PC Alpha 21 Dev Diary

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Great job with the new road decals. Finally!

Brilliant writting on the newspapers. Now I wish we had more of those bits of written info all over the place. It seems less important but it's always the little things that make a game feel great. 

Hugs.

 
The Duke reading the latest Navezgane Enquirer : 

Beerfly found another empty bottle of beer, desperate for another one. 30 empty bottles for a one full of beer, what ? Thanks god they removed the jars.

Matt is selling the newspaper that The Duke is reading, surrounded by skeletons that he found around some places that he refuses to disclose. Yet. All about money. 

DaVega is still missing.

Snowdog found another bigger bone. A miracle! 

Roland and faatal are still figuring out what Pi is. Who wants to know in apocalypse, anyway, we want A22. But Fibionacci was right, math is everything. 

A screamer entered another one`s poor soul base. Bless him. One less. 

 
Adam the Waster said:
https://twitter.com/7DaystoDie/status/1754190334437818857?t=_wQpvq4MH7o-9WMAwRNfNg&s=19

New News papers! And trash! Will update fan diary soon or tomorrow 

And damn looks like Florida is already overrun 
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Looks good and the story in the paper is interesting.  However, the newspaper has a typo... :(   Someone should be proofing things before the art is finalized as this isn't the first error.

Middle column of The Navesgane Tribune (image 3):  "Indeed, with recent reports starting that the CDC has fallen...."

Shouldn't have the "r" in there.

And more of a grammar issue in the last column in the same paper: "Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country, and in our own state Arizona similar measures have been taken."

One way to write that would be:

"Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country and, in our own state of Arizona, similar measures have been taken."

Note the comma moved after "and" and another placed after "Arizona" as well as the word "of" added.  It would be even better to make this two sentences:

"Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country.  Similar measures have been taken in our own state of Arizona."

Of course, the question becomes... what are "similar measures" to Martial Law?  If it's Martial Law, then it's not a "similar measure."  It's the same thing.  So...

"Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country, including our own state of Arizona."

Another grammar issue in the third column... "The United States government assures the public that all alive innocent people were evacuated safely..."

Not sure how anyone is "guilty" of being infected but even if you were to want to use innocent, this should then say, "all innocent living people."  "Alive" shouldn't be used in this way.  A better wording would probably have been to say, "all uninfected people."

And what's up with the last lines of some paragraphs being indented oddly?  Is that intentional for some reason, or yet another mistake?

Lastly, "This was not their intention." ....?  What wasn't their intention?  The previous sentence is about the government assuring people that everyone not infected was evacuated with the paper noting that it can't be confirmed if that happened.  So was it not their intention to evacuate everyone?  Or to assure everyone?  Or that it can't be confirmed?  The rest of the paragraph before that is about launching the nuke.  Was that not their intention?  Nothing in this paragraph fits with the final line that it wasn't their intention.  That line makes no sense in the context of that paragraph.

I suppose you can say that these are errors you might see in an actual newspaper and so it's intended to be more "realistic" by having them, but I doubt the mistakes were intentional (except perhaps the indents, though I can't see why they'd do that intentionally).

Grammar and typos are not exactly a big deal in a game where you really aren't reading things like that and might not even see it clearly enough in the game to read it there, but I think it's still important to proof the art to avoid mistakes.  The buttons on the vending machine were another mistake that didn't get seen until it was finalized and shown to us and now they won't correct it (probably).

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Then we get to the fourth image (the second picture of the Navesgane Enquirer).  Is the virus "septdiurnal virus (sdv)" or "epidiurnal virus (edv)"?  The papers don't match.  Two artists making two papers and don't have the correct information to make them match?  The virus name really should be correct.  It probably should be septdiurnal, or 7 Day, virus.  Epidiurnal doesn't really make any sense.

It's also strange that we have President Lewis Wagner and the Minister of Health, Brian Wagner.  I suppose that is intentional... or is it yet another mistake caused by two different people doing the art for the two different newspapers?

 
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Riamus said:
It's also strange that we have President Lewis Wagner and the Minister of Health, Brian Wagner.  I suppose that is intentional... or is it yet another mistake caused by two different people doing the art for the two different newspapers?
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You know the government then was corrupt right...nepotism.

 
Riamus said:
Looks good and the story in the paper is interesting.  However, the newspaper has a typo... :(   Someone should be proofing things before the art is finalized as this isn't the first error.

Middle column of The Navesgane Tribune (image 3):  "Indeed, with recent reports starting that the CDC has fallen...."

Shouldn't have the "r" in there.

And more of a grammar issue in the last column in the same paper: "Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country, and in our own state Arizona similar measures have been taken."

One way to write that would be:

"Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country and, in our own state of Arizona, similar measures have been taken."

Note the comma moved after "and" and another placed after "Arizona" as well as the word "of" added.  It would be even better to make this two sentences:

"Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country.  Similar measures have been taken in our own state of Arizona."

Of course, the question becomes... what are "similar measures" to Martial Law?  If it's Martial Law, then it's not a "similar measure."  It's the same thing.  So...

"Martial Law has been declared in many places in the country, including our own state of Arizona."

Another grammar issue in the third column... "The United States government assures the public that all alive innocent people were evacuated safely..."

Not sure how anyone is "guilty" of being infected but even if you were to want to use innocent, this should then say, "all living innocent people."  "Alive" shouldn't be used in this way.  A better wording would probably have been to say, "all uninfected people."

And what's up with the last lines of some paragraphs being indented oddly?  Is that intentional for some reason, or yet another mistake?

Lastly, "This was not their intention." ....?  What wasn't their intention?  The previous sentence is about the government assuring people that everyone not infected was evacuated with the paper noting that it can't be confirmed if that happened.  So was it not their intention to evacuate everyone?  Or to assure everyone?  Or that it can't be confirmed?  The rest of the paragraph before that is about launching the nuke.  Was that not their intention?  Nothing in this paragraph fits with the final line that it wasn't their intention.  That line makes no sense in the context of that paragraph.

I suppose you can say that these are errors you might see in an actual newspaper and so it's intended to be more "realistic" by having them, but I doubt the mistakes were intentional (except perhaps the indents, though I can't see why they'd do that intentionally).

Grammar and typos are not exactly a big deal in a game where you really aren't reading things like that and might not even see it clearly enough in the game to read it there, but I think it's still important to proof the art to avoid mistakes.  The buttons on the vending machine were another mistake that didn't get seen until it was finalized and shown to us and now they won't correct it (probably).

----

Then we get to the fourth image (the second picture of the Navesgane Enquirer).  Is the virus "septdiurnal virus (sdv)" or "epidiurnal virus (edv)"?  The papers don't match.  Two artists making two papers and don't have the correct information to make them match?  The virus name really should be correct.  It probably should be septdiurnal, or 7 Day, virus.  Epidiurnal doesn't really make any sense.

It's also strange that we have President Lewis Wagner and the Minister of Health, Brian Wagner.  I suppose that is intentional... or is it yet another mistake caused by two different people doing the art for the two different newspapers?
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IMO, the typos make it more real. Have you read a newspaper or online article these days? Editing is for chumps. It’s all about volume these days. Gotta earn that sweet ad revenue somehow. 

 
Adam the Waster said:
https://twitter.com/7DaystoDie/status/1754190334437818857?t=_wQpvq4MH7o-9WMAwRNfNg&s=19

New News papers! And trash! Will update fan diary soon or tomorrow 

And damn looks like Florida is already overrun 
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This trash looks like trash! (but it's in good way)

BUT : HOW THE HELL 7DTD WORLD WORKS LIKE 

it's 2033 in game but it's more like our world  2010 year. 

Just... it's would have sense to see drons everywhere, AI cars , AI turrets ( not this scrap ones but COD like) , NGSW guns, much diffrent clothes style etc.  While we have 2008-2012 ! HOOOW 

Madmole PLS Buddy - expain it.

future looks like past, schools and daycare but not  zombie kids, AK instead M16, lever action instead m14.  Paper Magasines still exist in 2033. Just... HOW! 😂

 
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FranticDan said:
I'm going to be "That Guy".

Monday, 5th December 2033*

Not a Wednesday
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Maybe in their lore, Leap Year was abolished shortly before 2033. Coincidentally, it was the loss of leap year that created a butterfly effect which would cause the downfall of humanity.

Wonder what would happen if we did the same for DST...

 
beerfly said:
The Duke reading the latest Navezgane Enquirer : 

Beerfly found another empty bottle of beer, desperate for another one. 30 empty bottles for a one full of beer, what ? Thanks god they removed the jars.

Matt is selling the newspaper that The Duke is reading, surrounded by skeletons that he found around some places that he refuses to disclose. Yet. All about money. 

DaVega is still missing.

Snowdog found another bigger bone. A miracle! 

Roland and faatal are still figuring out what Pi is. Who wants to know in apocalypse, anyway, we want A22. But Fibionacci was right, math is everything. 

A screamer entered another one`s poor soul base. Bless him. One less. 
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Well known perv Snowdog is still on the losses. 

Madmole is missing

Laz has opened his new chicken restaurant 

Local forum under attack. Awaiting for the 23 installment 

 
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