MechanicalLens
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Madmole, you are a legend! Thank you for this! :applause:I added a new round arch shape today
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Junuxx
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Couple demolishers in the loot room would be hilarious.
Edit: Except not I guess.
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faatal
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People make a lot of guesses as to why the AI does something and it is often wrong. I see people test their designs with a bunch of the same zombie thinking the other types will do the same thing, which is sometimes not true.STyK_ said:its the pathing. It would be more realistic to have them spread out hitting your base from all sides which you can make happen initially by sealing your base and having a uniform defense but as soon as that breaks they bunch up. Its AI difficulty scroll bar solution I've been pushing, destruction over pathing to the weakest point.
They are going to say its a tower defense game at the end of the day. To many people like just setting up an easy defense and having them all walk right in from one way. You maximize kills and xp, don't waste any zed lives setup correctly. Self-control and self-imposed handicaps are going to be the easy solution. I do my best to be ready to fight from all sides cause thats how I would have liked the game to be. All goes back to challenging yourself.
Blood moon spawner does attack your base from multiple directions, but not all at once, it changes over time, because that is more efficient for pathing. The typical dumb zombie will not go very far to find a weak spot or opening, often preferring to beat on a wall near it instead of walking a bit to go through an opening. Yesterday I was just looking at that issue of being too dumb and beating the walls around a cemetery POI instead of using the opening, but really that is correct, since those are set to be that dumb. Thick walls would change that behavior, just like many things can change their behavior.
No zombie auto targets you except for blood moon spawns and POI volumes set to attack.pregnable said:
faatal
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I was referring to it spawning from a sleeper volume. There is no coordination across sleeper volumes. I added that to my todo list, but it will probably not be in A19.Blake_ said:
Not likely to change much. Way too expensive checking line of sight to all the potential blocks you could see.Darinth said:
Good jobI added a new round arch shape today
Can you re-add the fonctionnal jail door please??
faatal
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It tends to be the character controller colliding with the world, not pathing that uses a lot of CPU.
Resolution makes a large impact on 7dtd. Often people say I have blah blah specs, but fail to mention details like the resolution they are running the game at. If things feel laggy/choppy/bad, I'd be dropping the game to 1920x1080 and compare.
FileMachete
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Totally guessing here; from a couple vids on how to make a poi it looks like there are 'sleeper volumes' in which can be 1 or more zeds. The volumes are 6 sided 'cubes', and if (not sure) there's such a thing as a "trigger spawn in" I'm guessing it's a cube as well.
For performance reasons poi designers likely keep "trigger spawn in" cubes as small as possible.
Wondering if it might be possible to exend the "trigger spawn in" code to allow additional cubes? If it isn't already.
So in the situation I experianced, coming down the stairs, pop a closet, no zed inside, get to foot of stairs, zed spawns in; if the designer could draw in a nother "trigger spawn in" cube that just covered part of the stairs, without extending up through the floor in a wide area, it could be less performance impact.
Edit: oops, meant to say that yeah, can imagine the overhead of constantly tracking player FOV, so put that on the poi designers instead.
Just a wag
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Junuxx
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The word you're looking for is a cuboid aka a box.
Is the distance at which sleepers get spawned in any way exposed in the XML?
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FileMachete
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"cub-oid" robotic bear cubs! :biggrin1: and yep, couldn't get it off the tip of my tongue, thanks!
No idea, haven't noticed it anywhere. (if this was for me, likely for faatal
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Laz Man
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Yes, you can do this already, Just make sure all "attack" trigger sleeper volumes have the same Group ID # (excluding zero). There is at least one vanilla POI in the game that already does this.Totally guessing here; from a couple vids on how to make a poi it looks like there are 'sleeper volumes' in which can be 1 or more zeds. The volumes are 6 sided 'cubes', and if (not sure) there's such a thing as a "trigger spawn in" I'm guessing it's a cube as well.
For performance reasons poi designers likely keep "trigger spawn in" cubes as small as possible.
Wondering if it might be possible to exend the "trigger spawn in" code to allow additional cubes? If it isn't already.
So in the situation I experianced, coming down the stairs, pop a closet, no zed inside, get to foot of stairs, zed spawns in; if the designer could draw in a nother "trigger spawn in" cube that just covered part of the stairs, without extending up through the floor in a wide area, it could be less performance impact.
Edit: oops, meant to say that yeah, can imagine the overhead of constantly tracking player FOV, so put that on the poi designers instead.
Just a wag
Edit: Not sure if this impacts when the sleeper actually spawns into the game though. What I mentioned allows you have to have different trigger zones for the same group of zombies. For example, 2 empty attack trigger sleeper volumes "triggering" 1 filled with sleepers.
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FileMachete
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Cool. So maybe, if they wanted to, they could leverage that bit to trigger the zed/s spawning in.Yes, you can do this already, Just make sure all "attack" trigger sleeper volumes have the same Group ID # (excluding zero). There is at least one vanilla POI in the game that already does this.
Edit: Not sure if this impacts when the sleeper actually spawns into the game though. What I mentioned allows you have to have different trigger zones for the same group of zombies. For example, 2 empty attack trigger sleeper volumes "triggering" 1 filled with sleepers.
Hello all, My wife a I have been playing this game for a little over a year now. Since the new update my wife died randomly 3 times now, first time just digging for a buried supply, then in a poi and then again digging for another buried supply. There was no mine or explosion or any other threat whatsoever. We were together at same location, like less than 1 meter and just puff out of the air death comes. This issue never happened before to her or myself, now this looks like a bug and it sucks. We only play permadeath. If any player dies in our group of 3 we start over. Anyone else experience this? It sucks now with this random death issue.
Vechs
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I have some more feedback about quests. Quests were my main way of playing the game, and the thing I do when no other task around the base needs doing. I've found myself not wanting to play the game as much because the Tier 5 POI's are just too big and take too long to do.
I went through a lot of very well designed POI's in the Tier 1 through Tier 3 range, and some of the Tier 4's are cool, but the size of these dungeons is just too big.
Or, maybe more accurately, the CLEAR objective is just not a fun one to do when the POI gets bigger than a two-story house. I don't know how to fix it other than have the POI's be faster to get through.
Or maybe have different varieties of quests, because the only ones I see now are Tier 5 clears, or Tier 5 clear/fetch, and every now and then a Tier 2 buried supply or something.
Assassinating a bandit?
Assassinating a boss zombie?
Planting a bomb?
Planting a supply drop?
Planting a radio transmitter?
Just brainstorming things that aren't clearing the entire POI. You could probably come up with more stuff.
Cheers.
I went through a lot of very well designed POI's in the Tier 1 through Tier 3 range, and some of the Tier 4's are cool, but the size of these dungeons is just too big.
Or, maybe more accurately, the CLEAR objective is just not a fun one to do when the POI gets bigger than a two-story house. I don't know how to fix it other than have the POI's be faster to get through.
Or maybe have different varieties of quests, because the only ones I see now are Tier 5 clears, or Tier 5 clear/fetch, and every now and then a Tier 2 buried supply or something.
Assassinating a bandit?
Assassinating a boss zombie?
Planting a bomb?
Planting a supply drop?
Planting a radio transmitter?
Just brainstorming things that aren't clearing the entire POI. You could probably come up with more stuff.
Cheers.
FileMachete
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@x3eemguy , it's a part of the new "Critcals" and expanded Primitive Stage now. And also a PSA from MadMole;
"You never went to the gym. You stayed on the coach and ate Cheetos and Redbull."
"Now you're in a Zombie Apocolypse."
"Bet you wish you would have taken better care of yourself."
'Warning: over exertion in the first weeks of a Zombie Apocolypse may lead to massive heart attacks and death.'
heh heh, totally kidding here :biggrin1:
sry, no idea and haven't seen anyone posting similar.. might be something in the Bug Reports though.
"You never went to the gym. You stayed on the coach and ate Cheetos and Redbull."
"Now you're in a Zombie Apocolypse."
"Bet you wish you would have taken better care of yourself."
'Warning: over exertion in the first weeks of a Zombie Apocolypse may lead to massive heart attacks and death.'
heh heh, totally kidding here :biggrin1:
sry, no idea and haven't seen anyone posting similar.. might be something in the Bug Reports though.
STyK_
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Dumb Zed is not necessary a bad one. If I set one off and run back though the house or poi and if I'm too fast they get stuck behind a wall or stacked furniture when the opening is just a 6 blocks out of their way. I don't really think this is a bad thing, we are talking about dead brain matter here, hows he even supposed to know where the opening is without seeing it. It just followed my sound which I've seen them do in any movie with zombies. So I just help them out with the block they are destroying and stab them in the head like you would if you found one tangled in barbwire on a fence or similar scenario. How many times have I seen the same thing in walking dead.
That's part of the reason I liked the pathing in early A16 versus later. They were 100% willing to throw themselves off a cliff just to get a little closer which is normally what you would see in any movie/show with zeds. I guess it depends on the type of virus too, I'm more partial to the enraged rabbis zombie myself. Right now I find they are too smart at times, trying to get them to go though the traps already set in a building, barbwire spikes and landmines setup prefabbed in the poi and they'll walk though the whole house to avoid it now. Same with spikes, if you put one down while they are chasing you they'll zig and then zag to avoid it where before they'd run right into it trying to get you.
I'd honestly rather 128 dumb enraged zeds per wave on horde night over 64 smart ones but thats me trying to recreate a walking dead world/World War Z world. I even stab all the zeds I kill in the head after they are already dead, I appreciate that you guys added a sound they make sometimes when I do this, makes me feel justified in my actions. Head explosions are just icing on the cake.
They also have a hard time with openings that are not doors, like prefabbed holes in walls. Theres a certain mine they get stuck in all the time if you don't break things open for them.
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Jost Amman
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Did you start a new game when latest experimental dropped?
Sometimes NOT restarting can mess up your game... just a guess.
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