[10 years of 7 days to die]

4 hours ago, Callum123456789 said:

its been 10 years since the game originally launched and every year it has gained more popularity than the last iteration if that doesn't call for some celebration i don't know what does.

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2 minutes ago, Gamida said:

I don't recall ever seeing this Pegasus buff. Has something been mentioned about it before?

Hmm... maybe it's just a new Cheat Mode power.

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6 hours ago, beerfly said:

Trader Kin, a really rare map maker that sends us to unknown parts of RWG to find better stuff.. much tougher than in wasteland.

 

Where the legendary weapons or armor could be.

That... or something akin. 

[RIP Kinyajuu]

Didn't know him or his family, but really sad news.

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On 12/2/2023 at 8:07 AM, Blake_ said:

Are you a fire hose guy or more like an automatic door one? 

Did you do that on purpose or are you trying to stir @SnowDog1942's appetite?

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2 hours ago, Matt115 said:

Just no. I will try to explain it but i know it won't be best explanation.

If you consider which animals in games are use in zombie games it's usualy.... wolf and bear. Why? because rest of animals will be too goofy so it will be working annoying.

Years ago in RE 4 you had spiders and even elephans. Yes COD bo4 had elephans but it's magic and stuff. Now RE is more serious while being RE in this same time. Ada want to kill zombie kid in one scene while another we use minigun. Okay someone can say that State of decay 3 have zombie deer in trailer. Yeah but Dead Island have zombie kid so trailer mean nothing.

So - if TFP won't go  into more serious vibes then.... best option would be just add more humanoid mutants

What are you talking about?

Did I say I was only talking about animals? No

Did I say I wanted more animals? No

 

You're arguing against something I supposedly said, that isn't there. 

All I'm saying is that IF they add (e.g.) more humanoids, that they also add new and varied behaviors to their AI.

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Jokes aside, I think that more than new types of graphical representations of different things, we need new behaviors.

I'd like to see more variation in how different animals, and zombies, move, fight, or even how they interact with each other.

 

For example, I like how coyotes run away for a while if you hurt them badly, but then come back and try to get revenge.  

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1 hour ago, stallionsden said:

That is from us prefabbers

Didn't know that was a thing... 

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3 hours ago, Blake_ said:

LOD is better, I can't quite put my finger on it, but the transitions are better for many assets and grass and stuff.

Did you notice that at 480p? 

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3 hours ago, Guppycur said:

What's different?

That it's not grass... 

[Devs are making this game more and more unrealistic]

3 hours ago, Rotor said:

 

Yep, everyone has their own version of #1.  Like taking a bucket to the river and collecting water.

I've got another one for you:

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4 hours ago, AaronG85 said:

Is there anyway to disable the 'Spawn Near Backpack' feature? Or a mod that mods it out?

You mean on a server?

Because in single player you can just choose to not select it I guess, right? 

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4 hours ago, Adam the Waster said:

But the game could uses difficultly in terms of wildlife again. Cuz they made it to easy in A21. As of yet I have not found 1 bear in the forest! I need some danger! Add a mountain lion or 2 or something!

The forest biome is the safest there is... they can't add bears or wolves back in!

Maybe a zombie kitten? 

 

[Devs are making this game more and more unrealistic]

WE WANT STICKS BACK!      

(i'M JOKING)

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1 hour ago, Adam the Waster said:

I hope they aren't removing the boar. They made much more sense.  

 

Also maybe zombie pig

I don't understand... why the HUGE ears? 

I mean, they are big, but not THAT big!

 

[So the z took one step towards me then turned around and attacked a tree]

2 hours ago, BFT2020 said:

 

adjective. capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.

The joke was about how that word sounds... it's a horrible word! 

[So the z took one step towards me then turned around and attacked a tree]

7 hours ago, Roland said:

and manipulatable

Is that even a word?  

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3 hours ago, Obsessive Compulsive said:

If I had a few suggestion for the code monkeys on the team, would posting it here take any notice? Is there a better place to mention some stuff about Unity.
Not trying to tell you guys what to do, that is your call. Just some suggestions if someone wants to look at it.

I will post it anyways and if there is a better home for the post, maybe a mod can shift it or direct me to whom I should speak with?

I have been looking through the Assembly-CSharp.dll file for the game and noticed someone has written FindObjectsOfType() in various classes
This is known to be very slow for Unity to run. There is an alternative that is faster. GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag()

My suggestion would be to only use this during game initialization. Avoid it at all costs or use the alternative if you have to.

An entity object pool can be setup for the Transforms to handle the spawn and unloading of players, falling trees, falling blocks, items and all other world based entity such as the zombies. I setup one in tests for an optimizer I am working on. You can set limits on the pool size and unity has a built in pool system. UnityEngine.Pools can be referenced inside a class for use. I made my own with a queue and use the entity type as a way to sort the game objects. The one stage of the entity spawn with instantiation went from 0.04 down to 0.004 with the use of the pool so the impact on bloodmoon spawns, sleepers and players joining a server should all benefit tremendously. Falling blocks, falling trees also benefit from it. Even if you dont implement it for all of them, a transform object pool for falling blocks or zombies would make a big difference. It is already done for chunk allocations. This also has the benefit of reduced garbage collection.

The last one is a little bit weird. Order of operations. If you have to multiply a few things such as a vector and some floats, placing the floats first in the equation is almost twice as fast. Unity recommends this.

Happy Halloween

I don't understand most of the stuff you said (not a programmer)... but you seem to be on to something here! 

[No announcment outside of Social Media for the new game, Bloodmoons.]

9 minutes ago, pApA^LeGBa said:

I just don´t get what is so hard about spreading the info on all your platforms. It´s like 15mins and that´s a very generous estimation.

 

[No announcment outside of Social Media for the new game, Bloodmoons.]

53 minutes ago, Roland said:

within the 7 Days to Die universe

Spaceships confirmed!   

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4 hours ago, Old Crow said:

Are those still at least coming in A22? If not, A22 is going to be very boring.

 

Before A22 release:

Spoiler

 

After A22 release:

Spoiler

 

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I don't think The Fun Pimps have any problem "focusing", they just lack in the communications department.

 

Most of the complaints (so called "gates") I've witnessed over the years were not so much about unwanted or unexpected features, but about them (TFP) often not communicating enough with the player base until it was too late to give any reasonable feedback.

 

Take as an example the water changes. When they informed us of the new water mechanic that was coming in A21, most of it was already in the new version.

Now, let me be clear, I'm not opposed to this particular change as many are, but I think they could have benefited from an early announcement on the changes.

 

See for example the armor/clothing change. That was showed to us when still in the early concept-art phase. That was good.

A lot of people immediately gave their (mostly negative) feedback and, as far as I know, it was either ditched or reworked for A22.

 

I like developers who know what they want and I hate developers who start a new game and develop it mostly by "polling" the player base: that's nonsense.

But there's also the other side of the coin, where developers like TFP are so focused on their own plan, that they forget to at least "check" with their players.

 

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3 hours ago, SnowDog1942 said:

I have a skin flute if you wanna try playing

I should have seen it coming...  

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2 hours ago, beerfly said:

Alright, if next stable is not out soon I am gonna start to sing. 

And I will play along with my flute...

Spoiler

 

 

[Where is Madmole? Are TFP staying with Unity? Someone fill in a vet who hasn't been here in a while please.]

3 hours ago, Koishi said:

I'd like to chip in help on the architecture side of things without anything in return except maybe some vague credit if possible.

 

2 hours ago, Koishi said:

That entirely goes against our professionalism. 

 

I'm sorry if I'll sound a bit blunt, but there's no "professionalism" if you're not being paid.

I would never, ever, give my professional help away for free.

The only exception could be charity or something like that.

 

Let the professionals do their job, and you keep doing yours.

This is not a scientific community or a social project or an open source software.

This game is developed by professionals to earn money, and, as icing on the cake, maybe have also some fun.