PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

[danielspoa]

dedi server gets released at the same time, right?

 

[madmole]

hey Madmole or any other dev, how do you guys feel about steam workshop support for custom prefabs and POIS? We could make our own prefabs and share it with anybody who wanted to use it without pesky modding tools like Vortex/NMM

Do you see that ever being implemented? If so how would it work? 

That is the plan. Magic.

 

[KuriousTurtle]

there is about 1200 pages less on this thread than the a18 thread

 

[MechanicalLens]

Just a small warning to everyone who might make content for A19 when it hits the market (such as horde night videos). There's a rumor going around that one part of one of the new soundtracks that TFP just put in (I don't know which part or which song; again, just a rumor) that YouTube is waving its finger at and going, "That's copyrighted". Even though it's just a rumor, I would highly advise anybody who decides to make videos on A19 to NOT include the music from the game in the video.

Edit reason: spelling errors

 

[TPrice321]

there is about 1200 pages less on this thread than the a18 thread

Roland has been a lot more active moving off topic posts to other threads in the A19 diary. 

I wonder how the new software will handle tomorrow's refresh storm though 

 

[Ryfyle]

Quick Question? I'm I going to have to delete my old saves again?

 

[Space4Ace]

Quick Question? I'm I going to have to delete my old saves again?

Always best when starting a new Alpha.

 

[MechanicalLens]

Quick Question? I'm I going to have to delete my old saves again?

As always yeah. Be sure to manually check your files after as well; sometimes they linger around even if you instruct them to be wiped automatically.

 

[Ryfyle]

As always yeah. Be sure to manually check your files after as well; sometimes they linger around even if you instruct them to be wiped automatically.

Second question, are the swiming zombies in yet?

 

[MechanicalLens]

Second question, are the swiming zombies in yet?

Yep. They don't swim like Olympic swimmers, but rather they swim up to you if you're directly or almost directly beneath them.

 

[Ryfyle]

Yep. They don't swim like Olympic swimmers, but rather they swim up to you if you're directly or almost directly beneath them.

Same speed as the player?

 

[MechanicalLens]

Same speed as the player?

Faster I think. The player swims in water as if they're in frozen honey.

 

[Aldranon]

I normally would give an exact time stamp and even link with it starting there. However, The Grand Spartan actually streams on youtube and youtube... is pretty dumb.

In Youtube, to copy the exact time in URL format:

1) Hit the space bar when you reach the correct point in the video.

2) Right click the mouse on the video.

3) In the pop up, left click "Copy video URL at current time".

4) Paste the URL by right clicking and selecting paste. 

 

[Ranzera]

In Youtube, to copy the exact time in URL format:

1) Hit the space bar when you reach the correct point in the video.

2) Right click the mouse on the video.

3) In the pop up, left click "Copy video URL at current time".

4) Paste the URL by right clicking and selecting paste. 

Please read the rest of the post.

 

[Ryfyle]

Faster I think. The player swims in water as if they're in frozen honey.

But are they as fast in the water as they are on land?

 

[MechanicalLens]

But are they as fast in the water as they are on land?

You mean walking on land? Probably, it was hard to tell. It doesn't matter anyway, since you'll be slower than them in the water anyway.

 

[Ryfyle]

You mean walking on land? Probably, it was hard to tell. It doesn't matter anyway, since you'll be slower than them in the water anyway.

So there just as fast in water as they are walking on land? I tend to build moats or build off the coast. Offers quick access water, previously slowed down the zombies to deal with them, and I like water features.

 

[MechanicalLens]

So there just as fast in water as they are walking on land? I tend to build moats or build off the coast. Offers quick access water, previously slowed down the zombies to deal with them, and I like water features.

I said they MIGHT be as fast. Like I said, it was hard to tell.

Edit: They still walk along the bottom of the water. They only swim up to get to you if you're in the water with them and they're below you.

 

[Guppys Fur]

Guys would you all just chill?

All that criticism and those scares of minor bugs you saw somewhere in the Streams or that bad bad Junk Sledge:

Experimental is not even out. Within the next 24h its very likely that you can play it and if thats the case you fill out proper Bug Reports. just dont contribute to the hysteria here

Sure there are some bugs to fix, some balance to do. Its experimental after all. It will be fixed, it will be balanced for Stable release.

In Pimps we Trust.

 

[Khalagar]

that bad bad Junk Sledge

It's mostly just raising awareness in the hopes of it being fixed and suggesting ideas on how it could be balanced compared to the other options. Especially before it hits the main audience. Madmole was spot on when he said first impressions matter a LOT because a lot of players try something once and won't ever try it again if it's bad even 10 alpha updates later.

I've been trying to get streamers to try it, and by far the #1 response is "No it's pure garbage, did you not see it on the Dev stream" and they won't even try it because it looked bad on stream. To be fair though, they are right since the ones who do try it get rekt and have to pull out their real weapon to not die, like what happened to Lathan on Stream where he had to panic  shotgun to survive.

I'm quite hopeful on it being buffed, I would just be super sad if it was left in a Stun Baton esque state where it's not even picked up to sell.