PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

[Khalagar]

"The drones abilities can be augmented and enhanced by the player’s intellect, but players can still acquire and use a Drone without perking into it."

Any dev able to elaborate on this? What does a fully perked drone look like compared to an unperked one? Like if a 10 int + all robotic perk and magazine user finds a drone vs a level 1 character that just spawned into the world gets handed one, what benefits does the int build drone have? Is it mod slots being tied to the drone perk , or is there something more intricate like fly speed and healing power etc?

 

[POCKET951]

I do understand now.  

I like to watch certain things and I also like to do those certain things.  and I definitely enjoy watching and doing those things at the same time.

That would explain the 100% increase  in internet traffic on Cornhub recently. 

 

[Dares]

Soo, from experimental to stable do I have to reset my map ? Or can I get some minor/major problems....like ?

 

[POCKET951]

I would assume the Living off the Land perk increases this percentage chance?

does living off the land 3 still yield +2 fruit? or +3?

so you could get +4 and no seed, but  almost break even and recraft the seed?

 

[Roland]

Soo, from experimental to stable do I have to reset my map ? Or can I get some minor/major problems....like ?

It all depends upon what ends up needing to get fixed/changed. It is definitely possible and definitely impossible to predict with any certainty.

Roland was right

Halle- frickin- lujah 

I finally have this statement from sheetz without having to piece it together from three different sentences....

#achievement get

 

[Star69]

‘Traders now dance’   This here makes the wait for A20 well worth it!!!

 

[beerfly]

Came here to share this. Heck yea!

Worry not. A21 is on it's way, so you will have your chance 

 

[faatal]

@faatal what are working on at the moment? How is the MF Tarot counter?  :hungry:

Fixed ragdoll blend out on new zombie dog leaving it with bad positions from how Unity optimizes animations, which turned into many more hours of fix/improve general ragdolling.

Currently 7 High MFs, none of which will stop exp release. Funny how that goes.

 

[SarkMCPFan]

what would be the time frame between "experiemtal" and stable?

 

[POCKET951]

what would be the time frame between "experiemtal" and stable?

well, alpha 19 was around 3 months,(mid june  experimental, september release) and Alpha 20 also has the holiday hurdle to get over, so I would guess minimum 4 months.

 

[SarkMCPFan]

oh heck no.. DX

i dont know how ill be able to survive that wait lol (unless exp can use mods)

 

[Guppycur]

Fixed ragdoll blend out on new zombie dog leaving it with bad positions from how Unity optimizes animations, which turned into many more hours of fix/improve general ragdolling.

Currently 7 High MFs, none of which will stop exp release. Funny how that goes.

Spaghetti ragdolls are tight! 

 

[Khalagar]

oh heck no.. DX

i dont know how ill be able to survive that wait lol (unless exp can use mods)

Mods will probably be updated to work on the experimental branch, depending on what they do. Most of my UI mods have worked for several alpha without me even updating them, so I guess it depends on what type of mod you are wanting to use

 

[faatal]

well, alpha 19 was around 3 months,(mid june  experimental, september release) and Alpha 20 also has the holiday hurdle to get over, so I would guess minimum 4 months.

A19 was about 7 weeks. A20 seems in good shape to me, but we will know more in a few weeks.

 

[SnowDog1942]

What are the A21 features?

c'mon someone had to.

 

[SarkMCPFan]

I hope not too long like 4 months but we'll see.

I do like the idea of city selectors.. my biggest peeve atm is lack of big cities.

thats why i have been looking so forward to a20

 

[MechanicalLens]

So I just got a call from the local fire department that my hometown is possibly going to be heavily flooded so a potential evacuation will be in order within the next few days. Nice, perfect timing. I hope the rest of y'all have a great time playing A20 on Monday.

 

[POCKET951]

I hope not too long like 4 months but we'll see.

I do like the idea of city selectors.. my biggest peeve atm is lack of big cities.

thats why i have been looking so forward to a20

Based on Faatal's Response, I think  somewhere between 9-12 weeks is far more reasonable

That said though, what are the Criteria for a stable release candidate?

alot of minor or non game breaking bugs will get fixed in 20.X type patches with features sprinkled here and there.

 

[beerfly]

So I just got a call from the local fire department that my hometown is possibly going to be heavily flooded so a potential evacuation will be in order within the next few days. Nice, perfect timing. I hope the rest of y'all have a great time playing A20 on Monday.

We will tell stories about it, so you can read, go and be safe now. 

What are the A21 features?

c'mon someone had to.

More important, when we will start demanding a release date for it, now or tomorrow. 

*hiding*

 

[khzmusik]

POIMarker tagging to filter POI’s that can spawn in a given POI spawn marker 

Just wanted to say thank you for this - for custom POIs, tagging is something that I've been wanting to see for a long time (and I'm sure I'm not alone).