Darkness Falls: They mostly come out at night...

[Akrux]

Playing A19 with version 3 DF and enjoying it thank you very much. Food seems to be much more of a problem then in previous versions. Is this intended?

I am playing solo at insane difficulty and no loot respawns. If I eat a food with 20 value my food level only goes up by 10. The same seems to be true for water.

It really does make the survival aspect of the game very tough. I am constantly looking for food and drinking a lot of water. My food level hasn't been at 100 since game start. I am even searching for and eating honey for the food value. Most of my coins are spent with the trader and machines for food. It is Day 16 but I see no end in sight unless I get seriously into farming.

 

[Nauman Marwat]

Hello KhaineGB,

Thanks for releasing DF for A19,I have one question,Did you changed something on insane difficulty settings, because horde nights are just brutal right now,I just did day 21 horde night and there were already behemoths.They destroyed my steel base like it was nothing,I think I have to lower the difficulty.

Also is there any DF map with only vanilla POI,I don't like those custom POI.

 

[siliconmatrix]

The preferred linux distro is currently "Windows".

Yes, there's a Linux-only bug. I was working on it last night. I've got it half fixed. That specific crahs you have is partially related to the cave system, and i've got THAT fixed but now there's another one.

Day 21 horde seems a bit early tbh.

And no, there's no download yet.

I haven't touched the guard ranged AI. I'm pretty sure TFP did. They don't shoot when a zombie gets to about 3 blocks away, even if they're on the ground (already tested).

No there is no nitrogen file, and probably never will be since nitrogen DOES NOT obey biome restrictions for POI's.

Animal husbandry MIGHT be fixed (Worked for me, was iffy for one of the testers).

Ok, so what linux distro are you using to test specifically? I really don't like running windows VMs for servers, it's bloated and you need more compute resources to do the same thing in linux. If we know what particular distro/version you are testing against then we can setup a known good configuration.

 

[KhaineGB]

Playing A19 with version 3 DF and enjoying it thank you very much. Food seems to be much more of a problem then in previous versions. Is this intended?

I am playing solo at insane difficulty and no loot respawns. If I eat a food with 20 value my food level only goes up by 10. The same seems to be true for water.

It really does make the survival aspect of the game very tough. I am constantly looking for food and drinking a lot of water. My food level hasn't been at 100 since game start. I am even searching for and eating honey for the food value. Most of my coins are spent with the trader and machines for food. It is Day 16 but I see no end in sight unless I get seriously into farming.

Looking into the food thing. I think the buff TFP use to add food to the player isn't working right.

Hello KhaineGB,

Thanks for releasing DF for A19,I have one question,Did you changed something on insane difficulty settings, because horde nights are just brutal right now,I just did day 21 horde night and there were already behemoths.They destroyed my steel base like it was nothing,I think I have to lower the difficulty.

Also is there any DF map with only vanilla POI,I don't like those custom POI.

Yep. Insane is insane.

Any map that has 2 in the name is vanilla + DF POI's (except XLarge. That's vanilla POI's + DF as well)

Ok, so what linux distro are you using to test specifically? I really don't like running windows VMs for servers, it's bloated and you need more compute resources to do the same thing in linux. If we know what particular distro/version you are testing against then we can setup a known good configuration.

I'm currently using Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM. Not sure what sphereii is testing with but we're both working on it.

Also, most of the server hosts i've spoken to have said it's actually the other way around. 7DTD uses less resources on windows than it does on Linux, but I cannot confirm. 

 

[belowzeros]

Any map that has 2 in the name is vanilla + DF POI's (except XLarge. That's vanilla POI's + DF as well)

I'm currently using Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM. Not sure what sphereii is testing with but we're both working on it.
 

sorry if you answered this, I have been reading your replies.  I just wanted to confirm the maps without a 2 are just vanilla POIs?

 

[Finch55]

Error parsing qaulityinfo.xm for map DF-Small2. The whole thing is only snow and according to the biomes.png file Snow is only to the east, Burnt forest west, Forest Pine centre and Wasteland north. (sorry no output.txt as for some reason the game is not writing to a log, only the console.

I would prefer not to have the wasteland, how would I achieve this?

 

[JJJ]

Hello, is this mod ready for Alpha 19 ? Does it make the game harder ? Because the game without mod is really for noob.

 

[Gouki]

Hello, is this mod ready for Alpha 19 ? Does it make the game harder ? Because the game without mod is really for noob.

Hi JJJ

Yes, it works for A19, try to test the mod and see for yourself if it is difficult or not.

 

[MasterFuji]

Hello, I stood up a CentOS 7 VM on ESXi 6.5 with 4vCPUs and 16GB RAM. I installed A19 stable and unmodified it runs perfectly fine. I created a secondary folder, did a fresh install of A19 stable there, then dumped the contents of https://gitlab.com/KhaineGB/darknessfallsa19server/-/archive/master/darknessfallsa19server-master.tar.gz overwriting everything. Running the server with the DF mod I can login and maybe get 30sec in to a few minutes before the server crashes, or my player falls through the earth. The logs don't always capture anything when there's a crash but here are a few examples that did:

Ah so it's not just me! I'm seeing the same behavior.  I see Khaine has already responded so I'll just run a Windows dedi for now.

 

[liltriz]

My game gets stuck on loading game data screen.

 

[Akrux]

A19 DF 3 and there is a severe shortage of brass radiators. They used to drop about 10-15% of the time from cars but I have scavenged 100 cars with a socket wrench and gotten no brass radiators. This was a good source of brass for casings and is essential for making the advanced forge.

Also I have gotten no headlights from the 100 cars but I did get a single headlight from a short bus.

 

[scubahalo]

My game gets stuck on loading game data screen.

It takes a looooooong time to load even when it's running perfect. Be patient.

 

[KhaineGB]

sorry if you answered this, I have been reading your replies.  I just wanted to confirm the maps without a 2 are just vanilla POIs?

Maps with 1 in the name are vanilla + our edited compo pack + some A16 and A18 buildings I added + DF specific POI's.

Error parsing qaulityinfo.xm for map DF-Small2. The whole thing is only snow and according to the biomes.png file Snow is only to the east, Burnt forest west, Forest Pine centre and Wasteland north. (sorry no output.txt as for some reason the game is not writing to a log, only the console.

I would prefer not to have the wasteland, how would I achieve this?

Sounds like the biomes.png is corrupted and you might need to redownload.

My game gets stuck on loading game data screen.

Press F1 and check for any errors. My guess is you have a bad harmony patch and need to redownload it (that's been happening a lot which is why I have 3 download locations)

A19 DF 3 and there is a severe shortage of brass radiators. They used to drop about 10-15% of the time from cars but I have scavenged 100 cars with a socket wrench and gotten no brass radiators. This was a good source of brass for casings and is essential for making the advanced forge.

Also I have gotten no headlights from the 100 cars but I did get a single headlight from a short bus.

They weren't dropping for me at all, so I changed how they drop.

Wrench/Ratchet/Impact Driver is now required, but they're also NOT affected by harvest count anymore.  Buses seem to be more likely to drop them when I was looking in the drop chances.

 

[Winkiss]

Disassembling cars also do not get radiators, I used wrenches, a ratchet for disassembly - there is not a single radiator. Also in houses, heating radiators also do not give brass radiators, only iron. If there is a chance of falling out, then it is very small. I saw that they already wrote about this, this is a problem.
I also could not get the headlights, I had to buy).



 

 

[KhaineGB]

I know they DO drop radiators because I tested it.

And my tester who previously wasn't getting radiators, batteries and engines ALSO tested it and got some.

So they absolutely drop.

You need to remember it's like a 30% chance to drop, for one SPECIFIC car stage, per "hit" with the item.

So the more powerful items (ratchet and impact driver) will be impacting your ability to get stuff  since they destroy blocks faster.

 

[kosh401]

Hm interesting, no radiators is something I was about to ask about as well.. we'll stick to wrenches and not ratchets and see if that helps

Air drops on the server - the aircraft sound only plays for 1 or 2 seconds and then cuts out, and there has been no sightings of any parachutes/smoke falling. Drop markers are turned off, but we did randomly come across one on the ground later so they are "spawning" but none of us have actually seen the plane or a drop falling from the sky yet (3 weeks in)

Generally I believe my dedicated server is performing much better and using less memory than A18 so that's nice (5 players)

We're having a great time, cheers for the update!

 

[ryeookin]

Firstly,

@ KhaineGB you sir make an amazing mod!! Me and my friends send a big thank you for all your hard work. 

Secondly just wanted to ask two questions for A18 version of Darkness falls:

1) Does anyone know if the "robinhood" perks also effect crossbows? I looked last night and it said bows.. but I wasn't sure it also effected crossbows or not. 

2) While trying to find answers myself to my #1 question above searching through this thread I ran into mention of a repeating crossbow. I remember that from valmod back in the day.  I didn't think to check last night when I last played but is that in Darkness falls v18? How does it compare to the other crossbows like the compound crossbow?

My group just got some crafted compound crossbows and we're really enjoying them. Great sound effects, works with scopes and hit like a truck with steel arrows.. feels like I'm firing a ballista! The only thing better would be a repeating ballista. 

 

[trionicb]

Possible new bug, the splint does not appear to have any impact on broken legs.

 

[KhaineGB]

Hm interesting, no radiators is something I was about to ask about as well.. we'll stick to wrenches and not ratchets and see if that helps

Air drops on the server - the aircraft sound only plays for 1 or 2 seconds and then cuts out, and there has been no sightings of any parachutes/smoke falling. Drop markers are turned off, but we did randomly come across one on the ground later so they are "spawning" but none of us have actually seen the plane or a drop falling from the sky yet (3 weeks in)

Generally I believe my dedicated server is performing much better and using less memory than A18 so that's nice (5 players)

We're having a great time, cheers for the update!

I know about the air drop thing, but dont know why it happens. It's an odd one.

But hey. They spawn. So I don't worry about it.

Firstly,

@ KhaineGB you sir make an amazing mod!! Me and my friends send a big thank you for all your hard work. 

Secondly just wanted to ask two questions for A18 version of Darkness falls:

1) Does anyone know if the "robinhood" perks also effect crossbows? I looked last night and it said bows.. but I wasn't sure it also effected crossbows or not. 

2) While trying to find answers myself to my #1 question above searching through this thread I ran into mention of a repeating crossbow. I remember that from valmod back in the day.  I didn't think to check last night when I last played but is that in Darkness falls v18? How does it compare to the other crossbows like the compound crossbow?

My group just got some crafted compound crossbows and we're really enjoying them. Great sound effects, works with scopes and hit like a truck with steel arrows.. feels like I'm firing a ballista! The only thing better would be a repeating ballista. 

1) Yes they do.

2) I actually had to remove the repeating crossbow in A18 because it broke REALLY badly.

Possible new bug, the splint does not appear to have any impact on broken legs.

Not a bug. If you read the broken leg buff description, it would say it can only be healed by a CAST.

Sprain -> Cast or splint.
Broken -> CAST ONLY.

 

[braniel]

I know they DO drop radiators because I tested it.

And my tester who previously wasn't getting radiators, batteries and engines ALSO tested it and got some.

So they absolutely drop.

You need to remember it's like a 30% chance to drop, for one SPECIFIC car stage, per "hit" with the item.

So the more powerful items (ratchet and impact driver) will be impacting your ability to get stuff  since they destroy blocks faster.

I got serverals radiators, engines and lot of batteries with wrench, but no wheels.... And "re-login" remove sprain debuff, but is good for me since i got 18hrs xD