Psaldorn

That’s the rebrand where it goes back to HBO Max again

What’s the other path for this firmware being related to the update?

Maybe I’m missing something

The takeaway: Microsoft forced pre-release firmware onto millions of computers.

They’re lucky only a small percentage were damaged tbf.

Edit: on re-readinf I may have parsed this incorrectly

pre-release engineering firmware on certain SSDs, which may have been triggered by the Windows 11 updates.

It may be more like “for some reason some drives have pre-release software and the update… interacts badly with it?”

There is this third layer in my “phase 2” plan where you can set up defences in outpost regions and get an income from them if you can defend them, and the higher the local area threat the more often it needs defence, so it encourages you to be quiet in the associated raid map, more noise means it draws them in and threat level increases for next raid, strategy layer also gives you ways to get around it a little, like sending a team into the forest and letting off some fireworks, or destroying things in the raid itself that are causing them to gather.

Trying to keep the scope creep… if not contained, then sliced off into phases. Paying rent will start to become an issue if I don’t get a v1 out the door on time 😔

Ah, yeah a lot of my past projects went that way. Just spent 2 months getting a ping pong shader system to work so you can have map level fog of war with a vision cone. Easy for a computer shader but mobile doesn’t have good support apparently.

Road system is an achievement though, might be able to spin just that and a little more into a little game, like mini metro etc?

Some days I’m amazed how much I can get done but it’s cancelled out by things that I thought would be quick and take weeks!

Thanks.

Just that it’s a bit unprofessional and scrappy and prototypical. Can put some people off.

I shall, thanks.

Very crude Dev blog/stream of conscience on mastodon, keep your expectations rock bottom, you’ll still be disappointed!

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zataxia

I wish it were pluggable, I tried to get a gov grant for gamedev so started on a quick vertical slice but they said no because it’s solo dev. So I’ve been focussed on mechanics and the vertical slice is all out of date.

No promo material yet.

There is a mastodon but I only show visual stuff, not had much recently. Probably do more harm than good but…

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zataxia

I don’t have any promo stuff ready yet but it’s a top down, raid based looter.

Post zombie outbreak, trying to start a new safe community in a disused airbase. You go on raids to nearby city/village/etc to get stuff you need, find new survivors and so on.

It’s primarily for mobile to scratch the Tarkov itch while on the bus, but I’ll also put it on steam.

Edit; more info will follow at https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zataxia but it’s a bit sparse atm

Thank you, sir ❤️

I’ve been doing that in the background for a few years now (checks notes… 15 years)

Background is software so I have a jumpstart on that.

I THOUGHT my project was relatively limited scope. But I must’ve been zoomed out in my brain because… damn. It ain’t.

Might be my only chance after I got a bit of funding, so just need to steamroll it, get something out there. Fingers crossed!

Did you get to release in some form?

I feel you

That new Titanfall2 wall jump tech a while ago was pretty dope

As someone who quit his job to create a video game this makes me feel good.

I will probably fail, but that’s a future feeling.

Shout-out to cyberpunk for making me sit for 12 minutes after a mission to see how much money or xp I made.

If you like the idea there is a PvE mode which is fine. But the AI has its own cheats and there are all the other issues mentioned in this thread.

Musician/Wizard/Activist

Yeah I figured, just funny timing

I always do that! Thanks