[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

This is not exactly a major thing but will A21 see the cop's exploding chunks get updated? Still find it weird that his bits are from the old model

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

14 minutes ago, unholyjoe said:

no you most likely will not see a difference as the water appearance itself was not changed. most work is to affect performance.

 

i have a screen shot from both alphas and the difference you see is environmental lighting and shader tweaks/adjustments.

 

also... water is still WIP and no there are no fish, no large sea monsters or crocodiles.

 

nothing revealing in the a21 screen shot so no need to dissect it

 

 

A more thorough answer than I could have expected. Appreciate the effort Joe

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Maybe this was answered before and I missed it but...

 

With the rework of water blocks into voxels and whatever other stuff occurred around that. Do bodies of water still look the same? As in, if you had a screenshot of a lake from A20 and A21 side by side could you tell the difference? Or is it just a purely coding change?

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Oh defense quest... So kinda like mini horde night? I wonder if it'll be one of those situations where you're defending a specific item like a generator that has it's own health bar

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

9 hours ago, Roland said:

 

Other than tantalizing you with the existence of two new quests, I need to wait to add any details or experiences of my own until a developer decides to spill the beans. I will say that they are distinct and not just variations of existing quests although they do involve mixing it up with zombies so in that regard they are similar to what we have. Speculate away and I'll poke Prime to see if after the weekend he'll come on and dish a bit or perhaps do a tell-all in his next stream. I'll bet he'll like that and then we can update the thread here and talk more about it.

 

For some WILD speculation that I don't think would likely be the case but is fun all the same...

 

First guess is, now that (hopefully) all the zombies are rigged with the new decapitation system, you've made zombie heads an item you can pick up off the ground and you have to bring say 10 zombie heads to the trader

 

And for the second one, I'll guess something like Secure Trader so when you complete a mission tier you have to go to the new trader location, clear out zombies and then retrieve a bunch of supplies to fix the place up before that trader becomes available to you

[Alpha 21 Discussion Overflow]

6 hours ago, Blake_ said:

In my biased opinion, they might finish the main armour sets by end of spring 2023, which might be close to the a21 release.

 

The longer it takes, the better for us. I believe coding for the new armour system is well underway (it was already on the works when a20 stable was released!).

 

Still it would not only be a nice surprise for us, but a logical move to release a basic armour system with the first human npcs, if only to start balancing the huge array of bonuses that the new sets will give.  

 

That seems a fairly negative date estimation for A21 even for Fun Pimps standards

 

I'd almost be amazed if it wasn't basically a year after A20 (so December or so) as there was around a year between a19 and a20 (and I think it was the same for A18 to a19 too)

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

7 hours ago, KhaineGB said:

I believe that was intentional as TFP didn't like the fact that a T6 tool was useless as soon as you found a T1 of the next tier up.

Should be better than a 4 or 5 though IMO.

 

Pretty sure Joel said earlier in this thread that this is no longer a thing with the new system, that T1 Iron Axe will always be a bit better or close to equal (before mods) to a T6 Stone Axe

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

2 hours ago, schwanz9000 said:

I have filled some gaps where they were either needed by level design or as you say that were "logically" missing.

I do not recall which ones specifically since as of today, I've added 230+ new shapes to A21. 

Sounds like it's shaping up nicely

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Was there anything further on the potential solution for windows being so taxing? I think it might have been Faatal said he was looking at that?

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

The way they phrased the tweet will make plenty of people think it's going to be drivable. Wouldn't exactly see the point in that myself (and I think it's just a prop anyway)

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Do zombies take damage from the fire?

 

Edit: Also, would I be right in thinking this works off the same mechanic you introduced to make the unlockable doors work?

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

3 minutes ago, Laz Man said:

 

Some Half Life inspiration?  

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

5 minutes ago, POCKET951 said:

so what will happen to the skill tree ? how will this new system change skills like physician, advanced engineering and grease monkey?

 

These skills in A20 are almost entirely based on unlocking crafting recipes and crafting 

 

Hopefully @madmole can answer for definite but I'd guess that those perks will be removed and whatever non-crafting bonuses they had would get redistributed to the remaining perks

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

I'd personally like to see Q6 items be available through all 3 paths (loot, craft and trader)

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

 

2 minutes ago, madmole said:

Yes you move through the pipe shotgun skill pretty quickly. Each tier takes more magazines to move through.
We're removing any overlap. There is still the concept that a purple stone axe has 4 mod slots so it would arguably be better in that regard.
 

 

Excellent

 

So is this what that Sharp Sticks artwork was all about?

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

So would I be reading those screens right in saying that once you hit level 3 in Shotgun crafting you'll then be able to make a Quality 2 Pipe Shotgun and then when you hit level 11 you'll be able to make a Quality 1 Double Barrel?

 

Also, related to this. Will there still be the overlap in Weapon Tier vs Quality. Where a quality 6 stone axe could be better than a quality 1 iron axe?

 

Edit: Also... Nice build....

[Alpha 21 Discussion Overflow]

2 hours ago, Victor.19 said:

Will A21 bring us any better stability in performance compared to A20? The game is improving a lot over time but optimization is still a downside.

 

In a weird way I think I'd almost miss the terrible performance if it ever gets fixed

[Alpha 21 Discussion Overflow]

36 minutes ago, Roland said:

Because the TRUE April fools joke was to post something on the day that was really truly real and have people think it was just a joke. And you fell for it hook line and sinker. 😂

 

There is nothing in the gallery that isn’t in the game which goes for the police car as well. It’s in there too but it isn’t driveable. 😄

Madmole is busy working on one of the next big A21 reveals (may God have mercy on our souls)…

 

Just to temper expectations, I'd imagine that Sharp Sticks thing could just be a book cover on a bookshelf rather than anything like a book series that effects gameplay etc

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

I notice the vulture got a new animation in 20.4... Might we be seeing the new vulture model soon?  

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Outside of the stuff already mentioned by others (bandits, water etc) I'd love to see a bit of love given to making the world outside of the tiled towns/cities feel more real to match the level of detail we see in cities now.

 

Particularly the the transition between tiled sections and the RWG biomes is quite jarring (the difference in the roads is a good example) and, aside from the current wilderness POIs, the biome stuff outside of towns is very empty/repetitive.

 

Maybe some sort of sub-biomes are needed like sections of pine forest with less trees or something similar to the old plains for the desert and so on

["Skipping" problems]

Don't have much to suggest in a way of fix, just wanted to add that I have experienced this (was suggested to me that maybe it's a frame drop that's quick enough to not register on the FPS counter) and I've also seen a couple of streamers/content creators run into it as well. Haven't found a way to recreate it either, it's not like certain POIs or certain numbers of zombies cause it

[Khaine's A20 Modlets! (Bigger backpacks, Lockable Slots, Behemoths, Random Wandering Hordes, etc)]

Anyone else run into an issue using the Lockable Inventory modlet resulting in you not being able to click/move anything in the inventory/recipes menu and not being able to use the Esc key to exit the inventory menu?

 

I thought it was a vanilla bug and reported it but they just said it was an issue with the mod

[A20 Official Release Date]

16 minutes ago, Snowydeath said:

The experimentals usually release around noon Central Time give or take a few hours. I highly doubt there's a delay

Yeah I think someone panicked about a discord post saying it'll likely be 2-4 hours after CST so they considered that a delay

[A20 Official Release Date]

21 minutes ago, nielm269 said:

So I seen in the patch notes a thing on zombie dismemberment, well welcome to the show party girl I'm coming to find you.

 

I will be listening to David Bowie & Mick Jagger Dancing In The Street while I perform my "Tests".

I think it's only Steve (yellow shirt) and Tom Clarke (the artist formally known as Spider Zombie) that have the new dismemberment tech enabled. So your "tests" will have to wait

[A20 Official Release Date]

1 minute ago, BFT2020 said:

 

Would be a bad guess.

 

faatal mentioned that they have a meeting today around 12:00 pm CST to discuss which build to release after the Streamer weekend.  Roland suggested that the release time might be around 2 - 4 pm CST.

 

So UK time we're talking between 8-10pm