PC In which Alpha did they add Blood Moon Hordes?
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JCrook1028
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Alpha 1 I think?
DividingByZero
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I could be wrong, but I think the whole concept of the game was built around hordes coming every 7 days... hence the name "7 Days to Die".
Roland
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For the first several alphas all zombies always GPS'ed to the player. I started playing in Alpha 5 and there were no wandering hordes and no bloodmoon hordes. But every night was like bloodmoon because zombies always knew where you were.
I can't remember exactly when those were added but it wasn't until later and it was wandering hordes first I think and then bloodmoon hordes. But this is ancient history so it's hard to remember. I want to say around Alpha 8 - 9 maybe?
*runs to go check*
From Alpha 7 patch notes...
I can't remember exactly when those were added but it wasn't until later and it was wandering hordes first I think and then bloodmoon hordes. But this is ancient history so it's hard to remember. I want to say around Alpha 8 - 9 maybe?
*runs to go check*
From Alpha 7 patch notes...
Oops...class is starting. someone else will have to hunt for when blood moon started.
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chaosterone
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To be fair, Amazon just delivered his book "How Be Classy in Ten Easy Steps". He's working on step one now...How can you have class when you never had class to begin with? :disillusionment: ... Oh! :eagerness: wrong type of class.**kiddinglayful:
Fox
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The very first Alpha release had daily horde nights which made the game literally a tower defense game. It was fun but got old fast. In the grand scheme of things, not a whole lot has changed when it comes to hordes other than now they're on the 7th day, but we still get those small hordes of wolves or w/e every few days and the annoying stragglers that GPS to you.
But I don't have a clue which update made the daily horde night into 7th day horde night.
But I don't have a clue which update made the daily horde night into 7th day horde night.
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I had this argument with someone a while back about where the name of the game comes from, since I think I started playing in A7 and they didn't have 7 day hordes that I can remember, I thought the name came from the time it takes for an infection to kill you. No? 7 days to die of an infection came first didn't it?
4sheetzngeegles
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ALPHA 12 3.7.2015
Added a new dynamic ambient audio system with wind loops, gusts, ambient oneshots, ambient loops, daybreak, nightfall and bloodmoon stingers. The system adjusts the wind based on the weather and plays the daybreak stinger at 6 am, the nightfall stinger at dusk when zombies start running and the bloodmoon stinger on full moon 7th night.
Alpha 15 5 Oct 2016
Blood Moon Dynamic Difficulty
We have also added a Blood moon horde dynamic difficulty system. At runtime the game calculates the spawn game stage difficulty group for each party based on the criteria of number of players in the party, each player’s level in the party, each player’s current days survived ratio in the party and the hosts global difficulty setting. These things work together to output a game stage number or dynamic difficulty number for each party.
Higher game stage numbers have harder enemies F.E. Game stage 10 might only have base female and crawler zombies while game stage 20 might spawn those plus Dogs and Feral Zombies. Higher game stages will also have higher spawn limits meaning more total spawned not more alive at once to keep the games framerate consistent. New players can join the game just before the first Blood moon and only get a game stage 1 horde if they’re the only party member. The plan is to use the dynamic difficulty system for static spawned and screamer hordes in A16.
Available on steam A15 b105 presently.
Added a new dynamic ambient audio system with wind loops, gusts, ambient oneshots, ambient loops, daybreak, nightfall and bloodmoon stingers. The system adjusts the wind based on the weather and plays the daybreak stinger at 6 am, the nightfall stinger at dusk when zombies start running and the bloodmoon stinger on full moon 7th night.
Alpha 15 5 Oct 2016
Blood Moon Dynamic Difficulty
We have also added a Blood moon horde dynamic difficulty system. At runtime the game calculates the spawn game stage difficulty group for each party based on the criteria of number of players in the party, each player’s level in the party, each player’s current days survived ratio in the party and the hosts global difficulty setting. These things work together to output a game stage number or dynamic difficulty number for each party.
Higher game stage numbers have harder enemies F.E. Game stage 10 might only have base female and crawler zombies while game stage 20 might spawn those plus Dogs and Feral Zombies. Higher game stages will also have higher spawn limits meaning more total spawned not more alive at once to keep the games framerate consistent. New players can join the game just before the first Blood moon and only get a game stage 1 horde if they’re the only party member. The plan is to use the dynamic difficulty system for static spawned and screamer hordes in A16.
Available on steam A15 b105 presently.
Fox
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I vaguely remember a dev saying something about how it had no real meaning yet (this was way back in the early Alpha stages, like Alpha 1 or 2), but assuming with all the players asking about it, maybe the devs later decided to add meaning for it, like 7th day horde or infection, I don't know. I never really cared enough to pay too much attention to that stuff, so I don't really know much about how it all went down.
PiercedFromWithin
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I usually figure I'm doing pretty good if I make it to stage 2.