PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17

[Drithyl]

What if I use chopsticks? No consideration for chopstick users? Tch!

 

[Dauthiatull]

Great, now we gota find sporks to craft meat stew

 

[Aldranon]

What if I use chopsticks? No consideration for chopstick users? Tch!

No consideration for paintball gun users ether.

Need to add paintball guns TFP, of course they should boost the PSI of the propellant... 50,000 PSI sounds OK to me.

 

[Dauthiatull]

No consideration for paint-gun users ether.
Need to add paint-guns TFP, of course they should boost the PSI of the propellant... 50,000 PSI sounds OK to me.

50,000 psi?

You want to paint the town red from orbit?

 

[The Gronk]

No consideration for paintball gun users ether.
Need to add paintball guns TFP, of course they should boost the PSI of the propellant... 50,000 PSI sounds OK to me.

Wow, now I have the mental image of sticking a paintball gun in your mouth and shooting sweets to the back of your throat... at 50,000 PSI.

Messy.

 

[Drunkwolf]

Great, now we gota find sporks to craft meat stew

first you need the book to learn how to make the spork THEN you can craft meat stew.

 

[The Gronk]

 

[Aldranon]

50,000 psi?You want to paint the town red from orbit?

Well, mostly for tagging zombies with different colors, like cattle... and laugh at them. Oh how mad will a radiated zombies get if he's covered in pink! He might just run away in shame!

 

[Razorpony]

This thread is a fascinating glimpse of what happens when a bunch of people sit around trying to discuss a topic for an entire year. Eventually they just run out of things to say with their mouths and resort to talking out of their asses.

 

[Gazz]

I'm not even trying to keep track of who said what but as for "blah blah video blah", I know that MM is busy polishing up the skill system (and so am I inbetween bouts of... other stuff) and taking time off to do a video doesn't get the game playable faster.

 

[NukemDed]

ha ha ha ha! made my day razorpony!

 

[trielkee]

Regarding the bosses mentioned at the end of quests, are those something we haven't seen yet or just hp buffed regular zombies?

 

[KingSlayerGM]

So let's do the math!

I know that MM is busy polishing up the skill system and taking time off to do a video doesn't get the game playable faster.

Let's say MadMole takes 4 hours to plan, record, edit and publish a video. This is just a rough estimate, IMO it could be done in less time.

Now, I am not sure about this estimate, but unless somebody objects, let's consider it fairly accurate. Let's say TFP have 20 people working full time on the game. Which means each of them works 40 hours per week, which amounts to 40 x 20 = 800 man hours per week.

Now let's say MadMole decides to shoot a video each week until the new alpha is released. So he subtracts the 4 hours from the total amount of hours worked by TFP in a week. That brings the total to 796 hours. Which is 99.5% of the time they would have worked without shooting the video.

"shooting a video slows down development" is just an excuse, because it is slowed down by 0.5%. For those wondering what 0.5% over a year is: it is less than 2 days! You could have a video per week for a year, just by waiting a couple of extra days at the end.

To sum up:

MadMole recording a video per week would only slow down development by 2 days over a year

Obviously time is not the only concern for TFP when planning a video.

PS @Gazz, you are so busted!

 

[Robbing Zombie]

It means we finally get the Finland biome with Finnish hangover vodka zombies.
I'd say it was about due time, too.

Hey devs, me being from Finland, I'd like to volunteer for a vodka zombie prototype. Just give me any booze and I'll show you the beautiful nature of a Finnish hangover. On second thought, we're having that LAN-party this weekend starting today. Bring a box of booze and you'll get good material for a 11 dude vodkahorde! You can add a beer-feature to the Fin-zombie. If a survivor is carrying beer, the z's will run extra fast.

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This thread is a fascinating glimpse of what happens when a bunch of people sit around trying to discuss a topic for an entire year. Eventually they just run out of things to say with their mouths and resort to talking out of their asses.

Well...

 

[pvwolfgang420]

fire pmo when?

 

[Bogen]

Stream event this week-end ? :rapture:

 

[DaVegaNL]

Ha, nice. Just curious, what part of Utah? Moab, UT was my second home growing up because my grandparents live there. Love that place.

I loved seeing the wide-open skies and terrain over there. Completely different from the densely packed county of Holland where I'm from. Where every square cm has been mapped, re-mapped twice and documented on tv..

We flew from NY to Salt Lake City, spend some time driving at the edge of the lake. Going northwards, passing Ogden, and going through Logan and the Logan Canyon scenic route. Going past Bear lake. 1st night we slept in Pocatello. On the way back from Yellowstone we slept in Ogden.

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Definitely NOT happening in the month of September and most likely NOT the first weekend of October and probably NOT the second weekend of October and maybe NOT the third weekend of October. And beyond that-- who knows?
It's NOT done when it's NOT done...?

I've ran out of sarcastic remarks regarding the time schedule of A17/TFP..

Must be getting tougher and tougher for you to represent TFP.

 

[DaVegaNL]

WTF Vega, you were this close to seeing Mt. Rushmore, and you didn't visit my state?? :miserable:
-A

*Googles where Mt. Rushmore is*

*Tries hard to come up with a believable excuse*

Uhh.. Let me see.. *opens Google Maps*

Hmm.. This might work! I see a place called Eagle But(te). How do you expect me to visit a state with a placename clearly disrespecting the greatest of the birds the American continent has to offer? huh?!

 

[Gazz]

It means we finally get the Finland biome with Finnish hangover vodka zombies.
I'd say it was about due time, too.

Where y’all getting this fin from?

Vodka.

 

[brockolious]

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