Developer Discussions: Alpha 17

[Hek Harris]

Good news Is it planned to have options to, for example, make zombies very dangerous (player damages) but less resistant than in the insane mode? We had these settings before, and I liked that a lot.

[Maynard69]

17.2- Can I have it?

[Boidster]

I'm just here for #typogate. But the new options Roland speaks of sound like a lot of fun. Daily blood moon would be a riot.

[faatal]

This mod i want for more than just bad luck at rng.
Have a look on this here
https://steamcommunity.com/app/25157...9167218694607/

And even if fixed. i would like to have a small chance to get rarely a jackpot

Thanks for the link. It was indeed broken. 25% was giving near 0% loot. Basically all numbers except 100% were wrong.

I fixed it today and setup a unit test in Unity's Test Runner. Now it handles fractional loot and we get results like:

RandomSpawnCount 0 to 2 (average 1), abundance 0.25 = average 0.249965
#0, count 750035, 75.00%
#1, count 249965, 25.00%
#2, count 000000, 00.00%
RandomSpawnCount 2 to 5 (average 3.5), abundance 0.25 = average 0.813696
#0, count 248485, 24.85%
#1, count 689334, 68.93%
#2, count 062181, 06.22%
RandomSpawnCount 0 to 2 (average 1), abundance 0.5 = average 0.499909
#0, count 500091, 50.01%
#1, count 499909, 49.99%
#2, count 000000, 00.00%
RandomSpawnCount 2 to 5 (average 3.5), abundance 0.5 = average 1.750003
#0, count 000000, 00.00%
#1, count 374502, 37.45%
#2, count 500993, 50.10%
#3, count 124505, 12.45%
#4, count 000000, 00.00%

[Jugginator]

Good news Is it planned to have options to, for example, make zombies very dangerous (player damages) but less resistant than in the insane mode? We had these settings before, and I liked that a lot.

How ya doin, my French friend? I agree with this, as much as I love difficulty Insane is a nope to me. Survivalist HP for zombies is right on the money... can get one-shots with shotgun/AK/sledgehammer sometimes, sometimes it takes a bit so it's nice. But insane is just insane lol. 30~ headshots with steel arrows is just too much. I think more damage and, perhaps, 90-100% chance to give an infection on hit.

I'd also like to see survival affected by Insane/Survivalist -- increase hunger/thirst needs, lower food gains, etc.

[faatal]

Please tell me you can set the blood moon horde to random, I've been dreaming of that since I started playing this game.

Then you will like this option:

Blood Moon Range - Sets a random range that blood moons will happen. 0 is off. 3 would mean a blood moon can happen up to 3 days later than normal.

[Jugginator]

Then you will like this option:

Blood Moon Range - Sets a random range that blood moons will happen. 0 is off. 3 would mean a blood moon can happen up to 3 days later than normal.

Oh! Nice, is that counting for +- or just +?

[Thecolours]

Fataal, is there menu option to set the size of the random horde?

[Hek Harris]

Then you will like this option:
Blood Moon Range - Sets a random range that blood moons will happen. 0 is off. 3 would mean a blood moon can happen up to 3 days later than normal.

That's amazing. Thanks a lot.

How ya doin, my French friend? I agree with this, as much as I love difficulty Insane is a nope to me.

As usual : on the same wavelength than you Even if I have to admit that survivalist mode made me cry last times Need some more personnal skills...

[faatal]

It is only plus since the start is determined by Blood Moon Frequency and range then adds to it.

The settings are:
Blood Moon Frequency (0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 30)
Blood Moon Range (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 20)

They are numeric options, so you could do others values.

Combined you can do stuff like every 1-2, 1-4, 1-8, 3-7, 3-13, 7-11 days.

[unholyjoe]

Then you will like this option:

Blood Moon Range - Sets a random range that blood moons will happen. 0 is off. 3 would mean a blood moon can happen up to 3 days later than normal.

Blood Moon will never be the same again

[Xeen]

Then you will like this option:

Blood Moon Range - Sets a random range that blood moons will happen. 0 is off. 3 would mean a blood moon can happen up to 3 days later than normal.
The settings are:
Blood Moon Frequency (0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 30)
Blood Moon Range (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 20)

They are numeric options, so you could do others values.

Combined you could do stuff like every 1-2, 1-4, 1-8, 3-7, 3-13, 7-11 days.

Thanks faatal you rock! <3

[Jugginator]

It is only plus since the start is determined by Blood Moon Frequency and range then adds to it.

The settings are:
Blood Moon Frequency (0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 30)
Blood Moon Range (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 20)

They are numeric options, so you could do others values.

Combined you can do stuff like every 1-2, 1-4, 1-8, 3-7, 3-13, 7-11 days.

Ahhh I see. That's pretty slick. Kudos!

As usual : on the same wavelength than you Even if I have to admit that survivalist mode made me cry last times Need some more personnal skills...

Hehehe yeah I unerstand that man. I stayed in my base more than I like to on survivalist hehe. I've barely touched my map lol! Still racked over 1,100 kills though,

[Odetta]

It is only plus since the start is determined by Blood Moon Frequency and range then adds to it.

The settings are:
Blood Moon Frequency (0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 30)
Blood Moon Range (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 20)

They are numeric options, so you could do others values.

Combined you can do stuff like every 1-2, 1-4, 1-8, 3-7, 3-13, 7-11 days.

So awesome!

[faatal]

Fataal, is there menu option to set the size of the random horde?

We don't have one and I don't want to consider that yet. More importantly, I noticed yesterday that some of their spawning was in weird places or failing altogether or quickly abandoning their path, so I need to look at again.