Manuel Calavera posted:

Well you see they're from The Elemental Plane of Cops, as summoned by Coppamancers. It's totally inaccurate lore.

Ratoslov posted:

I've always been partial to the 'cops are a kind of fungus that grows in air vents' theory myself.

Magmarashi posted:

Coppamancers, also called 'Karen's*


*Susan and Becky accepted regional variants

Ratoslov posted:

I've always been partial to the 'cops are a kind of fungus that grows in air vents' theory myself.

Discendo Vox posted:

Wait till you see what we're doing to the AI in the payday 2 crackdown mod. It turns out there were several layers of buggy interference blocking intended enemy behaviors...and after we removed those, we started adding new AI on top of it.

Leal posted:

Was "Tether" misspelled?

quote:

if not self._need_upd and (self._ext_anim.base_need_upd or self._ext_anim.upper_need_upd or self._stance.transition or self._suppression.transition) then
self._need_upd = true
end

Discendo Vox posted:

There were a few of those (one of the melee weapons picks a random number range for one of its stats), but, for example, the entire enemy logic system for movement feeds through this:


The entire bit after "and" in parentheses has zero benefits and causes enemies to freeze at random because, since they were doing any number of other things, they would get passed over by the entire movement system. Several of these "other things" don't actually terminate properly on their own, so the net effect is until something acts on them, the enemy can't move. It's an entire blockage that was inserted into the update code for no reason, possibly under the belief that the different states would conflict (they don't) or that it would make enemy behavior consistent irrespective of computer speed (it doesn't). This is one of ~five separate foundation-level AI bugs that, even individually, make enemies do things like freeze and not fire at the player, or make special enemies unable to use their attacks. Others include all enemies running the pathfinding logic (the most resource intensive of the main AI systems) at all times, even when in the frozen state mentioned above, and a set of pause and "stare" delays that appear to have been intended to improve performance...because everything was being hampered by all enemies runnning the pathfinding logic at all times.

Our best guess is the devteam has had so much turnover that at this point our team members know much more about the game systems than any of the active devs do. Some of these problems were in the game at launch.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I'm just curious; Is the army-o-cops quantity of enemies intended, or a bug in of itself?

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

https://twitter.com/A2113Y/status/1229764703045316609

Discendo Vox posted:

The MSJ posted:

Da Boyz in Blue

LashLightning posted:

Orks aren't cops, they're anarchists - they strive ensure that everyone is equally krumped, thus eliminating all hierarchies.

KozmoNaut posted:

Ork society is based on oo'evah's da biggest an' baddest ork, e's da boss nob cuz he krumps all dem uvver boyz, ya git!

Cardiovorax posted:

Orks exist in a perpetual state of nature. Their lives are are nasty, violent, brutish, and frequently short.

Cardiovorax posted:

The problem is that they are also dentocapitalists, and as such intrinsically evil.

LashLightning posted:

You could save a lot of ten-dollar words and just say "working class".

LashLightning posted:

You could save a lot of ten-dollar words and just say "working class".

Cythereal posted:

Back when 40k was satire, they were a football hooligans joke.

Now there's a book series out there about a super-Ork empire that once nearly conquered the Imperium and farmed humans for food with loving descriptions of human breeding facilities filled with women who had their limbs chopped off, tongue cut out, eyes gouged out, and they're all pregnant.


That was exactly the book series that made me give up on 40k as a setting. The real life fascists who don't get that they're the joke are now running the place.

Discendo Vox posted:

Wait till you see what we're doing to the AI in the payday 2 crackdown mod. It turns out there were several layers of buggy interference blocking intended enemy behaviors...and after we removed those, we started adding new AI on top of it.

Kikas posted:

Will clearing up all of this improve the framerates of Payday 2? I was suprised to see it still chugged on modern systems when I tried playing during Christmas.

Shady Amish Terror posted:

Some of these problems, especially the personnel churn, can probably be attributed directly to the apparent general toxicity of the work environment itself, given the outward clues of waves of people quitting, the offices being raided in relation to tax crimes, and the repeated increasingly weird appeals to fringe alt-right ideas and symbols.

Granted, I understand those issues might be outside of the scope of a mod to address.

Discendo Vox posted:

Yes, plus we've cut the enemy cap down to about 60% of the old values. Some of the very last maps released, though, have profound optimization issues (think "this set of rooms have an open occlusion seam and render the entire map if you look West"), and nothing will fix those short of remaking those maps.


...we're looking into doing that, too, eventually, maybe.


I think you might be getting some info crossed- whatever its other problems, Starbreeze didn't have a remotely chuddy reputation, and the investigation was insider trading, not taxes. The waves of people quitting, etc, were pretty much all centered around Bo Andersson. This Eurogamer article describes maybe 70% of the events in question. Whatever other bad decisionmakers were involved (and there were other very bad decisionmakers involved), Bo is generally understood to be the person who managed to take a remarkably (perhaps undeservedly) successful company and drive it inexorably into the ground.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Any chance you guys can mod in proper Index Controller support too?

Discendo Vox posted:

I think you might be getting some info crossed- whatever its other problems, Starbreeze didn't have a remotely chuddy reputation, and the investigation was insider trading, not taxes. The waves of people quitting, etc, were pretty much all centered around Bo Andersson. This Eurogamer article describes maybe 70% of the events in question. Whatever other bad decisionmakers were involved (and there were other very bad decisionmakers involved), Bo is generally understood to be the person who managed to take a remarkably (perhaps undeservedly) successful company and drive it inexorably into the ground.

Scandinavian Airlines posted:

Some would find that Skyrim isn't a very diverse and inclusive place. Players may even come away with a mistaken belief that Skyrim is some sort of Nordic homeland or that Nords themselves have a culture, history, and identity. This mod aims to fix that by removing all Nord characters from the game.

What it does:
Removes all nord characters from the game
(Though the player themselves can play as the only nord alive)

Known Issues:

1: Some form of alternate start mod is required.
2: Atleast 90% of the quests are broken.
3: The mod might not even be stable as this obvious bit of sarcasm isn't worth the time
4: If it does work, it's just going to make the game dull, empty, and overall joyless. It's almost as if removing an entire race from existence just makes the world a a duller, lesser, place.

quote:

“We are no better than our viking ancestors. We take everything we like on our trips abroad, adjust it a little bit, and et viola. It’s a unique Scandinavian thing. Going out into the world inspires us to think big, even though we’re quite small.

In a way, Scandinavia was brought here, piece by piece, by everyday people who found the best of our home away from home. We can’t wait to see what wonderful things you’ll bring home next.”

Midnight Voyager posted:

Alright, what did Scandinavian Airlines do?

SplitSoul posted:

Commissioned an ad that claimed meatballs and rye bread weren't Scandinavian in origin and the racist nativist segment lost their loving minds to the point where somebody called in a bomb threat to the ad company.

Schubalts posted:

Well, Swedish meatballs actually aren't Swedish. They made a big announcement about it and everything.

quote:

In 2018 a Swedish Twitter account claimed that what we know as Swedish meatballs are based on a Turkish recipe[12] and King Charles XII used food as a way to help boost the relationships between the two countries.[13] This statement has later been debunked by Swedish ethnologists.[14]