PC Is A20 another A16.4??

Fanatical_Meat said:
BTW Covid is getting well under control in the US, which is where (it seems) the Pimps are located.
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But the crew is international. I think Fataal is in GB and Gazz in DE for example. A lot of the development was done from home even before Covid it seems.

but yeah A20 seems to be taking a long, long time. Guessing that many of the Pimps are working on the new unannounced game, which is fine and probably better. I stand by what I have said “the majority of us paid around $20 for the game, as it is now it is a perfectly fine $20 game”
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AFAIK Madmole and some artists are working on new games, simply because they are not much needed anymore for 7D2D. I don't think they have anything to do with the length of A20's development, that depends almost exclusively on the coders.

My best guess is RWG. That is a ton of work since it seems they want to add a lot of features on top of the current RWG and I get the impression they also want to be done with that part in A20 (except for bug fixing naturally).

 
Gotta chime in here...

Regarding host machines, i have absolutely no clue. Regarding client machines, well. Honestly, this game runs much better than many so-called polished and released games for what it is actually handling behind the scene.

My rig is quite old by now. It has

- an i5-2500k cpu

(released in 2011, 20 years ago)

- on a asrock extreme3 gen3 motherboard

(highest supported windows version listed on the manufacturers spec list is win 7 for which mainstream support ended in 2015 - i run win10 on it)

- 16 gigs of ram of whatever kind

(dont remember which kind, but for todays standards, it is slow. Originally came bought with 8, upgraded years ago)

- msi gtx 970

(It is still going strong although it was released back in 2014, 7 years ago. Originally came with dual 560ti's if i remember correctly)

- samsung 860 evo 1tb ssd

(I think that is the only "new-ish" component in my machine, and even so it is from 2018. Originally came with a western digital platter)

So in total (disregarding the original cost, it was a "mid-tier" machine when it was new), i have spent very little upgrading it since then. And yeah, as i mentioned, 7 days to die runs beautifully on it, especially considering the complexity of what is going on under the hood :)

Edit:

Oh, and i forgot the second important part:

- Yes, machine specs will continue to rise in general. Unreal Engine 5 was teased quite a while ago, and just recently went into early access for anyone to play with (you can download and create with it right NOW). That engine will push the boundaries of gaming quite far (but also the minimum hardware requirements). Unity and other engines will surely follow shortly after.

So yeah again, 7 days to die is by no means a demanding game relative to the date we are writing :D

 
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Fanatical_Meat said:
BTW Covid is getting well under control in the US, which is where (it seems) the Pimps are located.

but yeah A20 seems to be taking a long, long time. Guessing that many of the Pimps are working on the new unannounced game, which is fine and probably better. I stand by what I have said “the majority of us paid around $20 for the game, as it is now it is a perfectly fine $20 game”
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many of the tfp staff is not in the usa. they are scattered about the globe. our headquarters is in the usa.

the crew who has been working on 7dtd is still working on 7dtd and will work on 7dtd until its done to where tfp feels its ready.

oh and thanks for enjoying the game..we can only hope to get it much better.

 
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Fanatical_Meat said:
but yeah A20 seems to be taking a long, long time. Guessing that many of the Pimps are working on the new unannounced game, which is fine and probably better. I stand by what I have said “the majority of us paid around $20 for the game, as it is now it is a perfectly fine $20 game”
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Compared to past Alpha releases, doesn't really feel like it is taking a long, long time.  This is based on the announcements when each version was released and only goes back to Alpha 18


A20


TBD


A19.5


5/28/2021


A19.4


3/10/2021


A19.3


12/21/2020


A19.2


10/19/2020


A19.1


9/22/2020


A19


8/19/2020


A18.4


3/4/2020


A18.3


1/24/2020


A18.2


12/4/2019


A18.1


11/12/2019


A18


10/25/2019

 
unholyjoe said:
many of the tfp staff is not in the usa. they are scattered about the globe. our headquarters is in the usa.

the crew who has been working on 7dtd is still working on 7dtd and will work on 7dtd until its done to where tfp feels its ready.

oh and thanks for enjoying the game..we can only hope to get it much better.
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So how many people worked on 7D2D in 2019 vs how many work on it in 2021?

 
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OndeTv said:
[...]- an i5-2500k cpu

(released in 2011, 20 years ago)[...] :D
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I was talking about my cpu's release date, not the game (and having a very large inability to count in the middle of the night my time)  :lol:

 
Actually didn't know the game was all the way back from 2013. I didn't get on "the wagon" until 3 years later. But i'm glad i did. ~800 hours slaughtering/getting slaughtered by zombies so far, and many more to come :)

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