PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

[Jost Amman]

i wasnt complaining, its a feature not a bug..... 

I am sure the Pimps are well aware of any issues with RWG and will have tweaked it for A21. 

So put your keyboard away there are no zombies to slay here.

So, I understand you checked the "known problems" section in the bug reports forum and found out somebody else already filed a bug report for this problem... good.  :thumb:

 

[Games'n'Grumble]

Who can explain to me how "zones" and "tags" work in prefabs in A 20? Maybe @Kinyajuu? I was surprised when I saw that some of the new prefabs, for example, have the "none" option set in the zones, but there are several tags, and the building appears in the game. I thought the tags were only needed for internal search among all modules.

 

[meganoth]

Who can explain to me how "zones" and "tags" work in prefabs in A 20? Maybe @Kinyajuu? I was surprised when I saw that some of the new prefabs, for example, have the "none" option set in the zones, but there are several tags, and the building appears in the game. I thought the tags were only needed for internal search among all modules.

I would (wildly) guess that a "none" just means that the POI can appear in all zones and areas.

 

[Laz Man]

Who can explain to me how "zones" and "tags" work in prefabs in A 20? Maybe @Kinyajuu? I was surprised when I saw that some of the new prefabs, for example, have the "none" option set in the zones, but there are several tags, and the building appears in the game. I thought the tags were only needed for internal search among all modules.

The prefab tag property is the only relevant POI property now I believe.  All of the other ones are most likely redundant and will probably get deprecated.

 

[Roland]

Issue with RWG, either that or Moses has visited.........

Good thing you have no Egyptian blood or the water would have collapsed on you when you were about halfway through...

 

[lug]

did i miss an announcement about the 20.4 patch? thanks.

 

[Lord Morphleyes]

did i miss an announcement about the 20.4 patch? thanks.

Got me jumping out of bed at 2 am searching for new content.   You are wrong for that. 

 

[Damolann]

did i miss an announcement about the 20.4 patch? thanks.

I was just about to ask if they were stilling doing a 20.4 or if everything had been pushed to a21.x

 

[meganoth]

I was just about to ask if they were stilling doing a 20.4 or if everything had been pushed to a21.x

Everything is always pushed to A21. SOME of it is then copied over to A20.

In this case Faatal said there was a holdup.

 

[Damolann]

Someone showed up at the office with a pair of revolvers and demanded all the money, that kind of holdup?

 

[Roland]

yeah, but they turned out to just be a pair of pipe pistols which was a lot less intimidating especially when the perp discovered that dual wielding them in the TFP offices was impossible...

 

[meganoth]

yeah, but they turned out to just be a pair of pipe pistols which was a lot less intimidating especially when the perp discovered that dual wielding them in the TFP offices was impossible...

And he forgot to check for trap doors

 

[Roland]

And he forgot to check for trap doors

but especially the rafters. There are always TFP employees hanging out in the rafters.

 

[Doomofman]

"

• Mods are now loaded from <UserDataFolder>/Mods (i.e. the folder that also stores saves, e.g. on Windows %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/Mods) in addition to <game folder>/Mods. In a future build this will change to only load from that new location so no data is written/changed in the program folder at any time. 
  

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Does that mean that in future we're not going to be able to have multiple copies of the game folder to have a Vanilla and Modded version?

 

[Gamida]

"

• Mods are now loaded from <UserDataFolder>/Mods (i.e. the folder that also stores saves, e.g. on Windows %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/Mods) in addition to <game folder>/Mods. In a future build this will change to only load from that new location so no data is written/changed in the program folder at any time. 
  

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Does that mean that in future we're not going to be able to have multiple copies of the game folder to have a Vanilla and Modded version?

Am curious also. Will I have to give up my 6 or 7 modded versions I have usually on my drive?

 

[Jost Amman]

I'm sure each copy of the game will be able to "point" to a different (customized) sub-folder in that path...

 

[POCKET951]

does magnum (.44) ammo drop in the latest experimental branch?

Just tested it on 20.4, .44 magnum ammo dropping in containers at game stashes 300+ and 800+ 

ITS FIXED FINALLY HURRAY

@Roland this was a bug that was fixed, but I don't see it in the listed alpha 20.4 exp changes, could this be added to the list of fixes? I am sure it would excite alot  of people.

 

[mikeyscott]

When are we getting the update for xbox one 

 

[wolfbain5]

I'm sure each copy of the game will be able to "point" to a different (customized) sub-folder in that path...

dont be so sure, look how long it took for screenshots and logs to get their folders. most other games including minecraft had em years ago

 

[Red Eagle LXIX]

@Alloc @Hated

I've got a question regarding 20.4 change to the path for many items that I have not yet had a chance to try.

Is the launcher aware of changes to serverconfig.xml yet?

Previously the launcher was not aware of such changes.  Thus using the launcher to go to your saves folder was not possible if using the serverconfig.xml on the command line for the client.  The launcher would go to the default location in appdata not the path specified by the serverconfig.xml even though the game was correctly storing worlds and saves in the paths specified by serverconfig.xml
 

Will there be serverconfig.xml entries for the newly pathed items (logs, screenshots, etc)?

Also, will the launcher be using configuration for the path for the logs and other newly pathed items (logs, screenshots, etc)?