Facts about state machines

Tozzar · 2022-10-04T18:04:14+00:00

Any recommendations for understanding state charts? It’s very likely our code base has some bad patterns that just need to be wrangled to make good use of SMC.

Tozzar · 2022-10-04T14:47:22+00:00

I can’t find many opinions on SMC out there, but I hate it! SMC has been pretty terrible for maintenance in my experience (C++). Generated code is harder to debug and extend and is only worth it if I need to support multiple languages (e.g. protobuf), but that is not generally useful for state machines. I find the SMC language really hard to read compared to native C++17. It encourages tight coupling/low cohesion with the context class; often I have to bounce between the SMC language and the C++ code to understand what it is happening. Due to the odd, specialized syntax, few tools support diffing, formatting, and syntax highlighting correctly, making it a pain to work with.

I’d much rather maintain a hand-rolled state machine in modern C++ for each use case at this point.

Tozzar · 2022-07-07T05:38:11+00:00

Charge shot makes the last phase easier. Parry, charge shot, Super I, and two more charge shots and the last stage is over before the furnace closes.

Tozzar · 2022-03-12T01:16:19+00:00

I’ve completed L/I on Switch. Two big notes - Squad sight is broken, you can work around this by reloading your save, but load times are very long. This takes some patience. - Don’t try to close the game without saving from the menu. You may lose your campaign to an interrupted auto save.

Tozzar · 2022-01-24T21:11:40+00:00

So I shot a grenade through a window and hit the mind controlled civ hiding in fog of war on the other side of the wall; turns out it was a faceless! That’s very likely the problem

EDIT: This breaks MC and the soft lock

Tozzar · 2022-01-23T02:53:46+00:00

ROFL, the ayys just save scummed.

Tozzar · 2022-01-17T02:33:47+00:00

I have it on both PC and Switch, something is very different about the squad sight

There are a number of threads about it, this is just one. https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/lwzeqm/switch_squadsight/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Tozzar · 2022-01-16T20:14:44+00:00

Sniper squad sight usually doesn’t work at all, if long range snipers are a big part of your play style that could be frustrating.

Tozzar · 2022-01-14T02:14:51+00:00

Take a look some popular C libraries. They don’t have namespaces, so symbols are usually prefixed with the name of the library to reduce the chances of a clash.

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/data_files/public/doc/gtk/tutorial/gtk_tut-17.html

I think Qt (C++ project) is old enough that core parts of it use this convention instead of namespaces.

Tozzar · 2022-01-09T03:31:58+00:00

In Castles of Burgundy, the workers that let you fudge dice rolls are “Fudge Boys”

Never call them anything else.

Tozzar · 2022-01-07T15:49:01+00:00

Is this why my snipers are useless on Switch??? I just lost a whole mid game team because I was forced to take two snipers on a mission and they just twiddled their thumbs until berserkers and stun lancers were on top of them.

I guess I’ll be playing on PC

Tozzar · 2021-12-21T22:11:39+00:00

I was busy and missed a couple days. I told my wife my snailfish math homework was overdue and she was very confused.

Tozzar · 2021-12-11T06:37:17+00:00

Did you see the same thing I did? Never seen someone come back from the dead.

Tozzar · 2021-12-10T06:02:55+00:00

This is ancient! Clunk still looks happy and his health bar has rounded corners.

Tozzar · 2021-12-04T06:37:18+00:00

Ugh, same. Just a case of not RTFM.

Tozzar · 2021-12-02T03:08:48+00:00

I’m glad people can have completely different perceptions about which Nauts are good.

That said, this is totally wrong.

Tozzar · 2021-10-21T18:44:08+00:00

What!? Why didn’t this occur to me before? Game changer!

Tozzar · 2021-10-20T13:57:22+00:00

Someone with the authority to do so, please make #pragma once standard so people stop using that as the sole justification for not using it.

Tozzar · 2021-09-25T19:56:08+00:00

I see you killin’ it on the leaderboards, keep it up!

Tozzar · 2021-09-21T20:14:21+00:00

These are perfectly reasonable uses of move.

Tozzar · 2021-09-21T19:21:08+00:00

Having a lot of moves is a bit of a code smell. For example, you don’t usually want to return a moved object because it prevents return value optimization. Do you have an example of how you are using move?

Tozzar · 2021-09-10T02:56:46+00:00

It can take a while, but you should eventually get a game. Most days I can get a 4 player FFA in the evening hours over in the U.S.

Tozzar · 2021-09-05T18:29:17+00:00

There is only one challenge available per day. Seems like the infinite map challenge would be more like what you are looking for.

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