PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17
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RevenantWit
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My only thought on the backpack size is it would be nice if it was moddable without having to edit the dll.
Armstrrong
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Then no one will complain about it and can change the inventory to the size they want.
Phoenixshade35
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If I were to chime in on the backpack size i say leave it alone, only thing that could be added to make some people happy is pouches on the sides for things like drink, ammo, first aid, like dedicated slots, or even with clothing, some shirts have a pocket so why not give a slot for the shirt, pants can have up to 6 pockets so why not add those, instead of changing the entire backpack scheme, add onto real life things, like we would toss money, and small stuff in our pockets and not our backpack, food for thought for the character screen.
Warrior044
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mhmm i keep track of the progress of the "health bar for 2 1/2 months now... i gets a hit roughtly once a week and always decreases by the same lenght. at this rate Alpha 17 experimental will take another 2-3 Months of waiting... which wil make it nearly exactly one year
Darkfoxx117
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They dont give release dates, reference the bar above at top of forum for update news.
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dhlmaster
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When the campaign is made, it will be in Navezgane. There's still an entire corner of the map that is unused and blocked out in a way that makes it obvious that something will eventually be there. It makes sense that there should be some improvement to Navezgane with each iteration of the game rather than leaving all of the work for the final release.
I totally agree.. they are trying to put entirely too much into ONE freaking update when they could have put out a little at a time and pushed more updates out rather than 8 months for one update... to keep everyone interested and more going on... i dont know why they are doing that honestly and if anyone has any insight on why i would love to hear it..
More communication on a game and its updates or at least what you are working on keeps your people interested and those who have so much time vested in the game worth it.
dhlmaster
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I hear you about the long wait, but I think it will be worth the wait. It's more efficient to do a lot of big projects in one update and not try to come up with a polished and playable build for each change that is being made. Overhauling the game to work in a new version of Unity was a big undertaking, and adding a lot of new content on top of that does make it the longest development cycle we've had so far in this game. But one thing I have noticed is that in the last few months we have seen some really robust overhaul mods come into being. This also wouldn't be possible if we had a new alpha every few months. I know the mods aren't the main point of the game, but they do breathe a lot of life into it and make the wait more bearable if you take some time to check them out.
Kam R.
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Doubt it. It seems more like they're even adding to this issue with the distant trees.
I'm not a fan of how all the distant view thingies operate too. It kinda breaks immersion. It's gonna be especially "fun" with the the trees, those get chopped down the most.
It also aesthetically ruined our efforts to start a player town in a pregen-ed city with replaced or additional buildings. Anything on a plot that had a vanilla POI now will have the old POI from a distance and then that awkward part where the distant mesh from the original merges with the actual blocks present. Uglyy.
But I guess it's currently the only way they can technically even pull off the distant view stuff at all and it's still better than the "7 Days to Silent Hill" -alphas.
Scyris
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The problem with Navez is the problem with all static maps, once you know where stuff is, they get boring, and since Navez doesn't change majorly, where the stuff is located is generally the same in each alpha. I tried navezgane the other day, but got bored after spending a day and a half trying to find another trader and finding nothing but forests and house poi's.
Scyris
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Yeah they could set the dll by default to save up to 80 inv and 80 vechicle slots, shouldn't bloat saves if the slots are empty, but it would allow you to edit the size with just a xml tweak and have it save. First thing I want when a17-e hits is a .dll mod for inv size, as 32 slots just does not cut it at all.
You heard it from lots of players on this forum, amid questions about the A17 release date. Obviously it must be true :smile-new:
I don't think the overall plan of TFPs has changed much. They are working on a story among other things, IN Navezgane.
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