PC V2.0 Storms Brewing Dev Diary

[zztong]

Is it possible to build POIs using both [bandits and zombies]?

When making a POI, you can define a "Sleeper Volume" as a location in three dimensions, the type of sleepers to appear, and a range of how many to appear. You should be able put a volume with bandits right next to a volume with zombies. Maybe you could make them overlap, though overlapping zombie volumes can be a problem depending on sleeper placement, settings, etc. Maybe Bandits are their own kind of volume so overlapping with zombies wouldn't matter?

Now if the creatures in those volumes are sleeping, I don't know if they'll notice each other. I'd love to know the answer, but I'm speculating here. If they were both Passive volumes then I think they would be waiting on something like a trigger. If they were Active volumes then I think they'd have to perceive each other to activate and then I think you'd have what you want. I suppose this begs the question if Bandits can use Stealth? If there were wanderers then I suspect you get what you want.

That's my guess based on how things currently work.

 

[Roland]

@meganoth 2.0 experimental had hazardous storms. I’m not sure why you remember differently. I remember streamers dealing with storms during streamer weekend and I remember they changed zombies to run during storms in one of the experimental updates.

Perhaps you turned storms off during experimental? (which was also an option during those versions)

It is true that work on storms didn’t begin until a few months into 2025 which was after the original deadline for 2.0 (Q4 2024). Hammer was critical at the time of the fact that the storms brewing update had no storms until 3-4 months after it was supposed to be released. That’s why he says that 2.0 was delayed for storms. Maybe that’s what you are remembering. There was a conversation with faatal probably in February where he was describing the biome hazards and seemed surprised that people were disappointed that that seemed to be all there was to weather survival. A month or so after that they revealed information about storms and both storms and biome hazards were released in time for experimental.

Hopefully temperature and wetness will be implemented in the future as well.