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v. 1.0.1
Forest Ambience Sounds Fix
Stuck in Swamp Fix
Space/X to Join Interface Fix
Spikes Deleting Camp Fix
Map Button On Xbox Controller Fix
Louder Music Default Volume
Opt Out durring Tutorial Fix
Multiplayer Tutorial Fix
Map Overlay at Tutorial End Fix
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Hey Seifir,
Thanks so much for your suggestions. The rescued characters can actually each be placed as towers now. I do think it can be interesting to see the survivors walking around camp and stuff. The dog and hunger are both ideas I've played around with, there was a survivor idea which was an old man with a dog that would attack automatically. The hunger originally added an extra meter which made the game more complicated as it has so many moving parts already. I'll try play testing some ways to add the hunger and dog which would add to the overall game.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated,
Rafi
so far only found a few bugs:
1: going into the cave to the north (windows version on win7) causes blackscreen with "loading" happening and save symbol at top flashing. left it there for approx 5 minutes, nothing happening.
2: at the end of the tutorial (where tutorial dude gets munched), if you "rescue" that dude by killing the zombie before he get to the dude, the game is stuck. you can still look around and shoot things, but you can not move or do anything else.
- also, it apparently "deleted" my safelile. after restarting the game (alt+f4), i had to start from the beginning.
- pretty sure the above problem did the same, but as i did it right at the start, i'm not sure if it even saved in the first place.
3: when building a tower, the rotation is ignored. (tried to place a tower with the ladder facing forward. tower always faces backwards.)
some issues i found:
- the hordes are very frequent. exploring the map might be problematic, as you have to return to your base to defend the attack, so you can't really go anywhere.
- placing things with the controler seems to be flimsy from time to time. ex: placing a tower on a specific tile. you have to use the right stick on the controller to not "wanky" it. then pressing A is kinda hard, unless you hold down the right stick with the left hand, and then fiddling around with the controller.
- apparently finite fuel. it's no fun when you can't make fuel on your own in any way. maybe a 200 - ressource - pumpjack, like unturned had it? (so far have not played too much, never got to any gas station)
- towers don't have a big range. placing a tower on the top left corner in the camp (inside) doesn't allow it to shoot the zombies on the right. so i have to go out and deal with them myself, instead of entrusting the safety of my base to some random chick i just found.
- repairing (is it even there?). zombies will munch on my wall. there's the issue that apparently you can't repair walls, just upgrade them. and i don't know how much durability is left on them. how can i be sure that my high level steel wal isn't going to burst by the next rotten shambler?
- UI-annoyance: especially when playing solo, the boxes in the corners (press X to join) can be a bit annoying at times. i get it, i don't have any extra controllers and(or friends. you don't have to rub it in my face 24/7. can't you just disappear after maybe 15 seconds or so?
- camera rotation. especially useful when trying to place towers directly into the corner of walls, being able to know how far exactly away they are might be useful. but meh
and last but not least: online-multiplayer?
4 people always in the same location is surely fun, but we can't divide workload. everyone has to do the same thing (defend, explore, etc). if we have multiple people, at least let some of them explore the map while the others defend the camp.
after all, great game, great concept, lots of potential. cute graphics, maybe not enough blood, but fun nonetheless (until your base gets inevitably mawled by zambros). would've wished for more survivors though, i'd like to place 4 towers at the corner and just set off trying to get the goal stones :D
gabgab01,
Thanks so much for the bugs and suggestions i'm working on these fixes.
so far only found a few bugs:
1: going into the cave to the north (windows version on win7) causes blackscreen with "loading" happening and save symbol at top flashing. left it there for approx 5 minutes, nothing happening.
This seems to be a problem with the Autosaving that happens when you enter the cave. I'll try and make it not freeze if it can't save. The problem might be happening if you're out of space on your computer or the program is not getting access to be able to save, I'll look into it
2: at the end of the tutorial (where tutorial dude gets munched), if you "rescue" that dude by killing the zombie before he get to the dude, the game is stuck. you can still look around and shoot things, but you can not move or do anything else.
Just realized by fixing something else I added this bug accidentally
- also, it apparently "deleted" my safelile. after restarting the game (alt+f4), i had to start from the beginning.
- pretty sure the above problem did the same, but as i did it right at the start, i'm not sure if it even saved in the first place.
There seems to be a problem with your saving. Enter is pause which has a manual save button could you try this and get back to me?
3: when building a tower, the rotation is ignored. (tried to place a tower with the ladder facing forward. tower always faces backwards.)
The towers should be able to be placed at any rotation. Maybe what you are experiencing is the locking on to another piece which rotates to place automatically. I'll make sure you can actually place rotated but it really only a visual thing as the towers work in 360º
some issues i found:
- the hordes are very frequent. exploring the map might be problematic, as you have to return to your base to defend the attack, so you can't really go anywhere.
Upgrading your home actually slows down the frequency of the hordes letting you explore more of the map.
- placing things with the controler seems to be flimsy from time to time. ex: placing a tower on a specific tile. you have to use the right stick on the controller to not "wanky" it. then pressing A is kinda hard, unless you hold down the right stick with the left hand, and then fiddling around with the controller.
I'm gonna allow a piece to be placed using the attack button as well, this should fix the awkwardness.
- apparently finite fuel. it's no fun when you can't make fuel on your own in any way. maybe a 200 - ressource - pumpjack, like unturned had it? (so far have not played too much, never got to any gas station)
You actually collect the fuel from any of the many cars around the world. There are also 4 Reservoir tanks you can find which increase your total fuel.
- towers don't have a big range. placing a tower on the top left corner in the camp (inside) doesn't allow it to shoot the zombies on the right. so i have to go out and deal with them myself, instead of entrusting the safety of my base to some random chick i just found.
I'll Increase their range a bit but the goal was so you need various towers to protect all sides
- repairing (is it even there?). zombies will munch on my wall. there's the issue that apparently you can't repair walls, just upgrade them. and i don't know how much durability is left on them. how can i be sure that my high level steel wal isn't going to burst by the next rotten shambles?
Everything not destroyed is repaired automatically after every Herd. I tried adding health bars and repairs to the build objects but it makes the game seem much more complicated.
- UI-annoyance: especially when playing solo, the boxes in the corners (press X to join) can be a bit annoying at times. i get it, i don't have any extra controllers and(or friends. you don't have to rub it in my face 24/7. can't you just disappear after maybe 15 seconds or so?
I see what you mean, the game actually started as a multiplayer experience so much of that is in its core. I like the reminder that players can join in at anytime as long as you are in the camp or at the entrance of a dungeon.
- camera rotation. especially useful when trying to place towers directly into the corner of walls, being able to know how far exactly away they are might be useful. but meh
The camera moves to a topdown view while placing object to facilitate placing things around. Ill see if I could make it a bit clearer.
and last but not least: online-multiplayer?
4 people always in the same location is surely fun, but we can't divide workload. everyone has to do the same thing (defend, explore, etc). if we have multiple people, at least let some of them explore the map while the others defend the camp.
There's future plans for Online, we just want to get the game out there and out PlayStation first. One plan is to have separate 4 player groups with different camps sharing a world, which you can fight each other or work together.
after all, great game, great concept, lots of potential. cute graphics, maybe not enough blood, but fun nonetheless (until your base gets inevitably mawled by zambros). would've wished for more survivors though, i'd like to place 4 towers at the corner and just set off trying to get the goal stones :D
There are 12 survivors that are each playable with unique traits, attacks, and can be placed as towers. Thank you so much for playing and for all your suggestions and issues found I'll have these bugs fixed as soon as I can, tomorrow the latest.
yep. saving in general doesn't seem to work for me. pressing enter just adds a new character. i can remove him again by holding escape thoug, but the save symbol at the top just never disappears.
not being able to go into any quest-related building is really a bummer for me.
even with the highest tier of base i somehow still feel rushed to go into the city, do things as fast as possible and then return to base. what if i just want to take a stroll? :D (or try to find any other characters besides lady with gun at the left and police girl shouting "find my friend" then dying to a zomzom).
the idea of having to find characters for towers is nice, but you have a hard time finding those characters. they're more like colectables, and with a constant horde approaching, you don't really have time to spend half an hour exploring a part of the city.
the traps and spike ideas are nice, but having to constantly replace them doesn't seem to be worth the hassle.
the walls repairing themselves after each horde is nice, but i still have no clue when they break. do i have to rush to the wall and smash the zombies there, before they tear it down, or can i take my time, lure a bunch of zombies into my traps, while the other zombies peacefully enjoy their wall-meal? a health bar would be nice to have, especially since the wall already has a hidden "durability"-stat. no point in hiding the condition of a wall, if it has a condition.
online multiplayer AFTER ps4 release? sure, i can understand that you want to make a couch coop game, but on the pc, there isn't really a market for such a niche genre. take a look at overcooked for example: fantastic game, if you have friends sitting next to you. everyone is asking for online multiplayer, because their friends are sitting on the other side of the world. online multiplayer would boost the popularity of the game massively, and waiting for it after ps4-release might be hard, as such late in development, adding online functionalities surely becomes a hassle, as everything in the game has to be changed around for it to work with the multiplayer scripts. either you add it now or never.
but yeah, apart from not being able to advance (or save, even though i started the program as administrator and such), the game is still fun, but because of the aforementioned issues, it quickly loses it's appeal. maybe if i would be able to convince a friend to play with me... oh, wait. doesn#t matter anyways :D
Hey gabgab01,
I just updated the game to Version 1.0.2 Fixing many of your problems:
yep. saving in general doesn't seem to work for me. pressing enter just adds a new character. i can remove him again by holding escape thoug, but the save symbol at the top just never disappears.
There was a problem creating the save file directory on Windows and Linux which is now fixed. I also realized that the Start Button on XBOX style controllers weren't working this is also fixed. You can now autosave and press Pause to manual Save.
not being able to go into any quest-related building is really a bummer for me.
I'm really sorry about this I work on a Mac so I didn't realize this problem was happening. This has been fixed in Version 1.0.2
even with the highest tier of base i somehow still feel rushed to go into the city, do things as fast as possible and then return to base. what if i just want to take a stroll? :D (or try to find any other characters besides lady with gun at the left and police girl shouting "find my friend" then dying to a zomzom).
the idea of having to find characters for towers is nice, but you have a hard time finding those characters. they're more like colectables, and with a constant horde approaching, you don't really have time to spend half an hour exploring a part of the city.
You can actually see the location for many of the survivors in the Map by using Back on Xbox controllers, Select or Touchpad on Playstation, or Tab on PC. 5 of the survivors are fun secrets to find.
the traps and spike ideas are nice, but having to constantly replace them doesn't seem to be worth the hassle.
I'll look into making them last a little longer and or maybe some upgrades for them
the walls repairing themselves after each horde is nice, but i still have no clue when they break. do i have to rush to the wall and smash the zombies there, before they tear it down, or can i take my time, lure a bunch of zombies into my traps, while the other zombies peacefully enjoy their wall-meal? a health bar would be nice to have, especially since the wall already has a hidden "durability"-stat. no point in hiding the condition of a wall, if it has a condition.
To solve this problem I've been thinking of having the wall physically change as it gets destroyed. If it doesn't solve the problem I'll adding the health meters back in.
online multiplayer AFTER ps4 release? sure, i can understand that you want to make a couch coop game, but on the pc, there isn't really a market for such a niche genre. take a look at overcooked for example: fantastic game, if you have friends sitting next to you. everyone is asking for online multiplayer, because their friends are sitting on the other side of the world. online multiplayer would boost the popularity of the game massively, and waiting for it after ps4-release might be hard, as such late in development, adding online functionalities surely becomes a hassle, as everything in the game has to be changed around for it to work with the multiplayer scripts. either you add it now or never.
The Game started as an 8 player Online Multiplayer so a lot of the code is built on is ready for Online. The online Mode will also be Separate from the Main "Story" mode. We feel Couch Co-op games are a dying breed which is unfortunate really, and online really slows down the development process as theres a lot of back and forth to test things. I want it to be in the world first then build an online that the community can really get behind.
but yeah, apart from not being able to advance (or save, even though i started the program as administrator and such), the game is still fun, but because of the aforementioned issues, it quickly loses it's appeal. maybe if i would be able to convince a friend to play with me... oh, wait. doesn#t matter anyways :D
Please use the itch app to update it or re-download a build, the new patch should fix these problems you're having. Hope you can give it another go. The game will continue to improve as daily as I can.
Your Suggestions and Issues are greatly appreciated. Thank you for playing and for your time
Rafi
Great game - I've run into the same problem as Eas3r so far with the game failing to save (Linux 64-bit Intel, Nvidia GPU [more detail upon request]).
The guide at the beginning is awfully demanding - sometimes he moves and his "area of movement" circle actually confines me to a section of the base without walls. The solution was to select "move" then Esc, which seemed to delete the wall. First of all, is there a better way to remove placed items. Also, could the AI be somewhat more patient about waiting for the player to leave the area before moving back towards town?
The camera-pan-to-enemies after first reaching the base is somewhat slow to start. I thought it was the game freezing or being in an invalid state because while I could swing, I couldn't move.
I also noticed that some menu's asked for certain key-presses, especially to exit certain prompts (Shift when you first learn to build, clicking to attack/aim/shoot). It would be great if, while the prompts are visible, the actions are not done.
At least for me, exiting out of Options required pressing Enter not Space.
I was going to try manual saving but I had trouble finding it.
Again, fantastic game - I look forward to seeing where this goes (esp. with multiplayer!)
Hey Kennethdhau,
Thanks so much for your feedback it is greatly appreciated
Great game - I've run into the same problem as Eas3r so far with the game failing to save (Linux 64-bit Intel, Nvidia GPU [more detail upon request]).
I found this problem happening on Windows and Linux the new update v 1.0.2 should fix these problems for you
The guide at the beginning is awfully demanding - sometimes he moves and his "area of movement" circle actually confines me to a section of the base without walls. The solution was to select "move" then Esc, which seemed to delete the wall. First of all, is there a better way to remove placed items. Also, could the AI be somewhat more patient about waiting for the player to leave the area before moving back towards town?
I'm planning out ways to refine this experience I definitely see what you mean about him being a bit demanding. I've seen how few play testers get trapped inside the walls as he starts to make his way to town, I do like how it teaches how to move objects out of the way which is why I kept it in there. Yea "ESC" seems like a weird button choice on Keyboard the game is really developed with a Gamepad in mind. Any suggestions you have for the Keyboard/Mouse controls would be appreciated. I'll definitely keep working on this part.
The camera-pan-to-enemies after first reaching the base is somewhat slow to start. I thought it was the game freezing or being in an invalid state because while I could swing, I couldn't move.
I want to add dynamic letterboxes (The black bars at top and bottom during cinematic) to help emphasize that what he is saying is important and give more sense to the not being able to move thing.
I also noticed that some menu's asked for certain key-presses, especially to exit certain prompts (Shift when you first learn to build, clicking to attack/aim/shoot). It would be great if, while the prompts are visible, the actions are not done.
I like the feedback you get instantly, are you worried about wasting the bullets? If you can clarify a bit it would be great
At least for me, exiting out of Options required pressing Enter not Space.
You should be able to exit options with space if you navigate to Resume in the menu I'll Look into this.
I was going to try manual saving but I had trouble finding it.
Manual save is in the pause menu which is only active after the small tutorial is over. You can also only save while in the world map as the dungeons are randomly generated.
Again, fantastic game - I look forward to seeing where this goes (esp. with multiplayer!)
Thank you so much for playing and all your feedback, with your help and others like you this game can grow and be even greater. It's only up from here. Please either re-download a build or use the itch app with its automatic updates it will keep getting updated constantly.
Rafi
Regarding the action-out-of-prompts - on occassion I find myself destroying things I don't mean to destroy and such. This could be trees or corn - I definitely think the immediate feedback is great, but perhaps for melee actions, it the animation doesn't actually cause things to be destroyed, moved, etc.
I haven't played multiplayer yet, but does the number of enemies or drop from trees/plants scale with players?
I'll keep an eye out for potential laptop keybinds.
Also, as of the last update, saving and moving to a new zone both work!
Regarding the action-out-of-prompts - on occassion I find myself destroying things I don't mean to destroy and such. This could be trees or corn - I definitely think the immediate feedback is great, but perhaps for melee actions, it the animation doesn't actually cause things to be destroyed, moved, etc.
Yea maybe it would be better if the first swing after the prompt didn't hit anything.
I haven't played multiplayer yet, but does the number of enemies or drop from trees/plants scale with players?
Yes the number of enemies in the world and in the herd grows according to the current amount of active players. The trees and plants don't scale but as the amount of workers grows you end up collecting more things together.
I'll keep an eye out for potential laptop keybinds.
Also, as of the last update, saving and moving to a new zone both work!
Thanks for the suggestions and confirming on Linux!
Rafi
I noticed that after leaving regions (cave, church, etc.), the regions go back to being dark (as if they had never been entered). Is that deliberate? I wasn't sure what had changed between attacking the orb and not.
Also, and this is more related to itch.io, but on the desktop app there doesn't seem (as far as I can see) any wrapping system to run commands on top of the game. For example, on Linux, to get the game to run with nvidia, I need to call primusrun <executable>. Would it be possible if, at least on Linux builds, the game entrypoint is a bash script? Something like
#!/bin/bash
./DontBiteMeBro_v102_LINUX.x86_64
so that Linux users can modify it to include the their choice of wrapper?
not sure if someone already found these bugs
- smashing the bottles during the tutorial before getting the gun the screen gets stuck on controls
-had one zombie disappear in the beggining, apparently it killed the base or something and got the message which i was under attack overlapping with controls and shift to build
found a couple more bugs while playing 1.03, not sure if others found them yet
-getting out of car near girl scout on bridge, got out fine but got stuck on bar of the bridge, had to use esc, car also completely disappeared after this point
-leaving game open for about four hours leads to shadowy blotches all over the map
-collected excess gas from having full tank before entering cave, ever since gas has been infinite
-can plant trees and chop them, leading to using stumps to block zombies
-trash cans dont respawn in left city after killing them all (even reloading game to get sherrif, so its hard to find a donut)
-not sure if its because of how long i had the game open, but had problems saving, and using the menu via enter and space (e.g. moving down to save and using space would get off the menu and cause player to dash)
-also ran into a problem when using esc to have survivor log out in camp and logging him back in led to me being unable to drop off resources to the base until i used esc to log in and logged back in (think it might have overlapped with an event or something)
Hey BellCranel337,
Thank you so much for the feedback! Really appreciate it
found a couple more bugs while playing 1.03, not sure if others found them yet
-getting out of car near girl scout on bridge, got out fine but got stuck on bar of the bridge, had to use esc, car also completely disappeared after this point
I was able to fix this in update 1.0.4 out now
-leaving game open for about four hours leads to shadowy blotches all over the map
Theres still a lot of optimization left to do hopefully I'll be able to fix this very soon
-collected excess gas from having full tank before entering cave, ever since gas has been infinite
I was able to fix this in update 1.0.4
-can plant trees and chop them, leading to using stumps to block zombies
I'll try this out and see how i can't prevent it being used
-trash cans dont respawn in left city after killing them all (even reloading game to get sherrif, so its hard to find a donut)
The emptied trashcans are saved, you can always find donuts in dungeons also
-not sure if its because of how long i had the game open, but had problems saving, and using the menu via enter and space (e.g. moving down to save and using space would get off the menu and cause player to dash)
I was able to fix this in update 1.0.4
-also ran into a problem when using esc to have survivor log out in camp and logging him back in led to me being unable to drop off resources to the base until i used esc to log in and logged back in (think it might have overlapped with an event or something)
Opting out should remove the resources held by a player so that the fast travel can't be exploited
Thanks a lot,
Rafi
Win 10 64b PC Ati X290. Some observations and opinions.
-Graphics artefacts and clipping issues. Beating things on the bridge makes the loot fall right through them so that makes sense.
-Shop interface is wonky as Timeslice already mentioned.
-When the sheriff dies, all friendly NPCs outside seem to die with him. (multiple youtubers had the same happen) NPC in general are too vulnerable. The one in the hospital was surrounded by zombies when I spawned in and he was dead before I could get a shot off.
-Combat barriers in dungeons (cave, church, hospital) are tricky. If you don't fully commit or run back out as soon as you spawn, you run the risk of being locked on the outside with no way to bring the barrier down. Reloading seems the only way out.
-You can enter and exit dungeons for infinite ammo if you so wish. The pistol isn't all that anyway but it's probably not intended.
-Beating panels off cars regularly ends with the panels dropping on top of the car with no way to get them off. Irritation diminishes enjoyment.
-Building placement is quite frustrating at times. Harvesting corn that was planted behind a tower is also quite the undertaking.
-Going back to the menu resets all options back to default.
-Seemingly unskippable intro. Less of a problem now saves work, but a bad idea for any game.
All in all an interesting little title. Keep up the good work.
Win 10 64b PC Ati X290. Some observations and opinions.
-Graphics artefacts and clipping issues. Beating things on the bridge makes the loot fall right through them so that makes sense.
I know the truck is really flinging the dead zombies in all sorts of weird ways and also going through walls and stuff, I'll fix this as soon as I can. Do the bones fall under the bridge? I'll fix this in the next update 1.0.3
-Shop interface is wonky as Timeslice already mentioned.
Yea I responded the intentions for the shop fix will be in the next update too
-When the sheriff dies, all friendly NPCs outside seem to die with him. (multiple youtubers had the same happen) NPC in general are too vulnerable. The one in the hospital was surrounded by zombies when I spawned in and he was dead before I could get a shot off.
Thanks so much for this I was wondering what caused them to disappear! will fix this right now. The NPCs respawn when you enter and exit a dungeon so they're never really gone for good. I have some ideas to fix this problem and it not feel unfair when they die before you get them
-Combat barriers in dungeons (cave, church, hospital) are tricky. If you don't fully commit or run back out as soon as you spawn, you run the risk of being locked on the outside with no way to bring the barrier down. Reloading seems the only way out.
Yea someone just mentioned this to me when they tried to sneak into the room. I'll make sure to fix this in 1.0.3 also
-You can enter and exit dungeons for infinite ammo if you so wish. The pistol isn't all that anyway but it's probably not intended
This was actually on purpose as the dungeons regenerate every time, but I'm changing it so that the entrance only gives you bullets 1 time per Herd so you have to enter the dungeon to really get them. The shopkeeper will also sell bullets for bones
-Beating panels off cars regularly ends with the panels dropping on top of the car with no way to get them off. Irritation diminishes enjoyment.
Ahh great to know i'll make sure they stay in reach
-Building placement is quite frustrating at times. Harvesting corn that was planted behind a tower is also quite the undertaking.
Is this a visual problem? I'll try it out and see whats going on with that
-Going back to the menu resets all options back to default.
Oh I never noticed this was happening. update 1.0.3 will fix it
-Seemingly unskippable intro. Less of a problem now saves work, but a bad idea for any game.
You actually can skip the intro by holding Start/Options/Enter theres just no visual indicator I'll add this in too
All in all an interesting little title. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot for the feedback I really appreciate it,
Rafi
Yes they do. Car panels too. For the bridge pieces over the water this means the loot is lost forever and for the ones over grass means the loot despawns before you can get to it though.
-Building placement is quite frustrating at times. Harvesting corn that was planted behind a tower is also quite the undertaking.
Is this a visual problem? I'll try it out and see whats going on with that
The upgraded towers are very high. When corn is behind that you can't see multiple rows so harvesting becomes hitting blindly all around you in the hopes you get everything before you replant.
For building placement, it seems to favour placing it next to something already there, making it hard to place something in a void when other structures are around that void.
Hey Mantric,
I'll make sure the loot stops falling under in the next update.
I'll try and fix the visibility behind towers as soon as I can.
It's difficult to find a balance between the snapping into place and allowing the player to be more precise. I'm not exactly sure on what would be the best way to go about this. I've been playing around with the idea of adding another button press to avoid the snapping or maybe an option in the menu to turn off snapping? any suggestions?
Rafi
This is just personal preference, but I liked to use the lower right corner of the structure as the mouse location and snap it to the lower right corner of the square the mousecursor is at. With a maximum of x grid squares from the character's position. I have no idea how you coded your grid and it's to be multi-platform so I have no idea if that's feasible.
Like I said; Personal preference. I'm sure you'll figure it out or can ask someone more knowledgeable than me. Good luck!
Hey Everyone,
Update 1.0.3 is live as of last night. The update includes fixes to all your problems and much more:
v. 1.0.3
º Game Breaking
º Smashing Bottles First Fix
º Stuck inside Dungeons Fix
º Shopkeeper spawning underground Fix
º Buy with Square/Circle Fix
º Stores everywhere
º Survivors disappearing Fix
º Annoyance
º Skip HUD for Cutscene
º Crops Collected Reset to 3 Tutorial Fix
º Loot on Highway Spawning Fix
º Metal Panels stuck on top of car Fix
º Screen Blur Options Fix
º Game Design
º Can't Enter dungeon when under attack
º P for Pause
º Boss Difficulty Fix
º Reduced Bones in Crypt
º Orbs Add Zombie Types
º Dungeon Entrance Bullets Only Once Per Herd
º Herd Level Resets By 1/2
º Visual Problems
º Cutscene Pedestrians Crashing into wall
º 2017 Credits Fix
º Herd HUD Slow to Start on Load Fix
º Letterboxing during talk
º Tutorial Campfire Pot Spazzing Fix
º Sound
º Arpeggiated Pickup Sounds
º Log Smash Sound
º Place Object Sound
º Pickup Object Sound
Hopefully the update didn't introduce any new bugs.
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions, really appreciate all of you
Rafi
Hey Everyone,
New Update Up v.1.0.4 fixes most of the issues we've found:
Game Breaking
º Mountain Man Bounds when 1 Player Fix
º Dungeon Hole and Camp Spawn Overlap Fix
º Overlapping build objects/trees Fix
º Opting out from tutorial town Fix
º Car Falling Under Bridge Fix
º R2 Places Multiple Objects Fix
º Towers stop shooting after dungeon Fix
º Tutorial Zombies Touching Base Bug Fix
º Quitting To Menu Bug Fix
º Xbox One Back Button Fix
º Full resources Bug Fix
Annoyance
º Rounded Stumps
º No Harvest Corn on Attack Prompt
º Cutscene Survivor Collecting Wood
Game Design
º Check Website for Updates on Title Screen
º Upgrade Walls Objective Fix
º Skip Tutorial Option
º Lose held resources on house death
º FeralKid not counting towards herd count
º Grimkey Attack Faster Cooldown
º Zombies by the Sheriff
º Can Move Mistake Walls During Tutorial
º Gate Closing on Zombies
º Less Attack from inside gate
º Dash on Save
º Max Gas Limiting
Visual Problems
º Manual Save Confirmation
º Arrow on Car Showing up after Dungeon
º Cave Overpass Variation 45º
º Clear Herd Overlay
º Store Prices Red if not enough
º Save Option Grey Text During tutorial
º Bullet Box Arrow
And much more!
Thanks again for all the feedback,
Rafi
Great game, obviously lots of bugs and still a lot more content needed, but overall great game. Loved it. Didn't stop playing until I beat the game. If anyone has trouble getting into the hospital or last dungeon, use your car to ram into it(youll lose the car because itll be stuck but at least you can finish game) thanks for fun time!
Hey Tiakamine,
Thank you so much for playing!
Sorry about the bugs still ironing them out as I find them, please let me know any issues you had or bugs found, it would really help out. Did you have trouble entering the hospital? I'll make sure to fix any problem there.
Theres still much more to come, new features and map areas soon,
Thanks again, stay tuned!
Rafi
Hey Moeyyy,
Sorry about the performance with the game theres still alot to work on to fix performance, you should be able to see hundreds of zombies at the same time. I'll make sure to check whats going on with that crash and try and fix it as soon as possible.
Thanks so much for the support and feedback,
Rafi
There is one problem when you put a tower the people in it have like a 1/10 chance of hitting something and when they shoot 1/2 the time they shoot the tower they are sitting in. So I cant trust them by themselves because they almost never hit their target and cant hit thing up close.
The person with 4 girls in the bus when you complete the quest the girls wont get in the car(not sure if they cant) And the guy who gives the quest suddenly disappears and then suddenly when you reload the game he is there and it says take me to your camp with the 4 girls back in the bus but you cant bring him anywhere he is just stuck there.
Last glitch by the bus sometimes if you get out of your car you can glitch under the ramp to the town from the highway
Hey Delightbobby23,
Sorry about the bugs many of them have been fixed in the latest version of the game, using the itch app will let you get automatic updates
There is one problem when you put a tower the people in it have like a 1/10 chance of hitting something and when they shoot 1/2 the time they shoot the tower they are sitting in. So I cant trust them by themselves because they almost never hit their target and cant hit thing up close.
the tower problem was fixed in update 1.0.5, you can update now to 1.0.6
The person with 4 girls in the bus when you complete the quest the girls wont get in the car(not sure if they cant) And the guy who gives the quest suddenly disappears and then suddenly when you reload the game he is there and it says take me to your camp with the 4 girls back in the bus but you cant bring him anywhere he is just stuck there.
the girls cant get into the car because its a bit of a mission to get them home safely this way, the camp counselor should be working ill make sure to check it out and fix it if its not working properly.
Last glitch by the bus sometimes if you get out of your car you can glitch under the ramp to the town from the highway
do you mean you appear underneath the highway getting out of the car? I'll make sure to see whats going on with this
Thanks so much for the feedback, I'll get to the bottom of these and fix the problems as soon as possible,
Rafi
dude i downloaded this when i saw it on utube yesterday and then i run the game it runs but the screen is black and i can still press enter the game also loads till the tutorial every thing works in game but i can not see it every thing is black in the screen pls help me i want to play this game real bad hi rafi this may help u out in finding the solution when i run the game in 256 colours it gives this error
Failed to initialize Direct3D.
Make sure you have at least DirectX 9.0c installed, have drivers for your
graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration
in display settings.
InitializeEngineGraphics failed
i have directx9.0 installed in and aslo have not disabled the 3dacceleration in dxdiag it shows enabled
can u help me pls i need to play this game bad
i play this game on windows 7 32 bit
and my graphics driver is intel(r)Q53chipestfamily with memory of 256 mb
it can run minecraft in average of 40 to 30 fps
the games run i can see the text on screen but can not see the colour i only see black screen and white text
and purple colour zombies pls help me
and i hav directx 11 installed
Hey Firestar,
Thanks so much for the support, sorry you're getting this problem,
not entirely sure what could be causing this problem but it seems to be something with the graphics card. I would suggest you try a different resolution. If youre not getting the resolution choices when launching the game if you hold the ALT button you would see a selection of different resolutions.
Please try this and let me know if it works, I'd really like to help you out,
Rafi
Hey Everybody,
The game still has alot of optimization to go, the problem is not with the graphics its actually fairly simple graphics which any modern graphics card should have no problem running the game even at max settings, the problem is with the cpu. All the physics in the game is very taxing on the cpu. I'm working on fixing this so that It can run smooth on the PS4 aswell,
Stay Tuned! Thanks so much for the feedback,
Rafi
Your graphics card should be fine to run the game even at max setings, the game is currently very taxing on the CPU instead. If you try turning off the blur it will be less taxing on the video card but I'm assuming you have a good enough video card where this will hardly change the framerate.
Optimizations coming very soon,
Rafi
The following feedback/bugs/suggestions comes from my personal experience playing the game. That said, I know that the developers wanted to create a game that was simple and fun, but I personally would like the game to be more of a survival game rather than an indie game of sorts (Of course that's just my opinion).
Feedback:
1) I think it is very important to give the player a choice to pick their difficulty... In the current mode, there's too much ammo, too much food, the car is very op (as it does not take damage and can ram down zombies/trees), zombies are really easy to kill and there's very little of them except in the city (the cave/church have very few zombies, I only had trouble with the red ones who run fast), dashing comes with a 0.5 sec cool-down and dashes a long distance (No need to run anywhere), the buffs cost a very small amount of bones(very easy to obtain + Speed Potion gives super speed), bosses are too slow/easy to kill (spray em down with the gun ez pz).
2) There isn't a lot of time to move around as hordes come by really quickly and if you are across the map... (I did read that the more u build the more time u get? Didn't really understand that)
3) I see that zombies spawn in per square, as in every time u walk into one of the big squares on the map, the zombies spawn in, I am guessing this mechanic is put in use to avoid low fps, either way, sometimes when I am running fast (as in the case of the bridge), I sprint really fast and all of the sudden I walk into 3-5 zombies that weren't there before because they hadn't spawned :l
4) Don't know if this is a bug, but sometimes u can use wood to replace metal...
5) The directions to some survivors were very unclear Ex: The farmer told me to fix his fence but I couldn't find it / The girls in the bus told me to collect wood...?
Bugs:
1) When chopping trees, the wood goes flying out everywhere (Very Common)
2) The car can get stuck within the entrance to the hospital if u ram it in there xD (Don't know if it also applies to cave/church)
3) The first time I saved the game, I came back to horde 1 instead of horde 4, I reloaded the save and that time I joined back to horde 1 + camp had disappeared (RIP Gamesave)
4) Survivors go straight through walls to get to your camp (Although I think this is deliberate because making an AI for that would be difficult)
5) The blur doesn't seem to be able to be turned off (There's still some in the edges idk....)
6) In the church, it is really easy to get stuck/get zombies stuck because when u break open a tomb, the parts fall off and can obstruct movement
Suggestions:
1) Different options of difficulties with requirements like health on cars, less ammo/food, stronger/faster zombies, more bones required in shop, higher cool-down for dash etc.
2) Add different types of melee/ranged weapons (Although I am sure you guys are already thinking about it)
3) Make the walls/spikes change as they take damage so we can see which one is damaged
4) Add an XP system/ reward system for killing zombies etc. (I know it would be complicated but it would be rather cool :D)
5) Achievements (Very Possible and not that hard to do)
6) Some sort of PVP (After the game is at least 90% rid of bugs)
7) Animals/ Zombie Animals :D
8) Parkour? Jumping on top of cars and so, to avoid zombies from attacking in (In the bridge there's quite a lot of zombies and it's hard to pass by on foot)
9) Building walls/floors/roofs/windows (Makes the game more creative)
10) Different classes? (Personally I prefer sticking with one character)
11) Character Customization!
12) More graphics settings in the options (Shadows, Texture Quality, etc.)
13) A more primitive approach? (Start with a bow and build your way to the pistol)
14) Axes as a faster method of chopping trees
15) Different maps/map creator (Once again, probably already in mind)
16) Stamina bar
Wow, that was a lot of writing, well, thanks for taking the time to read (if u read all of it xD) this and I hope you take some of my feedback and apply it into future updates. :)
Hey SKylz,
Thank you so much for the support!
at the moment there is only LOCAL multiplayer, rather than LAN or Online. To play with friends, you'll have to all be playing on the same computer (and eventually PS4). We do have plans for online multiplayer in the near future.
DBMB! is plug-and-play friendly! With any supported controller, players can join whenever Player 1 is at either the camp or the entrance to a dungeon. You'll know by seeing the "Press ___ to join" UI pop up in the corners of the screen. To leave a game, players need simply hold down the 'Opt-Out' button.
The Game currently works with:
Rafi
Hey Skylz,
Unless you can somehow map the joystick to the WASD keys im not sure how you can get it to work, You can try scrolling all the way down in the Input Configuration tab of that popup when you open the game and assigning the joystick to P1_Horizontal and P1_Vertical but i'm not sure how well that would work to be honest.
The Game currently works with:
Hope this helps,
Rafi
Hey,
at the moment there is only LOCAL multiplayer, rather than LAN or Online. To play with friends, you'll have to all be playing on the same computer (and eventually PS4). We do have plans for online multiplayer in the near future.
DBMB! is plug-and-play friendly! With any supported controller, players can join whenever Player 1 is at either the camp or the entrance to a dungeon. You'll know by seeing the "Press ___ to join" UI pop up in the corners of the screen. To leave a game, players need simply hold down the 'Opt-Out' button.
The Game currently works with:
Hope this helps,
Rafi
Hello!
First, I'd just like to say how amazing your game is, and the effor you put into it, so thanks! But I have one main question here; How long do you estimate for LAN co-op to be ready? It's just my close friend, I would love to introduce this game to him but we can't play together as none of us have a controllers, so just wondering how many days since I'll be off to his place in 2-3 days. Another suggestion - Being able to find different supplies and have different building require different things. Also having survivors being able to patrol the perimeters of your camp or make them follow you, though I understand that's quite hard to programme. And last of all, being able to find different weapons?
Just some ideas, hope you reply and another thanks for making such a great game!
Hey SuperDuck,
First, I'd just like to say how amazing your game is, and the effor you put into it, so thanks!
Thank you so much! really appreciate the support!
But I have one main question here; How long do you estimate for LAN co-op to be ready? It's just my close friend, I would love to introduce this game to him but we can't play together as none of us have a controllers, so just wondering how many days since I'll be off to his place in 2-3 days.
So sorry about this, the main focus right now is releasing on Playstation 4 in May I'm also working on my thesis game which also slows down everything. The game originally started as an online game so I definitely know all the back and forth it takes to get it working and really want to focus on the Playstation release first. So sometime in May or soon after May.
Another suggestion - Being able to find different supplies and have different building require different things.
Additions to the build system definitely in the schedule, Thanks for the suggestions!
Also having survivors being able to patrol the perimeters of your camp or make them follow you, though I understand that's quite hard to programme. And last of all, being able to find different weapons?
There's definitly going to be a "Party" system where you can take survivors out with you and better AI so that survivors stay around the base doing things to help. You will also be able to find and buy weapons and cars with bones collected in game or by purchasing them for pretty cheap. All DLC will be obtainable for free in game
Hope this helps, Thanks for the feedback and support,
Rafi
Hey I'm loving the game so far and i don't know if this is just me but the hordes come to quickly. So i think it would be a great thing if they had a longer timer cause when I'm trying to explore or gather materials i can never get much cause i always have to go back for the hordes. Sometimes they will destroy a few walls and break one of my towers and then i go to get the materials to remake them i remake them and the next horde will come along and destroy the stuff again. I think it would be awesome if the hordes timers were longer or even better yet we could have a different game mode with no hordes or maybe just much longer timers to build better bases or explore more of the city. I don't know much about programming and making or changing games and i don't know if this is really hard and i don't know if this is just me and a few of my friends but i think this would be a great improvement to the game. Also another suggestion i have. I think that it would be great if we could have different levels of difficulty. Maybe easy difficulty can have zombies with lower health and longer time till hordes come and you don't use the material's when you die and normal can be like it is know and hard might have the zombies with more health and three melee hits to kill with your base character. Maybe there could also be a impossible or very difficult mode that could be if you die then you restart everything. Another suggestion that could happen is maybe there could be a mode where you are a zombie. Maybe you could do this if you can get online multiplayer and then have zombies and players fighting and as you being a zombie you can be some sort of boss and this might be impossible but its just a suggestion. I would also love if we could have more maps. I think that this probably wont happen for a long time but in the future if we could have more maps that would be great or maybe we could have a bigger map with a few different people on as a multiplayer and you can have alliances and fight each other like a pvp aspect of the game.
I know I'm asking a lot but this are just suggestions that i think would make the game much better. I really like the game and hope that it can keep getting better and better.
Hey Desdodo,
Thank you so much for your feedback and suggestions. Update 1.0.8 added alot of things requsted by the community but has also changed the balance of the game. Please play and let me know any new suggestions or bugs found. Changing the difficulty will also change the rate of the Herd. When you die in multiplayer you become a zombie that can either attack your friends or help them, you have to fight your zombie urges though
Bugs
º Difficulty Levels: Change by pressing Options in game
º SURVIVAL MODE: Each survivor has only one life
º Destructable Tree Trunks
º Zombies Drop Bullets
º Save Player Skins
º Save Player Upgrades
º Disconnected controller doesn't lose Upgrades or Bullets
º Save Car Position
º Map Over Pause Menu Bug
º Higher Waves come from multiple locations
º Boss Zombie in waves
º Yellow Baby Run Animation
º Baby Outline Shaders
º Towers Increase Range on Upgrade
º Towers Range Graphic UI
º Truck Slower Acceleration
º Loading zombies Attacking Bug
º Cheats
º Invulnerability Cheat
INVULNERABILITY:
PS: L2, R2, L1, R1, Triangle, Circle, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: LT, RT, LB, RB, Y, B, Y, B
PC: Shift, Click, R.Click, L.Click+R.Click, Esc, E, Esc, E
º Big Bullets Cheat
BIG BULLETS:
PS: L2, R2, L1, R1, Square, Circle, Triangle, Square
XBOX: LT, RT, LB, RB, X, B, Y, X
PC: Shift, Click, R.Click, L.Click+R.Click, Q, E, Esc, Q
º Big Head Mode Cheat
BIG HEAD:
PS: L2, R2, L1, R1, Circle, Square, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: LT, RT, LB, RB, B, X, Y, B
PC: Shift, Click, R.Click, L.Click+R.Click, E, Q, Esc, E
º Max Resources Cheat
MAX RESOURCES:
PS: R2, L1, L2, R1, Triangle, Circle, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: RT, LB, LT, RB, Y, B, Y, B
PC: Click, R.Click, Shift, L.Click+R.Click, Esc, E, Esc, E
º Max Hearts Cheat
MAX HEARTS:
PS: R2, L1, L2, R1, Square, Circle, Triangle, Square
XBOX: RT, LB, LT, RB, X, B, Y, X
PC: Click, R.Click, Shift, L.Click+R.Click, Q, E, Esc, Q
º Max Ammo Cheat
MAX AMMO:
PS: R2, L1, L2, R1, Circle, Square, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: RT, LB, LT, RB, Y, B, Y, B
PC: Click, R.Click, Shift, L.Click+R.Click, E, Q, Esc, E
º Herd Up Cheat
HERD UP:
PS: L1, R2, R1, L2, Square, Circle, Square, Circle
XBOX: LB, RT, RB, LT, X, B, X, B
PC: R.Click,L.Click, L.Click+R.Click, Shift, Q, E, Q, E
º Herd Down Cheat
HERD DOWN:
PS: L1, R2, R1, L2, Triangle, Circle, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: LB, RT, RB, LT, Y, B,Y, B
PC: R.Click,L.Click, L.Click+R.Click, Shift, Esc, E, Esc, E
º All Gas Reserves Cheat
All GAS:
PS: R2, L2, R1, L1, Triangle, Circle, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: RT, LT, RB, LB, Y, B, Y, B
PC: L.Click,R.Click, L.Click+R.Click, R.Click, Esc, E, Esc, E
º All Survivors Cheat
All SURVIVORS:
PS: R2, L2, R1, L1, Square, Circle, Triangle, Square
XBOX: RT, LT, RB, LB, X, B, Y, X
PC: L.Click,R.Click, L.Click+R.Click, R.Click, Q, E, Esc, Q
º All Shards Cheat
All SHARDS:
PS: R2, L2, R1, L1, Circle, Square, Triangle, Circle
XBOX: RT, LT, RB, LB, B, X, Y, B
PC: L.Click,R.Click, L.Click+R.Click, R.Click, E, Q, Esc, E
Thanks for all the feedback and support, I'm on my last semester of school so this is a very hectic time for me. I'm trying to get these updates out as fast as I possibly can,
Rafi
Hey Defusethebomb,
If you're on windows could you try the win32 version? Or you can try lowering the quality in the resolution window. Could also be happening if you dont have space on your drive or permission to write files,
If you continue having problems please write in the Bugs & Suggestions topic ill try my best to help you out.
Hope this helps,
Rafi
