ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING Coming in Alpha 21 - 7 Days To Die News

So all the good stuff gets cut out till next patch. And all the things we didn’t want gets crammed in on 21. Yay

Tbh i wouldn't mind it if they went back to console esk skill points/system like learning by doing or a combination of the two. This seems like a bad idea, seems like ill have to play a20 for another six months smh

They need to remove all fps drops

I am honestly not concerned by learn by reading. mostly because it is effectively garunteed that every overhaul mod worth its salt will most certainly ignore it.

We will get bandits in 2030

Luckilly stalker 3 with a healthy modding community is relatively right around the corner

i have an idea of guns and weapons have a customization menu, when you click customization, it previews the weapon, and the mods attached on them, and you can spin it around and have a look at your cool weapon

That's not everything

What a dogshit dev team man, constantly changing shit back and forth. No wonder the game hasnt been finished yet. They dont even know what they want let alone what their players want. Adding thousands of books that are mandatory to find, and destroying the water systems in place is so stupid its unreal. The modding community should be the dev team lmao, rather than these clowns

Guess my next playthrough will be Alpha 15...

Thanks for the summary!

After a year waiting for what is an incredibly underwhelming patch, I'm on to Project Zomboid. Does everything right that 7 Days to Die does wrong imo.

Now that you're a master chef, you can dumpster dive. Sweet. lol

Zombie dogs and bears can drop loot bags? So, what are you going to find in those bags? A bone and a stack of blue berries (respectively), I would guess. lol

i had low expectations and i'm still disappointed. i've been saying this since like alpha 14, it's as if they don't even play their own game and they don't have a clear vision for the direction of the game

Honestly, 95% of players want action skills. Every mod reverts back to them. How hard can it be to listen to the playerbase? Ffs.

So what is the actual date alpha 21 is to be released

Wake me up when they already added bandits and new features🥱😪

I appreciate the info! I'm not looking forward to some of these changes but I'll give it a shot. At least there are talented mod creators out there that help players find the level of 7D2D they're looking for.

My friend and I play the Xbox version and I brought up the idea of buying the pc version he didnt want to and now I see why

I was really hoping this was april 1st

The windows being entities thing may have been due to the transparency they have. I imagine 7 days is doing some kind of model combination when creating POIs and structures, and I can grantee that those didn't support transparency very well. So the Fun Pimps have probably found a way to integrate transparency into that system, or create a second pass on the models for windows so both can be part of the block system, but can render separately to support transparency. Either way this is a great change because every "Entity" in game has a much higher performance cost than being part of the block grid.

I don't know about you guys but I like the changes adds a little more realism to the game which I like however these are just small changes to making it realistic I don't think it's enough yet for me to play it like a religious man but I might try out a 21 a little bit but I'm more hyped for a 22 which is rumoured to have brand-new remastered players skins to look more realistic and not plasticine characters;if anyone knows more about the redesign characters let me know I'd like to know more about it

The books will be so much better, I don't understand why everyone hates it lol

Still no hard release date ?

How about they call it alpha 20.9, because IMO, this isnt a full update. For as long as its its been since alpha 20, they should have more content. Do they really think reskinning blocks, and adding a few more in will please everyone? There wont be much new content from what I've seen in this video. On top of that, learn by reading is so dumb. Like it isn't hard enough to progress mid game trying to get specific items like crucible schematic. I'm kind of disappointed tbh

I enjoy the game but the devs don’t really seem to know how create challenges properly. Why destroy mason jars? Why implement a crafting system while having multiple, simple items that cannot be crafted in order to throttle crafting?

Maybe I like throwing my spear

I really wanted them to ad native weapons to the game like the gunstockwar club in Ballhead war clubs

Update 22 you must eat glass every morning to remind your character they are still alive but it does 50 damage.

Wish better devs would pick up this game or make a better clone. We desperately need a superior clone

Bruh I’m really going to have to make a shit ton of water collector’s, so damn annoying. What’s the point, it’s not more realistic and nobody will like it. How are they going to prioritize that over bandits

Does anyone know if the update will be for the Xbox series X/S or is it PS5 exclusive?

I’m not trying to be a Debbie downer because I have been a very diehard lover of 7dtd and have been playing since a14. However, I am starting to feel (unwelcome) unease regarding this alpha and the drastic changes that are being made, decided for, and that we as players just need to accept and deal with. I am all for hearty alpha updates but it seems like for the last few alphas, TFP just can’t seem to make up their minds when it comes to gameplay overall. They already rooster blocked us a few times with stupid crap (arrow slits) and by being a bit too stern on what they expect us players to do, especially regarding traps/tower defense as that seemed to be heavily frowned upon and nomad what was recommended.
When UMA zombies ripped gameplay performance, even though it was a passion project madmole scrapped & removed them in favor of playable/better FPS and I still respect him for that as I know that was a bit of a blow. I love this game but I feel like these updates completely change up the whole game and while that’s fun to others, for me I guess I just would like to see a bit more consistency a down the line and building upon the game as opposed to this constant give/take/wipe.
I just hope they don’t go so far off track that this game loses that special something that made it so fun and great. I also feel as players it’s kind of up to us how we want to play and I feel this alpha is taking a lot of that freedom from us and streamlining how to play. So now we need to read a crap ton to gain skills, well it feels on the order of when we’d just spam craft to level up, monotonous chores and essentially making players have to & need to loot (and I know those who enjoy the building bases aspect of the game.)
I hope I’m wrong btw.I really do.

7dtd is turning more and more from a survival game into an arcadey RPG-lite with survival elements
I don't like the direction the game is going at all.

yeah I was mainly hyped for tier 6 quest as I love to do quests so now I am sad

they need to quit making the game crappier. its fine as is besides zombies breaking concrete, whiuch is total bs

I love that this game was done 5 alphas ago and now the devs are just adding and removing pointless crap

Thanks for the condensed update, i don't have the time to sit though hour long dev steams for snippets of into lol

I was thinking about playing again so I wanted to see what was new and NOPE I don't think I will try it again. My goodness this alpha is terrible, what were they thinking?

Spear buff!!! Heh

Wenn the Update gonna be there somebody know?

Don't forget, the books now are no longer immediate reads. They are like loot containers and take a while to read. Don't worry, there is a reading skill that increases reading speed by 2% per level if you perk into it.

I’m sorry but a lot of stuff in this update is just straight shit it’s horrible the worst thing to me is them taking out Mason jars because wtf why is my character eating the jar what since does that make ? 💀💀💀

I like a lot of these changes. A lot of them are pretty good, and working towards a better more balanced game. The learn by reading is NOT one of those changes. I personally prefer playing multiplayer, and while I can play every aspect of the game, I prefer to build and mine. What that means for me is I will be lacking behind in books compared to whoever I am grouped with, because I will not venture out to find my own books. The game has been well structured to let us split into classes.... people grouping together can have a looter, miner, builder, things like that.... but now, everybody has to be a looter.

Reminds me of A17 which was a nightmare where it was kill zombies or bust when it came to experience. Now I'm going to struggle with books because, more reading material will be found for the people looting them, due to it being tied to their perks, they're not going to pick up mining books that often. So I will always be 2 or 3 steps behind whoever I'm with unless I go out of my way to loot which I don't want to do, and in a multiplayer base, that's not my job, I have a house to build and maintain to keep everyone safe.

So much effort into a feature that moves the game backwards on its balance. And unfortunately, the learning by reading is so impactful compared to 10 other small features which are beneficial, that one step backwards is more influential than the 10 small steps forward.

The game literally runs like trash. I almost feel like they're just keeping the game in Alpha for so long so the PC hardware can just brute force the game and run it at an acceptable frame rate just so they don't need to optimize the game. They literally will remove features from the game to make it run better instead of actually optimizing it. Taking away electric wires is kinda a hit to immersion.

T6 Missions having mega structures like a full military science complex or something would be amazing. Those complexes could have a whole different design philosophy behind them, instead of there always being a simple path, there could be mandatory armored doors, so you have to bring explosives etc.

Wait wait wait the water catcher looks ripped from rust lmao

I havent seen or played 7 days for like 3 years!!! Are you/he using mods in this game it looks soo much better then i last remember?

alpha 21 in a nutshell sucks and is so bad makes me want to stop playing

Alpha 21 is dogp1ss. Imagine being in a forest with a huge lake infront of you and you ccan't even drink the damn water. Or is training and you can't open your damn mouth to drink it. Also the POIs are kinda meh, feels too gamey (find flashlight or torch and enter here and get to the end for the loot!). Buildings used to be hella random that didn't feel gamey at all back in the day from what i remember.
Also zombies seem hella intelligent now? I thought zombies are dumb lmao.