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You say ignore the reviews but idk why I should
Bluedrake42, the studio head behind Operation: Harsh Doorstop, threw a hissy fit and started going after content creators, accusing them of being paid by competitors without any evidence. Meanwhile, he himself promoted a company he had a stake in without disclosing it. It’s also important to note that there hasn’t been an update to the game since March 3, 2024. Avoid this game.
Sounds pretty credible to me, whats your counter to these claims?
Also they’re selling bundles for like $50 on the store page.
Still, it doesn’t look like there is any security risks as with some other chinese rootkit games that come out these days. Probably worth playing.
Yeah, I guess, but as long as the challenge is still achievable I can dig a large field.
It’s easier to place and organize finished assets than to create new ones, though, so after a while a lot of it starts to feel copy-pasted. I’m sure that noticeable lack of effort will only be exasperated by modern automation.
That’s exactly the sort of thing his work improved. He figured out that graphics hardware assumed all lighting intensities were linear when in fact it scaled dramatically as the RGB value increased.
Example: Red value is 128 out of 255 should be 50% of the maximum brightness, that’s what the graphics cards and likely the programmers assumed, but the actual output was 22% brightness.
So you would have areas that were extremely bright immediately cut off into areas that were extremely dark.
“It’s a bit technical,” begins Birdwell, "but the simple version is that graphics cards at the time always stored RGB textures and even displayed everything as non linear intensities, meaning that an 8 bit RGB value of 128 encodes a pixel that’s about 22% as bright as a value of 255, but the graphics hardware was doing lighting calculations as though everything was linear.
“The net result was that lighting always looked off. If you were trying to shade something that was curved, the dimming due to the surface angle aiming away from the light source would get darker way too quickly. Just like the example above, something that was supposed to end up looking 50% as bright as full intensity ended up looking only 22% as bright on the display. It looked very unnatural, instead of a nice curve everything was shaded way too extreme, rounded shapes looked oddly exaggerated and there wasn’t any way to get things to work in the general case.”
"It’s not that it adds overhead on top, it’s just that it adds to the top some head over.