PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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To Madmole and The Fun Pimp Team … Looking forward to _ A19 with over 4600 hours in the game as of today (started playing at A15) and being one of my favorite games.Been playing Vanilla and Modded version ..

But could I ask a favor .. IS there a chance that we could get some more colors and A Dark Red Metal Roof.

But just wanted to wish you all the best and Be Well …Thank you for a Great Game ... the Old Gamer .. :tranquillity:
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A new metal roof is what you're asking for right? I believe you can paint any block already, unless you can't paint them colors (i.e red, green, blau). IF this is the case I'd love to see a new dark red metal roof and colors!

 
Fair enough.

Has there been any news on performance improvements in A19 to counterbalance the performance degradation that has been steadily creeping in over the course of the last few alphas?

Many people are finding that they can no longer play the game without crippling framerate reductions even on the lowest graphics settings.

 
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Has there been any news on performance improvements in A19 to counterbalance the performance degradation that has been steadily creeping in over the course of the last few alphas?

Many people are finding that they can no longer play the game without crippling framerate reductions even on the lowest graphics settings.
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Whaaa????

A18 runs much better than A16 and much much much better than A17.

 
Whaaa????

A18 runs much better than A16 and much much much better than A17.
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That depends on your computer specs. People who don't have extra processors or decent graphics cards are reporting a reduction in performance. Hell. my oldest potato ran A16 reasonably, it won't even run A18 at all.

 
That depends on your computer specs. People who don't have extra processors or decent graphics cards are reporting a reduction in performance. Hell. my oldest potato ran A16 reasonably, it won't even run A18 at all.
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This is true in my experience as well, and while my computer certainly isn't a new gaming computer, it's not a "potato" either.

But, I don't think anyone can deny that A18 runs much better than A17, and in general performance has been returning since the big dip due to the engine upgrade.

 
This is true in my experience as well, and while my computer certainly isn't a new gaming computer, it's not a "potato" either.

But, I don't think anyone can deny that A18 runs much better than A17, and in general performance has been returning since the big dip due to the engine upgrade.
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I've no shortage of computers to plaly on but when I have to knock the graphics down to the lowest setting on a dedicated gaming laptop to get a decent framerate there's got to be a problem somewhere.

To put it into perspective, I can run Space Engineers while on a 120k voxel planet with barely a ripple but I can't get a decent framerate on a 16k 7dtd map?

 
Whaaa????

A18 runs much better than A16 and much much much better than A17.
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Also no suprise that a game that started in 2013 ( i think?^^) develops better graphics and features wich in return demand higher Hardware.

Sure, there needs further optimization to be done but as you said, there has been allready a lot of progress.

 
Also no suprise that a game that started in 2013 ( i think?^^) develops better graphics and features wich in return demand higher Hardware.

Sure, there needs further optimization to be done but as you said, there has been allready a lot of progress.
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That's a fair point but TFP seem to be aiming for hardware that very few people have access to yet. We're getting to the stage where only the top 10% of gamers are able to see the funky new graphics in all their glory.

Every game could look like the film "Avatar", unfortunately it would render at about the same rate... several hours per frame on what is essentially a supercomputer.

 
That's a fair point but TFP seem to be aiming for hardware that very few people have access to yet. We're getting to the stage where only the top 10% of gamers are able to see the funky new graphics in all their glory.

Every game could look like the film "Avatar", unfortunately it would render at about the same rate... several hours per frame on what is essentially a supercomputer.
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Oh, cmon guys, I was just gonna have a good game in Minecr...I mean 7 days to die..

PImps aim on certain appearance and performance among all the complicated systems behind what we see. It is a voxel based game, primarily, that takes a lot, but what they continue to upgrade is thanks to the technology evolving with the years. They could have locked it in A13, but they keep kicking, and don`t forget there is so much of a balance and optimizations to be done :p

 
There has been significant work to DMS. I don't know the details so I haven't added it. I do know every trader has their own music and that players have music in their fort now if the threat level is low. No that doesn't mean music is a giveaway to incoming zeds, but if you run into your base surrounded by zombies its not going to play the player base theme.
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Nice! So it's when you don't hear it, worry. I get that, it's like that in nature so why not in the game. :)

 
Oh, cmon guys, I was just gonna have a good game in Minecr...I mean 7 days to die..

PImps aim on certain appearance and performance among all the complicated systems behind what we see. It is a voxel based game, primarily, that takes a lot, but what they continue to upgrade is thanks to the technology evolving with the years. They could have locked it in A13, but they keep kicking, and don`t forget there is so much of a balance and optimizations to be done :p
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This is the worst performing voxel game with the smallest map that I own. I'm fortunate that I have the hardware to run it well, many others aren't so lucky.

The voxel engine isn't the issue.

 
I don't know what you're guys talking about, but when it comes to quality, this single picture is enough of a proof for me that this game finally starts to look like a modern zombie game with that super unique feature of destructible world. Sure, it looked good before and I loved this game even when it was all blocky like Minecraft, I even miss that look sometimes, but now it's getting that modern AAA "Dying Light" like look that will sell millions of copies and I mean this with no irony whatsoever.
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Nice shot. RG?

 
This is the worst performing voxel game with the smallest map that I own. I'm fortunate that I have the hardware to run it well, many others aren't so lucky.

The voxel engine isn't the issue.
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Ok, what are these other True voxel games? Only one i know is minecraft, and you cant really compare them.

 
This is the worst performing voxel game with the smallest map that I own. I'm fortunate that I have the hardware to run it well, many others aren't so lucky.

The voxel engine isn't the issue.
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Not an issue, no doubt. It is one of the best parts in the game, with it`s advantages and disadvantages, it was just an example.

Performance is something that everyone has been kicked by, getting a bit higher requirements is inevitable. I hope it is not a big kick for everyone though.

 
Nice shot. RG?
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You mean Random Gen? I would like to know that too, I guess only devs could answer that, but in the twitter post which showed this image they mentioned that the POI behind the zombie is a new one that was not in Alpha 18 yet, so unless they are working hard on upgrading Navezgane, I would guess this is indeed a randomly generated world and it looks pretty cool. It's getting to that stage where it doesn't really matter where you look, you see some fancy stuff that makes it feel realistic. :)

 
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