Last night I had one of those days where I go back to multiplayer FPS games and just attempt to play them after a month or more break since it’s just stale and just wanted to come back just to play them but you can’t even do that. You sit in silence for a second and wonder, how tf am I in this timeline. As you see in the images to the right, I was having the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. Btw there will be that one or few that call me out for all those “sensitive” things I said, which is clearly satire or just shock humor. I actually have nothing against the trans community except the fact that a lot of them that are being exposed to forcing your kids to think about this shit at a very undeveloped early age. But that being said I don’t really believe in most of the LGBTQ shit, like how tf can you be non binary..
Anyway last night my mate wanted me to play Halo Infinite just to play it and it was fucked for both of us. Dude how can people play this shit. Competitive sure but fuck man, nade spam shit is annoying and unskilled and what the fuck is this new remake of Countdown (Halo Reach) that they completely butchered. They made the middle floor section more open and having to jump to the bottom platform to jump again to get to the other side is annoying. The back part that used to be an open area just behind where the bridge used to be is gone and have separate ramps going to to side is also annoying to get around. They really fucked it. The top part where sniper spawns is not bad but everything else is cooked.
Then after getting annoyed by how dead our region is finding fuck all au lobbies and mostly high ping, and the nade spam shit, we gave up on it and I went over to see if MW22 is any better since apparently there was some movement updates. But I couldn’t find a single au lobby at 9pm. Like wuh?! I even tried all the main modes and ground war. The latest CoD not having population just months away from the next CoD is baffling. Regarding the next CoD, I have fuck all hopes on it being any way of being decent but apparently the movement is decent which I will be the judge when the beta comes out. If the maps and movement is good, I’ll be on board with buying it, but if one or the other is bad; then it’s all bad. MW22 didn’t have any of those but they did say it was going to be a 2 year CoD so I wanted to last myself with it even though I haven’t played it since launch. So they lied about that and they’ll most likely lie about everything else they’ve been hyping up.
So after seeing MW22 is dead as fuck, I was like “fuck it BF2042 is better anyway, barely but playable” which I though wrong. I started the EA launcher and updating to the latest version which was 4GB which wasn’t too bad I thought and it might take a few minutes. NOPE. Took me 30+ mins and stopped halfway cause it wanted to verify, then after all that bullshit I start up the game and it just sits there in a windowed mode doing absolute fuck all. I close the game, and try to restart the game and the play button is greyed out like the game is running in the background. I checked task manager and it wasn’t there so I tried to shutdown EA app, and what do you know.. it says that the game needs to be shutdown… So I was like fuck this I’m gonna have dinner. So this morning I tried and the only thing that fixed it was repairing the game so.. thanks for wasting my time.
It is cringe I have to put up dealing with this shit. We are in the year 2023 and this shit still happens. If I had the game on steam I probably wouldn’t have this issue. Which I guess you can see the superior platform, I just didn’t want to run 2 launchers.
Oh you know what’s funny, Ark apparently is pretty much broke and would have to do one of two things. Release the game in October in a complete buggy state and pay off the rest of their fees with nitrado servers or delay the game but suffer 20% deduction of all sales to pay compensate off a late fee for nitrado servers lmao. Absolutely deserved the piece of cunts. Most corrupt game company out there, way above activision, no joke. If you haven’t heard of it you can look it up because I cbf explaining how scummy they are again.
I’ve been mainly working on redefining the demonstration area since the old one is very blocky/simple and needs a makeover and the fact that it’s 1 year anniversary of the project. I’ve had a lot of trial and errors dealing with engine bugs that I had to report 3 in the last 5 days and figuring out things that the engine has a hissy fit with. Fun. But it’s been pretty chill other than that. Redesigning the demonstration area or the testing range I guess you can call it, looks much much better and a lot more efficient of getting around.
I have finished working on procedural terrains with voxel for now which I’m happy about. I made lakes rivers and caves and they look very nice. Can’t add foliage yet unfortunately due to the current version of voxel is doesn’t support nanite which is a major flaw for performance, but the new version will come out later this year and it will support it. It’s no big deal right now since I’m not going to publish the game any time soon.
But right now what I’m working on is getting my audio system (steam audio) reconfigured to have the audio test section more defined. So I’m going to make it so you can hear what surfaces sound like for different material and how different areas impact sound. Got big plans for this section because audio in games is severely overlooked.
You know.
But I am kinda itching to play BF2042 or BF4 again but we’ll see.