Why ADS When You Can Hipfire?

17 October, 2024 

Ah ha! Eureka! “I’ve done it” type beat. Except the only thing I’ve done is create yet another rendition of your (hopefully) favorite weekly digest - the Weekly Cheese! Now listen. I’m gonna level with you today - I’m going on vacation tomorrow. Just a lil weekend getaway, but still something nice to escape the mundane for a few days. Because I’m already in that mental space, I’m gonna keep it short - okie? Let’s dive in.

The Updates!

• Ryan

  • General

    • More FPS Viewmodel work.

  • FPS Branch

    • Worked on simplifying a lot of the old transform work from third person to first person.

    • Readded NPCs (the cubes hunger for your flesh).

    • Reduced server build size from 2.3 GB to 700MB.

• Bryan

  • Worked out some of the obvious kinks with the first draft of our Tier 1 augments. After some back and forth, the Tier 1 set is looking a bit more balanced and should offer some really unique gameplay experiences. Once the individual augments have been named, they will enter the holy cells of the object dictionary.

  • Tier 2 is still in the works. Still needs quite a bit more brainstorming, but I think we might be onto something pretty cool here. Gonna redline on espresso over the weekend and see what kind of progress I can make

• Daniel

  • Diffing college. Low diff.

  • Added base classes and behaviors for boss cube prototype. Boss will have following sequences:

    • Harden: Invulnerable to damage (bro thinks he’s a pocket monster).

    • Spawn minions: Self-explanatory.

    • Homing missiles: Will shoot destructible homing projectiles at you while minions are alive.

    • Idle / Vulnerable: Once minions dead, boss cube will be damageable for a short window.

• Mike

  • Dealing with the mental torture that is urban planning (he’s building the city map).

• Alex

  • Sailing the salty seas in search of plunder (he’s on a cruise).

• Cole

  • Working on the weapon molds (he’s insane).

In Closing

It’s still mid-October people. If I see a Yuletide coniferous plant in any of your houses before Halloween is up, so help me Cheese I’ll go even more grey. And you don’t want that, do you? If you do, keep it to yourself.

What? What are they selling? Chocolate?, 

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