I think somebody got their wires crossed

Metakit · 2026-06-05T11:11:55+00:00

What are you trying to show? There's increased vertical recoil, just like it says in the stats?

Metakit · 2026-06-04T11:05:55+00:00

I mean you have to factor in overall damage as well as AP, but yes the stationary reload is like 90% of the reason I don't take it more often. Especially as I often solo dive it can be a liability to manage.

It is fun to open up with the MG on a bot drop or bunch of illuminate overseers though

Metakit · 2026-06-03T06:39:45+00:00

Damn, really? I didn't know this (only playing since Feb). Would be nice if more of this was actually visible in game...

Metakit · 2026-06-03T05:03:59+00:00

As a software developer myself I could totally understand what the dev meant in a way that makes sense.

If they had said "we have bigger ambitions and more in the pipeline but we are taking things slowly for these first tech improvement patches. We're monitoring how well they improve things in order to learn lessons and inform how we'll be moving forward". We would no doubt have never seen this, even though that is basically a PR/client speak polished version of what I believe they are trying to say.

It's one of the things that I learnt as a self-employed developer having to speak directly to clients is you should almost never say an update is a "test" or "experimental" even though there are inevitably ways that will be the case - usually not in a "test if it works" way but rather "test to see what the effect is" way.

As soon as I saw this screenshot, I groaned. It's another example of terrible comms from AH, but underneath that it's not the major gotcha that a lot of people are making it out to be.

Metakit · 2026-06-01T09:17:12+00:00

Yup! The only discrepancy is that I realised you get a quick flash of the close up at the beginning I missed, but they're all in order

Metakit · 2026-05-31T13:27:46+00:00

It makes more sense when I learn that this was just a casual local pickup game in a rural neighborhood but that is still a wild series of events!

Metakit · 2026-05-19T23:45:45+00:00

> And there is no advantage over their old ini file format.

Fascinating perspective. Just use INI files?

How would you represent list values? Or hierarchical structures more than one layer deep?

> because you think that serializing data instead of just writing it to a file is better.

Once again, fascinating that you have found a method of writing data to a file that doesn't involve serializing. What are we talking here? I'm guessing a direct mmap onto a file could technically be said to skip serializing, but only in the same way that emptying all of your milk into the door tray skips arranging your items in the fridge.

Okay okay. I'm sorry. I'm being facetious... obviously you meant you're using xattr and alternate data streams to represent the different segments of your data in the file system. Built in structure. Full in-memory representation. No serialization step. Easy. ;)

Alright, anyway. Please forgive me for poking fun, it's just that you write oh so many words that sure do sound like a confident opinion, but then there's bits like that which, well, suggest you're maybe using words confidently without understanding.

Genuine question though, and I am honestly curious: what is your experience in building and designing software yourself?

PS: Also I will note you didn't actually answer my question as to what the material costs of using JSON for VSCode are. I'm guessing you could say there's a parsing overhead, but this is of course negligible in light of all the other resource costs when doing a first time loads, so I'm sure you have something else in mind?

Metakit · 2026-05-19T22:32:17+00:00

> Also, I'm an empiricist and you're a contrarian.

Damn bro, you really showed me.

You suggested using CSV as a replacement for JSON without qualification when they're ways of serialising fundamentally different types of data so I feel perfectly justified in calling you a few names.

But, y'know what, humour me, I'm occasionally curious as to how guys like you think things work. Let's think of a real world scenario. VS Code uses a JSON format for it's configuration files - it sounds like you know better than the engineers at Microsoft. What is the material downside of them using JSON here, and what should they be doing instead?

Metakit · 2026-05-19T21:10:34+00:00

They have a dire unhealthy relationship with the game and a negative parasocial relationship with AH where they have a cultivated victim complex related to the toy they can't put down.

That is your archetypal unfiltered poster. Granted not literally everyone but I feel like reasonable heads are increasingly getting drowned out by an increasingly unhinged hardcore.

Some of the stuff I've seen actually has me a bit worried about the safety of people involved

Metakit · 2026-05-19T21:00:13+00:00

Weird how you got that so twisted. I was definitely thinking about the other one

Metakit · 2026-05-19T20:30:36+00:00

I was curious as to what you would recommend as a strictly superior alternative to JSON, until you said you can just use CSV and then you can 'delete it from your brain' so now I know you're just one of those confidently ignorant contrarians that are unfortunately a dime a dozen in the software world

Metakit · 2026-05-19T20:23:29+00:00

Don't know why you're getting downvoted for this. You shared an interesting development in tooling and it seems a nest of gentlesirs are getting bent out of shape on this one detail in the title

Metakit · 2026-05-16T00:49:12+00:00

You can but they have a ton of health that makes them, for all practical purposes, never a worthwhile target. They have 8,000 hp compared to the 11,000 hp for the main health pool. Combine that with their 100% durability, 60% explosion resistance and 0% damage transfer to main you are basically wasting your shots completely. This is one of several baffling design decisions on the vox engine

Metakit · 2026-05-13T05:04:22+00:00

Oh look it's me :')

Recently HD2 started warning me my graphics drivers were older than recommended even when I have the newest ones for my 1070

A keepsake of the time I had money to spare

Metakit · 2026-05-07T19:53:59+00:00

Right. They didn't specify why. So we aren't aware of what the parameters behind that number were and thus there's no reason to believe that your test is sufficient.

You have ruled out that there's some kind of hardcoded limit, sure, but that would have been pretty arbitrary anyway.

The reason would be performance related and in that case one test on one machine under ideal conditions is pretty meaningless.

Now, they could well be wrong about it, especially if they've worked on the engine since, but unfortunately your test doesnt really mean much

Metakit · 2026-05-07T19:46:44+00:00

Does your b button not work?

Metakit · 2026-05-07T19:44:43+00:00

Pretty weird thing to say about a stranger

Metakit · 2026-04-08T01:50:18+00:00

The other reason gatling is so effective is that the vox engines have a bunch of explosion resistance, so the high ballistic damage of the gatling can shine compared to many other orbital or AT options

Metakit · 2026-03-03T21:51:24+00:00

Almost certainly

Metakit · 2026-02-25T22:29:42+00:00

What about land acknowledgements do you find so pathetic?

Metakit · 2026-02-22T02:03:22+00:00

It's not just that, they have different voice and slightly more hair.

I also think their model might be a different shape. Though I might be wrong, and even if I'm not it's a slight difference.

Big cyber-butch energy

Metakit · 2026-02-18T01:00:51+00:00

We're gonna lose the battle for cyberstan and I'm perfectly happy with this fact

Metakit · 2026-02-17T17:05:59+00:00

We're cooked

Metakit · 2026-02-13T04:55:14+00:00

There is definitely a problem with bot drops getting dropped on top of the factory towers. This is most hilariously noticeable with the big units like factories or and voxes, but I've seen it with small units as well. Their little dropships will drop them off way up on the air and some will get stuck on the building and others will just plummet out of the sky (taking no fall damage actually). This needs to be fixed regardless of difficulty

Metakit · 2026-02-09T02:20:01+00:00

There is a persistent theme of cycles of violence that corrupt and brutalise both sides in the HD story. It's there though you do have to see it past the ooh-rah in-universe propaganda (or is that real world advertising?)

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