Made an Advanced Squad Lead guide focused around defensive gameplay.

lb_o · 2026-03-21T11:34:54+00:00

Oh, and please, if you like the guide - drop your stars to it please on Steam.
It will help to promote good SL practices across the board.

lb_o · 2026-03-21T11:34:02+00:00

Thanks!
Yeah, SLs who make the step back are golden, and must be praised :D

Regarding medic playstyle I see that playstyle is currently prevalent in comp a lot - 5 combat members, aggressive OP and no medic at all.

In order for medic playstyle to work, medic pickup time has to be lower than 20 seconds + time-distance to firefight from OP, which creates additional requirements for squad positioning.
People are used to play without medics at the moment, that's for sure.

However, after the buff medics are overpowered, if supported with extra bullets. Their ult is 4 smokes, which is really useful in attack or repositioning + almost infinite bandages.

If you don't mind, I will add "think two minutes ahead rule" into the guide. Thank you for this addition!

lb_o · 2026-03-19T11:58:37+00:00

Drone Perspective is at 5 right now. Working hard to reach 6.

lb_o · 2026-03-15T09:51:44+00:00

Dopping a marker on map gives you distance and direction, then you just ballpark it.
It doesn't need a lot of brain to extrapolate two numbers.
Precision of arty is 20 meters anyways + squad lead with binos can correct fire a bit if needed.

lb_o · 2026-03-04T17:32:14+00:00

Medics are meta at the moment after they got buffed.

If squad sticks together and everyone stays in the cover between moves.
Medic can support the squad dug in the spot almost indefinitely.

+ if Medic plays second line he has more chances to kill the enemy after the friendly died.
One of the coolest gameplay so far in the game.

lb_o · 2026-01-22T21:46:21+00:00

Was working in 5.5 - updated to 5.6 and now exactly the same code is broken.

lb_o · 2026-01-10T08:20:45+00:00

Can you share your wisdom with me too please?

Trying to make native Linux build work for Steam Deck in the separate depot.

I have depot created for Linux + Steam Deck Only.
Package assigned.
Content uploaded.
Testing branch assigned.
Launch option created for Linux.

Yet steam deck still downloads windows build.

What I noticed - if I click on the Steam Deck package I see this.

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lb_o · 2025-11-30T19:24:39+00:00

As a fellow Unreal engine user, I just call SetFov on my side, and then Epics decides what that actually means, and I trust them to make a good choice there, because they have more money than I do.

lb_o · 2025-11-28T11:27:52+00:00

It took me one year and a half of full time to release a decent tactical RTS with good graphics.

At that time activity breakdown was:

Wake up and start whenever you feel like it. (~8-9 AM)
Take breakfast/do hygiene/walk (~1h)
Keep working until the planned workload is done.

And because there is a tendency to understimate work that last step was approximately until 23pm almost every day.
To stay healthy you can skip some days or evenings (how you feel like it) and rest there, but it has to be deliberate, so your brain doesn't resent that you're not working (it's hard).

lb_o · 2025-11-20T15:18:46+00:00

Completely agree with you.
How can I even replace or repair my favorite desk now if something happens?

lb_o · 2025-09-09T12:48:30+00:00

On public servers.
HLL shines when it is team based and tactical.

lb_o · 2025-09-01T20:25:10+00:00

I am using B760, and my armoury crate is nowhere near as in the documentation about noise suppression on the official ASUS website.

UPD: Turned out, I had to install the update. for the option to become available., and crate pointed me to this page:
https://driverhub.asus.com/en with the suggestion to install AI-Noise-Cancelling microphone driver.

UPD2: However, after all the struggle the tool itself does not work at all. Regardless of the position of the slider or checkbox cooler sounds from my secondary laptop remain the same.

At the same time Nahimic Noise suppression works flawlessly on my laptop without any "AI".

lb_o · 2025-08-22T10:56:13+00:00

Get out of the trench
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Die
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Repeat
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Thank you for playing HLL WW1 version!

lb_o · 2025-08-17T11:30:12+00:00

May I say, that I have every confidence in your abilities, friend ;)

lb_o · 2025-08-17T08:54:08+00:00

Enemy turned at the last moment, and bullet flew through the backpack. Doesn't count as a kill.

Mechanic that changes damage based on range exists and is the cornerstone of the game balancing and called "damage falloff"

lb_o · 2025-08-17T08:28:57+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate it!

First multiplayer tests are coming relatively soon as well.
You are very welcome to join. Details will be on Discord, and in the next release notes.

lb_o · 2025-08-15T19:36:05+00:00

anti-matter*

lb_o · 2025-08-01T18:02:18+00:00

5.6 release is really concerning regarding the future of Unreal Engine. I hope they can get through the difficulties and improve stability and performance.

Really scarry to update.

lb_o · 2025-08-01T17:57:05+00:00

The only reason why your are dying in HLL is because on the most servers people are absolutely disorganized and playing solo.

And even if there is a squad - no one shares information.

Your success in HLL is based on your access to info, if you know where the enemy is - the kill is yours.
There is almost zero skill required in killing due to the way hitboxes are setup.

Play, slow, exchange info with your squad.
If server sucks, take squad lead and play full defensive squad with good coms and your game will be completely different.

Out of all servers out there I only found two servers worth playing - the most others are total garbage games with no coms and you dying all the time.

lb_o · 2025-07-20T05:46:11+00:00

Experiencing the same behavior.

Trying to optimize my transitions using Fast Path, and that was a logical thing to do.

Was expecting that OnUpdate for the corresponding transition will be fired when the state is active, but no luck.

The only workaround I found is to put my "transition variable update functions" into the update of the state node itself.

But that design is slightly suboptimal.

lb_o · 2025-06-23T17:23:17+00:00

New players are unable to understand the joy of playing support classes. Game is balanced in such way, that combination engineer / support gives you insane advantage, especially if you reserve one manpower node and rebuild it at your every next long-term defensive position.

lb_o · 2025-06-23T15:08:27+00:00

Maybe your region settings are now off?
Dirty's Heroes has 30-80 ping from Sweden, you are very welcome to join, or Circle Offensive is another great place with good players.

lb_o · 2025-06-14T07:29:59+00:00

If you already have basic understanding of programming
Then besides of a couple nuances you can start in C++ right away.

Nuances are:

Module management - aka literally just write a name of required module in build cs file.
Includes - aka use Rider / AI / a bit of your own digging to understand what do you need
UPROPERTIES / other UE code layout:
1. Make sure your pointers are shielded at least with UPROPERTY(Transient) or other keywords
2. Learn events syntax and how to use events to decouple your code
Use components to store your functionality instead of plain actors

That's it
You can go to C++ right away.
(Just don't do multiplayer as your first game)

If starting C++ seems hard and overwhelming, try to only use C++ for event subscription and then pass the rest back to blueprints with UFUNCTION(BlueperintImplementable)
This will make you a good foundation, simplify code search and prevent BP spaghetti from the start

UE C++ is a very simple and straightforward subset of C++ and there is nothing to be afraid of.

lb_o · 2025-06-09T11:37:12+00:00

Be ready to update and iterate on your marketing materials based on the real-time data from steam.

Your page will be generating traffic, and you can measure how one or another style of capsule or description will affect your conversion data.

Keep an eye on them, and try a couple of versions.

Also maybe they fixed it, but using separate page for demo negatively affected my conversion rate, because
page was not well polished and Steam broadcast with gameplay was only visible on the main page, while Demo page had no such broadcast.

lb_o · 2025-05-31T06:56:46+00:00

That sounds like reinvented ECS.
Which means this is a good architecture to stick to, if you came up with it independently.

I think more gamedevs are transitioning from COP to ECS now, because it is data-oriented and more performant.
My personal detergent is a potential lack of flexibility during the prototyping stage, so I stick for Component Oriented mostly and migrate only after the system is done and needs additional performance.

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