[2023] Please stop obsessing over graphics, and focus on animations or stability

Screenshots of new art always get more buzz than would, say, a screenshot of c# code showing how a programmer reduced the overhead on zombie pathing. The latter is just not as sexy to the average fan. So there will always be some perception that the focus is on new graphics. However, those willing to read up on development[community.7daystodie.com] will find the next alpha has a variety of art, design, and coding changes. For instance, there is a long needed overhaul to address issues with water simulation, and an optional chunk reset option that could help stabilize the game in some cases. Optimization is an ongoing process, but you don’t want to focus on optimization until all your core features are in the game. Which is to say, during beta rather than alpha.

Originally posted by Wygos:

Originally posted by STDRandom Lead: that wont happen until release. welcome to ea. as for the lag as you call it that is solely hardware and settings. either get better hardware or play with settings including resolution until you find a sweetspot. remember this is a voxel game not a generic but pretty normal game. btw lag refers to internet packet transfer. lag as you call it is simply poor framerates.

See get better hardware for minecraft, while you run RDR and GOW maxed out is kind of a lost client thing happening.

Yes, a more manipulatable world than typical AAA titles + more modern/realistic graphics than Minecraft = high hardware requirements.

Voxels are just a category of their own, in the way The Lego Movie doesn’t look like Avatar. Not every game or movie is going for the same selling point, and that’s okay. If some people walk out of the theater because they don’t appreciate the whole ‘made of blocks’ concept… so be it.

Originally posted by Velcudez:

Originally posted by Butt Flapper: The animations are incredibly janky and hilariously bad on horde nights, even when playing single player offline. Needs some serious love to fix the stability of the game. When you max out zombie count or add more, the game is really, really bad in terms of lag... it's sad. Please focus more on stability

Yeah the animation sucks, at this point i dont really care about graphics fidelity
Combat is clunky
Hitbox is broken

The animation is so bad that i cant tell my melee range while zombies can hit me but my swing wont reach them.

I do agree that the animations can make the players reach seem a bit deceptive. But, Even bare fisted, a player can hit even the longest reaching zombie before the zombie can even swing. Player minimum reach is 1.8m with bare fists, and can go as long as 4.1~m with a spear; By contrast, the longest reach of a zombie is 1.75m. Most are closer to 1.6m.

There is never a time in an unbugged installation that a zombie should be hitting the player but the player CANT hit the zombie.