Fanatical_Meat

Sure a newer game engine would probably be great provided: we all understand it will greatly delay development we all understand there could be unforeseen difficulties. there would be game changes. Just doesn’t seem like the right time to make such a major change. Maybe whatever secret new game @madmole is working on will be an Unreal 5 game.

I miss the old background whispers and strange sounds plus the occasional dog barking in the distance.

Keep expectations in line with what was said, “better water (and I think better) water flow” or something similar. Don’t expect tides or floods or water that washes building and zombies away. Maybe expect a waterfall Maybe expect water to drain out of a water tank that was broken. Of course it is predictable, one knows your staff levels and man hours available. Yes unexpected things may happen but that is why there is a range. He gave an estimate with the answer, I have seen things like this happen all the time. We will see.

Gonna guess too much of a performance hit and too many labor hours to make something work that will be used once or maybe twice per game. Scopes could probably be done easily.

We will see....

I have a big thing for words, particularly when someone speaks or writes without preparing. less than three months seems likely, maybe a small delay takes it past three months. Over that is unthinkable. The maybe & possibly part are key. Maybe is a soft vague commitment, possibly is an unconscious cover your ass statement.

You just dropped a huge hint.

Let’s get back to when A20 will be available. whats your thought: in three months less than three months more than three months I pooped my pants (when it’s done)

While I don’t run the server client 24/7, I do run it on the same machine I will play on. The server management tools and xmls are okay but a minor pain to deal with. Other than that it runs fine. Does the machine running the server have a lot of memory? Are you having more than 8 people connecting? Is the machine and it’s card cooled well? Does it do the same thing with other games or programs? Any mods installed?

As came up last night while playing with friends. Mining helmet schematic makes no sense typical scenario is like this: we need lights while exploring and mining, we have flashlights & duct tape. Nobody can figure out what to do.... Until one day someone finds a chart telling them to tape a flashlight to a helmet and he says “GENIUS!”, then destroys the schematic so nobody else can copy what he does. Funny concept to explain, fun game mechanic. While it is too late for this, I would prefer skills & progression based on how many days you survive. Something like every day you survive you get 3 or whatever experience points. Every day you die you get 1 experience point, die more than one time in a day you get zero.

Zombie Shark dammit. Zombie. Shark.

Other than they add fun to the game, what lore do bomber zombies draw from. Did these people have bombs and body armor strapped to them before the zombie apocalypse or did some mad scientist add them to zombies. Makes no damn sense.

Zombie sharks don’t need to breath so they can swim upstream into fresh water. As I said with the realistic water comment. Sharks would be fun to see but I do not see them having a meaningful game presence. I would prefer the shark count go toward the walking zombie count instead of a zombie in a lake or on the coast that you likely will only see on rare occasions.

It would be nice to have water that is less clunky and it would be great to see a waterfall (with a cave) in the game. However I don’t see much value to super realistic water flow in this game. There simply isn’t a good use for it. edit: to be clear if the choice is realistic water & water flow vs more performance and more zombies. Ill choose more performance & zombies every time.

Wut?

Ah, I sort of get it now. I still don’t get why someone would sit for more than minutes watching some random play a game. The tokens thing sort of makes sense.

Sorry for the noob question. what is the benefit to twitch integration? I understand that streaming is a semi big thing but to the non streamer what benefit does this carry?

Add Dad as an admin in your machine. When he is done playing he pushes: escape admin thingy Check god mode when dad want to play again: escape admin thingy uncheck god mode done. While I understand teaching things to Dad can be frustrating it has to be done to do what you want to accomplish. Your options are to: add mods to increase processing speed teach dad to use multiple fires or multiple cement mixers teach dad how to check god mode box. Above are solutions. Honestly it sounds like you are done playing this game. What you want to have is a weird thing and not wanting to put any effort or compromise into a solution sounds like you have grown tired of playing and that’s cool. Everything gets old.

Wait is Dad the guy running the server? If so do what I said above. Dad has admin rights when he is done playing he enables god mode and goes invisible or deep underground. When he plays he disables god mode.

I still don’t understand why or what takes 8-10 hours to process, can you give a moderately specific example? Seems you are playing on the same machine that runs the server. Instead of logging out how about stay in game and activate god mode and as I said earlier go invisible or deep underground. When you play again deactivate god mode. I realize this solution will prevent you from playing other steam games but there simply is no way around this without a second copy and a second machine. I don’t see a solution being developed for your issue because as I read this thread and correct me if I am wrong it appears to me you are literally the only person playing this game that has this requirement. Edit: maybe Dad sends you a message when he is done playing and you log in again? Steam does allow other games to be played while the server client is running. Log out of game client when dad is playing then log back in when he is done.

I still don’t understand why you need the game to run 24/7 with no players but you can play the game on the same machine that is running the server game client. I do it every week. Get a second copy of the game, second steam account and on the machine that is running the world log in as a player with admin rights, enable god mode and travel far underground then stay there forever. You and other players join the game as you do now. Game keeps running when others log off. Admin account has god mod on so will never starve and is deep underground to never be seen. You also could enable invisibility for the admin account then no zombie or player will ever know it is there.

^^^^Yeah I really love how every year or every few months 7D2D is basically a new game been a great ride however at some point it needs to move forward and constantly adding thing because they are cool only delays stuff. i would be perfectly happy having boss zombies or pets or whatever added as a fair priced dlc.

Occasional random zombie with a mining helmet would be fun during horde night. see them running around outside in the dark, the get into the building and the random light moving around would be a fun sense of danger or panic.

I don’t understand what you are trying to accomplish. Is the issue it takes too long to process stone into concrete for a massive build? if this is the issue why not multiple furnaces or mixers or whatever? Are you trying to build something ridiculously sized? Why not enable cheats? I just don’t understand what in the game could take 10 real time hours to process.

Me too, even a hint plus if it is single player or multiplayer would be wonderful