I saw a random youtuber actually figure this out.
Get banned from Prirate Software’s chat speed run, Any%.
He made an account, joined, and just politely asked what Thor thought of the recent SKG EU Parliament hearings.
Total Elapsed Time to Ban: Approximately 9 seconds.
Thor then muttered about not wanting to hear anything from any SKG assholes.
Dude is a literally terminal stage narcissist.
Some people actually have principles, actually stand on business… apparently this is quite a rarity these days.
“HEY LISTEN”
inhales
Poooooooo-lonium and Tantalum and Tritium
and Oxygen and Eisteinium and… Sulfur.
coughs
Well that verse doesn’t flow so well.
ahem
Poooolonium and Tantalum and Tritium
and… Osmium.
Damnit.
Hi5 for also being a Ross fan since waaaaaaaay before all this Stop Killing Games stuff happened.
The man needs a trophy of a hand gripping a crowbar -> ‘For meritorious service in the defense and preservation of video gaming’.
He’ll always be what Freeman sounds like to me.
It is.
Very roughly, think of DXVK as a plugin for WINE, that dramatically enhances its capabilities with 3D rendering.
Then Proton is essentially a further refinement of WINE, DXVK, other things.
Technically, I’d say its a stalling tactic, but yeah, by no means is it a sound, comprehensive strategy.
No prob!
Full disclosure: I’ve not used it yet myself, your post here spurred me to do some web searching.
I know there also like uh… Terrain3D, not sure if MTerrain is still sctively developed but I think it is… and then there’s uh… shoot I forget the name, but theres a well done addon for making basically linked and tweakable roads.
Granted, thats all geared toward large scale, more outdoors focused maps, but… yeah generally, it is kind of annoying that Godot could do a bit better in the map design/editor department.
There are though a number of different kinds of approaches to ‘solving’ that problem, some in engine, others kinda lile this Meridian doohickey where it is basically: use another program as the editor and make the pipeline actually work.
Like uh, for rigging character models and such, ReGodotIfy is pretty good for Blender -> Godot for setting up characters, and I think it would well handle just static/dynamic objects as well.
Theres also Gaea, which looks to be pretty solid foundation for a kind of, plug in, 2d procedural map gen type thing… theoretically you could take what it outputs snd then basically treat it as layers of a cake that comprises a 3d map, something like that?
I’ve been off and on tinkering with a somewhat similar concept… maybr if I ever finish it (to my liking) I’ll post it here.
Not as a standalone tool you say?
Just wanna throw out that I’ve managed to decompile Source engine maps and then at least semi successfully import them into Godot.
BSPSource ->
GodotVMF ->
Most of the ‘brushes’ are at least in the right places, lol, sometimes the textures even work correctly!
I imagine this would go a good deal more smoothly if you had the actual proper VMF to start with.
We got this old right now.
See there are a couple of problems with this plan.
1] Emil Pagliarulo is complete self-sucking hack at this point, who quite literally could not write a coherent, engaging story, with characters that actually act and speak like human beings, in a world that is actually consistent and makes sense… if he tried.
As evidence of this, please see anything he’s done in the last decade.
So unless you’re gonna fire him and everyone he’s molded, no shot.
He was also the design director of Fallout 76 and Starfield.
Which are essentially perfect examples of both incompetent game design and execution of ssid design.
Literally, he is the primary problem with Bethesda as a game developing company.
2] The entire problem is that you, like the rest of AAA gaming, have the game dev prioritization backwards.
You want the actual experts to fix and refactor the engine. Having contractors do all that for the last decade plus is why everything is broken now; bandaids upon bandaids produces code necrosis.
Assets, on the other hand, are broadly much simpler, (presuming you habe templates and standards as determined by the engine), and there are way more people who can produce quality assets than there are people who can fix and refactor core engine code competently.
The problem that now exists, not just with Bethesda, but many game dev studios, and engines… is that there have been so many things contracted out for so long that nobody, literally no one actually has both a broad and deep understanding… there aren’t any experts any more.
Another great example of this is the attempt at the new engine for Halo Infinite. They just hired a bunch of contractors to overhaul the existing engine… almost none of them had ever used it before. They did their best, it was not enough, snd then they all got let go.
Yeah, we know Bethseda does not have ‘the engineering knowhow’, we’ve known that for like a decade now.
That the author considers this ‘an eyebrow raising assertion’ betrays that they understand nothing about games on the backend, or how development actually works.
Avellone argues there’s a unique roadblock with New Vegas: “the very last milestone” Bethesda gave Obsidian Entertainment was to “deliver all the source code and the ability to make the build” for $10,000.
“For reasons unknown to me, but I have suspicions, [Obsidian studio head] Feargus [Urquhart] decided not to cash out that milestone, and did not deliver it,” says Avellone. "It’s not a strange decision if you feel, which would not be out of the realms of possibility, that the New Vegas experience cheated him out of X amount of money.
You pull away all their bonuses, a decade ago, for missing a review score mandate by one point.
For a game with barely enough dev time allocated to it, for a dev cycle that would have been 100% crunch before crunch became a term people use.
Its the best 3D Fallout game that exists.
Its a game that largely revolves around revenge on some asshole who fucked you over.
And Bethesda wants to now remake it, probably looking to make a lot more than $10k.
Yeah, gee, I have no idea why they didn’t go for that last stretch goal, yep, no clue.
EDIT:
Now excuse me while I laugh, and whistle Heartache by the Numbers.
38 doubloons
But you don’t understand, we live in a meritocracy that rewards hard work and skill!
Any place that you could work for that would say this is run by fucking idiots, who are likely doing a techically legal, elaborate fraud.
But, but, if… degree mills exist… then…
Recruiters would have to do actual work, to vet that!
Clearly you haven’t been on LinkedIn enough to understand how the job market actually works.
Christ, hope April has a back brace.
Ok, now literally kill them all for crimes against humanity.
Beyond being evil, these fucking morons are too incompetent to be left in charge of anything.
True!
And technically, there many many variants of Proton, some bleeding edge, some more stable, some highly specified to work with particular games.
Theres also uh, soda, used by Bottles… which is… kind of a hybrid between standard WINE and Proton…
And then if we get into all the specific possible dependency packages, other more specific sort of modules… it gets very complicated very fast.