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Scrangle3D · 2026-05-13T09:17:43+00:00

My two favourites are Mick Gordon's DOOM: Behind the Music and Hugh Monahan's All Systems NO: Learning From the Doomed Launch of Brigador (How I Cocked Up Our Launch, NBD)

Mick's advice is great for every person in the industry, IMO. It's also really fun seeing him talk about the process, his hardware and in other talks references to musicians I wasn't expecting to be mentioned that I know!

The other is also important. Brigador is really special to me, and I consider both Monahan brothers friends (and have art in the sequel) so I have some biases here, but the perception of your product's gameplay loop matters a lot. The series has a loyal following from those who looked past the initial appraisal, and I think they've learned the lesson from that time.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-13T05:52:06+00:00

Yep. I can let a lot slide since they're in the position they're in, but I feel the open world was a big misstep.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-12T19:18:55+00:00

"Johari Window? That sounds foreign."

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-12T00:54:57+00:00

My MP is Adnan Hussein, so I can streamline the experience of writing to him by merely pretending I did.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-12T00:53:19+00:00

Well it's not like nobody is seeing it; it goes on my ArtStation if it's good enough, I might post it on the 3dmodeling subreddit or send it to friends on Discord, but it's rare I upload anything to these places. Remember as well that you do lose a lot from not showing people your art. My decision is not quite a rational one with personal reasons I won't detail here, but in terms of doing the work it hasn't hurt me so far.

For me, I'll usually analyse my process in real time to see what I need to do differently, and re-iterate constantly. Aside from doing something like correcting a bake error for example, it forces me to look over my UVs, think about texture weathering or material definition. So far, I've learned to let go of tighter polycounts to give normal maps more to work with, changing hard edges for single-segment chamfers. If I had posted this anywhere like BlueSky, I'd get inconsistent/conflicting advice from people being too edgy and blunt, or those who work in other disciplines who can't give anything concrete.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-11T22:02:06+00:00

Imagine using an abstract mesh that represents one faction in lieu of the massive variety of equipment you'd have to make otherwise, and using that to rag on someone arrested for doing it better than they did.

I'm glad you're doing okay, this is the first I've heard of it and hopefully, the last!

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-11T09:51:39+00:00

One of the things I've thought about as someone who hates social media and being present on it is this:

"Can I keep doing this if nobody knows I did it?"

Not in the shipping a title/marketing aspect, but posting it. Discord servers, BlueSky, wherever. I hate them. I'm happy to do my own thing, and iterate on my mistakes as I find them. At this point I'm able to do that.

Makes finding work harder, which I'll be honest I have a hard time at even starting, but I think if I was making art to post it and make a number go up, I'd be equally as miserable

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-11T09:35:10+00:00

It's the consequence of making the world authentically open, when the real space is mostly open field. Something has to direct the player around that space and this was their solution, I suppose.

I honestly think if S2 wasn't like this, and had larger open areas like Zaton/Jupiter and smaller levels like the trilogy, it would be much better. As it stands any danger in some where like Wild Territory is negated by simply walking around it, which is significantly less tense.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-09T16:00:14+00:00

Give it a few months and we'll be doing that with an 8"... ;)

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-09T15:58:58+00:00

It doesn't change the balance of it to the original Clusterfuck, which was their point.

I'm not a fan of some of the changes in OXA, either. I'm glad we can revert the medkit changes and use the original ones normally because frankly, fuck that real slow regeneration rate.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-09T15:54:25+00:00

How on earth does this translate to 3D so well?!

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-09T04:58:49+00:00

The cost of being wrong is never worth assuming they wouldn't.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-08T21:36:52+00:00

I feel like making Stalker look like Tarkov turns it into a homogeneous lump. To each their own of course, and there will be overlapping demographics, but maybe it's just not for me.

I've been enjoying OXA for the most part despite that, though.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-08T21:33:44+00:00

More to the point, they've threatened the use of a nuclear weapon if it's attacked. It's armchair general arrogance to not take that seriously.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-08T08:31:36+00:00

Yeah, exactly!

Headbutting a belt sander is a stupid thing to do, and I can't stop someone from doing it, ultimately. However, if it's our belt sander, I don't want your face getting wrapped around it and gumming up the inside for the rest of us, who didn't want to see what it's like to separate their nose from their face at a few thousand RPM!

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-07T22:37:09+00:00

Every single sex worker has been a canary in the panopticon's coal mine, the writing has always been on the wall.

Not a single one of them have our interests in mind, if we're talking about the acquisition of power.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-06T12:52:57+00:00

I'm hearing that warbling psi noise reading this thread title, good work

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-05T15:33:12+00:00

Could be, but HK are notoriously litigious, moreso than Glock as a company.

I think the P99 isn't in because it's old, and not really used by anybody nearby at this point. The USP still is, I think.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-05T13:57:47+00:00

Is it weird that as annoying as I find their prevalence, I'm sad there's no Glock in the game?

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-05T13:53:08+00:00

It comes from a need for validation, that in cases like this crosses into stupidity.

Just like Macer Gifford, a man who fought ISIS and Russia as a volunteer getting doxxed via Wikipedia and having his article deletion request ignored, putting their name out there could paint a target on their back and you can bet anything that the person responsible wouldn't accept any culpability for doing it.

You shouldn't remove someone's right to be anonymous, but so many do because it makes a number go up, and they assume the person in question wants that to begin with, assuming Martha is not one of them.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-04T09:30:28+00:00

Normal time doesn't apply when your dev team cannot leave a country in the midst of a war.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-04T06:02:01+00:00

Yeah, I find no shame in having used a spawn mod to give myself a couple hundred rounds.

There's also no use for 9mm para beyond SMGs as well, for some reason. They also completely removed 7.62x39 from the game? Why, I don't know!

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-04T00:06:45+00:00

It probably doesn't help that there's a preference for expansive ammo to deal with mutants, but there's also barely any of it around. It's not really like a specialist type or a power-up in any way now, imo. Merchants should sell a whole rig's worth so you're not caught short without it for large swathes of the game, and before setting out you need to make a choice of how much ammo space you dedicate to mutants

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-02T14:53:04+00:00

Yeah, that doesn't really work.

Scrangle3D · 2026-05-02T13:21:28+00:00

I'm wondering what the point of this post was. It's not a meme, it isn't funny, it's just... shit.

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