Howdy Survivalist,
We’ve just released Alpha 6.2 that has may fixes and changes making Alpha 6 much better to play.
How to participate in Alpha 6
- Open your steam client.
- Click on Games/View Games Library
- Right click ‘7 Days to Die’ and select properties
- From the new popup dialogue box select the ‘BETAS’ Tab
- Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into’ - select ‘alpha6 - Beta Testing’
- The game will then update and download Alpha 6
- Switching back to Alpha 5 is as easy as repeating steps 1-4 and on step 5 choose the option ‘None - Opt out of all Beta Programs’ and you’ll revert to Alpha 5 which will be re-downloaded and you can try Alpha 6 after it is improved.
Changes
- Changed on Mac the reflective water is set to off per default improving frame rate
- Changed shotgun to use animation clips to support single shell loading
- Changed reduced radiator to have 2 pounds of brass
- Changed reduced weight of car batteries
- Changed trophy 2 and 3 to lead and tungsten
- Changed Breakdown Weapon recipe name and tip description to say Breakdown Item instead
- Changed sharp stone attack has been removed and is no longer a weapon may come back in alpha 7
- Changed mp5 to SMG on all items
- Changed Kicking and banning to search if name contains than input instead of starting with the input. Also added player id as a fallback. Player id can be seen by using the “lp” command.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed player hosted game servers were not showing in the game browser.
- Fixed game Info player counts were showing incorrect numbers
- Fixed favorite servers list would break if you had no other favorites and added a manual favorite entry.
- Fixed unable to remap reload/take-all key, should now map correctly.
- Fixed bug when mining less than 16 blocks above bedrock pressing E brings up a console error IndexArrayOutOfBounds
- Fixed brass trophy so it can be smelted
- Fixed female third person wrench hold and use animations
- Fixed crossbow bolt from stuttering when reloaded
- Fixed female crossbow animations
- Fixed shotgun reload and crossbow stutters
- Fixed animator warning for sharp stone
- Fixed Crafting Grid Item Loss when quick crafting using known recipes if you switch from recipe to recipe you will lose the items on crafting grid.
- Fixed Add an ounces and burn time for gas cans for the auger and chainsaw.
- Fixed Multiplayer\Client de-sync all containers de-sync between server and client resulting in loss of items, item duplication, and in some containers which have randomly generated loot multiple different instances of that loot.
- Fixed Forge didn’t sync between clients
Known Issues
- Players can sometimes get stuck in small vertical spaces less than 2 blocks high like on top of a cinder block or trash pile
- Mac builds need to quit via the task manager
- Rocket Launchers and Hunting Rifles cannot be broken down yet or crafted
- Upgrading to Alpha 6 will sometimes cause players to lose key bindings go into options/controls/restore defaults and hit apply then close the game and start again to fix the problem
You stay cool
The Fun Pimps