[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

8 minutes ago, A Nice Cup of Tea said:

So, are we still on for a May release?

May 2024 is on track!

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Question on the new skill books:  Will the previous perks from the old skill books still be available in other forms?  Do they unlock in order now as you get more and more books?  For instance for mining is there a way to find gold/gems while mining and eventually have the chance to auto-kill ore blocks?

[Alpha 21 Discussion Overflow]

52 minutes ago, Laz Man said:

 

I feel the same.  This may have been more hardcore in A20 but with A21, it might be more feasible.  If its still too hardcore at least pipe weapons should be irreparable to help balance them out.

 

Those pipe machine guns are still way OP imo.

I like the idea in concept, but having your weapons break and become unrepairable mid-blood moon would be very frustrating.  We have have pretty high zombie count set on our blood moons and I usually have to repair my M60 six or seven times a blood moon.  Having to carry tons of extras of the same weapon wouldn't be too fun.

 

Also part of the game is fun searching for that rare RNG with really great stats.  If your uber gun that your searched for weeks for broke after a couple repairs it would hurt.

Maybe have the stats slowly degrade until you repair with weapon parts?  I would also think you'd have to scale up the durability by weapon levels much much higher as well in a system like this.  A purple should last far longer.

[Alpha 21 Discussion Overflow]

15 minutes ago, spud42 said:

there are mods that do this. 

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.  But with that said, simple quality of life mods are usually good candidates to be added to the base game.  Nothing wrong with free, fan-sourced development!

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

Feature Request for A21:  Could we please get an option to favorite or lock items in your inventory?  This could prevent accidental scrapping/selling/or transferring when doing transfer all.  I just accidentally scrapped my nerdy glasses today which made me think of this, but it could also be useful for keeping a stack of fuel in your vehicle that doesn't get moved out by when you select all inventory or a stack of first aid kits in your drone that you don't want to take out.  

[Stacks of Gunpowder Take Longer Than Non-Stacked]

Creating stacks of 1000 gunpowder at the chem station currently takes 27 minutes where individual 1000 gunpowder only takes 15 minutes.  While creating stacks does take fewer resources, the time penalty doesn't seem to make sense.  Is this is a bug?

[My vehicles keep being teleported all over the place.]

Encountered this today.  Jumped out of my gyro when it was about 5 meters off the ground and it teleported to the previous place I had landed (about 3km away on the other side of a mountain!)

[Disappearing Turrets A20 (b238)]

I've had a repeated problem where my turrets disappear and seem to be lost forever.  I'm familiar with the old bug where they 'drop' and you can find them by digging down or logging in and out and this is different.  I've seen this on two separate maps/installs and has impacted multiple players on our server.  So far we've lost about a half dozen robotic turrets and 3 robotic sledges over the last 20 game days.  This has been super frustrating after gathering components to craft the turrets and filling them full of mobs only to find them gone.

[A20 Dedicated server "INF [NM] DataReceived: bad!" messages spamming]

It stopped for awhile in my game, but after a recent restart it appeared again before anyone even logged on:

[A20 Dedicated server "INF [NM] DataReceived: bad!" messages spamming]

I've got the same issue on mine.  Started today.  Wasn't doing it before.   Server made it to day 20 or so then it just started up.

[Dedicated Server Won't Update to 19.5]

15 hours ago, SylenThunder said:

So you aren't even telling it where to install the client?  Using -beta would require an added value for the tag.

 

Normally your command should look similar to this...
D:\steamcmd\steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir "D:\7dtdServer" +app_update 294420 -validate +quit

Cache should be in \SteamCMD\depotcache  Remove the files there, and it will force it to re-pull the data from the depot on the client.

 

Thank you!  It worked!  I was running the commands directly from the SteamCMD command prompt rather than the Windows CMD prompt which may have been the problem.  The update appeared to be run exactly the same, but for some reason running it from the Windows command prompt finally took it to 19.5. 

 

Thanks very much for the help.

[Dedicated Server Won't Update to 19.5]

The system is a Win10 Pro VM dedicated for the server with no other apps running on it (dual processor/32GB RAM)

 

Full command is "app_update 294420" from the steamCMD prompt.  Also attempted "app_update 294420 -beta" with the same results.

Steam>app_update 294420
Success! App '294420' already up to date.

 

I'm familiar with clearing the download cache on the client side, but I'm not sure how to do on the server and a quick Google only showed client side instructions.  Could you point me to directions on clearing the download cache?

[Dedicated Server Won't Update to 19.5]

I attempted to update our dedicated server to 19.5  with the "app_update 294420" command and it appeared to download new components and update successfully, but after it completes the game still shows version 19.4 and won't let 19.5 clients connect.  

 

Attempting to run the command again gives "Success! App '294420' already up to date."

 

Any help would be appreciated.