PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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madmole said:
Hah, there is even a perk book that gives you a higher chance to extract honey.
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I kinda miss the lootable stumps, last seen in A16.

It was just nice having something lootable in the forest that was "natural" and specific to that biome, aside from random trash piles and other manmade objects like backpacks.

Plus, for some reason, that's almost always where I found night vision goggles. Anyway, no big push to bring it back, though I certainly wouldn't mind if ya did.

 
Jarod_Silverstar said:
Okay - did a quick first pass through the rn and one item did stick out.

Blood moon zombies will 50/50 teleport closer or die if target player is far away

@madmole - can you explain this a little further? I assume that means that if your bedroll is some distance away from where you are fighting the horde and you are killed, some zombies will move to a location close to where you respawned so there is a risk of them finding you and attacking. I am okay with that, but does this also mean that if you are found and fight back, the horde spawn will start up again and rush you in the new location?

Sounds like a great way to get people into a death spiral...
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It's to help the zombies get to you when you try to run away from them, like on a vehicle. When you respawn the zombies do not know where you are at all, unless they happen to see you or you ttack them again.

 
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madmole said:
It's best to keep things simple. IMO there are two player archtypes, ones who want a clean start when they die, others who want more of a I didn't die simulation, I got my @%$*#! kicked and woke up feeling like crap after I blacked out with all my sickness still intact.
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Hehe, i like how you have archtypes for players as if they were entity AI sets.  🤣

 
Blake_ said:
We don't need npcs in the game. Humans are enough. Neither do we need more weapons. The perk system ? Unnecessary.  Food and drink ? I can eat and drink just fine in real life thank you very much. Linear lighting ? Please just 0% brightness so I can see my toes and imagine zombie attacks. Vehicles? I can walk. Walking ? I can do it Just Fine. Horde night ? Why on earth. 7 days to die ? Why, I have many years under my belt already, plz fix dangit. Steam games ? Whatever happened to the floppy disk ?

n2n1 ? Nope, not needed, but we bear with him for the sake of his dashing eyebrows.
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:D  Thanks Cap!

I really think a lot of what you have listed is unnecessary :) . Neither You, nor I - are needed in this game, either ;)

(and this is confirmed in practice :heh:  -  the game just feels great without it!!!)

 
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n2n1 said:
:D  Thanks Cap!

I really think a lot of what you have listed is unnecessary :)
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There are games where there is only one way to do things. Some games also have only one linear path to follow or a fixed story to follow. And some of them are still excellent games. But this isn't one of those games though. Multiple ways to do the same thing, open world, ...

 
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I play from 11-12 alpha. I like this game.You worked for so many years to make the game super atmospheric and you did it. Please remove the drone. It destroys the theme of the apocalypse.

 
madmole said:
It's best to keep things simple. IMO there are two player archtypes, ones who want a clean start when they die, others who want more of a I didn't die simulation, I got my @%$*#! kicked and woke up feeling like crap after I blacked out with all my sickness still intact.
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The third archetype is players who want to wake up at the last Pokemon center.

 
madmole said:
It's best to keep things simple. IMO there are two player archtypes, ones who want a clean start when they die, others who want more of a I didn't die simulation, I got my @%$*#! kicked and woke up feeling like crap after I blacked out with all my sickness still intact.
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I remember in FarCry 2, when you are critically injured, you get a little cutscene of one of your allies coming to rescue you, injecting you a syringe or something like that.
I would make a little cinematic of someone in a brown or black robe dragging you in a Improvised Stretcher.

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and leaving you in your base. To provide mystery, lore, fan theorys, etc. Those things keep games alive (fallout, skyrim,etc) longer

 
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weren said:
I play from 11-12 alpha. I like this game.You worked for so many years to make the game super atmospheric and you did it. Please remove the drone. It destroys the theme of the apocalypse.
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Please use the standard writing style. colors/Sizes should be for Staff in my opinion to highlight for players attention.

Thanks mate.

JCrook1028 said:
So..............don't build one?
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This. I dont get the complains like the ones he made. You dont like it, dont use it.

Roleplay after all. Would be the same if a guy that only likes to use clubs asks to remove all firearm.

 
weren said:
I play from 11-12 alpha. I like this game.You worked for so many years to make the game super atmospheric and you did it. Please remove the drone. It destroys the theme of the apocalypse.
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Look - the user made their first post.

Before that, he was silent and just played the game. He expressed his opinion in his first post about this.... probably it is important for him.

This is his opinion.

Well..... he probably went a little too far with the font size....but, to throw poop at him in his first post as it is not good... we - polite people..... :)

Just collect statistics ;)  

 
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weren said:
I play from 11-12 alpha. I like this game.You worked for so many years to make the game super atmospheric and you did it. Please remove the drone. It destroys the theme of the apocalypse.
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My eyes. I love the drone. In real life it's easy enough to make one having the proper software. So fits right in for the game. I think it is a bit too good for INT though, why, you ask?

In theory, baton should have 3 tiers and turrets 3 tiers (sledge, junk and flamethrower)

Adding the drone to an attribute instead of as a vehicle unbalances the build because you have : free 27 (or so) storage slots + free healing on top of the physician perk ( or at least double the healing ratio) + a decoy + a bit of extra attack power.

(As in a18) If we have just  1 single tier of melee (baton) and 2 turrets it goes below the average build in overall combat power because a handheld turret doesn' t do "krhap" in intense combat scenarios, melee or otherwise. So even though turrets are cool and tactically amazing, they end up being very limited in range and overall combat handling.

My ideal INT is 3 melee tiers of batons and 3 turrets, (sledge junk and famethrower)

 
weren said:
I play from 11-12 alpha. I like this game.You worked for so many years to make the game super atmospheric and you did it. Please remove the drone. It destroys the theme of the apocalypse.
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how? its not like it fires lasers!

at first when Madmole described the drone! i was kinda on the same boat cuz i thought it was going to be a hovering piece of metal and it would be OP! but with the way it looks! (granted it needs 2 more fans to stay up in the air realistically! but) its much better then i though!   

plus its not really a Fighter! its a helper! and plus i think Madmole said it can talk! so i can finial play with someone without talking to my can of sham! 

SnowDog1942 said:
I like drones to peer in my neighbors windows
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i like to put saw blades on it and fly them at road!

 
Blake_ said:
My ideal INT is 3 melee tiers of batons and 3 turrets, (sledge junk and famethrower)
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i Hope they add more batons! and maybe another weapon or maybe a armor for intellect!

it kinda drives me CRAZY! when i see 2 perk lines with 2 weapon skills while the rest have 3! (i know its a strange pet peeve)

Maybe 

Tier 1: Junk baton! weak power and ok damage!

Tier 2: stun baton!  better stun ability and good damage

Tier 3: Tesla Baton! Super Strong power to the point that it can burn away Limbs! and good damage!

and for the other class! maybe it could be Intellect weapon class. like Guns or maybe Armor

what? i don't know!

 
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