7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

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08 Jan 21:05 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

System comparison
The original hardware in this post was top-tier gear over ten years ago. (2011)

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08 Jan 21:03 faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Sure, it was not a good test of a low end system, because it is not a low end system, but that is all I had the time to test.

We know tree high detail LOD complexity is an issue with gfx and shadow fill rate, but artists don't want ugly trees. We have a very capable programmer looking at trees and we shall see what he finds.

Yes, I've noticed that player trees could use more space between them.

I have no interest in spending time making old school circle shadows. Would rather people just turn shadows off on low end systems.

There is no clear cut indoor vs outdoor. Occlusion outdoors often hides objects behind buildings, which applies more so in cities, so I'm not spending time trying to guess which is better. Low end CPUs could have it default to off, but that needs research, which I am not spending time on that now.

Zombies h...

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08 Jan 21:02 Shurenai on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Most of the combative meat giving animals will maul zombies given a chance; So.. Presumably, their claws/teeth/etc are potentially covered in Z-virus.

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08 Jan 20:04 Crater Creator on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Jonnson: I hate them as well. I mean, they are so easy to kill, its like swatting a fly. The problem is, there are nonstop flies. Its the most annoying thing since cliff racers in morrowind.

A better solution would be to implement a range of failures when attempting to use vehicles to escape bloodmoon hordes.

The truck stalls out! You have flooded the engine.
A crack in your gas tank has bled the fuel dry.
The tires are flat!
The peddle just broke off.
The chain skipped off the sprocket.
The batteries dead.
You forgot to fill the radiator!
The belt snapped.
Your stuck in mud!
The transmission dropped.

These are all things that happen, especially when someo...

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08 Jan 19:51 Crater Creator on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Ramar:
Originally posted by Crater Creator: Hmm. You raise a fair point. I don't speak for TFP, but I don't see why non-registered guests couldn't read the bug reports. I'll bring it up with the forum staff. In the meantime, it may be helpful to look at the known issues document.
https://docs.googl...

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08 Jan 17:51 Gazz on Forums - Thread - Direct

Yes, everything makes noise. That includes shooting or reloading a crossbow.

You can literally see when an action causes a ping on your stealth meter.

With FS on zombie senses are greatly improved so they are a lot more likely to pick up on small noises like that.

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08 Jan 17:38 Crater Creator on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Hmm. You raise a fair point. I don't speak for TFP, but I don't see why non-registered guests couldn't read the bug reports. I'll bring it up with the forum staff. In the meantime, it may be helpful to look at the known issues document.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ctmU1eMhVZYoUXCZtFijnbboLQ2r8FIj_D-Ui6b6YHU/edit#gid=0

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08 Jan 11:07 Gazz on Forums - Thread - Direct

This is not true.

I play stealth on a server and with the right perks and gear I hardly ever wake up any zombies.

The only real chance for them to notice me is if I try to sneak up on them by daylight and they see me.

Most of the time I instakill them with my machete.

Now if you play with feral sense on then you don't want to be sneaking around. This mode is for a much more combat-heavy game.

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08 Jan 06:11 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Reenee: -Twice I've left a quest area without realizing it just so I could deposit items in my vehicle. Please either better define the quest zone and/or add an abandonment dialog.

There is a visual notification when you near the edge of the quest area.

Originally posted by Reenee: -There doesn't seem to be a lot going on when it comes to wilderness/non-urban POIs. Forests and mountains don't have cave systems, distant isolated settlements, or some kind of untouched grove where you can find oodles of blueberries.

Cave systems were removed a long time ago. Maybe they will make a comeback, but there were a lot of problems with them that need to be resolved for that to happen.

Originally posted by Reenee: -Speaking of mountains, they're a chore to traverse. ...

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08 Jan 01:57 Shurenai on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Endlessly like a 1980's arcade game.. And like many 1990's SNES games, and 2000 PS1 games. And 2010 PS3/X360 games..and 2020 consoles. :D

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08 Jan 01:26 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

If I'm perfectly honest, I think Alpha 12 or 13 was my favorite before Alpha 20 dropped.

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08 Jan 01:25 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by RasaNova: I did, that's not really the same thing that I was talking about, that post was describing sleeper behavior. I was more getting at sleepers that don't even appear til you're in the room with them, often surrounded with no easy way out. (Unless you game the system as I did for those pics.)

This isn't something that is supposed to happen. Either you have a system bottleneck, or something else is going on. I personally have yet to experience it, but I run a well optimized system too.

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08 Jan 01:19 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Blue Hasia: the last paragraph says they are ok with auto attack rooms?

It's like you guys have this super selective reading ability. What does he say just before that last paragraph where he gives his personal opinion?

Actually, never mind.

Let's net out the key point here.

There was a team meeting where Joel brought up the auto aggro rooms and said that he didn't think it was fair for zombies to just wake up without any chance at all for them to possibly stay asleep. After discussion it was decided that instead of auto aggro the game would do a skill check vs the player's stealth and only if that failed would the zombies wake up. A ticke...

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08 Jan 01:04 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by RasaNova:
Originally posted by SylenThunder: They're mostly gone in a20.
That hasn't been my experience... In A19 they were few and far between, could probably count those "trigger" ambush rooms on one hand while in A20 it seems they are everywhere.

Unless we have different ideas of what the OP is talking about? When I hear "trigger rooms" I think of those rooms where the sleepers in a poi don't spawn til you're right on top of them, more than the ones that simp...

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08 Jan 00:16 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

A20: important information on Stealth (by Roland)

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08 Jan 00:05 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

They're mostly gone in a20.

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07 Jan 22:54 SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Smilodon: CM doesn't seem to have the Bonus Boxes listed as items?

You need to enable the dev items.

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07 Jan 22:33 faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Not in my testing. If I was in stealth and quiet enough, nearby zombies did not wake. Distance from zed being a big factor.

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07 Jan 22:19 faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Yesterday I tested 100 zeds and various shadow settings and did not see that much difference on an RTX 2070. I do have Unity's gfx jobs enabled, which may have some effect on that even though FPS generally seems the same with it enabled. I moved the gfx jobs change into the project, so it will be on in a20.1.

Object quality setting matters more than it used to, since we have more block models, which cause more draw calls.

One of our new programmers is researching trees.

I fixed it today. Fix will be in 20.1.

I don't want canned pathing, if that is what you mean by common. The AI should react dynamically to whatever block combination is presented to them and make a reasonable job getting to you. Bandits, once in, will do the same.

07 Jan 19:01 7daystodie on Twitter

08 Jan

A20 is not the same requirments for the pc as when i bought the game

Alpha 20 Dev Diary

Why do regular, meat-giving animals have a chance at Zombie Infection?

A Brief Discussion On Vultures.

Signup on Bugreport Forum?

Alpha 20 Dev Diary

Signup on Bugreport Forum?

Alpha 20 Dev Diary

Some A20 suggestions/thoughts from an infrequent player

Are there a finite number of zombies in each map?

Which Alpha do you think was the best?

Trigger rooms

Trigger rooms

Trigger rooms

Trigger rooms

Trigger rooms

07 Jan

Stupid invulnerable settlement blocks

Alpha 20 Dev Diary

Alpha 20 Dev Diary

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