The video option to adjust gamma has been changed to brightness, so it works with the new lighting. It’s hard to describe why it looks better you’ll have to play it to see for yourself. Normal maps look better, bright lights don’t wash out the scene and so much more.
We have finally achieved full PBR Physically Based Rendering and all of the art has been adjusted to look better and compatible with it.
Read on for more information! Alpha 19 Official Release Notes Linear Color Space LightingĪlpha 19 has gotten a huge visual upgrade with the switch to Linear Color Space Lighting.
It’s as big as the last couple alphas and is packed full of new content, bug fixes, optimizations, and game balancing. TFP is extremely excited for this release. We also advises you to delete you 7 Days save Game data folder before playing. New Pregen-Maps have been created and can be used. Here are the full Official Release Notes, the forum bug reporting pool.Īlpha 19 is not compatible with previous Alpha worlds or save game data. Then of course you have to step in and go completely off topic and just concentrate on attacking me personally.We are proud to announce that the Alpha 19 Stable is out! The build has many great fixes, balance improvements and much more. It boggles my brain that someone would argue against creating a backup for any information you consider important. Not only on this game but on every game AND on every other file in his system. As for "looking for a fight" - I'd say that was more on him for actually arguing against the one thing that HE can do to prevent the issue in the future. I also intended to teach him to backup and save himself the heartache. There was a reason I used his own wording in my response. In BOTH the "passive aggressive" part is the "Gotta love it". Hopefully it never happens to you again now. "Gotta love it when people don't back up saves. " Gotta love it when your dead is dead character at day 61 got reset to level 1 with tutorial on stable." So my using the exact same phrase is passive aggressive but his wasn't? Seems more a reader bias than a fact to me. There was nothing passive aggressive in his original post A lost base you built for x hours would be a real loss, a reset to level 1 is not. But on the other hand the game has console commands to easily lift a character back to level 61 and get back everything lost in a matter of minutes. Redundancy would likely cost performance and that is a scarce commoditiy. bak file that can be restored if the original file is damaged, but that only helps sometimes. TFP did not invest much into save game redundancy, a few files have a.
So writing to the save game does not happen once every dozen minutes or more, it happens all the time, multiplying the chance for a crash of the game or PC to damage it.
Hit a block with an axe and it has to be recorded in your savegame.
On the other hand the "insurance cost" is also small, with a backup program, usb-stick and a few minutes of work everyone should be able to automate this.ħD2D is in EA, which is a big big sign: Don't expect it to work flawlessly.Īpart from that there is a risk factor players don't know about: The game needs to update its savegame continually as most actions change the world. Also the chance of loss is relatively low when you have multiple saves and unlike 20 years ago harddisks seldom fail. For a typical player and most games the maximum damage is low (unlike the case of a company loosing all its financial files for example). The backup question is, like any "insurance" a question how often a loss of any sort happens, how serious it is for you and how much it costs you to insure yourself against it. Having a backup (and verify its correct) is the first, second and third rule I did teach my clients whe I was IT-supporter.Īnd by the way, i know some other games where backing up saves was highly recommended, KSP for example even made it a matra.
There's so much that can mess up your savegames, from hardware failure, anitvirus tool going havoc, up to a system crash just whille writing in the files, the list is nearly endless.
In that case, you seem to love living on the risky side.