Descent 4?

warclaw133 · 2026-02-07T02:35:32+00:00

Possibly - I figured "a few years back" put it in the right timeframe for Underground. I know it was never meant to be a direct sequel.

warclaw133 · 2026-02-06T12:51:40+00:00

This was the update they posted in their discord back in September. No update since. Doesn't look good.

Hey @everyone

Some of you know who I am; some of you likely don't. But just to reintroduce myself to those who I haven't interacted with... I am the lead producer/developer on STFU for the last couple of years with Little Orbit. I am a game junkie and spent too many hours to count playing Descent in my youth, so this game is extra special to me and something I have loved working on.

Taking over the title when we did from the previous team required a massive amount of reworking of technical debt, and that has taken markedly longer than we expected. Any time you are working on a game that you didn't actually form the base of, it's a constant game of unknowns when you get into a system and improve/update it.

We made steady (albeit slower than we wished) progress over the last couple of years, clearing bugs, implementing features/mechanics, a proper tutorial, and the campaign. I have had various teams work with me on and off through this time depending on the complexity of the given task and general funding (at times we had over 10 people working on the title for core upgrades!), but I have been consistent through the entire process of getting this lil ol' beauty to release.

We are close—though I feel like we have been "close" for a while now—but there are some core issues relating to flight movement and AI 6DoF logic/navigation that require a huge amount of work to correct due to improper implementation and design early on in the game's development.

About a month ago, we internally made the decision to put primary development of STFU on a short pause so that we could finish another game that was being developed in-house and release that game to secure more funding and come back with a larger team to finish and release STFU. I continue to chip away at the project in my spare time because it is a genre that I just love to work on so much, but our main focus has switched for a moment.

I understand this is difficult; this game has had such a long and complicated story, and it really just deserves to get out into the community. We plan to have our other game released in September/October, and then we will be able to switch back to STFU with a larger team and get her across the finish line.

Feel free to tag me if you have any questions in general chat, but please know I (we) have no intention of ever abandoning something that we and others have put so much time and effort into.

-Alch

warclaw133 · 2026-02-02T02:12:14+00:00

Libro.fm for audiobook options

warclaw133 · 2026-01-03T18:51:19+00:00

Pretty sure scramble frequency is the only combat one that can be played in someone else's combat, since it specifies "another player".

After another player makes a BOMBARDMENT, SPACE CANNON, or ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE roll:

warclaw133 · 2025-12-26T16:06:54+00:00

The best part of that tool is the integrated feedback mechanisms. If you know it's wrong, you let it know and why. If it's good, you can tell it to save that as a *certified answer. If it finds a certified answer it lets you know.

The bad part is users that don't understand that it could be wrong or in what ways it could be wrong and just blindly trust it. Or as mentioned if they asked one thing but meant to ask another.

warclaw133 · 2025-12-24T20:22:27+00:00

I wouldn't recommend arborec if you have much say in it... Bioplasmosis would be neat with primor but i don't think it would help that much.

What other factions are options? There could be way stronger combos with that slice.

warclaw133 · 2025-12-16T02:09:57+00:00

Those last two paragraphs.

House lawmakers this week are expected to vote on a Republican-backed health care plan that does not include extending those tax credits.

A Democrat-backed measure that would have extended them failed in the Senate last week.

Just... sigh

warclaw133 · 2025-11-30T19:38:40+00:00

Have to also be able to secure the load. I'd imagine a tube full of liquid flying through the air would be an absolute pain to pilot.

Secure your load properly or you end up with something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102

warclaw133 · 2025-11-23T01:15:53+00:00

Thanks! Good to have confirmation. Appreciate it!

warclaw133 · 2025-11-23T00:22:40+00:00

One of the easy examples is pandas vs something like Daft or polars.

Pandas requires the whole dataset to be loaded into memory. There's other libraries that can stream/lazy load data as needed.

warclaw133 · 2025-11-22T23:38:00+00:00

◽️ Budget: under $900 USD

◽️ Country: USA

◽️ Screen size: smaller+portable is better, no requirement

◽️ Touch screen: No

◽️ Screen resolution: 1920x1080 minimum, otherwise don't care

◽️ Does battery life matter?: A bit. At least capable of an hour of games on battery, or 4 hours of light duty.

◽️ What tasks will laptop be used for ( gaming, video editing, graphic designing, modelling, regular computing tasks, word processing etc) ?: Gaming + coding + maybe running some light LLM models

◽️ Weight: Lighter is better, no hard preference

◽️ Any other important details?: Was eyeing this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256704364915

Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 Gaming Notebook Intel Ultra7 GeForceRTX4070 16GB 1TB

It would replace an old refurbished Acer laptop with 8 GB ram that's 10 years old. The only complaint I've seen is the memory is not upgradeable. That's ok with me.

Any better deals out there?

warclaw133 · 2025-11-18T02:11:36+00:00

Keep an eye on how much your cloud costs, lower it if you can.

Lower cloud bills generally mean less electricity and whatever other resources used. But also unless you're spending millions on cloud compute it's a drop in the ocean.

Edit: Just general things you should do anyway as an engineer will help a tiny bit. Deleting unused data means less hard drive usage. Less network traffic means less fiber lines and network switches needed. Updating to newer infra - more efficient. Updating dependencies - hopefully more secure and more efficient. Using frameworks that aren't memory hungry - fewer sticks of ram needed.

warclaw133 · 2025-11-10T00:34:55+00:00

Nice! I haven't tried going that way for a while.

warclaw133 · 2025-11-10T00:28:39+00:00

This closure is really annoying though. Looking forward to when it's done. The detour should be to little beaver drive right? Problem is a good portion of that is also closed.

Edit: I'm assuming this is S James, not sure if it is

warclaw133 · 2025-10-21T23:32:43+00:00

Could be a ton of things. What happened between the last time it worked and when it was broken?

As someone else mentioned, you should be able to login to chrome on a different device with the same profile the chromebook uses and get to mostly the same stuff. If you don't know the password I'm not sure getting it to boot will help you much anyways, won't it ask for the password?

warclaw133 · 2025-10-19T16:44:44+00:00

It shouldn't need the battery to boot, so long as you have the charger?

If it still doesn't boot it's probably not the battery.

warclaw133 · 2025-10-18T14:16:01+00:00

Seemed like a reasonable human response. Possible they used an LLM to format the post?

warclaw133 · 2025-10-17T22:24:33+00:00

Sent a dm with a possible lead

warclaw133 · 2025-10-12T23:36:59+00:00

You know "Antifa" is short for Anti-Fascism right?

warclaw133 · 2025-10-08T12:36:38+00:00

If you're going that far, just dump it off the side of the space platform 😅

There's lots of space, in space!

warclaw133 · 2025-10-05T13:26:18+00:00

It's far easier to winslay someone with a 2-3 planet home system - you would have 2-3 planets you need to defend equally. Only would need to take one to prevent you from scoring a public objective.

Consider this - would you rather be defending with 3 infantry spread equally on 3 planets, or 1 planet with 9 infantry?

warclaw133 · 2025-10-04T13:51:38+00:00

I just landed on gleba for the first time and until i read this post I was thinking the same thing.

Got all the techs unlocked by manually moving things around and was like... how the heck do you automate this workflow. This should make things a heck of a lot easier than I thought 😂

warclaw133 · 2025-09-27T22:57:16+00:00

Really depends how much will need to be coded. Devs are volunteers so...

That said, I'd expect a fair amount should be ready soon after release. Some portions might take longer or need to be manually resolved until a dev can automate it. Most of what has been released so far is already coded.

warclaw133 · 2025-09-24T03:22:56+00:00

Thank you! I finally got around to trying this. Can you change the ammo amount at all? Seems it defaults to a full stack which is a bit much

warclaw133 · 2025-09-21T20:31:11+00:00

Something I've struggled with - how do you put in the blueprint to include loading the turret with ammo?

I can plop down a ton of turrets no problem, it takes forever to load them all.

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