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  1. 1. Developer Discussions: Alpha 17

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Mission stages:

 

Early game - Making friends and keeping them alive. - Food, shelter and security. The security could be the simple, kill a 100 or so zombies in the area to get a limited no-zombie zone, for example.

 

Mid-game - Your friends know of other like minded people, that are in more serious situations. The forming of your faction begins, not necessarily you being the leader ether. Requiring you to do deal with other factions of all kinds... one way or another...

 

Late-game - Some over arching theme/conspiracy/plot begins to be revealed from what you learned mid-game. The safety of the entire area is put in jeopardy! Do you have what it takes to save everyone?

 

End-game - I don't know if the game should end, but some kind of ultimate victory or defeat would probably be inevitable.

 

The end game stuff needs to require vehicles. we are getting a bunch so they should be used for more than just loot storage. I also wonder what the gyro copter's fuel consumption will be, if it is too fuel efficient, then you could just fly around the entire horde night and not have to deal with crap, or just fly over a giant canyon and watch as the zeds fall like lemmings. It would make a fun "oh ♥♥♥♥" emergency escape though, like when the zeds break thorough your defenses at 1:30 in the morning so you need to escape.

 

Maybe instead of an end game, it should be long term objectives that are fun. that is the problem with sand boxes, unless you like building random stuff, they get boring after a while. I think one neat option would be to set up research bases that last a week. You can not get near the researchers due to quarantine, but you still have to set them up and keep zombies away. These will need a safe helo pad and working power for their equipment. They will give you instructions for how the should be built, and you do the rest. You get a reward if they survive the week.

 

I would also like some neater POIs, like poi's with non movable equipment like machine shops and other big work shops. once you hook up power to them you can work in them, but they generate tons of heat and the buildings are very hard to defend so you have to spend a lot of time making them safe to work/live. So you can make new guns at a machine shop, or car parts, but it takes a while and you will get bothered if you are not prepared. You either have to be at the machine, or an npc does, in order for the part to get made.

 

But outside trying to build giant concrete towers, there really is no end game goal to keep me busy. Mods help a lot but after a while it gets boring.

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Who wouldn't pay a few bucks to play/test A17 now?

 

I'll get the ball rolling :)

*Adds 100$ US to the pot, as he rethinks life*

 

:laugh:

 

But seriously... here's a 100, I have all day - every day, bring on the testing :cool:

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It's been over 2 weeks since last vid

 

Hint hint

 

Who needs a Video ?

In 16 Days A17 Experimental will be released !

Madmole promised !

 

/Troll-Mode off.

 

I cant waid for Mr. Mole to start the Lets Play Videos :)

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It would be nice to have some information on the quest system other than it exists.

What type of missions can we expect, resupply, escort, defense, exploratory?

Something, anything would be nice at this point.

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It's been over 2 weeks since last vid

 

Hint hint

 

Yeah that would be nice. Since the feature freeze is apparently not really a feature freeze, I'm curious to see what features are frozen solid.

 

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It would be nice to have some information on the quest system other than it exists.

What type of missions can we expect, resupply, escort, defense, exploratory?

Something, anything would be nice at this point.

 

I think we will not see resupply/escort/defense missions, since NPC's will not be in A17. I think it's mostly fetch-, and deliver-missions.

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I'll get the ball rolling :)

*Adds 100$ US to the pot, as he rethinks life*

 

:laugh:

 

But seriously... here's a 100, I have all day - every day, bring on the testing :cool:

 

Dang it! I would have gone as high as $20. $5 and most everyone on the forum would have thrown that money at TFP Steam account. :)

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I'll get the ball rolling :)

*Adds 100$ US to the pot, as he rethinks life*

 

:laugh:

 

But seriously... here's a 100, I have all day - every day, bring on the testing :cool:

 

You would pay $100 to play a version that crashes when you look at a campfire, overheats your cpu, and doesn't let you load Rwg?

 

...Cause I make all that happen in 16.4, just send me a PayPal... =)

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Who needs a Video ?

In 16 Days A17 Experimental will be released !

Madmole promised !

 

/Troll-Mode off.

 

I cant waid for Mr. Mole to start the Lets Play Videos :)

 

I'm very interested in horde night. Maybe that would be cheating?

 

For my first playthrough of A17, I give myself a 5% chance of death on the first horde night, doubling each week and a 25% chance to die in a POI miss-step each week.

 

This is playing above ground, of course. I cant role-play spending all that effort digging unless I "heard rumors" that people die above ground at night.

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I think it was the Great Ozzy Osbourne who said:

 

Ozzy Osbourne

 

Screaming at the window

Watch me die another day

Hopeless situation

Endless price I have to pay

Sanity now it's beyond me

There's no choice

Diary of a madmole

Walk the line again today

Entries of confusion

Dear diary, I'm here to stay

Manic depression befriends me

Hear his voice

Sanity now it's beyond me

There's no choice

A sickened mind and spirit

The mirror tells me lies

Could I mistake myself for someone

Who lives behind my eyes?

Will he escape my soul

Or will he live in me?

Is he trying to get out

Or trying to enter me?

Voices in the darkness

Scream away my mental health

Can I ask a question

To help me save me from myself?

 

Enemies fill up the pages

Are they me

Monday 'till Sunday in stages

Set me free

 

from Diary of a MadMole

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You would pay $100 to play a version that crashes when you look at a campfire, overheats your cpu, and doesn't let you load Rwg?

 

...Cause I make all that happen in 16.4, just send me a PayPal... =)

 

Oh. How generous of you. lol

 

- - - Updated - - -

 

I think it was the Great Ozzy Osbourne who said:

 

Ozzy Osbourne

 

Screaming at the window

Watch me die another day

Hopeless situation

Endless price I have to pay

Sanity now it's beyond me

There's no choice

Diary of a madmole

Walk the line again today

Entries of confusion

Dear diary, I'm here to stay

Manic depression befriends me

Hear his voice

Sanity now it's beyond me

There's no choice

A sickened mind and spirit

The mirror tells me lies

Could I mistake myself for someone

Who lives behind my eyes?

Will he escape my soul

Or will he live in me?

Is he trying to get out

Or trying to enter me?

Voices in the darkness

Scream away my mental health

Can I ask a question

To help me save me from myself?

 

Enemies fill up the pages

Are they me

Monday 'till Sunday in stages

Set me free

 

from Diary of a MadMole

 

I like the last one, "Set me free" Because I would want to be set free after reading that list. ;)

 

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Digging Zombies

 

 

What information do we have on these digging zombies so far?

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Who needs a Video ?

In 16 Days A17 Experimental will be released !

Madmole promised !

 

/Troll-Mode off.

 

I cant waid for Mr. Mole to start the Lets Play Videos :)

 

 

For newbies to the forum who can't read the fine print. Estimate: defined as a wild guess, a possibility, maybe; in other words. Do Not Hold Your Breathe, it could be later, August, September, Oct, Nov who knows it could be Jan, Feb. I will believe it when I see it posted that experimental is out and the streamers have been given the game to play first.

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okay, I've searched and searched, the search option here Sucks ! ! ! I'm trying to find info on where the stats changes are discussed, info about attributes that will differentiate classes and create a better play style, what changes are being made in the area of strength, stamina, agility and other.

 

 

Anyone have some info on that for me? Please.

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It would be nice to have some information on the quest system other than it exists.

What type of missions can we expect, resupply, escort, defense, exploratory?

Something, anything would be nice at this point.

 

They be keeping it tight yo.

 

Gaseous Gazz with his tumbleweed, and all that jazz ;)

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Bears too, right?

 

Look in the faatal sticky.

faatal said, they might change it so a normal zombie will do the digging.

 

So doesn't look like it's set in stone yet.

Which zombie type that digs, is not really a feature change/addition, so still fits with the feature freeze. (Just though I'd add that, to stop the floor).

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The thunder used to drive my dog nuts. I had to turn it down

 

I couldn't do the thunder... I've had issues with thuderstorms and fireworks since I left Iraq. Too much mortar fire.

 

I play with the sound pretty low because of this.

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Who needs a Video ?

In 16 Days A17 Experimental will be released !

Madmole promised !

 

/Troll-Mode off.

 

I cant waid for Mr. Mole to start the Lets Play Videos :)

Unless I've missed something, pretty sure this is a joke.

However, I already prepared for the real versions of this kind of post which will likely be coming by transcribing what was said:

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Unless I've missed something, pretty sure this is a joke.

However, I already prepared for the real versions of this kind of post which will likely be coming by transcribing what was said:

Link

 

Since not only you, but several took me for serious:

 

My "/Troll-Mode off" was meant to signalize that im indeed joking. Im well aware that July is NOT set in stone, that September or August are too valid possibilities.

 

I just wanted to make a Joke, make some people smile :(

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