August 22nd, 2023 Livestream
Q&A: What's the fun thing to change in the backend ?
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what's the most fun thing to change in the back end nothing this game is so complex at this point there's so many like systems and layers of systems to deal with our game so like whenever you want to change even changing something small when I implemented the check mark, for the game just like doing that was like it's so much work and and making sure it works for multiplayer so, I think there's no system that's fun to change I think the fun aspect of making something new you know so like when we made the new fluid dynamics you know where we implemented pipes that's a fun challenge we implemented
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, drones that's something new that's fun to do but like maintaining systems and you know especially when you've made a system and you're like sat on like this is how it's going to work and then you realize like that doesn't jive with this other system or we need to tweak like this tiny thing that goes against like the whole architecture of the system we made so like making small changes requires huge changes like one of those things is the gas mask not working in vehicles like gas masks weren't supposed to be used in vehicles that was an assumption that was made and then we realized no we do need gas masking vehicles but we also have a dependency where we need to unequip all your equipment when you enter vehicles and that doesn't jive with the whole aspect of you needing to use equipment a vehicle which means like we need to revamp how the equipment system works and even though we've done that we still didn't like manage to fit this whole bug into the calculation so like it's a huge game and it's very annoying to work on these huge speaker problems because they require so much more work than you think essentially so yeah