PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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faatal said:
Not yet, but if we add fish, would probably add something like that.
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I think it would be cool if we could build a small fish trap on the edge of the large bodies of water. It could introduce fish as a food source without any kind of fishing mini games or new animations. You could just open it like any box and have a percentile chance of there being a fish in it. Bait could be used to attract the fish. Fish could be scaled in the recipes, grilled, battered and fried with chips, chowder.

 
Khalagar said:
Them straight ignoring you was brutal.

Their weird vehemence towards ignoring all Junk Sledge questions has me a bit worried, is it even still in A19? They ignored every question chat had about it's tracking / range / if it's even still in a19 etc
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Oh it's definitely in the game.  Prime even picked it up by accident from the cm when trying to find the junk turret.  It looked like the drone was also in the menu too.

 
I love the idea of a ressurector type Zombie. Bringing back to life the zombies you just killed would be awesome. headless zombies should be exempt though. 

 
I watched a good portion of the stream and here are the key points I remembered.

1) Console update is something they want to do but probably not until game goes gold and will most likely on next gen consoles.  Lots of empathy from Rick regarding the whole situation.

2) Rick mentioned 2 games they are planning one of which 6 team members are already working on (Unreal Engine game).  The other game will use the 7d2d engine.

3) Rick hope's they are gold or near it by end of next year and hopefully DLCs following after that.

4) A couple members of the modding community is doing some work for them.  Hernan and Sebastian (sp?)  Congrats guys!

5) Lathan mentioned the following future potential quest types (restore power, destroy target with c4, infestation, restore communications, kill faction leader)

6) Rick highly recommends giving Lathan Knuckle Rubs. 😂

7) Rick drinks at 5pm and had Hair under his hat.  Likes to wear +1 perception sun glasses.  Also had eye surgery recently and now has permanent night vision.

Things that were shown:

1) new navigation icons/beacons for traders, spears, vehicles, quest objectives.

2) New Trader Jen and Joel Models

3) Auto Shotgun

4) HD Arlene, HD Moe (aka edgar), HD Boe cameo, and another unnamed HD zombie cameo wearing a flannel shirt.

5) New Lightning (burnt biome was awesome)

6) New city plaza in Departure City (Navezgane Map) designed by Rick's son.

7) Exterior of new crack a book POI in Departure City.

Will post more details tomorrow. 😎👍

 
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Those on-screen icons for certain objects might get to be a nuisance. Maybe some kind of GUI toggle, or ping (showing them for a limited time) would be better here.

(I can foresee lots of complaints about those icons already)

 
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The autoshotgun had a pretty bad showing, but it might have been Lathan's aim playing a big part in him using like 200  bullets to kill 25 enemies. I'm confused on why it's called the Auto shotgun if it's still semi auto. I figured it'd be a typical AA-12

In A18 on the second hardest difficulty, my level 4 pump shotgun has way better damage than what he was dishing out with the Auto, maybe the lack of mods + terrible aim were the problem? Madmole has an uphill battle in his video to regain fan faith in that thing ,the chat and even Rick made fun of how long it took him to kill 25 zombies lol

 
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hiemfire said:
I beg to differ, though we may just be using it differently. As a low level choke point leveler and coup de grace tool it is quite nice, especially when paired with a stone sledge. Going to be nicer with the ammo getting cheaper to craft. 😈
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And it no longer forces an auto-reload so you can shoot and scoot without hotbar gymnastics.

We'll get there. One issue at a time.

Damocles said:
Those on-screen icons for certain objects might get to be a nuisance. Maybe some kind of GUI toggle, or ping (showing them for a limited time) would be better here.

(I can foresee lots of complaints about those icons already)
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Some will hate their very existence, for most it will be a matter of fine tuning.

I believe Lathan set all of these up on a best-guess base.

You can adjust min and  max range of when they are shown.

Khalagar said:
The autoshotgun had a pretty bad showing, but it might have been Lathan's aim playing a big part in him using like 200  bullets to kill 25 enemies. I'm confused on why it's called the Auto shotgun if it's still semi auto. I figured it'd be a typical AA-12
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You can install mods for burst or full auto fire and even higher rate of fire.
You can't do that with a pump gun.

I didn't see the stream and without knowing the perks, installed mods, and the random quality of the gun it's all assumptions.

 
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I hope the XP for dogs will be rebalanced in A19.  You get 413 XP per dog, the same as any basic human zombie, but I feel that killing a dog is a bigger deal. In fact I have rebalanced XP numbers worked out for all animals, if the devs are interested. :)

 
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I tought I was just sleepy yesterday, but I just rewatched the stream and prime did get a LEVEL 5 AK-47 as his reward for his FIRST MISSION... on day 1... a buried supplies quest... Wasn't stone age supposed to last longer?

also.. what happened to spawning only on the forest biome?

 
Khalagar said:
The autoshotgun had a pretty bad showing, but it might have been Lathan's aim playing a big part in him using like 200  bullets to kill 25 enemies. I'm confused on why it's called the Auto shotgun if it's still semi auto. I figured it'd be a typical AA-12

In A18 on the second hardest difficulty, my level 4 pump shotgun has way better damage than what he was dishing out with the Auto, maybe the lack of mods + terrible aim were the problem? Madmole has an uphill battle in his video to regain fan faith in that thing ,the chat and even Rick made fun of how long it took him to kill 25 zombies lol
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Well he did spawn in 25 radiated soldiers and was using only normal shells which made it take a long time to kill them.

 
KuriousTurtle said:
I see Snowdog in the love chat asking all of the good questions lol. 😏
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transgender zombies in wheelchairs was his best one!

Kanaan Brood said:
I love the idea of a ressurector type Zombie. Bringing back to life the zombies you just killed would be awesome. headless zombies should be exempt though. 
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i mean i had that idea but no one wants to listen to my rambles 

SHHHHHHHHH *slowly rubs can of spam* "don't worry that will listen! THEY WILL!"

WHO SAID THAT????? 

Gazz said:
Unlikely. Those start at 3am.
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but i want to see his sexy face :(

like Trader rekt on stream!

Gazz said:
You can install mods for burst or full auto fire and even higher rate of fire.

You can't do that with a pump gun.
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just pump really FAST!

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