[Darkness Falls: They mostly come out at night...]

Is the latest public version working fine with the newest Experimental patch, if anyone knows? We were considering starting a server with it.

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

2 hours ago, Aldranon said:

 

I used a quest reward for 4 herbal and before that I spent a lot of ducks on 1 antibiotic.

Strangely I haven't needed anything yet, maybe the infection chance has been dropped?

 

In this world, I haven't found a single Honey yet, I cant tell how many stumps I hacked at.  (approaching 100)

 

 

The only Honey I've found so far has been from Zombie Loot Bags, I believe. One of my Quest Rewards earlier today was 2 x Antibiotics. But I also haven't been infected yet either.

 

I'm sure I saw some bee hives in farm POIs earlier. Maybe if you break them open you'll get Honey hopefully.

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

Anyone else having performance degrade after a couple of hours or so of play? I'm mostly around the city biome which runs smooth up until that point, 60 - 90FPS. Then suddenly I go down to 30 - 40FPS if I'm looking towards the city. (which previously wouldn't drop my FPS at all)

 

It may be weather related I guess? Never had sudden drops in previous versions unless it was a crazy Blood Moon.

 

i5-9600K, GTX 1660 Ti, 16GB RAM

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

I think we should skip past A21 and go straight for A22. That's a common tactic these days to make anything sound better.

 

Possible bug: I can't click on anything in the crafting menu sometimes. May be due to ALT-TABbing around my windows. It shows as if I'm typing in the search bar but I'm not even trying to. Fixes if I reload back in.

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

Making food hard to come by even with farming is an improvement. But with everything, should be customizable for the more casual players, I guess.

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

6 minutes ago, Lord Morphleyes said:

We just finally settled on our naming convention of all the zombies.  Now we are very efficient in calling out targets and working methodically through a horde.  And you want more variety in the types and looks of the zombies that spawn????  No thank you!  

 

If you feel like it's breaking your immersion, then just pretend it's actually an alien invasion and those were the only clones they had available.  

 

I feel like changing their clothing wouldn't be so bad. The general appearance of the zombies would remain mostly the same, just they would be wearing the latest top fashionable brands - dressed to impress while breaking into your base.

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

1 hour ago, KhaineGB said:

You can actually lose your ENTIRE save if the game crashes, depending on HOW it crashes.

So sorry, but I agree with fataal. Zombie repetition is not a major problem. Game stability is.

 

Hey KhaineGB, love the Darkness Falls conversation mod and have played with it for years now. I'm just wondering what your plans are with Alpha 20? How long does it usually take to port what you have over so that it'll work on the latest Alpha? Will you be waiting for Stable A20?

[Alpha 20 Dev Diary]

7 minutes ago, custom_hero said:

so when is the alpha 20 release

 

Surely we're close enough to get exact dates by now?

[Its Annoying That Streamers Get the Game First!]

52 minutes ago, SpiderThatCantHide said:

 

What's annoying is people that have an issue with streamers getting it first. You aren't helping people purchase the game in the future, or right now. You've already purchased it. It's called financial security, and adding future players. It isn't TFP's fault, or their problem, that you don't see that. 

 

...and how does releasing the update to everyone at the same time suddenly cut off streamers getting their viewers and TFP getting their new customers? A large chunk of these viewers the streamers will get are just game owners eagerly awaiting the release they're being forced to wait longer for. They can't buy the game again unless it's to give to friends and family. But you don't need a Streamer Event for proud game owners to already do that.

 

Everyone is right when they say "it's only a few days". But there's this brainless divide being put between the playerbase - where streamers with 5000+ subscribers (that's the requirement, if I recall correctly?) are basically getting treated like royalty in comparison to the regular old players who, in most cases, care more about the game and its future. "Hey we know you love our game but we're going to give this random person with lots of subscribers/followers on Twitch an even Earlier Access copy! We know you will understand, it's only a few days after all haha."

 

This Streamer Event practice will be harshly defended; but that still doesn't make it right.

A universal release won't hurt streamers and will still attract plenty of new customers to ensure the future of 7 Days to Die.

[Its Annoying That Streamers Get the Game First!]

6 hours ago, Swiftpaw said:

We all want A20 to come out, but we all want The Fun Pimps to have lives, fun, and relaxation too.  No working on weekends.  It'll be done when it's done!  Still hoping for a pre-Thanksgiving release, but we shall see.

 

What's annoying is that Streamers get the game before the players do. I wish they would do away with that nonsense. Especially since we have to wait so long for patches in the first place - it's been well over a year now since A19 released.

 

A universal release for everyone would make much more sense. I'm sure the majority of the player base don't even care about Twitch.

[A20 Developer Diary Discussions]

20 minutes ago, OLlIiee said:

I really like this new decorations  but  they dont blend with s surrounding and it looks artificial.

I would like to see decorations with which we can interact and should be useful , e.g. a hanging weapon on the wall, radio with music and we can search for new music and add to the radio this game is about building so  why we cant interact more with our home. Meaby  you should update 7 days to die on the NEWEST CONSOLE SONY with new Dualschock 5 it could give you new possibilities and more players.

The Game OPTIMALIZATION  is so BAD this game is keep updating but optimalization is the same!!!   WHY?!

Meaby a deer head trophy on the wall as a decorations.     

Meaby you should add fog in the horde night?                                                                                                           

 

That by far has to be the worst comment I've ever read while lurking the 7D2D forums. 

[Ravenhearst Mod]

Just registered to show my support! The mod looks and sounds amazing, well done!