Recent content by Tuco

Cool. I used to work in Unity, the last 6 years I've been using Unreal Engine. It's really good but the last 2 years of UE5 development have been a bit of a disappointment. I'm wondering if UE6 is going to die under its own weight and get outworked by Godot.

That's funny. Anytime I see the OG particle effects in a video it's a pure nostalgia hit for me, despite having been playing EQ steadily over the last decade. That they haven't enabled it despite people wanting it is just one of many instances of them being incapable. THJ is just the tip of the...

That's interesting. I'm not familiar with EQ's packet structure, much less MnM. Is their packet structure significantly different? The way a human would do it (Or at least, what I do when I need to reverse engineer closed source systems...) is record the datastream in wireshark and trigger...

Anytime I think about getting into PvE raiding again I think about the months I spent in 40 man Naxx and go back to playing Galactic Racer.

A challenge with EQ is that most of the good stuff is server-side. I'm guessing that Claude knows about the information present in https://www.eqemulator.org/ and similar projects and can replicate that in an arbitrary engine like UE. But it wouldn't be able to do the same thing with, say, the...

Yes, this is a huge issue. There a couple problems these AI-coded rip-offs present: 1. The scope of changes in some of these vibe-coded pull requests are so vast you can't expect the open-source community to really understand what's going on. 2. Normally an open-source project is built up over...

No. Marathon runners can look like regularl fit people, but they frequently look like skeletons shambling through a track. https://ultrarunning.com/featured/ultra-weekend-recap-february-9/

Looks cool but I'm still playing Valheim for the first time. I'll probably wait until the first major content release for Enshrouded.

I'm curious if you've seen anything coding up companion-extending BG3 mods. ElevenLabs is so damn good at duplicating voices, I have to imagine some people are using it to duplicate BG3's characters and creating content around it. I can't be the only one that would replay BG3 if there was a mod...

Got to plains, this is also feeling like a sunny vacation after the mountains, though I had (foolishly) built a plains base before killing Moder. My crew is a bit languid, I'll be about done with the plains but we probably won't kill the plains boss for a few weeks.

An old game moving to a home-built engine from an industry standard engine is super rare. Them making this transition without breaking modding is also impressive, but might be evidence they weren't tightly integrated with their game engine. I bet they've hated working in Unity for years. It's...

I know what you mean but I kinda dispute this. Given their pace of development I think it would've been possible to support GoD (which some people would want) and roll a new server (which others would have wanted). And of course there is a third group of people who would say they want to live in...

I don't know how trustworthy it is but https://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverinfo&worldid=4047 Regardless of how it shook out, THJ wasn't some underground secret that Secrets ratted out. Secrets might've been involved in pushing for action against THJ, but that's uhh, more of a...

Not that DBG has their finger on the pulse of their own community, but it doesn't really take a rat to find out about an emulation server when they're making tens of thousands of dollars a month with thousands of daily users for years.