BonjourSurvivalists,
We have an Alpha 8.8 patch out for you that fixes the steam ID spoofing oraccount hijacking bug. To check out the rest of the Pimps News and what’scoming in Alpha 9 read on.
7 Days onYoutube
The popular YouTube Channel “The Achievement Hunters” under the “Rooster Teeth”umbrella are doing a series on 7 Days to Die! Head on over to one of the first2 videos and thumbs up it to show your support if you’d like to see a regularseries by these hilarious guys.
Let’sPlay 7 Days to Die Part 1
Let’sPlay 7 Days to Die Part 2
Alpha 9 Status
Ok now for the news you’ve all been waiting for. The word on the street is thatthe Pimps have decided to accelerate their Alpha 9 schedule shuffling a fewfeatures around moving some things forward and a few things back to post Alpha9 to get you guys a kick ass new build sooner. If all goes well you’ll get itas soon as August 8th. Here are the planned features going in.
Randomly Generated Infinite Worlds which include all biomes types with custom elevations, lakes, natural deeper rivers, curvy roads, random locations, and a procedurally generated centralized wasteland city with some never before seen locations!
A kickass new AAA GUI with all new art including belt, backpack, character screen, map, friends list, new minimalist compass and player stats. The GUI also includes added functionality including our new data driven in game map system with fog of war, a searchable recipe list and friend compass tracking
New leg sprain, leg fracture, leg break and dysentery de-buff systems
Under water effects and drowning system
World improvements including decorations adhering to the terrain to altering what is found out and about while scavenging. All major prefabs have been given a container overhaul. We thinned out the cabinets and other things that can hold loot, but increased the odds that things will be found within them. This has the dual benefit of making longer scavenging ventures more profitable while not spreading too much more loot into the world as a whole.
And lastly if time permits watch out for our new Gore block system where zombie bodies decompose into bloody piles that stack up and can work in the zombies favor.
Pure Pings Prizegiveaway
Our friends over at Pure Pings are running a giveaway! Follow the link below toenter a chance to win a free 7 days to die key and server bundle!
Pure Pings Giveaway
Mac and LinuxVersions
In a final note regarding the Linux and Mac versions. The truth is we need moretime to improve the Mac version and to get the Linux version fully working. Fornow we have looked into alternatives for those of you running either of thesesystems and have come up with a couple ways in which you can still enjoy thegame by running Windows on your machine Bootcamp for Mac and Wine for Linux.Here’s how you do it.
Bootcamp on Mac
Bootcamp is a simple and easy way to run Windows alongside your OSX. You are requiredto have a copy of Windows in order to install.
Beforeinstalling Bootcamp or Windows, please ensure that there are no pending updatesfor your machine. This can be done by following these steps:
1. Go to Apple’s Boot Camp support page (
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/)to see if updates are available for your model. Download and install ifnecessary.
2. Click the Apple menu, then Software Update… to install any updates for yoursystem.
3. Restart your computer if prompted. After restarting, check for softwareupdates again until no new ones are available.
Since Bootcampis going to be changing your HDD configuration a bit, you will want to backupanything you might be afraid to lose. The chances are slim, but they are real,so better safe than sorry.
Next, you needto run the Bootcamp Assistant. This can be done by going into the Finder, clickApplications, then Utilities. Within the Utilities folder, you’ll find theBootcamp Assistant.
After clicking Continue, you will likely be asked if you want to installWindows Support Software for your Mac. Since you’ve come this far, you willneed to do so.
The next thing that’s going to happen will be driver downloads so that your newWindows install will be able to talk to the hardware in your Mac. You need toeither burn these files to a disc or save them to a thumbdrive.
Next up ispartitioning your HDD. Unless you plan on using a bunch of Windows programs,you’re only going to need about 25GB of space partitioned for Windows (16GB forthe OS, some spare in case of more stuff).
Your Mac will take and partition this off at this point. This will take sometime, so don’t worry about it.
Once thepartitioning is complete, you can now install Windows by inserting your installdisc into the disc drive. Your computer will restart and you’ll now be able tofollow the Windows installation normally.
When it asks if you want a typical or custom installation, always click customand point to the hard drive partition labeled BOOTCAMP. If you don’t, you’regoing to lose OSX and all information on your machine.
You’ll select that partition and have to format it. This is done by clickingDrive Options(Advanced) then Format. Windows takes some time to install, soagain, relax for a bit.
Once theinstallation is complete, simply remove the Windows install disc (either bypressing the eject button on your disc drive or navigating to My Computer,right clicking the disc drive and click Eject) and insert the drivers media youprepared earlier.
To install the drivers, you just need to open the media that you inserted anddouble click setup.exe. Let it run its course, restart the computer and you’llbe good to go.
To choose whichOS to start (you’ll always boot into OSX by default) hold the Option key whilebooting to select which OS to use.
When you’redone, download Steam, log in, download 7DtD and start playing.
Wine on Linux
Step 1: Update System Files.
Step 2: Use the“Ubuntu Software Center” and download PlayOnLinux (once the packages have beenselected, you may need to click on install packages)
Step 3: RunPlayOnLinux
Inside“PlayOnLinux”
Step 4: InstallNew Listed Program
Step 5: InstallSteam
Step 6:Highlight Your newly created shortcut, and select the configure cog on the Playon Linux panel.
Step 7: Click onThe Wine Tab, and select configure. Under the “Graphics Tab” checkAutomatically Capture the mouse in fullscreen. And Then Apply. There should beonly the first 3 boxes Checked in that tab, the last one should remainunchecked. Click Okay.
Step 8: Pressthe “Windows Reboot” icon, and your virtual machine will update changes.
Step 9: Exit theconfiguration window, and run PlayOnLinux “Steam”
Step 10: Wait for the updates to update
From Steam:
Step 11: Loginand Download Game (Note: if you use any special characters in your name andpassword, you may need to write the login information using a notepad program(gEdit, etc) and copy/ paste into the login field)
Step 12: Oncedownloaded, double click game, and VCredist2010 should start downloading. If itdoesn’t click “Play game”, and it will download for you. Game should “fail tostart”; (if VCredist2010 still doesn’t down load, you can right click 7dtd andselect properties, then, select “Browse Local Files” and select “_CommonRedist”file and navigate till you find the executable.)
Step 13: Double Click Game again, and this time select “Install 32 Bit”,
Step 14: Double Click Game Again, and “Play Game”
Step 15: Play game.