NachtIntellect
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Or just throw mushrooms in a garbage bag and grow/farm them in the dark that way, I am not sure what kind of mushroom it was, I read up about mushrooms one time a few years back, don't ask why.
PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17
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Woah!!!
Hold on there.
Compartmentalizing is what causes most games bugs and glitches because you are all using the same coding and are basically all taught to write code the same way it causes so many crossovers that interfere with each other's codes.
It may take 1 programmer 1 month and he is doing his/her own thing mean while so is everyone else so when they write certain lines into the code that tell it to do similar things then that leads to bugs.
It may take 2 programmers 2 months but in the end there will be no bugs. Because they are talking and communicating what they are doing so No crossover in the code.
I just hope they work on only a few things each Alpha so we do not get what we just got.
Which is 7-8 months of work followed by close to 4 months of fixing and still not all the new bugs or old bugs reappearing are fixed.
But from what I see they are hiring more so I am guessing it will provably lead to even more bugs next release.
What I thought would or should be the next alpha is AI and Stealth. As those are the 2 most broken things right now.
I am guessing just these 2 things will take a year just by themselves.
What else they add in I hope will be major/minor updates to existing alpha 16 every few months so we can remain interested in the game and can test each thing at a time.
I do not know about everyone else but I lost interest in alpha 15 after about 4 months
and then waited another 4 months for 16
and another 4 months of testing etc. till what we have now.
I am already a bit burnt out on 16 and they just started a discussion on 17.
Don't get me wrong I love the game and all.... but each update to alpha 16 which there were a lot.... took me days of changing and re-changing things to my liking.
So I got burnt out pretty fast.
NachtIntellect
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Next minute, automatic arrow loader clip with 100 arrows like a chaingun belt could possibly do that with a crossbow in all seriousness though, would probably be jury rigged and just have smaller clip size when the crossbow fires the bolt in the center would pull across a slider disallowing the new arrow entry until it's pulled back could work.
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Death2gnomes
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my stomach hurts form historically laughing so much.Well, at least it's historically accurate.
We're men! MANLY Men!
What I would love to see added is spears! How can you have a survival where a person doesn't go and get a very long stick, or even a pool cue and sharpen it. We make a axe, use it to sharpen the spear, it doesn't have to have a great point, just enough to stab with. You can take a kitchen knife and stab someone if you use enough force.
Rare, a toolbox in a garage that has a wrench, hammer and nails. Or two out of three.
Arrows, when we go to gut the deer, wolf, boar or any animal we can collect back some of the arrows. If you had to use five arrows to kill whatever we should be able to retrieve two or three of them.
Rare, a toolbox in a garage that has a wrench, hammer and nails. Or two out of three.
Arrows, when we go to gut the deer, wolf, boar or any animal we can collect back some of the arrows. If you had to use five arrows to kill whatever we should be able to retrieve two or three of them.
I can agree with that, especially the steel for the iron bars and perk for archery. Portable work station would be nice also, found six wrenches in the apartment building and no workbench in the town and the one at the trader was broken. Had to leave four behind and take the best two.
Would help with more than wrenches, of course.
vonstorm
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From what I can see, a good development would be more use of variables instead of fixed integers. Programmers write the code and integers are imported from a master config file. In the future this would allow players to adjust many of the things that are discussed here.
EG: Blood moon frequency (including 0), Screamer frequency (my pet peeve), backpack size, Zombie population, sleeper population, Gated levels (including 0), Horde frequency, etc....
Vanilla settings are what TFPs vision for the game is, server listings list any changes.
But otherwise an excellent game, having a blast.
my 2 cents on priorities for A17 -
AI, Water, lots more POIs, random internal spawning POI loot / falling blocks, More zombie types/skins
A18+ Bandits, parasail, boats, large vehicle/bike trailer, more POIs and Zombie types.
Deeds4life
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I know in the past there was talk about having a steam workshop for this game so mods could be transferred easily. Is this something that is on TFP's radar for the future? Haven't heard anything in awhile.
KronosKronight
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Lonestarcanuck
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I create a recipe for the Van Helsing crossbow that held 100 shots and fired as fast as a gun. with 100 exploding bolts it obliterated everything.
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