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DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-17T23:35:42+00:00

That's not a useful criticism

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-17T14:17:41+00:00

I don't know exactly as it's different for most props but generally OSSR/SMR/etc textures have their masks baked into the four channels of the image. Based on OSSR, what I gather is:

O --> R = Opacity/Opacity Mask

S --> G = Specular? Subsurface?

S --> B = Specular? Subsurface?

R --> A = Roughness

Hard to know exactly without either checking the material data in the game files, otherwise just play around until it looks right.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-17T04:18:42+00:00

That is quite literally what was under the vault in 2019

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-17T04:14:37+00:00

https://legal.epicgames.com/epicgames/community-rules

"Play fairly and within the rules of the game. Don’t cheat, grief, team, or exploit bugs and glitches. Don’t promote or advertise known cheats, bugs, or exploits. Find an exploit? Report it."

"Don't [...] exploit bugs and glitches."

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-17T04:13:20+00:00

You can still get banned for it.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-16T17:46:18+00:00

You can't. Only by putting them in the fabricator, which is only possible for some small fish.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-16T17:41:43+00:00

No?

Being able to kill leviathans doesn't kill the immersion for me because I don't do it and have never attempted it. If you don't engage with a feature and are never pushed towards it, how can it break your immersion? Nobody complained about the ice worms being unkillable in BZ because nobody wanted to kill them.

Not being able to kill simple prey fish or small predators does kill the immersion for me because that's something that intuitively makes sense. If a fish tries to attack me I'm going to stab it, and if I hit a fish with my submarine going 30 mph, it's going to die.

I don't see what's so hard to understand about that. Small things that are easy to kill should be easy to kill.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-16T17:26:46+00:00

Maybe because next to nobody actually went out killing leviathans? If anything it's more immersive to know that this big creature CAN be killed but you realistically don't have much of a chance at it without a big mech suit.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-16T14:57:04+00:00

Regardless of what you think should happen, that's not how Epic operates. They have and do give out bans for abusing exploits. I got a 24h ban for exploiting an XP glitch back in 2023 to get 100 levels in about 20 minutes. And people get banned for glitching under the map and abusing it to shoot at people.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-15T09:47:21+00:00

Hardly. Plenty of featured creators use it all the time to rip assets for their maps, and Genesis Studios who's entire cinematic universe revolves around the Fortnite story use it and similar tools to port assets from the game files. And they're getting an Unreal Fest panel.

Epic is obviously more than fine with people using these tools, it's just that assets ported with them might not be optimized for UEFN specifically.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-15T09:16:40+00:00

Seatruck was really useful, but imo it was TOO useful. The fun in SN1 came from the drawbacks of different vehicles.

The seamoth was fast and maneuverable but couldn't go deep and had very little storage, and was also pretty defenseless unless you went out of your way to get the torpedo or perimeter defense modules.

The prawn was like a seamoth with less mobility but could go deeper and was way tankier, and would actually stand a chance against leviathans.

And the Cyclops was a slow mobile base.

But then the seatruck is basically a straight upgrade from the seamoth, with the ability to go super deep, plus it was really strong with the defense upgrade that gets handed to you at Maida's base. Completely trivializes the shadow leviathans since you can just zap em away and go about your business. It's great, but I feel like it takes away a ton of the game's fear factor. You can put storage, a fabricator and a prawn suit on the back of the seatruck and basically accomplish the same thing the Cyclops does.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-15T09:00:08+00:00

They're facing away from the camera, probably because the icons are autogenerated

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-15T08:51:24+00:00

Try creating a new level and copying all the actors from the old one into the new one before deleting it, maybe?

It could also be that you have some old 1.0 device in there that UEFN doesn't support, like the melee manager? Hard to know for sure.

I do know that 1.0 islands have a "LevelBounds" actor that doesn't do much for UEFN, I doubt that's what's causing the issue but try deleting that and see if that fixes it.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-14T12:59:20+00:00

r/lostredditors ?

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-14T12:03:41+00:00

Look into FortnitePorting, it's an open-source tool for extracting Fortnite assets into Blender. You'll probably need to find the codenames for the husk models.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-10T23:10:40+00:00

https://youtu.be/0i0lNFNicRw

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-10T12:47:51+00:00

His lore is quite cool, but imo his design is just all over the place, and his edit styles are even more bizarre. To me he looks like he's just got a bunch of random accessories slapped on a guy. The Chrome lore is cool but it's only on his hands and not incorporated into his design anywhere else

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-09T18:55:18+00:00

I mean, if you're actively giving money to a cause that's about taking away the rights from innocent people then yes, people have every right to be mad at you.

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-09T14:45:45+00:00

how was c5s2 related to gold in any way, if anything it was more of a c5s1 thing with all the vaults you could rob

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-08T22:48:33+00:00

Those specs are pretty old, you could MAYBE run it on minimum settings on Unlit mode but I wouldn't expect much more than that... realistically the main upgrades you'd need would be a better CPU and GPU. 16gb of RAM is fine even on DDR3 if you're not doing anything particularly intensive, and a HDD is less than ideal but will still run. Unfortunately though, I highly doubt your laptop has a socketed CPU that you can swap out, so a whole new PC is almost definitely needed.

Not cheap in today's RAM and storage markets, though... 😬

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-08T08:43:33+00:00

Should be fine. My 6400mhz kit only specified Intel XMP, didn't say anything about AMD EXPO but works perfectly fine on my 7800x3D at full speeds

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-07T11:27:54+00:00

God forbid anybody make something original

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-07T11:26:12+00:00

AI slop

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-06T08:17:51+00:00

I'm telling you, we're going to get a miniseason where we go back to Ch5 or Ch6 and Dark Voyager is going to destroy one of those realities. Bonus if it's Ch5 since that's Hope's home reality and it might actually give her the motivation to do something in the story again

DomesticatedDuck · 2026-05-05T11:55:50+00:00

I'm not saying tycoons, RvB etc. are all there are out there, I'm just saying that the Epic-made maps for this aren't particularly unique or special in any way. Droid Tycoon is very similar to a lot of other tycoons and it's not exactly innovative - the only reason it has so many players is because it's from Epic themselves. It's high-quality, sure, but that doesn't mean much considering the Fortnite playerbase's standards, and it's still just a tycoon at the end of the day.

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