Dr. Ninja Tom

Okay, this is less yelling about bugs, and more whining about features I want and/or me not noticing information that probably everyone else has. Not sure if this is really the place for this, since everyone else is posting bugs and stuff, but I'm not entirely certain where else to put this so I'm just leaving it here. If this isn't the place for it, well, sorry. I kinda sorta left both the radio and the lights on in a truck I drove off into the middle of nowhere in, and went to sleep. The battery's completely tapped out, and since I've got a nearly full trunk quite a long drive from anywhere I could try to find a replacement, I'm a bit reluctant to just go on foot. So, I decided to poke around in the game files to see what I can come up with, and I'm noticing something relating to installing and uninstalling parts, such as door windows, tires, and most importantly the battery. Thing is, I can't quite make sense of whether this is a work in progress, bits and pieces of an idea that hasn't been really worked on yet, or what, and playing around with the truck in the game is getting me nowhere. I think the scripts for it might work, but I also think they aren't actually accessible yet, if they're even finished. I'm wondering if this where the truck lives for now until this is actually finished, or if I can mess with these scripts to pull the dead battery from the truck and try to salvage a good one from one of the many cars I've passed that are locked and/or have a combination of horrible engine quality and a suicidal loudness rating.

Decided to finally make an account and post stuff after lurking forever, so hi everyone. Anyways, noticed a few bugs of my own no one's mentioned yet, and feel like helping by mentioning them. First off, and this is just more weird than anything, I saw a car spawn on top of another car. I didn't mess with it, though, so I can't tell if they worked, and I think I deleted that save after I died. Just gonna have to take my word for it that I didn't put a car on top of another car for a laugh unless I can find another one. And in case it matters, that picture was at the Rosewood police station. Second one, and this is a little less unimportant, fire, at least for me, spams errors whenever it's on screen. Even paused and minimized, looking at the console is an endless stream of "java.lang.NullPointerExcepion". This doesn't seem to be breaking anything visibly, and things can and will still burn, but it happens, and it does seem to slow the game slightly, so I suspect it really is breaking something I can't see.. Apart from that, I've seen a few of the same bugs everyone else has, and figured may as well mention that one more person is seeing that. Namely, the one that's the most annoying is item spawns being broken. Breaking into the police armories for a gun, or storming a gas station, or breaking into someplace that has medical supplies only to find nothing useful is one I've noticed quite a bit. As far as I can tell, though, and I could be wrong, this mostly happens after reloading a save. I've also had a bug more than once where I get into a car, and the controls lock up. Like someone else said, quitting and reloading fixes it, but it's happened a few times. The draw order problem happens frequently too, but I've seen it happen most noticeably when zombies get knocked over near some walls. And finally, though this one may be working as intended, if you flip a car, and get out, anything in the trunk or the glove box or what-have-you, it's all stuck in the car unless you get another car and slam into it until it's righted. If cars get a little harder to actually get, this could be problematic, and while it might just be me, I can't really see much of a reason you couldn't get into the trunk even if the car's upside-down. Doubly so for anything in the passenger seat, that seems like it should be easy enough to retrieve. I'll also agree with what I've seen mentioned earlier. I never tried the first version of the vehicle test, so I don't really know what it was like, but the zombies seem to be a little oblivious to cars. I spent a good 5 minutes driving around the mall parking lot, and only after I realized I could shoot from inside the car did I actually get them to really chase me. The rest of the time, I'd drive by, and they'd shuffle to where I passed from and stand there until I passed them again.