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The New HD zombies include:. Alpha 20 introduces a new line of pipe weapons along with an overhaul of several current weapons for a total of 6 new weapons and 13 upgraded HD remakes to further the look and feel of an apocalyptic environment. Pipe weapons are new early-game weapons easily crafted in your backpack, and only require basic ingredients like short iron pipes, wood, glue, and leather. These weapons all have custom sounds and animations with variable mod slots similar to existing in-game weapons.
Pipe weapons are easily repaired with short iron pipes. As part of weapon cleanup, the Blunderbuss was removed and replaced with the new Pipe Shotgun. A new Lever Action Rifle was added to round out and complete the existing rifle tier. This rifle also uses 7. These texture and model upgrades add some nice polish and align with the look and feel of other art upgrades throughout the game. In addition to model and texture updates, the Bows, Crossbows, and Compound Bow all received a damage increase.
Arrow models received an update to complete the new look and feel of the bows. Building blocks have received a major overhaul. For starters, there are now over unique shapes to select from for every craftable material.
Players can now craft 5 basic material helper blocks which are:. This screen shows several shape categories that can then narrow down the search:. For you modders out there, the shape menu brings with it an easier way to add new shapes to the game as you no longer have to separately define each shape with each material. Simply add the new shape definitions to shapes. The new shapes are then automatically added to the material shape helpers in game.
This feature also greatly reduces the amount of crafting recipes needed. The creative menu has also been overhauled with a new category system. Categories have been moved and expanded to the left hand side of the window.
Pick a Main Category in the left column and then a Secondary Category in the right column. Placing blocks has had several changes.
The block preview now animates smoothly through the world and the shading is improved. The preview will also change color to indicate the effect of adding the block. Colors Include:. The new Robotic Drone is a companion that gives the player extra storage and some enhanced end game features. Dyes are added to the cosmetic slot and mods to the modifier slot s. Some of the Additional Mods and Enhancements to the Drone include:.
We have added a brand new Dynamic Imposter System to the game which renders changes to Distant chunk POI meshes caused by players or zombies. Changes such as destroying a building, building your own base or adding to or modifying an existing building can now be appropriately displayed by the Dynamic Imposter System.
Updated imposter meshes are automatically shared with new players who join the game. What does this mean for players?
Depending on PC strength we have several game option settings that can be edited in serverconfig. Improvements include:. I pull open the velcro pouches in the front and back of the vest, slide the ceramic plates into them, making the vest nearly twice as effective, and pull the rig over my head.
I buckle the clasps, cinch tight the rib bands. I walk into the bathroom and stop at the mirror. I see that the vest fits. I also see fear in my eyes. I am heading overseas to a war zone on a reporting trip. I put the vest and helmet into a closet. I show her no fear. Kenneth R. Rosen is the author of Bulletproof Vest , coming on April 16 from Bloomsbury.
Buy on Amazon. I call Nick, the overexcited and reassuring representative at Bulletproofme. Did they send the wrong one? It calls to mind hard hats and latex surgical gloves—material to guard against inanimate objects and near-invisible pathogens.
My gear was to protect me from other humans, ones with guns, so I continue calling it my bulletproof gear. Nick checks the order. Actually, he says, there is something that might have gotten messed up on his end. Do I want a replacement?
My trip to Iraq is in a few days. He says he is sorry. He wishes me good luck. In her previous life as an aid worker, she traveled to conflict zones. She asks if I really need the custom gas mask with prescription lenses. I tell her yes, better safe than sorry, even if I look ridiculous carrying it around with me when no one else is. I could always be safer. I could put distance between myself and the bullets. I could stay away from the places in this world that require vaccinations for exotic diseases.
I could choose not to go. I could stay home. We go over my emergency contact plan, and I give her the passcode to view my personal GPS tracking device. When I land in northern Iraq, I keep the vest close to me, but I barely use it. I also have a new Chapstick. It will inevitably be lost before I finish reporting on the final days of the Islamic State, but it becomes something of a talisman for me.
When I return home to Brooklyn, the cab pulls away and I look up at our second-floor apartment window, excited to see Elettra after what has felt like an eternity. She is frying peanut butter pancakes, my favorite, when I step through the door. In those moments, unprotected by any gear, I was bulletproof.
Now, nearly four years later, we are stuck at home together in a house in Massachusetts: my father, Elettra, and our infant son. The coronavirus pandemic stretches its viral spike peplomers across the world and keeps us, like almost everyone else, inside. We take temperatures and startle at every cough. We hear each other through the walls, the slightest of sounds. Nothing is private.
The walls are flimsy, and yet they protect against the outside world and its sudden, invisible threats. I see my loved ones in high definition, as for the very first time. The things I carried overseas: pills to fight bacterial infections, pills to contain diarrhea, pills to combat nerve agents.
Chapstick, naturally. I also carried sweatpants and peanut butter Cliff bars, things of comfort and security. And my bullet- resistant vest.
Luke Jeter is the leader of the ballistics lab there, and as we talk, Jeter loads a. The machine fires the bullet down a short corridor, through several velocity sensors, into 12 sheets of Kevlar XP woven and heat-pressed together and hung against a block of neutral grey clay. When we walk downrange to see how well the layers did against the round, I see the Kevlar pocked by a massive divot, but the bullet did not penetrate.
The clay behind it had, however, exploded and disbursed the impact in the shape of a mushroom. The person wearing this vest would still need medical attention, but they would survive.
Then Jeter loads a 5. It punches a hole right through. More strength, like ceramic plates behind the fabric, would be needed to stop rounds from automatic weapons. Discovered in by a DuPont scientist named Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar is made of ultra-strong plastic polymers tightly woven into a flexible fabric.
In Kevlar, the chains of molecules—the long strings of terephthalic acid and other chemical compounds—line up parallel, like soldiers in a military parade. Plus, the chains of molecules are studded with interlocking ring structures.
Order each line of soldiers in your parade to link elbows: Now your adversaries are slowed by a coalition that is bound together against a common enemy. Kevlar is like the Kleenex or Xerox of PPE, a brand name synonymous with bulletproofing, armor, the military and police forces, but moreover safety.
In , DuPont created an above-ground panic room reinforced with Kevlar so you can weather the tornado season in a quarantine you put together yourself.
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