PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

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bdwarri0r3 said:
I don't know if this question has already been asked, but will A20 have any optimizations on zombie hordes? I've found that having large amounts of zombies causes them to stutter and stand afk while others are recalculating their paths which leads to some clunky horde nights. Me and my friends would really like to up the difficulty by having zombies everywhere but we are struggling.
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Probably not much different.

Fanatical_Meat said:
@faatal I like what you said and seem to be doing about weather & grass. Sounds like it will be a nice touch.

Will it impact performance of the game doing weather & wind simulations or can unity handle it without much effort or is my amateur understanding of this sound dumb?
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Performance should be the same. The shaders are doing the same amount of work and the c# code changes were trivial.

Just committed it:

Added wind simulation speed changes grass and tree movement (improved wind handling, added grass shader wind time and use constant sin offset so we can interpolate wind values without ugly shifting).
Added grass and tree wind gusts (visual. adds to wind simulation).
Improved biome wind values.

playlessNamer said:
How are the bandits and NPCs going?
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The art is coming along. There will be no code work done on it until after A20.

 
faatal said:
Probably not much different.

Performance should be the same. The shaders are doing the same amount of work and the c# code changes were trivial.

Just committed it:

Added wind simulation speed changes grass and tree movement (improved wind handling, added grass shader wind time and use constant sin offset so we can interpolate wind values without ugly shifting).
Added grass and tree wind gusts (visual. adds to wind simulation).
Improved biome wind values.

The art is coming along. There will be no code work done on it until after A20.
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art in meaning - we will get concept art  or screens of models soon or this stuff is creating still?

 
Good (afternoon?) @faatal .

1- Do you know what 19.7 is all about? 

2- If yes, does it contain twitch integration stuff only or does it have other important tweaks/fixes? 

3-Will we as players get that version or was 19.5 the last one?

4- About Zds. I see weird Zds lately, and I have to ask: Are you guys doing special infected (behaviours like the gasser, the mentioned necroZd that revives Zds, etc) AI for a20 or will that come at a later date ?

I was kind of hoping that the spider was made into a wall-sticking fast-jumping nightmare, but it might just be me.

5- What's the 3rd letter of the abecedary?

A)C

B)A

C)B

D)C and C are correct.

 
Faatal, do you know if voip will ever be looked at? I have said before I know it isn't like a big deal and would probably be on the low end of stuff to look at because most use discord and such. Reason I'm asking and in hope to get looked at one day is we like to RP when playing like ark RP, gta rp and such. So discord can't have the same outcome when you RP.  

 
Blake_ said:
Good (afternoon?) @faatal .

1- Do you know what 19.7 is all about? 

2- If yes, does it contain twitch integration stuff only or does it have other important tweaks/fixes? 

3-Will we as players get that version or was 19.5 the last one?

4- About Zds. I see weird Zds lately, and I have to ask: Are you guys doing special infected (behaviours like the gasser, the mentioned necroZd that revives Zds, etc) AI for a20 or will that come at a later date ?

I was kind of hoping that the spider was made into a wall-sticking fast-jumping nightmare, but it might just be me.

5- What's the 3rd letter of the abecedary?

A)C

B)A

C)B

D)C and C are correct.
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1 That would be 19.6

2 Twitch and localization changes

3 Should be a normal release

4 No AI behavior changes in A20

crazywildfire said:
Faatal, do you know if voip will ever be looked at? I have said before I know it isn't like a big deal and would probably be on the low end of stuff to look at because most use discord and such. Reason I'm asking and in hope to get looked at one day is we like to RP when playing like ark RP, gta rp and such. So discord can't have the same outcome when you RP.  
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I don't know of anyone using it and I could see it going away at some point.

 
Is the bone work of the first person hands/arms really hard to change. I would think it would have been changed already in this late in development if it didn't have some sort of trouble fitting it in. Animation of sprinting and recoil seems to be missing and we just get that generic movement bob with  arms that seem hovery with jello like movement.

 
faatal said:
I don't know of anyone using it and I could see it going away at some point.
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If it worked right lots would use it. We still try to use it as much as possible.  I can only for certain say 100+ people. I know that isn't a big number but that is just what I can count for and I'm sure the number would be higher then that. So it would suck if that happens. 

 
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I am really looking forward to this. I also hope the permadeath mode will be added as a menu/game option. 

7) Feral Sense Game Option

  • Set zombies to different states of awareness from dumb to feral (seeing and hearing)
 
The environment assets were always top notch. Be it a weapon or a prop, I find them very well done by the art team. The downside is that there are never enough. I hope they make a ton of them to generate the needed variety for sub-POIs. There's a point were the brain (any brain) cannot predict the patterns of  a random subPOI (more than 100 small changes per room). 

Can we get football Zd and Cheerleader debris? Everybody knows that when a Zombie apocalypse breaks out, half of the world population dresses like the Dallas Cowboys and ,- after dying-, generate the rare fenomenon called "Footballer and Cheerleader debris".

 
Blake_ said:
The environment assets were always top notch. Be it a weapon or a prop, I find them very well done by the art team. The downside is that there are never enough. I hope they make a ton of them to generate the needed variety for sub-POIs. There's a point were the brain (any brain) cannot predict the patterns of  a random subPOI (more than 100 small changes per room). 

Can we get football Zd and Cheerleader debris? Everybody knows that when a Zombie apocalypse breaks out, half of the world population dresses like the Dallas Cowboys and ,- after dying-, generate the rare fenomenon called "Footballer and Cheerleader debris".
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i wish it could be set on fire - and using this like fire trap.

well if you gone die and be zombie you would  die in style right ?  so i for example would wear my lovely gasmask , fedora and coat in ww1 style

 
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