PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

[Jost Amman]

I tried to help. For years I pushed for ziplines. One zipline from the 13th floor down to your car would get you to your meds in no time.

So... Madmole was right not adding ziplines to the game after all.  :heh:

 

[Aldranon]

Don't throw stuff at my crotch!

I have to prepare mentally for a baby

Its easy to prepare for a baby, just don't sleep for three days or so.  Once that state of mind feels OK, you're good! 

I wont get into everything it takes for a woman, it's just too [SIZE=19.6px]inconceivable for a guy.  But if you would like a sample, pull your upper lip up and around to the back of your head, its a start.  [/SIZE]  (Edit:  I meant )

 

[xfejiou5]

Yes, it just got buried under a lot of other tasks. Player reach could actually use a nerf too.

Do you know if this is planned for A20 or will it be in a later release?

 

[Blake_]

Let me help you a bit with the time-frame: what prompted the download was that TFP posted on twitter that "Alpha 19 Stable is out!" ... and at this point neither the steam news nor the 7dtd.com news section were updated. If you mean to tell me that also the steam repository wasn't updated, then that's a fail on whoever decided to post that message to twitter before the new version WAS actually out.

That's exactly the case. I wouldn't call it a fail though. I like the fact that they threat me with an update on the general timeframe of 24 hours after posting. 

 

[noob_Lurker]

Hey man, I wasn't telling him not to post it here. I was joking that he was showing the forum being down by....posting on the forum. Just a joke. Go play some A19 stable and relax a bit.

Except the issue in the screenshot is not about the forums, but about the changelog. And it happens for other pages of the site too (main page, news page, etc) :-s

Any chance for an estimate of when it might get fixed? It's been hours already. Getting into double-digits even. :-|

 

[Outlaw_187]

Question....when building minibike, motorcycles, etc...should I build those with quality 1 batteries & save the good batteries for something else? 

I think I read somewhere that quality no longer matters in vehicles like it used to. 

 

[noob_Lurker]

That's exactly the case. I wouldn't call it a fail though. I like the fact that they threat me with an update on the general timeframe of 24 hours after posting. 

Oh... In that case i wouldn't call it just a "fail" either. Making you post something that isn't true, and might not be true for hours is definitely a complete @%$*#!-up.

 

[PoloPoPo]

Question....when building minibike, motorcycles, etc...should I build those with quality 1 batteries & save the good batteries for something else? 

I think I read somewhere that quality no longer matters in vehicles like it used to. 

For vehicles the quality of batteries does not matter, therefore I'd always use the worst one for that purpose. Better batteries either sell for a lot of money to the trader or can be used to generate electricity in a battery bank, where quality matters.

 

[bloodmoth13]

I'm just curious as for the reasoning behind the decision for making the wine barrels not lootable again. Was it found to be too overpowered early game, with all that bottled murky water?

They are still lootable in my game? i hope they dont follow through with that, if anything they should add more loot to them like beer, grain alcohol or if your really lucky moonshine.

 

[Jay_ombie]

They are still lootable in my game? i hope they dont follow through with that, if anything they should add more loot to them like beer, grain alcohol or if your really lucky moonshine.

If you didn’t start a new map for b180 the already spawned ones will still be lootable. Any new ones that get found probably won’t be.

 

[SnowDog1942]

Any hints on what we can expect in the .1 and .2 patches for A19?    Only reason I ask is that I still may hold off on starting a game for a bit if the .2 patch as a semi big feature like the junk drone or a big balance change.    I am in no rush, I don't care... I just would rather start a real game when the big things are more set in stone.  Like if the .X patches will just be various small bug fixes and optimizations (which im fine with) I'll start a new game up today.  

 

[unholyjoe]

Any hints on what we can expect in the .1 and .2 patches for A19?    Only reason I ask is that I still may hold off on starting a game for a bit if the .2 patch as a semi big feature like the junk drone or a big balance change.    I am in no rush, I don't care... I just would rather start a real game when the big things are more set in stone.  Like if the .X patches will just be various small bug fixes and optimizations (which im fine with) I'll start a new game up today.  

<throws a bone out into the busy street... whistles... there boy, go get it>

Spoiler

uh bug fixes

 

[Roland]

Except the issue in the screenshot is not about the forums, but about the changelog. And it happens for other pages of the site too (main page, news page, etc) :-s

Any chance for an estimate of when it might get fixed? It's been hours already. Getting into double-digits even.

I never said it was a good joke...  

As soon as the rush to read the patch notes by every person who just realized that their game just updated relaxes. It will probably be on and off over the next day or so as it gets reset and then overwhelmed again. 

 

[Adam the Waster]

<throws a bone out into the busy street... whistles... there boy, go get it>

Spoiler

uh bug fixes

*JUMPS FRONT OF CAR*

 

[unholyjoe]

As soon as the rush to read the patch notes by every person who just realized that their game just updated relaxes. It will probably be on and off over the next day or so as it gets reset and then overwhelmed again. 

you should have bought a generous bottle of relaxants and handed a few out.

 

[Roland]

Oh... In that case i wouldn't call it just a "fail" either. Making you post something that isn't true, and might not be true for hours is definitely a complete @%$*#!-up.

It wasn’t hours though. It was less than one hour. They were trying to pull all the levers simultaneously but one got pulled slightly faster. At this point it is all moot. The update has been out for a day now and everyone who wishes to, is playing. 
 

Reading the patch notes will be tough for awhile longer yet. 

 

[mr.devolver]

Everyone seems to be getting out of EA these days.  Only the cool kids stay in the pool for after hours swimming.

Hey, when you gotta pee, you gotta pee. Be glad they are not doing it while in the pool!

 

[madmole]

I'm just talking about melee combat reach. Watch a player hit stuff. They can hit while visually not touching. Now some of that extra reach might stay, because we may decide it makes for better feeling combat. Just my opinion.

Yeah I tuned it the way it is because otherwise you have to clip polygons to score a hit and it sort of looked and felt wrong when we tried realism.

 

[Jay_ombie]

"500 unique POIs that can spawn!"

Thats how many are possible in RWG maps, thats amazing to be honest. You done over 500 buildings - WOW

I gone through a RWG map covered about 5 separate towns/cites. I understand that POI are repeatable in each city so I do not think I will ever see every POI any time soon thats for sure..

Thats still quite amazing variety for the game.

"Lowering your screen resolution will only increase FPS if your video card (GPU) is the bottleneck. If your CPU is the bottleneck, a lower resolution will not increase FPS."

Whats the bottleneck if CPU and GPU are not over 80% utilised yet the game doesn't go over say 70fps ?

 

[MechanicalLens]

"500 unique POIs that can spawn!"

Thats how many are possible in RWG maps, thats amazing to be honest. You done over 500 buildings - WOW

I gone through a RWG map covered about 5 separate towns/cites. I understand that POI are repeatable in each city so I do not think I will ever see every POI any time soon thats for sure..

Thats still quite amazing variety for the game.

"Lowering your screen resolution will only increase FPS if your video card (GPU) is the bottleneck. If your CPU is the bottleneck, a lower resolution will not increase FPS."

Whats the bottleneck if CPU and GPU are not over 80% utilised yet the game doesn't go over say 70fps ?

Yeah, they'll be repeats since the largest towns over 150+ POI's and the medium ones have close to a hundred, and the only POI I've seen duplicate in a town more than once is the well with the bunker underneath (a town I'm close to has two of them), but otherwise it's fantastic work.

I'm noticing a distinct lack of military bases though. Other than Red Mesa, I haven't seen any of them, like, at all.  Too low of a spawn priority?