Sydney Falk @sydneyfalk@elekk.xyz

there's so much asset for Unity I can't process it

I will figure that out another day

minecraft for now

like I'm easily overwhelmed and I get why *I* can't handle this but like

this is more complicated than the original fucking Apollo mission, how does ANYBODY pick out the right shit they really wanted or even the satisfactory shit they can use

is there a cheatsheet somewhere with like the fifty best ones and I can just use that

harrrrrgh

"nature" subsection

four thousand different grass 'systems'

trees, endless trees, trees forever

UNITY IS THE MULTIVERSE SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK

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HOW MUCH OF IT IS THERE

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HOW IS THERE THIS MUCH STUFF FOR UNITY WHAT THE HELLING WHAT WHO HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO SORT THROUGH THIS MUCH STUFF OH MY GOD

so

so many things

it's full of assets

I'm not gonna claim I have excuses for my mistakes, I fuck up regularly

but nobody makes mistakes randomly, they do it because of flawed logic, failed perception, neurological tendencies inherent to humans, missing information, etc.

what I really know is that watching the approaching shitstorm feels way too much like early 2016.

when people were saying "we have to hear them out" about people who demonstrated clear bad faith in the past but were suddenly okay people to hear out!

like, seriously, I have no friggin' idea, I don't use Visual Studio (well, I haven't since college, so about twelve years and ever how many changes ago)

what the fuck is this thing doing that it cannot re-do or un-do or doo-doo

I will never know

what the actual fuck, Visual Studio

"Metadata file aspd;fihaqwiopugfhbqweop45789gth2805rt3riofubnaodfkjn.dll could not be found"

WHO MUST I KILL TO SLAKE THY ANGER

❤ Q A ❤ L I F E

*runs through the Unity roll-a-ball tutorial*

*immediately finds a discrepancy between the video's version of the code and the actual code as given at the page for people to copy if they're not typing it in*

QA LIFE

thinking about setting up a second Overwatch account, or just killing my main one and starting over

because I cannot be okay with being aTorb main and I actually got teased about it on a "it's okay, there's nothing wrong with it" semi-intervention

I don't WANT it

I don't think there's anything wrong with it for other people

but I don't want it

so if I start over I can get more hours in on other heroes and nobody will EVER really ASK you to play Torbjorn, and that'll be that

so I'm just imagining tons of Archives stuff

* an Archives moment where you play a Talon crew (thinking Widow, Sombra, Doomfist, and Moira) in active infiltration/sabotage (way less chaotic than Ret/Upri at first)

* Archives PvP "Fragmentation": a crew of 'good' Overwatch agents just before disbanding, versus any 'baddies' that include Reaper

* Archives PvP "Outbreak" after more omnic heroes are added where no duplicate human team heroes are allowed but two of any omnic team hero is allowed

it's really nice that sometimes I can be like "keep it tactical" if two people on my team in comp matches start arguing and they'll DO it

like

holy fuck

(we even got a WIN that time, because the salty bois dialed down their need to piss and moan)

It'd all be a thing that takes getting balanced. I have zero expectation I can get this right starting from the beginning, but if I playtest the first six or eight mechas with a small group of other players long enough, collect some statistics, etc., I can refine it and move forward from there.

And there's likely gonna be some mechs with specials that don't heal/armor/shield in any way at all, but that makes them in need of support in team play by necessity. Exceptions, rather than the norm.

The beauty here is that I can use healing/armor/shield stuff as special tactics OF these roles, instead of having it be unique to a subset (well, MOSTLY unique, she glares at Soldier's health thingy).

So a tank might have a special that distributes X amount of armor amongst all allied players -- so if it's just the tank? JUST THE TANK GETS IT.

An attacker may have a 'dormant' special where they become immobile (a la Mei's iceblock reading nook) but it's partially distributed to teammates too.

The current idea is that 'defense' will be mobility based by default, tanks will be high HP, and attackers will be tissue paper that can outmove tanks but not defenders. (There ARE going to be special moves that violate these basic principles, but basically this is the idea.)

Roughly:

damage mobility HP
att high med low
def low high med
tank med low high

and (I don't mean to sound like a jerk about this, I really don't) I decided that my division groups in #TheStrongholds will be to the balancing in Overwatch

not in MEAN response, because, like, really, I love the game, the lore is vast and labyrinthine and I like the Archives so far and all

but

balance wise

I want Strongholds to have 1v1 possible for basically ANY two mecha

kinda got this idea of how to pull it off, too, but it's complicated in some ways (and I don't know if it'll work!)