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I remember reading about that bug a few times but forgot about it as it's not something I often encounter in-game since I rarely let my water reach that low, or at least I didn't back when I played. A21 being as bad as it is, I haven't had any interest in playing anymore. I could have also mentioned some bugs that likely still exist today, one of which goes all the way back to Alpha 1, but I haven't been bothered to test to see if they still exist as it takes way too long to properly test some of them. Biggest one I can remember off-hand is the Vertices glitch which was what Alloc called it and I was the first to discover it and report it back in Alpha 3. How I understood the issue, with the skybox being as high as it is, if you filled a chunk area with way too many entities, the chunk disappeared leaving an empty void corrupting the save file. One dev claimed they couldn't find a way to fix it but would make an attempt to work around the issue and look into it again some time in the future, but I never did see an update note claiming it was ever fixed, ever, so I have a sneaky suspicion that it still exists today. But I could be wrong about it. It does happen on occasion.

Careful what you wish for.

It's not a matter of if it can be implemented, but if it can even be played at all with it enabled. I'm sure you've seen Minecraft with Ray Tracing. Minecraft by itself can run on a potato office computer no problem at all, but the moment you add Ray Tracing, you suddenly need an RTX 2080 or better just to have playable FPS. Now imagine 7D2D which struggles to get 60+ fps (max settings) on most gaming computers with an RTX 2080 or better, now add Ray Tracing. Requirements would be at minimum RTX 6080 or better, especially since Nvidia stopped focusing on gaming related tech and are now into AI nonsense.

This is of course just my opinion, but I personally started seeing the game going downhill after A10.4. There was of course a few awesome stuff added like vehicles and some nice graphics rework, but the game overall was still going downwards. The fact that so many things kept getting redone is in my opinion just a waste of time and resources. Had they actually planned the process better, they never would have needed to redo things... at least not nearly as many times as they did anyway. - Crafting systems dumbed down a lot, removing the option to make a lot of stuff from scratch. - Skills / Perks system is still a joke. - Looting is so level gated and predictable / boring that it's not even worth wasting much time on anymore. - Role play elements are discouraged when playing solo and traders are too heavily encouraged. - Stealth no longer possible most of the time. - World still feels empty and boring (in terms of activity) with little to no reason to explore since everything (within your level) is within view distance unless you spawned in far away from trader. - Zombie placements in POIs are predictable and unrealistically dumb. Jump scares are not a thing in this game since it's constant with every single POI. - "Random" Hordes spawning in within view and GPSing to your exact location is and always will be lame. This also includes the 7th day base defence portion of the game which is still far too easy to cheese and defend against. - Mining deep underground is now pointless and the terrain seems to magically reset itself now which is also dumb. Also, caves removed. Giving us less play-style options - Not being able to use any of the water in the world for no apparent reason is really dumb, solar panels being as rare as they are... - Food / water consumption and stamina drain is still poorly done. - etc... Lets not forget all the bugs that have existed for many years, like: - Weird texture / lighting issues where you sometimes see a glow and/or white lines outlining trees and objects at certain times of day. - Terrain collapsing despite supporting everything correctly - Countless FPS issues / stutters / micro stutters - Having too much within a single chunk area causes instabilities. - pop-in issues - vehicles disappearing - etc... Literally everything in the game feels like the devs are trying so hard to control the difficulty and "balance", but in reality, all they're really accomplishing is making the game a lot less enjoyable and setting us down a very narrow path. The game still doesn't have a goal or story / lore. No NPCs of any kind unless you include a few statues in an indestructible world chunk area that sell you stuff and always have an optional mission for you. We just aimlessly go around collecting stuff and levelling up to I guess stay alive and see tougher zombies matching your level. Without a goal or purpose in the game, what's the point? 11 years of development and that's where we're at. So ya, why would anyone be hyped for this game anymore?

I watched your videos and I'm quite confident it's the HDMI cable causing all your problems. (blinking monitor can occasionally mess with the GPU causing other issues like blur / "double vision"). HDMI cables these days are a joke IMO. First thing I've been doing lately for everyone I know is replace their HDMI cable on their PC with Display Port cable version 1.4 or newer (depending on their monitor specs). I find with HDMI cables, even opening a Chrome browser, the monitor will often blink off and back on again for no reason at all. This has so far happened to my friend, my sister, 3 of my clients and myself. HDMI standards are just not good enough. Also, screw the makers of HDMI for refusing to support Linux.

If the save files were on SSD, then like BFT2020 said, it's gone. But if it was on HDD, then there are software out there that can "undelete" files... sometimes (so long as nothing was written over top), but it's usually a pain in the butt and takes a long time. Realistically, it's not worth it at all... just start over and learn to make backups of your saves in the future.

Edit nvm... got my crappy games list mixed up.

Nice argument. Does those numbers show how many players are playing the latest version of the game? Does the numbers show how many are modding out the latest nonsense just to make the game enjoyable? I didn't say the game was unplayable or unenjoyable under the right conditions, I just said the hate comments are quite loud right now and shouldn't be ignored. Also, if you think those numbers actually matter, then maybe consider comparing this game to a similar game called Minecraft and see where that gets you. It's also not difficult to be #26 when broken games like Starfield, Payday 3 and Cities Skylines 2 are releasing all the time now. Devs don't care anymore because ppl will throw money at them either way. It doesn't mean their game is any good though. So the player numbers are probably high because there's nothing else worth playing right now and at least some of the issues with this game can be fixed with mods unlike other games. Also, the comments are pretty specific on why they're hating on the game right now. Devs wasting 3+ months on Twitch nonsense instead of fixing broken features in the game. The fact that I'm not alone in noticing how the fps is unstable even on an RTX3080 / Ryzen 5600x / 32GB ram at 1080p when this game has been in development for 11+ years, I mean, are all the fanboys just blind? Also, 11 years in Alpha state is becoming ridiculous. Also, how am I a minority in noticing how incredibly slow these devs are being at releasing more patches and updates? I think it should be pretty obvious that most of the dev team are working on a new project and not really focused on this game anymore. This game is only receiving new content once every 2 years (if you can even call it new content at this point).

Given the current feedback on the latest update on Steam from ppl who haven't been banned yet, I'd say OP isn't entirely wrong here. There's a lot of hate going on right now and I really don't think the devs should be ignoring them, not when there's this many of them. I myself hardly play this game anymore. I also feel like each update being released seems to feel worse in terms of fun factor and none of my friends and family bother to play anymore either.

Do you have a buttload of trees near your base? I noticed that became an issue for me when I planted 60+ saplings and let them grow to full size. I also have a similar rig. I think I just lowered the graphics settings from Ultra+ to Ultra and that fixed the issue for me and was able to keep the trees.

How many mods do you have installed and are they all compatible with the latest version of this game?

Did you get the GPU drivers from the manufacturer or from Windows updates which have a bad habit of overriding good drivers with their garbage drivers? You should also re-install the latest chipset drivers from your motherboard manufacturer's website as Windows can sometimes mess with those drivers too making things screwed up. Aside from that, make sure the ssd the game is installed on isn't full, remove or disable any unneeded bloatware and the game should run fine.

Laptops rarely ever do well with this game, mainly due to heat as this game hits everything hard and laptops are almost never equipped to handle that amount of stress load. Doesn't help that you're also hindered by a laptop grade CPU which performs not nearly as good as the desktop version even on the best of times. Removing any bloatware (including disabling 3rd party antivirus while playing would help with performance).

Love it when it's this easy. 😁

Haven't looked at the logs yet, but my quick guess is to do a memtest86 and see if your ram became faulty which happens a lot. Reseating it or cleaning the contacts often solves that problem too.