Zombies Multiplayer Update?

Hey all, I'm a little confused what's going on with the whole Multiplayer Zombies thing.

I heard from the devlog that they were working on it and getting it out this week (it's now sunday) but the recent blogs ain't said anything about it.

I know there are a large tonne of Zombie Multiplayer Servers now but I thought these we all unofficial, sort of modded into the game before they should have been but since the increase in the amount of servers and the lack of information about it on the devlog, I have to wonder has it already been released somewhere as a test build or what's going on?

Now I'm seeing gargoyle's in some servers, Bison's in youtube video's and just general features that aren't out yet but I'm not seeing anything Official, does anyone know what's happening? I wanted to make a Zombie Server but I wanted to hold off until it was released by the dev's themselves (so it's a little easier to host as well, I have no idea about hosting or modding) but I'm not really sure what's happening at the moment and I have friends asking me every day if it's out yet so can someone shed some light onto the situation?

 

You still havae 8 houers until weekend ends and MM is officialy late. Lets wait until then for complaints :P

Also he had some extra bug fixes which werent in original plan of developing.

 

Not really complaining, more so confused than anything. Don't really keep up with the forums just go by the dev blog so just wanted to know if it was already released or what was happening with all these gold zombie servers!

 

Please don't pester developers when they set deadlines for themselves, it ends up just making them feel like dicks when you're demanding and they are incapable of delivering because an issue came up. Then they go back to the old way of telling us nothing. So be nice and don't complain about lateness ever, just be chill and like "We'd like it now, but not if its a broken bag of dicks".

Whine too much and they'll get sick of your shit and not tell you anything.

Just accept that game development isn't like running a factory line with things rolling off in neat lines ready to go with the occasional machine breakdown or mis-order. Theres a lot of code sleuthing and things that come up unexpectedly.

In essence : It will be done when its done.

Edit: not that I'm saying you're whining. Just be patient and we'll know. I'm sure you have more to do with your life than KAG.

 

Really since no one was whining and I was just asking about what's going on as a whole (not the release date) I think this post was really unnecessary...as well as rude to read.

Please -snip- longer quotes. Thanks! ~fbb

 

He wasn't saying your whining, just this thread will be interpreted as a mild pestering (not that he's having a go at you), if the pestering continues then the devs will get a bit pissed off when they're doing their best to make a decent release and not rush out something that plays like <something that doesn't play very well> and will be reluctant to treat the community as adults and tell us about their work on developing the game.

Was a rude post I suppose, but it was nothing personal against you. honestly if you think that's a rude post you'd better brace yourself for the <insert unnecessarily graphic imagery here>. It's metaphorically not dripping on you, just near you for your amusement.

In essence, the forum is filth ridden (take the unedited version of this post, for example), you might need to get used to it, if someone sounds like they're insulting you most of the time it's just banter ;)

AnRK: while the thrust of your post (don't take offense) is essentially correct, we really didn't need imagery. Also, I seem to recall having to doctor one of your posts for highly unnecessary content before. If it happens again I *will* hand out warning points. ~fbb

 

AnRK, I'm fucking eating dude... That post made me nauseous.

 

If the devs could possibly be pestered by as harmless a question as this, why bother with community feedback at all? I thought we're a big family, and likewise the exchange of pleasantries together with polite inquiry should come naturally. People like Potato-whiskey are just creating hostility where there ought to be none.

With the current state of modded zombie fortress servers, everything seems perfectly functional except for the stealing of other players' migrants, and wraith explosions not visualizing properly.

 

I apologise, I in no way was trying to say you were whining. I was trying to get the point accross that these sort of threads usually devolve into whining rather than justified requests for an update.

Apologies if I was rude.

 

No problem and no hard feelings to you or the developers!

 

Maybe it's the GIANT MIDDLE FINGER that accompanies your every post.

 

I get what the op is trying to say/ask. I am also surprised that there aren't any "omg where's the update they said 2 minutes ago wtf" posts.

While I know that trying to stick to a schedule is difficult when you're programming, I believe it would be nice to at least get a blog entry saying "Cthulhu just spawned in the middle of the code base and is fuckin up everything, but hang on, we are close to killing him!". (Feel free to use that exact sentence).

People WANT to know what's going on, for no other reason than just wanting to know, and making them part of that makes people happy. Reasonable people at least XD

That's my 2 cents. Give people official news, even when they're bad. Haters gonnna hate anyways, so at least keep everyone else happy :)

PD: The devs should really give themselves more time when they announce dates. Double the estimated time at least. No one's ever going to complain if you manage to beat a fake deadline ;) (Has worked for me in the past :P)

 

First sentance, more updates, second one, big focus on bugfixing and 1 dude specifically working on sorting out MP zombies ;) They have been giving us a fair few updates recently too, if you compare the amount of updates to the average game it's loads too.

They've given themselves a fair few deadlines but there must be something really fucked up going on if it's giving them this much grief, considering that there's a sort of playable MP zombies mode been played at the moment would suggest it's just a few really irritating to diagnose bugs. I think the devs have been pretty open about their shortcomings deadline wise, and letting us know they're working on it still, there's only so many times they can apologise and try and give some idea of what's troubling us without repeating themselves or boring us with technicalities we won't understand anyway cos most of us don't know how to code, or moreso how the engine works. In fairness I think the devs have been pretty open, unfortunately we just have to continue to be patient, given one of the recent updates with that SP zombies video been posted and how it gave him some insight into some problems with the mode overall, when it finally comes it should hopefully be alot better overall, and the control system should be more fluid.

 

I read that on the forums, that's why I said "blog entry" :) no everyone likes to be searching here if the devs said something new :P

 

I DO wonder what is up with all these unofficial multiplayer zombie servers? Are they privately made or with scripts by MM?

 

They are ghetto hacked zombie modes.

 

all i can say is when zombies do come out i will rape bisons >:D

 

Well they need to have scripted and changed something about it, just throwing the solo zombie on a server can never run properly.