PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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What about the +50 hunger/thirst you can consume above your current maximum stamina? Will that still be a thing? I noticed in the streams that it was ticking down quite quickly, unless I was seeing that wrong.

 
A drone is very much doable and far more believable then auto targeting turrets that only target and fire upon enemies being made from scratch! didnt see any of those people complaining about those...or the lava demons ;)  but were complaining about drones...

Its a game...enough said , don't like it , don't use them

 
hiemfire said:
I meant replacing the "battery" on the drone with a small 2 stroke engine (they can be smaller than a chainsaw motor, and I am including the needed fuel tank as part of the engine) with the engine's output either being the generator's drive shaft or routing through some gearing to the generator's drive shaft to generate the DC output needed to run the drone.
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That's similar to how Hybrid Vehicles work, though there are a handful of variations you can have, that's a common one and points at the gist of it. They do make a ton of wee little single and two stroke engines, my grandfathers desk was covered in them, and that was wayback, 70's & 80's. One of those and a small tank is another chunk of anatomy that has existed for decades in high quantity. Although brick and mortar hobby shops are rare these days(they do still exist), the market itself is MUCH larger, just online, so it'd mostly be in warehouse storage somewhere...

oh, my goodness, that made me think of something... a POI like an Amazon Fulfillment Center kind of place... maybe when they finally overhaul the Post Office(already on the level guys list) they could come up with some play on Amazon, UPS, DHL, etc. Have a satellite small warehouse/shipping center or two, and then a huge one somewhere would make for another great T5 POI in the future. I bet the level designers thought about this already, those guys seem like they have a HUGE list of ideas they still want to pursue. Hope this is one of them.

 
Quick question, how do we do a full un-install and re-install when A19 drops so we have the best chance of not having any bugs?

 
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madmole said:
There are tree stumps that give honey everywhere. Anyone who doesn't treat their infection deserves whatever happens. You just have to drop what you are doing and find a stump, but what I do is harvest every stump I see ahead of time and carry some with me. I can eat for food if I get desperate or overstocked.
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Only once have I struggled with infection, and that was last week during my horde every night nomad playthrough. Typically my worlds are flooded with tree stumps, but on this particular occasion during the early stages of an infection, it took me quite a while to find one. RNG at its finest - if you want something, it'll never give it to you, but if you lose hope or you outright don't need it, RNG will shower you with that item.

I think of RNG as an ancient and bored omnipotent being with an often sarcastic and witty personality who occasionally likes to get a kick out of toying with us mere mortals. Many superstitions arose to explain its unpredictable ways, including "luck". But perhaps they are all just stories.

 
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KuriousTurtle said:
That’s what I did when a18 dropped and I ran into some bugs. I can’t quite remember how to do a proper full uninstall. I think Roland had a post about it last year
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Delete all of your files beforehand then, outside of isolated folders that you yourself made, such as world copies. I ran into an issue in A18 very recently and after wiping my files in an identical way several times it randomly corrected itself. I also ran into an issue in early A18 where every time I placed down a 4x4 it corrupted my game; that issue was transferred over from A17, when I only did a simple update. I would suggest wiping your files, like I said above.

 
MechanicalLens said:
Delete all of your files beforehand then, outside of isolated folders that you yourself made, such as world copies. I ran into an issue in A18 very recently and after wiping my files in an identical way several times it randomly corrected itself. I also ran into an issue in early A18 where every time I placed down a 4x4 it corrupted my game; that issue was transferred over from A17, when I only did a simple update. I would suggest wiping your files, like I said above.
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Thank you, I appreciate. I’ll do that Sunday night after I’ve finished my final A18 playthrough. I’ve got works settings cranked up to see how long I’ll last for one final farewell.

 
Omg the new art and lighting looks amazing. I really like how atmospheric it's getting. Can't wait to see creepy zombies watching me

 
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TFW you get off work glance at the forum thread after looking away for 12 hours

Has any streamer done an in depth test of the Junk Sledge yet?!

madmole said:
You should see me make avatars of them
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Make one of me as the defacto miner player with junk turrets duct taped all over me! Junk Turrets are the single greatest thing to happen to miners since the Auger tbh. Throw those things down to watch your back and auger away in peace

 
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Nope, that will require a whole new system. Pain animations and sounds aren't enough? I always know I hit a zombie or not.
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Fair enough and the new system does seem fulfilling enough with better hitboxes. I just figured it was pretty straightforward to implement even if it was just a small blotch/dot. You guys have made strides on that area in A19 and felt it was the only thing missing. 

Zombies already react to being hit on certain parts of their body, get a little blood splatter from an exact spot and even get disfigured so i thought the ruling was already in place to add decals so you can mark which one you've hit and get just that little bit extra feedback. Its a qol thing which typically is not important i guess, but may actually work easily in internal testing. 

 
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So... Jawoodle found a level one double barrel at the beginning of his game (at 8:05 on his video)... The loot rebalance isn't quite perfect it seems. 😛

 
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