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And additionally, the game is NOT done. It is NOT balanced as a whole. This remains an ALPHA. Wasteland, snow and desert will possibly be gated by survival gear, so you won't just be running off on day one to those biomes and if you do, it will be harsh.

My daughter and I started a new game last night on our internal b318 version and we are planning on heading to the snow biome once we get our bikes. Will it be hard and we die more? Probably. Will it be unbalanced and change our progression? Maybe. Will I learn something about a different way to play that might be helpful in discussing what we want to do and future changes we make? Sure and hopefully we have some fun along the way.

People seem to also have forgotten or don't know that during an experimental we do a variety of balance changes as we continue our playtesting until we reach a point we consider solid for the stable release. This is normal game developmen...

That is not how it works. Different people work on different parts of the game. Water (drinking) and learn by looting are primarily worked on by designers. Bandits are primarily worked on by artists and 2 programmers, who also worked on hundred of other tasks over that time frame, which pushed bandits being ready for release into a future alpha.

It is around 50% random. We found that the great majority of the time we all just took the 9 magazines making the other choices pointless. I did a quest for testing today, did not get the magazines as a choice and was like, wow I have to think about what I want.

That was addressed at their play style, which actually needs more of all loot. As an example, if I had 3 people hanging out at base and not wanting to loot, so I was the sole looter supporting them, then I would certainly turn up loot abundance to feed them all the items they want. Granted I now have a transport issue, but I would not be going so far as nearby loot containers would have x2. If it was me, I'd tell them to do their own looting and not have to change abundance.

Hardly temporary as you would be playing the whole game like that.

Sometimes data changes break things. It can be worked around. My daughter's game is on day 42. She used the giveselfxp console command to get her level back up and used the creative menu to get magazines back to approximately where she was.

I'd turn up Loot Abundance.

Yes, zombie and animal reach is too long, but player reach is also too long. Changing all of these would require a complete rebalance and would feel very different to everyone, so it has been like that for many years as many of us think it is fine. In b317 I reduced the overall zombie reach by 3% to see if that feels different without ruining balance and made a short zombie hand item so they can have a separate Range value and that has about 20% less reach. Network latency also makes this worse.

I don't think we changed it and seems the same to me. I prefer agility and use the bow quite a bit.

Hey Survivors!
We have b317 for you with plenty of adjustments and fixes.

Here is how you can access the A21 b317 Experimental build:

Right click on the game in steam


Click on properties


Click the “betas” tab


The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available

This. It's just not that great of a mod. Coffee esp blackstrap coffee is my go to drink, not only does it give me stamina I need to combat zombies, ride my bike for weeks at a time, it increases ore harvest so it's 10000x better than the water purifier mod IMO, but takes constant effort to keep a supply of it.

If anything we had it backwards all those years using murky water for anything other than brewing a poison just seems wrong. Now, you use your clean water to craft with, it makes more sense and it's impossible to boil too much and be screwed. Like wtf can't I make glue with this perfectly good drinking water?

Yeah but you won't get any bug fixes that RNG might get in between versions.

Didn't think we needed to? Every game with a shrinking crosshair over the years does it this way, I thought it was common shooter knowledge. Did you never notice the crosshair shrink as you aimed? You didn't think anything of it? You can aim at a wall and see impacts and tell the rays do not hit dead center but somewhere inside the crosshair.

It's a dew collector not a rain collector. Still though, we didn't want to rely on weather since it's so random. Also we don't really track chunks that are unloaded and doing t...

The birdnest crash/explosion sound annoyed me a bit so I turned that off.

I can't be arsed to do a "release" for a mod of that size so if you want it, you're welcome to it. =P

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Bug confirmed.
For a workaround right now shift left click the door into you backpack, that will stop the spam.

They always have a destination when spawned, but when they reach it, they wander around and then despawn. If they did get a destination in the air, then would be under it and jumping, but the destination should be on the ground.

Possibly. What and when entity network data is sent has been optimized. Data is sent less often when farther away. More when close. Player outfits and anims are being redone for A22, which they are already working on.

Sounds like you should just turn down the difficulty until you are adjusted to the new networking. We are tuning it so you don't get hit from a crawler 10 feet away, but it won't get significantly easier. Tougher zeds are stronger now, maybe you need to look at the poi and biome difficulty. If you see a lot of skulls you aren't ready for it, go to the forest biome and level up and do the tier 1s and 2s until you get better gear or a higher level.

There seems to be some bugs with getting multiple crits from one hit or bleed has no cooldown we are looking into.

This is beyond epic!

Ideally we could have a black border around text so it reads over any background.

Vocal minority like usual. Some people hate changes, but will come back later and say it was a good change and they were knee jerking. Water is supposed to be a rare commodity in an apocalypse, not all you can drink buffet on day 1.

There were several reasons to change it.
1.) Water was never a survival issue before. It was something you did once, go craft 500 jars, fill them up and your done for your entire play through.
2.) With unlimited duct tape people could craft OP quantities of things early game. Now its a choice, do use my water to craft duct tape, or do I drink it.

3.) Water jars is some leftover minecraft mechanic the engine had when we started and never a design we wanted. One less wasted slot in inventory.

It was always a placeholder.

I usually build near a mine and mine all night after I sort all my loot from the day in my containers or work on my base.

There are no wolves in the forest now. This is part of a larger progression goal that is ongoing.