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There is no hard number for what must be fixed for experimental. We prioritize them by Highest, High, Medium, Low. Highest and High would be ones we want fixed, but as many Mediums as we can.

Highest+High is currently 32.

Not that I've heard of.

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1. It is just 3 values. Zombie 150% increase. Zombie bear 120%. Dog 160%.

2. No, because I think all zombies have same sight/hearing values.

3. All spawns

4. Only undead

Sounds like you mean the fps graph. You can do that in A19.

Console command: gfx g fps 300 (300 being the number of frames shown)

The current count is 90. These include important and minor bugs. Experimental will ship with some of those bugs. Even stable will still have some of those bugs.

Yes, once green lit it does take up dev time, but it was worth it to us.

But then I would be saying "waste of time". You can't make them all happy.

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Basically. Spawn areas are 80x80m. I take the 48x48 center and or together the POI tags that overlap it. That is why there is also a notags to disable if any of a POI.

Like this one needs to be disabled with downtown or else commercial or industrial would also be in downtown.

A20 will have more zombies in towns/cities and they will respawn faster. spawning.xml can be further changed if you want even more.

maxcount can be changed for areas that have POIs with tags you want to increase.

He did say we would like to release by Halloween. I would like that too, but the game is not ready.

RWG biomes are random. These are the biome images of the 2 worlds I currently have:

Don't know the old numbers. Currently there are 1295 shapes:

It is basically the same, but better in some cases and worse in others:

+ Some things are more optimized, but those changes mostly target FPS smoothness.

- RWG towns are more dense, so more blocks. Downtowns more so. Designers are still padding and tweaking POIs/tiles.

- Towns have more zombies. Downtowns more so. Those are still being tested and numbers tweaked.

I don't use the Linux. All Windows here. Well, a bit of Mac if I have to.

Nope. It allows biome entries in spawning.xml to be disabled based on the POI tags in each biome spawning area (80m x 80m) of the world. The designers are already using these tags for RWG.

Now I can do things like this in a biome where this spawn type is only enabled if commercial or industrial, but not downtown.

Every experimental has some MF bugs left. Lower priority MFs can be done throughout the experimental period. There are usually still some MFs when we go stable.

Screamers work the same.

No changes for demos planned.

It was talked about, but not yet.

Finished a wish list item today. Early tester feedback seems good. More zeds in towns.

Added biome spawning supports disabling spawn types using POI tags in an area.

Added commercial, industrial and downtown biome spawning types (more and faster respawning zombies).

The sky is basically the same as a19. You can often see the sun. Probably just the weather combination at that time.

biomes.xml

Comments in the file:

A20 Biome Loot Modifier and Bonus
Biome Modifier A.K.A lootstage_modifier percentage added to the loot stage calculations
Pine Forest 0
Desert 0.5
Snow 1
Wasteland 1.5

Biome Bonus A.K.A. lootstage_bonus whole number added to the loot stage calculations
Pine Forest 0
Desert 10
Snow 20
Wasteland 30

Mostly bugs.

Because once new programmers come up to speed they can be a net positive to the team, you just don't want to be doing that while you are trying to get an alpha out and fix a hundred programming bugs. That is why one of our new programmers is working on player outfits for a21 and not a20 tasks.

As Roland said, people have specific roles. Programmers are not interchangeable. Over time two can be if they both learn a system well, but that rarely happens, since there is plenty of work to spread around. New programmers can be a time drain, since they often have to ask other programmers how stuff works and sometimes you could of just spent that time fixing it yourself. Then you get new bugs while fixing bugs, which just happened recently when a consultant tried to fix a bug where they don't understand all the game features, then I spend time looking at their bugs and trying to help, blah, blah, blah.