PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

Status
Not open for further replies.
I wonder if we’ll be getting new perk books? Knives don’t have a specific one to themselves (night stalker kind of affects them but not as its main focus) and sledgehammers don’t have any.

 
Will alpha 20 experimental be compatible with alpha 20 stable?

I'm curious because I'm really excited for a20 and want to play it right along without having to start over if a20 stable releases

 
faatal said:
You came to the right place.

This is not a nuclear winter, asteroid strike or super volcano scenario, so the sky would be normal/realistic, which is what we are going for. The blood moon being exaggerated normal. Not to say we would not do some creepy sky in the future, but I would not want to look at that for long periods of play.

Sounds are certainly not done, so they may get more creepy in the future or not. Like everything it depends on the time we have and where we want to spend it.
Click to expand...
What if the ambient sounds got more creepy as the gamestage progressed.

Such as crows instead of normal birds singing. And howling wind instead of leaves blowing in the wind.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Will the pump action shotgun ever be improved? It's been the same since bees were in the game. The pump shotgun needs some love!

I also really wish the animation showed the correct number of shells being loaded into it. It could be as simple as changing the animation to loading 1 shell. Then repeating that animation for how many shells are missing. And once that's done, you get a full mag. It doesn't have to be perfect, just better then what it is, please.

 
Burrfly said:
Will alpha 20 experimental be compatible with alpha 20 stable?

I'm curious because I'm really excited for a20 and want to play it right along without having to start over if a20 stable releases
Click to expand...
Not likely. It may be even worse this time around with the huge amount of new blocks and all the RWG changes. Fixes to those types of features during experimental will often require restarts.

 
faatal said:
Not likely. It may be even worse this time around with the huge amount of new blocks and all the RWG changes. Fixes to those types of features during experimental will often require restarts.
Click to expand...
Thank you for your answer. I'm just really excited xD

Are you able to give a tiny little thingy about how far in the progress of alpha 20 the team is at? If not, then of course that's okay

 
faatal said:
Probably because eventually someone might notice and edit the sound data.
Click to expand...
giphy.gif

tell them i sent said it :D

 
@Devs: this is from the Steam forums, thought you might want to see this...  :thumb:

Taffer9876 
iconGames.png
 3 hours ago 


 


Thanks Devs for the 19.5 Update:)
I no longer get the glitched grayish ghost blocks making me re-start the game. I really appreciate it. Thanks:)
Click to expand...

 
danielspoa said:
melee weapons are not amazing for their damage, but the utility they bring with stun/knock down is great.
Click to expand...
Well, yeah. It's not reasonable to expect a club (no matter how nice it is) to have the dps of a machine gun.

Blake_ said:
I would like to know...  how much better is the baton tree in a20 ?
Click to expand...
I don't remember any major change.

The whole premise of your balancing approach is that every weapon, seen in isolation, must be "equal" to any other weapon.

That would be fine for a mod but is not what we're doing here. The intellect attribute is a bit more complex than club-on-head. ;)

And yes, that includes figuring out when a situation warrants using a weapon other than the stun baton.

 
@faatal @madmole Some time ago there was a discussion about possibly giving the option to only make electric wires visible when you have a wire cutter in your hands... if this option was added, MANY players that love building nice stuff would be very happy. So I was wondering how difficult would it be to add that, and also if there's any chance you guys could add this to the TO-DO list for A20. Thanks.

 
dcsobral said:
This outfit doesn't really work if the mask is broken, though.

On a serious note, it looks like broken glass on the mask. Isn't it made of plastic or acrylic, though?
Click to expand...
That's the hazmat zombie reskin, explains how they became infected with a substance their suits should have protected them from.

I've seen both acrylic and other plastics break in that manner. Just depends on how they'd been damaged before they were fully compromised.

 
Ironically wouldn't a hazmat zombie be the least threatening of the lot? Their mouth, hands, and almost every part of their body is trapped inside the protective suit. 😛

 
Will there be an updated zombie bear model in the A20/21? Mikhalych is waiting)

 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top