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1 hour ago, Guppycur said:
Fatal, my diamond viper video card is having trouble playing the game. Will your optimizations help?
While your at it, my sound blaster doesn't play the sounds, I'm thinking of upgrading to a gravis ultrasound, what are your thoughts?
And when can we expect space orb support?
1 No
2 Sorry
3 The end of time
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2 hours ago, Matt115 said:
that's cool. well this mean dogs will "focus" on making hole under wall?
Zombies crouching and dogs digging holes have NOTHING to do with each other.
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7 hours ago, sillls said:
- Zombies can crawl through 1-meter holes? Will players also be able to go through one meter openings like they used to?
Players will probably never be able to do that.
As of last week, zombies can crouch down and crawl based on head clearance. Pathing still works on 2m heights, so we are not fully 1m yet, but crawling fixes bugs with zombies getting stuck in tight places.
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2 hours ago, Kirill_226RUS said:
@faatal in the list of companies that work with AMD FSR there is Unity, apparently in the engine and FSR will now appear. Will 7 Days To Die support FSR in the future? And yes - I understand that you will have to update the engine again. And by the way, what version of the engine will be A20?
A20 will be on Unity 2020.3.x. We will be doing one more update for A20, hence the x.
The problem with new Unity graphics features is they tend to not support the built in render pipeline and we don't plan on switching to HDRP until our next game, since it will be a large amount of work.
11 hours ago, Khalagar said:Faatal is the strongest! While you are being so kind to answer about the drone, can you chime in on whether you have heard if the current iteration of the drone still takes up a turret spot or if it's affected by your Robotic perk line at all?
Should be a separate count.
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On 6/15/2021 at 6:57 AM, sillls said:
When are we going to see more friendly NPC's?
Not in A20.
13 hours ago, SiNiCaL said:Probably been asked before but have you considered tinting on the zombies ? For instance the new burnt zombie minus fire and with the reds/yellows tinted to blue/white would make a great frost bite zombie for the snow biome. leathery brown and its a withered corpse in the desert.
Another way to create variation would be to have some zombies spawn with pre existing damage. missing limbs etc or as crawlers.
Could or is zombie awareness able to be variable in the different types?
Thanks for making this awesome game btw
We have considered it. There could be some variations, but not A20.
Seeing/hearing is in xml, but I think most zombies are the same.
8 hours ago, sillls said:I just saw the stream of Prime and Madmole talking about the quest Restoring power to the gas station. It's nice to see a change from all the fetch quest but why restore power?
What would that do? Open a treasure vault? A workshop? Setting up a colony?
I think it's good but not a very good end goal.
I don't think it is an end goal.
1 hour ago, Gamida said:I knew about the velocityMax one but what does the motorTorqueMinQ one do?
Torque is engine power. Increases acceleration and would determine top speed.
47 minutes ago, RhinoW said:I heard that something was being done about the looks on the dismemberment.
Besides that, is there going to be a VFX rework (not necessarily just blood)? or the addition to blood splatter decals?
We have plans, but may not be a20.
Don't know.
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On 6/15/2021 at 10:28 AM, Morloc said:
Are these drones going to function indoors?
Yes
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On 6/14/2021 at 9:28 PM, samljer said:
Would it be possible to add a check box in the prefab creator so we can save our own custom prefabs
in a way that would allow them to be used in random generated maps?
We could add it, but features like, if we add them, will probably not come until near gold.
On 6/15/2021 at 5:57 AM, sillls said:- Wandering Sleepers? How do you have a Wandering sleeper? Is it sleepwalking?
Sure or whatever we want it to be doing while it is not out to kill you. Bandit sleepers may roam around too.
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On 6/14/2021 at 9:11 AM, Jost Amman said:
@The Dev who's Working on the Drone:
someone posted these interesting questions on Steam...
question 1. what can the drone do once you have built one?
question 2. can you build more than one drone?
question 3. can you have more than one drone follow you
question 4. what is its function?
question 5. how long does his battery last and how can you recharge it?
question 6. how do the zombies react to the drone when it is shooting zombies? or how they generally react when they see the drone?
question 7. does the drone have mods? if so how many and which mods
question 8. does the drone have built-in or mod cammera with which you can use the drone to explore the environmentI don't think he uses the forums.
1 Follow you around
2 Maybe no
3 No if 2 is no
4 Carry stuff. Maybe heal. Don't know if that is staying
5 No battery, so it must be nuclear
6 They do not care about each other
7 Yes. Don't know
8 No
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On 6/14/2021 at 8:57 AM, Games'n'Grumble said:
Hi @faatal ! Is there anything known about how often different types of zombies will appear in the world? For example, I am glad that the zombie lumberjack will appear not only in the snow biome. What about, for example, a football player and a cheerleader? Earlier, @madmole said that they will be removed from the game, because their appearance is only possible at school or at the stadium. But maybe devs will change the models and make them more possible? BigMama appears only inside buildings, the farmer can rarely be found in the world etc... so many players think that there are too few zombies in the game, although there are about 25 types. This is a lot! So you could just equalize the chances of appearing in the world. Can we hope for that? 🙂
Football player and cheerleader are gone.
You can hope. Tweaking will happen right up until gold and after.
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On 6/14/2021 at 8:23 AM, ad65309445 said:
@ faatal
The question I think about is when the food model can correspond to the type of food, rather than always a piece of meat.
And I like wet concrete, which means you can’t repair buildings in battle.
And I think Fixture -> Concrete -> Steel will not be too troublesome.
Not what I work on. Art and design will do what they think best and have time for.
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On 6/12/2021 at 4:19 PM, wicketness said:
Being the noob that i am and always will be. Is it possible or planned to have cars differ in speed in anyway shape or form?
I know there are mods for this. BUT i am a noob lol i am asking if there is a way to make it easier for server owners to increase speed of cars beyond what is possible atm.
I know there is concerns of lag and falling through the world or the jitter bugs as i have seen this in the past.
However, If you have the right hardware, Network speed and player side is also good enough to match the host,
you can get some pretty insane speed going with out issues.
Will it be possible to have cars adjustable server side knowing the risk of possible issues?
I mean i wanna go from driving miss daisy to Fast and Furious off a mountain just to see how far i can jump before i die, packing 3 other screaming players along with me as i drive us to our deaths.
I just wanna be able to edit this like i do for weapon damage in xmls.
I dream of one day again having a race for my gaming group.
You can change it in vehicles.xml.
<property name="velocityMax" value="9, 14"/> (normal, turbo)
<property name="motorTorqueMinQ" value="5000"/> (was for quality levels, but we just have 1 quality now)
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On 6/11/2021 at 3:42 PM, Star69 said:
@Fatal……any thoughts about including the ability to utilize the resizable bar for those graphics cards/cpu’s that can take advantage of it for 7 days?
We have no control over that. Unity would have to support it.
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7 hours ago, Kirill_226RUS said:
@faatal, does 7 Days To Die support Nvidia's MFAA anti-aliasing, and does it have any effect in terms of fps and anti-aliasing quality?
Probably no. We support what Unity supports in the built in rendering pipeline except for TAA. Maybe someday for TAA.
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7 hours ago, Burrfly said:
@faatal why aren't there anymore wandering hordes? That really really made the game a lot of fun. I remember in one of my first playthroughs and it was night and I got outside my base and a RUNNING horde of zombies came towards me and I was scared as heck but it was so cool to also encounter wandering hordes it made it also a challenge.
Wandering hordes should not be changed. They are random, so perhaps you are just randomly getting none.
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On 6/4/2021 at 12:15 PM, Fanatical_Meat said:
@faatal Is audio getting an update for A20?
Music is being worked on, but don't think sounds are getting major changes.
On 6/4/2021 at 5:46 PM, KindaCringe said:@faatal is there any indication of car textures being added/reworked in A20?
Vehicles textures have been changed, so they can be tinted by dyes.
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6 minutes ago, MechanicalLens said:
Zombie chickens @faatal?
Ironically, that and rabbits were discussed yesterday, but don't hold your breath.
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1 hour ago, Kirill_226RUS said:
Will there be an updated zombie bear model in the A20/21? Mikhalych is waiting)
A20 probably not
A21 possibly so
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3 hours ago, Burrfly said:
Will alpha 20 experimental be compatible with alpha 20 stable?
I'm curious because I'm really excited for a20 and want to play it right along without having to start over if a20 stable releases
Not likely. It may be even worse this time around with the huge amount of new blocks and all the RWG changes. Fixes to those types of features during experimental will often require restarts.
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10 hours ago, mstdv inc said:
Hello, @faatal!
On June 22, AMD will introduce the open-source FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology,which,in theory,will give a second life to old video cards and improve the performance of current ones in supported projects.
Is it possible that you would consider adding support for this technology if Unity were to support it?I consider any tech Unity makes available in the engine, but that new feature, like DLSS support will probably need HDRP, which we are not upgrading to.
On 5/30/2021 at 9:13 AM, Adam the Waster said:@faatal
Do you think Alarms will ever make "Heat" because its kind strange that Zombies are lured but rocks being thrown, Crackling of a Camp fire, Gunfire, hitting metal, forge crafting, explosives, FOOT STEPS, cars and Screamer zombies
but a Alarm that is SUPER loud... does not...
So what im saying is, do you think we will get better alarms to lure the horde?Probably because eventually someone might notice and edit the sound data.
3 hours ago, MechanicalLens said:Hi, I'm new to the forums. Can someone tell me when A20 is releasing?
After 19.5.
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2 hours ago, dcsobral said:
I believe these are background from Unity 3D, the tool used to make the models.
Artists often preview/render/show a model with an environment map around it so the reflective surfaces have something to reflect.
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On 5/27/2021 at 5:59 AM, apex1x said:
Could you please provide some evidence for ongoing and planned game optimizations?
This game is how many years old and you think there will suddenly be an optimization design phase? This is like the cart leading the horse.
See these changes in 19.5 release notes.
Voxel mesh pooling
Distant terrain decreases mesh detail when farther
FindTagInChilds does not make garbage
Distant POIs to use a shared material
Improved chunk LOD update
Optimized chunk object handling and frame timings
Optimized terrain mesh generation
Optimized terrain control textures to not update with every mesh update
Optimized distant terrain tile size
Optimized VoxelMesh AddMesh
Optimized distant terrain render order
Block preview for normal blocks leaking a mesh on each update
ItemClassBlock CreateMesh having to destroy unneeded colliders
Empty voxel meshes were being created
Distant POI mesh and material leaks
Distant POIs could load and leak extra invisible objects
This game is not done. Pretty much all games go through an optimization and bug fix period for the last x months of development. Being early access, this game goes through a small version of that with each alpha.
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A20 is currently on Unity 2020.3.1. I'm currently on 2020.3.10 for testing. A20 will probably end up on a slightly newer version than that.
None of that means DX12 or Vulkan will be working great. Unity may have fixed issues, but there can easily be more. In the Unity editor, on the version I am testing, DX12 started to have a huge drop of 40 FPS, so I went back to DX11 and it was fine. There is a reason they still have DX12 marked as Experimental.
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9 hours ago, Kirill_226RUS said:
@faatal, sorry to bother you again with questions about UE. How would the game change if it was on UE5? And I'm not just talking about graphics, but for example about the speed and ease of use, other programming languages, other tools, and so on. How would this affect the content, gameplay, and release speed of new versions? ( And it's a pity that Epic didn't make MetaZombie😅 )
It might be better or not. UE5 would not just make the game magically better.
The code would probably be c++ and might run a bit faster, but c# compilers have been making good improvements, so probably about the same.
Release speed would be really slow, since we would have to learn a whole lot of new tech and redo a ton of work.
6 hours ago, Matt115 said:@faatal : Quick questions : 1. will be some new POI underground like mines , collapsed tunnel, new caves , buried body pits etc?
2. will be new "outbreak" props like: dead soldiers , skeletons on desert , road sights about evac , posters , metal barriers , "furniture" barricades ( for example bed with chairs and cabinet on stairs) , drawing on walls , broken military jeep , destroyed plane, concrete barricade on road etc?
1 Don't know what they are planning.
2 Sure, but I doubt it will be your list.
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44 minutes ago, dcsobral said:
I'm pretty sure he lied and the answer is "when it's done". Particularly when you realize he said it may be less than 3 months, more than three months, but not exactly three months.
Lol. Yous guys crack me up. Exactly 3 months from the day i said that would be really low odds. That leaves us with a 99.5% chance it is more or less than 3 months.
50 minutes ago, meilodasreh said:A-ha. And was he consciously lying or unconsciously serious about the "never pooped my pants" part?
Well, I was counting since adulthood.
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There are some optimizations in A20 that were not moved to 19.5, so there are more, but have not counted the amounts or how big they are.
No assignment. I just like to talk and as programming lead, know a lot about what we are doing. Most devs just do their jobs and don't visit their company forums.
I saw the preview rendering of it two days ago, so it is coming along.