7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Vresiberba:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Well.. For one, The game doesn't reset a POI until you reach the location AND interact with the giant floating exclamation point. Plenty of time to recognize "Oh, huh, this is my base. Maybe I should not do this quest"

Don't know why I owe you an explanation, but my base was in the back and the exclamation mark was on the porch at the front. I didn't even realise the building was my base. I also did NOT [because CAPS baby] know i...

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Well.. For one, The game doesn't reset a POI until you reach the location AND interact with the giant floating exclamation point. Plenty of time to recognize "Oh, huh, this is my base. Maybe I should not do this quest"

For two, If you have a land claim block or a bed roll IN the POI you have received a quest in, The game won't allow you to begin the quest after reaching the location.

Third, The POI is reset because it's entirely possible you may have cleared and previously looted the building- Meaning if the quest starts and the POI is -not- reloaded, it would not be a completeable quest. -- It's also possible for zombies to have damaged the POI, either wandering hordes or if the player had used it as a horde base, or a number of other possibilities.. So, the POI is refreshed to it's initial state, to bypass all those possibilities and ensure the quest is doable.

I won't say you 'should have known' that it would reset your base...But, You should have k... Read more

There’s a definite irony here. The developers had to explicitly program the two wheeled vehicles to fall over.

Originally posted by Jolly: I do wish we could cook with ovens and brew teas/coffee in coffee pot, maybe add rot to foods and could use a fridge

Adding food decaying mechanics to food would necessitate food being unstackable; The game has no way of assigning different values to items in a stack. Not to mention that I don't think it's currently possible to make anything 'decay' like that inside an inventory; the players or otherwise. The functionality just isn't there for an item to change without being 'Used' by a player.

The oven and coffee pot are totally possible though.

Split-screen gaming isn't something that is common at all on the PC for a large number of reasons. I'm not aware of any mods that will allow it for 7 Days or most any other game out there.

It's not a PC game feature. Split screen only exists on consoles.

Originally posted by JErosion: Well Hornets could be mutated like how some of the Zombies are. Although there are times i would like to see more Biomes like a marshland or Swamp. Then you could have gators and Giant Mosquitoes.

That mutation is built upon being zombified in the first place though; No zombie hornet, no mutation.

Zombie mosquitoes; sure, They bite zombies, draw rotten blood, bam, infected mosquito. Same with gators using the same logic of the bears and vultures.

I don't know personally, But I suspect because there wasn't a good reason/cause for the hornets to exist.. The zombie vultures make sense; They're vultures that ate zombie flesh from the rotting shamblers and got infected. Same thing with zombie bears; Zombies came after it for fresh meat, bit in and assaulted it, it fought back, doubly infected. But, How's a hornet gonna get infected? Why would zombies go after hornets that arent a hot blooded lunch for them? It just didn't fit the world they're trying to create.

Originally posted by Captain Nap: I had never considered a knife... now it's next on my list, thanks.

Fair warning; Early game can be a bit dicey especially after the change that doubled attack speed but halved damage. Sharpen your kiting skills, because a lot of your damage will be via the bleed effect until you get a better weapon (Hunting knife or machete; because the bone shiv is...not great.)

Also be sure you never get caught in a corner as unlike most other weapons, the knives have Very little chance of staggering or knocking down an enemy to get you a way out.

Still, I really enjoyed my knife playthrough. Being able to power attack enemies and just kite it for a short while to kill it was really ni... Read more

Pretty much any weapon with all of its perks and fully modded out is..Fairly imbalanced. If you think the sledge is OP; Go play with fist weapons. With max fortitude, max The Brawler, pain tolerancce, heavy armor, and healing factor(All within the Fortitude tree, for convenience), you're basically an unstoppable tank. Even the strong enemies hit you for 1 damage most of the time.

Pair that with your fist weapon which via the Brawler perk and mods can have up to NINE different status effects it can apply to enemies, and you can just wade into a group on horde night and pound everything into mush. Any damage you -do- take gets refilled by healing factor and the occasional bandage. -- The status effects include negating the infection ability on headshots; A chance to stagger; a chance to knock down; a chance to ragdoll them; a second chance to simply explode their head; a chance to set them on fire; a chance to stun them; a chance to slow them; a chance to burn them; a cha... Read more

Originally posted by Vaarelsauce: What do you think are the chances of the Devs supporting an actual customizable map generator in the future? (Sort of like NitroGen)

It's a planned game feature that will be directly integrated into the client.

They chose to wait on this until the game was closer to completion.

The modding part of the game has been changing drastically over the past two versions as well, so it's a really good thing they waited. Once they have that finished, the way mods integrate is going to be amazing. Right now it's a little questionable depending on what the mod changes.

Unlike Empyrion who now has 90% of the mods in the workshop broken because of changes that were made in a11. It's a perfect example of why adding workshop support too soon is a very bad idea.
You can't fix that.

The main takeaway is that most games designed with an M rating, simply do not have a filter/option to disable the things that make them rated M for Mature.

The the cases of the MMO's with filters, that filter is only applied to global chat where other people are typing. It's not applied to NPC dialogue.

If you choose to play a game that is rated M for mature you risk exposing both yourself, and those around you, to the game content that earned it that rating.

If that is not acceptable, it is up to you to apply the moderation. This is not the responsibility of the developer.

You knew what the game was rated when you purchased it. It was clear and open about what content was contained that gave it that rating. To request the developer to change it afterwards is more than a little bit silly.

And again, here is a link to the ESRB rating for the game.
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Game is rated "M" for Mature.
It will contain mature content.
https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34421/7+Days+to+Die/

If you can't handle mature content, don't play the game.

Or, just mod them out. Easy peasy.

The only issue is that you're expecting a game rated for people 17+ to be rated for people 8+.
You're going to be disappointed.

Originally posted by biao:

Originally posted by SylenThunder: Asked and answered many times if you had looked before starting a thread.

This will be addressed when the game is closer to completion. Doing it before then is a huge waste of the developers time and money.

I heard that A18.3 supports simple Chinese, really？

Not sure where you would have heard this. There has been almost zero word from the developers on 18.3.
It's not very likely.

Originally posted by XEKLIMER: Thank you for continuing to update the game. It's come a long way.
Is this compatible with saves from the last alpha build?

EDIT: loaded my save and spawned with an infection that I did not have before.

Just finished some initial testing. I was able to load up a18.1 and a18.2 into a19 without any noticeable issues.

Nice improvement in hardware optimizations too.

a19 is not available to the public yes. I will be testing save compatibility in a bit though.

Welcome to the Alpha 19 Dev Diary. As of this time we don't even know what to call Alpha 19. It might be small named updates like "The New Combat Book Update" which could start at "19.0", with the "Vehicle Update" landing on 19.2, etc. What we do know is we're working on some new books, a vehicle update, etc but how and when we roll out what is to be determined. Hopefully it can be several point release patches to get you guys more frequent updates over 6-12 months instead of one big drop in a year.

Weapons Update All weapons will have 3 tiers.
New top tier Auto Shotgun
New mid tier Machine Gun
New low tier Junk Sledge
New top tier Junk Drone
Most pre-alpha 18 weapons have new models and textures
New Steel Fireaxe, new Steel Club.


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