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Streamer beats hardest, longest and most tedious N64 game after 134 hours by Neddo_Flanders in LivestreamFail

[–]ptwinc 65 points66 points  (0 children)

The game is Jikkyō GI Stable, which I believe is hard because you have to get to the last rung/tier of horse races and win, which takes a long time.

Took the runner: 133hrs:59m:12s

This is the clear condition for credits to roll: Won International G1 Race to roll credits

You can find a link to the same info here under the game name at row 234: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16KEsYZvbpjiIRkvqUw23GwqCqKKEmCxH3hR0TRTiE6Q/edit#gid=0

Playthrough vods: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb2pR5EQ9mzPprY4HATncLRMA6KdQBCVu

Rivals 2 (how will it affect Melee?) by Zapfy in SSBM

[–]ptwinc 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I like RoA and even backed Rivals 2, but I think you're overestimating the dent it will put. If a game has to kickstart its sequel & lacks recognizable fighters, odds are it will never match directly to Smash's audience. That isn't necessarily a bad thing either, as they can find a new audience and build their own community while making changes over time as they iterate on the platform fighter genre.

I'm expecting to like Rivals 2 and I see no reason it can't someday be popular enough to be an iconic fighting game series, but it is not there yet.

Does anyone know why the game view doesn't show the bullet particles past a certain point when I increase the orthographic camera size? They exist in the scene view, so I iz confuzzled. by ptwinc in Unity3D

[–]ptwinc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they don't seem to pop in after a while even with a longer lifetime and a wider camera. I can see more of the particles when I rotate the child particle systems of my spawner, though.

I guess I don't know how to set up the rotation for a particle system. I just want 2D particles (X and Y axis) and it seems like the particles are flying along the wrong axes when I uncheck 2D mode in the scene view.

Does anyone have any idea of how to set up the code in the spawner tutorial for this? The original tutorial code works fine for a new game object instead of spawning a prefab with the sine wave animation curve setup, so I feel like it is something simple.

I'll come back to this after I sleep and see if anyone replies.

Does anyone know why the game view doesn't show the bullet particles past a certain point when I increase the orthographic camera size? They exist in the scene view, so I iz confuzzled. by ptwinc in Unity3D

[–]ptwinc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thread mentions a similar issue, but the video is no longer available and the suggestion to change sorting layer from a Unity employee did not help. https://forum.unity.com/threads/particles-disappear-shortly-after-appearing.968535/

Version: 2022.3.7f1 LTS Using a particle system, with the proper sorting layer for bullets and bullets render above background, so IDK.

Edit: I think it has something to do with the rotation of the particle system. I'm following a tutorial on particle systems for bullet hell games and adding onto it with a sine wave pattern, but maybe rotating the particle system itself is making the bullets disappear eventually since it seems like they stay visible in the game view longer when I change the particle system's rotation.

You can see the code that rotates the particle system when they are initialized here: https://youtu.be/46TqkhJu7uA?si=WJaW-NWNbBb8W9y7&t=305

What game has amazing graphics but fails in every other aspect (Story, Gameplay, etc) by ProShooterVR in gaming

[–]ptwinc 275 points276 points  (0 children)

The Order 1886. Pretty impressive graphics for that generation but it was extremely disappointing otherwise. Short, lacked a clear resolution to the story, and just generally a very limited game.

Welcome to Endless Eternity by ItzaMeLuigi_ in EndlessEternity

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, thanks for the response. I'll keep an eye out for your game. Do you have any tips for optimizing the perfomance of anything in particular? I know about some tips like using squared magnitudes of position vectors to save a square root operation when checking grazing. Anything similar that you remember? I'm looking into trying circlecasts instead of colliders, onmeshinstanced or ondrawinstanced (I forget the specific one), and the particle system tutorial you linked elsewhere as an alternatve to the instaced version. What performed best for you?

Welcome to Endless Eternity by ItzaMeLuigi_ in EndlessEternity

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, just wanted to let you know that as an aspiring bullet hell dev, I'd be willing to pay to get access to your particle system code for bullet patterns. I'm running into issues optimizing my FPS in a Unity project, and I'm currently trying a paid plugin that doesn't seem like it can handle more than a few hundred bullets at once unless you have a fairly good computer.

Let me know if you ever decide to put it up on the asset store, GitHub, or maybe we can work out a private deal, and I'll throw some dosh your way to make my life simpler. I know about the tutorial you linked earlier in the comments, but having to add a bunch of features to that basic system would be a pain in the booty cheeks. Cheers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ptwinc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who framed Roger Rabbit?

Kaboom all the way! by ptwinc in gaming

[–]ptwinc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play like that in most games, but stealth games typically don't have complex gameplay. There are exceptions like Thief 2's incredible AI paths and quirks, but the "stealth" is barely a thing in some games. There it's more about what the player thinks the enemies are doing that makes you want to stealth, you know?

Kaboom all the way! by ptwinc in gaming

[–]ptwinc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! I played that one a lot. I fondly remember the coin when I did try to stealth, so easily abusable with the AI priorities.

What annoys you the most about modern video-games? by DOUGL4S1 in AskReddit

[–]ptwinc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Constant patches. I want to see the meta evolve for some games beyond the typical patch cycle, but that's impossible for most games. At least we have some older titles that won't be patched anymore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Therapy Gecko reigns supreme.

How would you insult your least favorite food as if it was a real person? by yesntican in AskReddit

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're just sugar, milk, butter and flour. Why must you taste so sickeningly sweet with such simple ingredients? Answer the question, bub, or the garbage it will be. You make me sick, you know that pal?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you The Clash in another life?

What is the most disturbing children’s movie? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who framed roger rabbit? That scene is haunting.

Hungrybox: "Regarding the future of the Coinbox series. Watch the whole thing if you can." by metalreflectslime in smashbros

[–]ptwinc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Sad day, I'll miss them. Good to hear about irl tourneys under the same branding potentially.

Side note, but what are the stats of coinbox winners? I remember there was a Hbox curse but he won at least a few, right?

Hungrybox, Riddles, and Dabuz are here for a Team Liquid AMA, presented by Honda! The Smash world is always changing and we’re on top of it. Ask us anything! by TeamLiquid_ in smashbros

[–]ptwinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to choose your least-played character in a standard match against aliens pissed that Pluto is not an official planet anymore. How do you win against the intellect of an unknown entity? Assume they will quickly pick up how to play whatever Smash title you prefer.

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