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J.G. Phoenix

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Yamato 90%
Yorktown 80%
Essex 50%
Cleveland 90%
Blücher 95%
Prinz Eugen 50%
Seydlitz (Redux) 40%
Lützow 80%
Type 34 Destroyer 99%
Type 36 Destroyer (Redux) 50%

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YF-29 Durandal (WIP)

M.A.S.S. Builder: Multiplayer Lobby Sneak Peek

by | Apr 16, 2022 | ,

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP: 0.9.0 Multiplayer Lobby Sneak Peek – Steam News
Back again with another WIP weekly update, this time, showing the progress of our multiplayer mode development. As one of the first steps before starting a multiplayer match is to enter into a lobby with other players, we’d like to show it here first in the same way. Here’s a loading screen for when…

This is a much needed preview. The multiplayer lobby may not have reached its final form just yet, but this portion’s well past my expectations.

I was expecting something more barebones, or at the very least completely unsaturated like the normal menus. I’m glad to see they’re planning to use colored panels to denote teams and whatnot.

Now to wait and see who and what shows up in these lobbies after 0.9.0 releases.

GBO2: Steam Network Test

by | Apr 15, 2022 | ,

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM BATTLE OPERATION 2 on Steam
This is a free-to-play team battle action game based on the "Mobile Suit Gundam" series of the Universal Century. Become the strongest MS pilot through 6 vs. 6 battles!

This was a pleasant surprise when I first heard about it. I have mixed feelings about it coming to Steam after so long. I’m almost positive there’s no cross-play and therefore no data transferring between platforms. It’s the same mess I had to deal with having two versions of FGO all over again.

Maybe it’ll be worth it, though. I know way more people I could actually play with through Steam and Discord than I ever have on Playstation. We’ll see how this network test goes first, though.

Playtest – Cancellation of a part of the Network Tests – Steam News
Thank you for playing "Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2". This is the Steam version operation team. Due to the high server load caused by the concentration of login attempts, we are continuing with maintenance of the test servers. To accomplish this, we will need to suspend the networ…

Heh. Never underestimate your playerbase.

Well in general this was some good news I wanted to share since this is one of the few pvp games that can even hold my attention. It’s basically just this and World of Warships. They’re vaguely similar now that I think about it, both the good and the bad.

Busy, Busy

by | Apr 14, 2022 | , , , , ,

What a fun sleep schedule this is turning out to be. Though it’s neither fun nor much of a schedule. I didn’t wake up until it was too late to make my post for the day, so today is going to be even busier than yesterday was.

A few things first.

The Arpeggio Idea: Progress

I’m trying to get work as a front end developer, and that requires a lot of study. I’m using that hypothetical Arpeggio of Blue Steel event as a bit of training. Along with the other random things I’m doing, that’s what’s taking so long on that front.

Basically I’m going to write the whole thing out like a Wargaming article, complete with the look and feel of an actual event. There are still a lot of assets I need to grab to make it look right, but it’s coming along well, and it’s been good practice, too.

This side project in particular is going to be great.

Fleeing Victory

It’s about time for the part three, and thankfully I’ve got it mostly outlined. It’s mostly tearing myself away from this that and the other thing to focus on churning it out. I’m hoping to have it done early tomorrow, but that’s only my hope. We’ll see.

M.A.S.S. Builder

A small spark of inspiration hit me a few hours ago, and now I know what kinds of builds I should be focusing on while I get used to the system.

One of the early iterations of the Alliance in the Aeon setting had some pretty nice themed robots and trying to recreate those in M.A.S.S. Builder will definitely be a challenge, but challenges are kind of all I do these days, so it should fit right in with the rest.

More on this once there’s more to say.

Space Engineers: Admiral Hipper

Oh. My. Goodness.

I had no idea what I was capable of. This really warrants its own post, but I just need to mention here that the Admiral Hipper, while getting perilously close to having a subgrid and feature creep problem, is incredibly functional.

I have no idea when I’m going to find the time to finally post the Cosmo Messer on the workshop; every time I open up the game to work on it, I wind up working on the Hipper instead. It’s not wasted effort, though. I’m actually proud of this ship and what it can do. My only regret is that I’m not quite at a level where I can make a build like this completely vanilla.

Goodness, though, I’m getting close. I’m getting ridiculously close. I need to start looking into vanilla homing missiles and torpedoes.

Closing

There’s more I could mention, but this post is long enough and I need to get back to it.

Let’s Try Tomorrow

by | Apr 12, 2022 | ,

I’m having a sleep crisis again. Today was excruciatingly unproductive. Normally I can bounce back from these pretty well, though, so I’m going to try to make some headway on a few things tomorrow.

I don’t have any specific plans for Wednesday now that Clan Battles is over, but I’ll think of something.

Another Quiet Day (4/11)

by | Apr 11, 2022 | , ,

Or at least it was probably quiet. I wouldn’t know since I was asleep for most of it.

I’m glad I got a couple of things done before crashing. It mostly amounted to getting those replays from Wows recorded ahead of the next update.

I also found a workable, airtight alternative to the standard hangar gates I’ve been forced to use on a lot of builds in Space Engineers. I’ve always been a bit wary of merge blocks and timers, but if I can get my own system worked out, I’ll be able to make rotor/hinge based hangar gates without always compromising on the hull shape of my builds. There’s also a way to potentially pull this off without timer blocks, so I’ll be trying that first with the Easy Automation script.

That’s a pretty big win on its own.

A Good Day for Creation and a Good Night for Destruction

by | Apr 10, 2022 | , ,

Space Engineers: Carousel Hangar Version 2.0

When I got up this morning I decided I should just make a copy of the Admiral Hipper to test the concept of a double sided platform. I just wanted to see if it was feasible at all.

“Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”

– Scott Adams

So I wound up building the entire thing. The Hipper just went from having a capacity of 4 fighters to 8 in one morning.

All that’s left at this point is to finish styling and programming some safeties into the system, as well as building a new, slightly larger enclosure for the whole thing. I’ll need a new set of hangar doors too, so I’m looking into designs for those, as well as brainstorming some of my own.

It’s working! It’s working!

– Anakin Skywalker

World of Warships: Last Night of Clan Battles

Unless the schedule’s different, tonight was the last night of this Clan Battles season. What was it called again? Season Narwhal? Anyway, it was pretty good overall. Preussen, Bourgogne, Shikishima, and Yoshino B. These four were the standouts above DD tonnage in my roster.

We keep firing until they sink or we do!

It was a little weird that I didn’t play a battleship at all for this session. I started in the Daring and things weren’t going too well for the team overall. Things started evening out more once I swapped into the Yoshino. Go figure, this cruiser’s not tanky per se, but she’s very hard to sink in the right hands.

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