generic radiated with new ones that are harder to kill and have interesting AI. Like Ark when you see a giga the first time, you RUN.

 
So will the Alpha updates still be spread out by a year or will they roll in faster cause I remember madmole mentioning this a little bit?
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Hopefully we get A19 out first half of 2020 and A20 goes stable before the Xmas sale.

 
I'm kind of hoping players will be desperate to find tier 3 weapons to keep up with the radiated impending doom. That might happen now, or A20 or so. Depends, we need to replace the generic radiated with new ones that are harder to kill and have interesting AI. Like Ark when you see a giga the first time, you RUN.
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These new AI on the new radiated zeds sounds fantastic, haven`t played Ark so much to know who to run from, but I know what you mean. Tier 3 weapon or rule #1 Cardio ? Both!

You know the drill, make us scared :)

 
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Hard work.
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That has always been the case, but we've been bringing on more and more staff steadily and that requires you to improve your design and production process so there is no wasted effort and less iterations. We're also very careful about working from the road map and being stingy about what we commit to so we can get builds out.

The huge builds were too much to process for both us and the consumer, so we want to do shorter more focused builds, so the whole QA to stable process is short and sweet instead of long and arduous. Hopefully we'll have a few systems fully tested and signed off by QA soon. Like now we're prioritizing finishing a system so QA can get it sooner than later instead of everything coming online all at the end, then have loads of bugs to fix. So instead of a guy starting a new system which also needs bug fixed before release, he's spending time fixing the system he just wrote while its fresh in his head. This means pushing a feature out to the next alpha, but it also means having a higher quality alpha that is well tested before release, so hopefully a shorter experimental process, and shorter final push before EXP. I'm excited to see how it goes!

 
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