[Whats the banger of A21?]

The words in red are something I don't like about Alpha 21, the rest i'll have to wait and see how it plays out with the dev streams and overall, in my opinion. 

 

 

A21 Release Date: 2023

 

CONFIRMED A21 FEATURES

 

• New Places of Interest
• New Decorations
  • Cars, trucks, tractors
  • Furniture and many many new items
• Additional Advanced World Generation Options
  • Biome Percent Sliders (included in Alpha 20.6)
• Learn By Reading System
  • 23 new skills to govern crafting (photo in gallery below)
  • 23 new magazines added to loot
  • Perks no longer unlock recipes or govern crafting at all
  • The only schematics that still unlock recipes are mod attachments. 
  • Crafting skill is increased by finding and reading magazines
  • Skill increases unlock recipes at certain points as well as increase quality of crafting for items with quality
  • Each tech level has a separate range in the skill spectrum so that you have to work up through primitive tech and then iron tech and then steel tech and being able to craft a blue stone axe no long means you automatically can also craft a blue iron axe.
  •  Some skills have 100 levels but others have less depending on how many unlocks there are for recipes and quality tiers.
  • A new skill page showing your progress has been added to the player interface (photo in gallery below)
  • Skill magazines can be found, bought, and/or received as quest rewards. The topic of the magazine matches the location you would expect to find it in the world.
  • Perks slightly affect the probability of finding like-themed magazines and parts for those recipes. Perk into shotguns and you will notice more shotgun magazines and shotgun parts appearing in the world. It isn't a significant bonus but it does prevent the player from being screwed over.
  • When you max out a skill, that slight probability bonus granted by perks for finding the corresponding magazine for that skill drops off. The magazine will still show up randomly in loot but no longer have a boost. The probability boost for finding matching parts will remain.
• Interactive Environmental Hazards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0mgZ9zB9m4 
  • Flaming broken gas pipes blocking the way. A valve to turn off the gas flow is located elsewhere.
• Doors
  • Double Doors
  • Partially damaged doors with large holes can be shot/meleed through to damage enemies on the other side
• Water Simulation
  • All new water coding--water is no longer a block but a water voxel
  • Water voxels flow into neighboring voxels that are marked to allow it.
  • Water can be in the same space as a block
  • Water does not flow or fall continuously like a river or a waterfall
  • Player movement in water has been enhanced
• Armor
  • New Iron Armor 
  • New Commando Military Armor
  • More details to come.
• Drinking Water Rebalance
  • Murky water is the only water found in loot and water sources.
  • Empty Glass bottles removed from game to match all the rest of the containers in the game  Glass bottles should have stayed in but I guess this makes a little more sense because the rest of the containers.  
  • Dew collector work station added
  • Players can drink murky water directly from water sources with empty hand by pressing "e".
  • Drinking murky water causes 5 hp of damage and has a chance to give dysentery
  • Pot is now required to boil murky water into boiled water
  • Glue crafting taken into consideration
• Spears
  • Spear damage increased
  • Spear power attack is a thrust instead of a throw
  • Throw attack for spears removed    I think the whole point of a spear is to throw in my opinion 
• Chunk Reset Option
  • Default is disabled
  • Options for days all the way up to 70 days
  • Chunk resets to its pregenerated state if no player has entered the chunk after the number of days selected.
  • An active LCB or bedroll will prevent a chunk from resetting.
• Trader Changes
  • New Trader compounds
  • Trader inventories rebalanced with the new crafting progression
  • Removal of Secret Stash I wish this stayed in but make it to where you had to do enough quests or get your reputation up for that specific trader in order to unlock the stash and get better loot. 
  • Further specialization of traders and what they carry
• Electricity Changes
  • Wires only visible when holding wire cutting tool

• Player HUD changes
  • Danger Meter added to show danger level of biomes and POIs
  • Crafting Recipe Tracker can be toggled to show on the HUD to help players as they gather materials needed for crafting
• Perk Rebalancing
  • Sexual T-Rex removed. Stamina improvement now incorporated into the separate perks for each relevant weapon   I liked the Athletics perk where the stamina would drain slower as the perk leveled up, to me it makes sense but i'll wait and see in the dev streams for further judgement. 
  • Each attribute will get its own version of Flurry of Blows as an additional perk for the melee weapons within that attribute
  • Grease Monkey now increases the amount of health that repair kits restore to vehicles. (One repair kit no longer restores a vehicle back to max health)
• Vehicle Changes
  • Repair kits restore a fixed amount of health and each level of Grease Monkey adds 10% of the vehicle's total health to the amount restored.
  • Increased vehicle damage to blocks, terrain, and entities by various amounts.
  • Increased vehicle damage received from collisions by various amounts
  • Improved vehicle block collision calculations
  • Greatly increased damage given and received to and from block collision.
  • Increased bicycle, gyro, and 4x4 health
  • Vehicle spark effects on bigger self damage hits
  • Vehicle blood splatter effects on high damage collisions with entities
• Entity Activity Throttling System
  • Zombie pathing updates less frequently (server-side) based on distance from player
  • Jiggle components disabled (client-side) based on distance from player
  • Each player can always have some fully simulated zombies
  • Helps with large numbers of zombies from Blood Moon & sleeper volumes
• New Terrain Tool
  • Sphere-shaped brush with adjustable size
  • Grows terrain in all directions instead of just upwards
  • Can fill space with any block (including non-terrain)
  • Undo function
• Graphics Improvements
  • Shadows re-enabled on grass, based on quality settings

 

ROADMAP TO GOLD AND BEYOND

1. Bandits
2. Armor
3. Weather
4. Factions & Story
5. Steam Workshop Support

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Even though I can only play on console i still love to see how the PC version will turn out because then i will know what the future console version will look like. I'm so excited for the Alpha 21 Dev Stream and can't wait. 

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

So when they say targeting this year does that mean that PC should go gold this year and then console. 

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

I would love to hear about any news regarding the Console version, because I like the new POIs and models and just wanted to get an update on what's being worked on currently.