7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

Should be fixed.

We have spent many hours looking at this and have yet to determine why it happens on Xbox. PC/Mac/Linux and PS5 seem fine. Consoles have profanity filter code as required by MS/Sony that adjusts the text. XBox does it very differently from PS5. I think it is a timing issue with tile read/write vs profanity threads, but have yet to see it fail for me. If the name is blank, then no filtering, so if the bug does not happen in that case, then we know it is the filter, else it is something with the read/write code.

Yes, we have cross play working in testing. Due to the additional time required for testing and fixes and getting the required permissions from MS and Sony, it was delayed until after the 1.0 release.

I have heard of no plans for new weapons or ammo or books, but it is possible. No plans for fishing, but someday I could see the game or a sequel having some water based creatures. Paid DLC has been talked about, but nothing specific that I know of yet.

Correct. The current roadmap for biome progression, bandits and story are normal free updates to the game. I saw someone on Steam shouting that it was all paid DLC. Clearly they could not read.

Any feature we release should be seen in an experimental beforehand. I believe I said before that I was not doing it for 1.0. I have had way too many other things to deal with. Possibly for a 1.5 or 2.0 version.

b333 was experimental and since it tested fine, was switched to stable. As far as I recall, every stable update we have done in many years is preceded by experimental versions, which once we are done and the final one tests fine, it then turns into the new stable.

Testing experimentals tells us that those exact builds, for all 3 platforms, each with client/dedi versions, tested well for a variety of people.

The brightness change had nothing to do with streamers. As you said, streamers could already turn up the brightness. It was changed because it was thought to be a more practical play experience. I actually like it dark and have thought we could have day and night brightness settings, but we shall see where the team opinions lands after more testing and feedback.

There was a change in the throw code to a line that compares if the item value was the same reference, which was changed to Equals. That compares all the values of an item, which did not match after lit, so it would cancel the throw as soon as you clicked. I changed it to a type compare to fix. That is old code and it may not even be needed anymore, but removing could cause some other bug. Fixing bugs can be dangerous as you often make new ones, which happened several times this week.

All these sounds are played as Unity Audio Sources. They have a curve for falloff with distance. Footsteps were just adjusted recently. This is footsteps, which has 0 volume at 20m.