PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

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@faatal good evening/afternoon/ dawn, I have a bunch of millenial questions regarding this and that:

1-Do you have any info on quests ? 

2-What are you  planning to adress/do next in a20 after finishing the current evil tasks that you are slaying at the moment ?

3-Any amazing stuff that you noticed in A20 lately coming from any department that you can share with us?

4-Can you violently force some dev to post new a20 pics of the game in the official page using plastic butter knifes ?   :angel2: :surprise:

Thanks beforeknee.

 
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canadianbluebeer said:
Even a small airport would have an Office, lounge, kitchen/snackbar, bathrooms, classroom (for teaching pilots), and a small tower. 3-4 floors.

1 Hangar with several offices.  Firestation (small one)
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We have different definitions of "small" then.

The size you are talking about would fill a whole biome.

Independent from its actual size, every airport/airfield/airstrip is >95% empty flat area (runways, grass,...)

Just look at some aerial pictures, google maps or whatever,

and then scale it into Navezgane.

Most of the airport POI would just look like this:

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...sorry minecraft, I couldn't resist that one 😇

 
faatal said:
An airport does not have to be huge. It could be whatever size you wanted to make it. Like a small airport with one to two (parallel) 100m runways.
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The Airport's terminal would be the real interest/threat anyway.

At least a tier 4 POI maybe even a special difficulty POI as the place could be packed with Zombies.

 
The one I'm talking about is a small airport.  Longest runway is 3500', the other is 2600.

Put the thing in the blowed up lands, and you don't need the runways (they've be blowed up)

Just a bit to show where they were.

For the wartime version, add the H shaped barracks. Gotta have somewhere for the zombie pilots.

:D

The hangar (put 4 barns together, and that's the size you'd need for a bunch of small cessnas),

slap the stripmall business bldgs on the side kinda things (but 1 floor), and the tower is not a big thing,

it's on the corner and well, that's already in game at the top of the shotgun messiah factory.

T4 sounds about right, 

Actually if you wanna go big, make an international airport, but it would be a town in it's own right.

(won't make base game, but as a DLC..... )

Jumbo jets yes, and while I'd like them to go BOOMY, they'd make handy POI in their own right.

 
@faatal who handles entity classes and tagging? it seems vultures are not hooked up properly. when used to make drop quests, their deaths do not count towards animalkill or zombiekill. This is an anomaly as all other zombies and animals do fall into one or the other. Myself and a few others have tested this repeatedly and it seems that the class wasn't hooked in fully. Will they be brought in line with the rest of the entity classes?

edit: and before anyone complains about this being for modding, do remember that anomalies in code are not considered a good thing and can lead to future bugs.

 
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wolfbain5 said:
@faatal who handles entity classes and tagging? it seems vultures are not hooked up properly. when used to make drop quests, their deaths do not count towards animalkill or zombiekill. This is an anomaly as all other zombies and animals do fall into one or the other. Myself and a few others have tested this repeatedly and it seems that the class wasn't hooked in fully. Will they be brought in line with the rest of the entity classes?
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I found the code. Added as a zombie kill. Thx

 
MechanicalLens said:
Or a small challenge map. Make do with what you have and survive in the air port, similar to the Dishong Tower and Diersville challenges.
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Not gonna lie. I like this idea.

faatal said:
I found the code. Added as a zombie kill. Thx
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Wait, that was a bug? I noticed that back in A16 and just never said anything because I figured the way it inherited (and thus not working for quests) was intended.... whoops.

 
archergod said:
So, my counter of 5000 kill in game is wrong, and it could be 5500 easily with all vulture I ever kill in ths game .. damn. But thanks.
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The counter is probably correct, since the AwardKill func was calling AddScoreServer with 1 zombie for a vulture. It was the QuestEventManager that ignored vultures.

 
wolfbain5 said:
since a19.4 is in experimental, and this looks like it was a simple fix, you did it so damn fast. is this one that will be back ported or just hold my horses and wait til a20
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Exp will have another update, so I just merged it to 19.4.

 
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Sweet Video's excited - Major Updates. I Love it, like A new game almost each one. Since Alpha 13 pretty much.

Though I AM an addict on it since The Wasp's in Alpha 2 ~  The Best Fluke Ever, Shot with a nail gun was just the bonus.  Posing Bloody Hornet!

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Getting that with f12 screen right on cue, special! aha

😃As ALWAYS Over the moon with all the effort that's gone into this game continuously since the start! Thank you so so much @madmole and all the TFP FAMILY.

 
Will a primitive crossbow be added at some point? It seems a little odd that there's stone crossbow bolts because one would think that by the time they are able to craft an iron crossbow, they'll also be able to make iron bolts.

 
beHypE said:
I'm sorry if this has been asked before as I've been off the forums for a while, how is the new "biome tier system" coming along, and how exactly will it work ? I'm talking about having better loot in tougher biomes / POIs.
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It will raise your game stage by a certain amount so you get harder enemies there.

Survager said:
Hi MM.
I have a few questions about special infected.
We already know for sure that special infected will have unique behavior.

Question 1. Will each infected have unique animations for normal activities like walking, running and fighting?
Question 2. Will the special infected have some unique vulnerabilities? For example, the zombie Gasser could take increased damage from fire and shotgun, but would be nearly immune to bullet damage. Or a zombie with a sledgehammer could take increased damage from melee weapons, but other weapons will deal less damage to him than usual, and so on.
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There isn't any new special infected coming any time soon.

KingSlayerGM said:
This feature is listed on the first page of this thread, and no work has been done on it?
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Sometimes other stuff takes longer and things get pushed back or deleted. I updated the roadmap on a couple topics I don't think will make it.

 
MechanicalLens said:
I understand that RWG for A20 is probably in very early stages of development, but will a toggleable option be added where the player could spawn in the middle of the wilderness as we used to? Spawning on a road next to a town is great for new players, but I personally enjoy the journey of locating my first town on day 1. I would present the same "argument" if the player was guaranteed to always spawn 10 meters away from a trader.
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No because it works, and we are planning a client side interaction with Noah from the White River when you first spawn.

 
MechanicalLens said:
The new burned victim looks great, although I have my doubts that just by looking at him I would be right to assume he'd set you on fire.
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There is a new feral version that is on fire and glows more that will light you on fire. This one will be hard to see and probably sneak up on you but easier to kill and do less damage etc.

MechanicalLens said:
The amount of people spreading the false rumor online that Alpha 20 will be releasing within the next month or two is insane. Could any member of TFP staff confirm this is not true? Concrete evidence is needed if I'm going to clear this up with anybody so a direct quote would be nice.
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If we're not doing frequent dev streams, then there is no release in sight.

MechanicalLens said:
Will a primitive crossbow be added at some point? It seems a little odd that there's stone crossbow bolts because one would think that by the time they are able to craft an iron crossbow, they'll also be able to make iron bolts.
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I doubt it. It would make more sense to get rid of stone crossbow bolts, it's a much more advanced weapon IMO.

 
madmole said:
Sometimes other stuff takes longer and things get pushed back or deleted. I updated the roadmap on a couple topics I don't think will make it.
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If you were trying to sell someone A20 over A19, what do you think will be the defining feature?

boobs

 
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