Well, 10.5 years in Alpha on Steam (Alpha 5 and up), but if you add Alpha 1 to 4, you do get 11 years... Doh!Thank goodness we'll never see an "Eleven Years in Alpha!" post....
I agree. The performance can get espescially terrible with high zombie counts. I've seen discussions of various optimizations on the forums which I don't know much about, but at least I personally haven't seen any word on major named performance improvements. A couple ones of note I know of are something about jiggle physics being disabled at certain points, and the previously mentioned window interiors being obscured at certain distances, and unity updates, but as it stands there are still a lot of issues that I'm not sure are fixed for the release. Things like trader walls having horrendous pop-in even on good settings, and brightness turning grass white just to name a couple are some I've experienced. This kind of stuff hasn't really been mentioned, and the release is a month off or so, so performance is definitely a concern. Ideally it comes out performing great, though.
Honestly, the twitch integration thing always seemed redundant to me. I don't know why they added it, seems more like something that should be added post release, if at all.
Twitch integration is also all about the money, it helps generating viewership which makes it more likely for people to buy the game and is more enticing for streamers to play. But again, 7 days to die livestreams never picked up, and never will. You have a spike when a new alpha comes out, and that's it, all the more reason to keep the game in alphaHonestly, the twitch integration thing always seemed redundant to me. I don't know why they added it, seems more like something that should be added post release, if at all.
I agree about the dlc. Espescially given like you said- the game isn't finished. Doesn't seem very fair to add.
The art assets confuse me as well. I figured and hoped they would redo some of the old very noticeable textures, like some of the ground textures, textures transparent at certain angles, tree models & textures, etc, but it's been mostly pallets and crates and random props that I've seen so far. I also personally don't see why they needed jiggle physics on models in the first place but thats just me, having a floppy belly or gore pieces really don't add anything imo
I think there was something to be said for the old graphics too. Something about lower detail models with the fog and sounds of the old versions made it scarier to watch and play imo.
I can agree with you there, I don't really play the game for bandits or the story, I just mentioned them since they've been pushed quite a few times now.
If I'm not confusing anything, then the Twitch integration feature was created by Fubar Prime in his spare time and did not belong to the main development stream.
Oh, i didntknow that!
This sounds so much like Microsoft or Sony are forcing them to have a 1.0 release to go along with console release. It is just too unexpected. If they had said this before making this A22 thread, then maybe you could say it was planned. But the timing suggests that this was not planned or intended. It certainly isn't a great move after pushing back bandits so now they won't Even be there for the 1.0 release. Not to mention all the other things that should really be finished before gold - editor improvements, bugs, story, etc. I think this is a bad move. If they are being forced to do this, then so be it. If not, then it is a bad decision by them.
I'm sure there's been minor performance improvements. And there may be more in the future. But I don't expect there to be major improvements. There is only so much that can be done to optimize a game that is voxel-based. Ultimately, this is all about expectations. If your hopes were the same amount of zombies/enemies you would get in a non-voxel game, that was an unrealistic expectation.
I imagine it was either this, or they didn't want to pull an Ark and sell DLC before the game was out of alpha.
Here's a 12 years post for you.
And here we go again with this false assumptions... I'm not a programmer, but even I, after all these years, know that the guys working on graphics are not the same ones that are working on AI. Look, I too am eager to see everything come to fruition, but the reasons this is taking this long are probably not what you're un-educately guessing.
Why are you so inquisitive... were you planning on giving negative comments? :heh:
No. By jumping into full release before the game is ready, it just puts a bad taste in my mouth. I don't like games being released before they are ready. And clearly this game still has things that should be finished before gold.
