PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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hiemfire said:
Beautiful. The kid and I are drooling over your fort design and making plans for stable. Might just stick to a "simple" keep at first and then expand from there. :D  
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That sounds like a plan! Have fun with it, I am skeptical of another horde night in a castle after what happened to me and Toban before... Our dungeon was full of zombies because they were digging in from the hillside 😛😅🙈🧟‍♂️

 
hiemfire said:
Beautiful. The kid and I are drooling over your fort design and making plans for stable. Might just stick to a "simple" keep at first and then expand from there. :D  
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Thank you. Yeah, I'm doing the same. I'm just in creative trying out different designs till stable drops. And yeah, I always do the same and make a little base to begin with hehe. The castles take so long to make safe lol.

Laynie said:
That sounds like a plan! Have fun with it, I am skeptical of another horde night in a castle after what happened to me and Toban before... Our dungeon was full of zombies because they were digging in from the hillside 😛😅🙈🧟‍♂️
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Yeah, first and last castle on the hill to fight zombies in haha. Was fun though, not so fun watching the castle fall but...still fun.

 
Laz Man said:
Happy Friday Everybody!  Since so many cool castles have been shared recently, I figured I would try my hand at making one finally.  Although its still a work in progress I wanted to share what I have so far.  @madmole Used your tower design for my round towers. :)

This castle is inspired by Chillon Castle in Switzerland.

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You should take some shots or a video of the inside. I'd love to see what you've done with it. Side note, how did you get that smoke? I'm jealous lol 

 
JCrook1028 said:
Yea, such a gun expert but know so little as to still call a magazine a clip... me calls foul.
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Yeah, k.. Sometimes when i'm pissed off and typing, I may mix terms up, like calling a >detachable< magazine (because there are several things that are magazines.) a clip, such as what you load a M1-Garand with vs what you load a AK variant with.

I call a pointless terminology nerd.

 
Laynie said:
How long did this take, @Laz Man ?
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I started it roughly last week when Toban and MM posted their castle pics.  Built it in the prefab editor 100%.

Toban said:
You should take some shots or a video of the inside. I'd love to see what you've done with it. Side note, how did you get that smoke? I'm jealous lol 
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I will share more soon.  The interior is mostly empty right now.  The main 1st courtyard is about 90% complete though. 

Check your creative/dev menu and type "chimney" i think.

 
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Yeah, we havent mastered that yet. It takes us ages... when I say us I mean Lee 😛 (Toban) I just get to faff around in it after :D

 
Laz Man said:
I started it roughly last week when Toban and MM posted their castle pics.  Built it in the prefab editor 100%.

I will share more soon.  The interior is mostly empty right now.  The main 1st courtyard is about 90% complete though. 

Check your creative/dev menu and type "chimney" i think.
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Awesome, I can't wait to see the inside and courtyard. And thanks for info on the chimney, I didn't know it was in there hehe

 
Phoenixshade35 said:
the problem with taking out the nerd polling is that it might directly effect building, some people i have watched lay out the whole building they wanna build then upgrade, it would make it so u have to upgrade a block then jump on it to place the next set, nerd polling would remain just slightly more resources used, it would be a builders nightmare i think, then again i could be wrong given i dont know the difference of stacking blocks to build or jumping on blocks
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Taking out nerd poling would only screw the builders, people who want to fast track to loot rooms can build ladders, stairs etc and still cheese all day.

 
While I've no idea how much work it takes to do any of this, I keep thinking that there are a number of different Bear specie, and while they vary in size significantly, their general appearance, other than color, is quite similar.

So what if there were Black Bears, Brown Bears (what's in game) & Polar Bears. Maybe even Cubs.

Green Forest mostly Black Bears. Roughly half the size of Brown Bears. Could ramp difficulty with 'mother and her cubs', or mix in more Browns.

Snow would get Polar bears of course.

Wasteland has Zombie bears.

Possibly Zombie Black bears for Burnt Forest, and maybe a lighter pelt on those for the Desert? "Blonde" Black bears are a real thing and that'd let them blend into the desert, similar to the Cougar.

Just thinking that, maybe, this wouldn't be weeks of work, and it would seem to support the future intent of making the tougher biomes tougher, and add some variance to animal dangers.

Edit: having smaller Black bears (or cubs) might mean they could fit through normal doors, so would increase their danger lvl, even if they might have less HPs.

 
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Demandred1957 said:
Yeah, they all stink..

I wonder about the flood of pissed off players that are going to have something to say, when they finally load up the "stable" version and find out about all these changes.
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What changes? From what I've read everyone loves A19. Any drastic changes are long behind us. People who like 18 love 19, am I right?

Toban said:
Here is my latest castle I'm working on. I have built this with only blocks the player can make so I can make one similar when the game goes stable.  Still a work in progress, but I'm just trying things atm.

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Looking good. I think you sould raise those two towers higher than the gate house though, and it would look a lot nicer.

 
madmole said:
Taking out nerd poling would only screw the builders, people who want to fast track to loot rooms can build ladders, stairs etc and still cheese all day.
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If I really was on a "Fetch" mission in real life, you can bet I'd be propping a ladder on the side of that zombie-filled shack where the "hidden supplies" are located "in the bedroom on the 2nd floor".  As for nerd-poles....well, think of them as well-built staging. 😉

-Morloc

 
Laz Man said:
Looks wonderful.  I like the main manor/house and the color contrast so far.  Looks like it would make for a decent player/horde base even :)
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What baffles me is all these "experts" chime in on my twitter castles and act like they would be horrid for base defense. I've got two meter thick walls and so may oh @%$*#! towers they would never get to me. No it wouldn't be efficient and repair would take some work the next day, but I would survive without firing a single round if I wanted to IMO.

JCrook1028 said:
But the regular wolf is not nearly the same size. Lots of people are simply seeing regular wolves and calling them Dire wolves. Lots of people are wrong...

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The glowing eyes are the dead giveaway because in first person a cow looks small.

 
Goncyn said:
Can anyone expand on this? Does that mean any partial block that you rotate out of its "simple" alignment gets a durability penalty?
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Regular poles (ie not poles centered) take 6x more damage against enemy attacks, but only if they are placed sideways. If they are placed vertically, they take default damage, just like all other blocks. I believe this was designed to counter pole wall defenses, which were a staple back in A16 and prior.

 
just a sidenote but i've noticed you get a 5% better barter bonus from the magnum enforcer but which is nice since it would be annoying to keep 2 weapons on you 

 
Roland said:
Huh....I read that as the horizontal poles can absorb 6x the damage rather than get destroyed 6x more quickly. Either way it’s pretty crazy and should be addressed. 
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To clarify, poles (not centered, just regular) take 6x more damage if placed horizontally. Again, I strongly believe this was designed in order to counter pole walls, which is fine.

 
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