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April 21, 2014

Get Your IWBUMs Out

Hello Zomboiders! First of all, we have an I WILL BACKUP MY SAVE branch of Project Zomboid available as of right now!

Build 26!

Build 26 is ‘kinda’ here and we’re hoping to push this one to official if at all possible, so please let us know how you get on. As usual, you can read how to get in on the IWBUMS branch as well as read the changelist here. And as usual, remember to backup your saves, and if you partake in testing this build you accept the consequences.

Where did the branch go?

When we ‘retired’ an IWBUMS version, to save people having server incompatibilities or losing their games, we started making new branches for them such as build25a, build25b etc.

Problem is we forgot to password those ones, so a bunch of people found these branches and did not know they were unstable (despite the description ‘UNSTABLE’) and got a bit angry. As such we were forced to push these branches into the same password as IWBUMS to try and stem the complaints from those who happened upon the branch without typing in the password. If you have found your build has reverted to default and are wondering why, then this is why. Please go here and read on how to get at the branch again and apologies for the inconvenience.

What are people up to?

The usual. Lemmy be NPC’in, Mash be mappin’, Binky be animatin’ and toolin’ (and it’ll be his birthday tomorrow! weeee!), Romain be trappin’ and Easy be fixin’. At the moment we’re all just plugging away, so sorry if some of us have been a bit quiet on the forums as of late. We’re really eager to make some big pushes forward, and there’s some very exciting stuff in the distance that we’re eager to get closer to.

Here’s a little list of stuff we want to get in in the near, medium and long term future. A lot of these we’ve experimented or started. Some we’re close to finishing, some we’re not so close, and some are just an idea:

NPCS – Obv. As usual these are the most complex and the most anticipated, so they will be out when they are out. We’ll try get them to you ASAP but it’ll take as long as it takes.

Professions Overhaul – These have remained static for so long now, it’s about time we started filling out the character creation with more professions.

Trapping – Very very much in progress by Romain and probably not long until its out there.

Hunting – A little more complex than the above, but Chris has written a lua driven library for use with NPCs that will hopefully make this a quick one to implement.

Vehicles – We’re making plans and have done a few experiments, and there is very little except time to implement to get in our way of implementing these. This will likely be the off ‘break’ task by Chris and Andy to be done in bits and pieces over the next couple of months.

Final UI Overhaul – As much as we’d love to just call the UI done, it still draws way too many criticisms and frustrations. We have some big plans for the inventory which should make the game both more in-depth inventory management, yet more intuitive to use. We’ll see how it goes. It’s still in the design stage at the moment, as we don’t want to risk falling into any of the same traps we fell into with the last UI revamp.

New Combat – With 3D models, we’ll be able to do a lot more with the combat system. Think different swing angles, physics based hit mechanics, better hit reactions, potentially rag-doll etc, less focus on ‘charging’ and more on positional and timing to keep depth but make more intuitive and visceral / attractive combat.

Sneaking – The planned sneaking mechanics will transform the looting gameplay dramatically. Imagine back to wall, peeking around corners, crouching behind walls, running between cover, all to avoid the horde’s attention.

Map Expansion – The next map expansion is going quite the distance to the north! After this massive expansion is done, we will be finishing off all the blank or road layouty sections of the map, and try and get the entire map feeling complete, and with plenty of stuff to discover in every direction.

That’s all for this week, so why not give build 26 a try?

Oh wait, you did. Hello? Anyone there?

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