u/SpiritedAd1837

So they added this new (it's new right? well anyways I only noticed it yesterday) "challenges" thing in your profile which you can earn orbs for. I haven't found any official news reports on this, so I have a few questions:

Firstly, does anyone know how often these will refresh? Or is it just gonna be like "you have to do this one to unlock the next"? In that case it's hot garbage because:

Secondly, IS IT JUST PURE FALSE ADVERTISING? I went to the shop, bought an item for 4100 orbs and didn't get shit. I reckon they meant you need to buy an item from their cringy Halloween shop (it is cringe for 30 bucks per pack) for real money. Pretty neat huh?

Images descriptions:

1 - 300 samples (render)
2 - 600 samples + tweaked the lighting (viewport)
3 - 600 samples + tweaked the lighting (render, not final result but the dot is still visible)

Hi everyone, I'm making a ramen shop following Polygon Runway's tutorial and just can't understand why the hell there's a random dot of light in the top right part of my render image. It does not appear in the viewport but for some reason does in the final render.

I use Cycles as my engine; the viewport samples are set to 32 for optimization (integrated graphics card is a pain in the ass), while the render samples in the given render photo were 300. Later changed them to 600 and the dot was still there. To be clear, my scene floor is a plane with no additional shading nodes.

I've edited the light colours, world colour, my volumetric fog cube around the scene, I added a couple more lights under the ramen shop, but nothing changed.

My question: is there a way I can determine the reason of this problem AND solve it without moving my camera / lights from the initial position? I really don't wanna start my whole lighting setup over. Is there some kind of setting to change in my plane / world color / volumetric fog so that stuff like that doesn't randomly appear?

>!By not shooting the human employee at the tower, which is ideal for the pacifist route imo, Simon gets shot and you can either kill him or leave him on the rooftop. If I choose to leave him, can I later ignore the rooftop part as Connor (by for instance going to the kitchen or leaving before finding any clues) and deliberately NOT find him, thus allowing Simon to survive?!<

>!I've seen an outcome where Markus meets Simon in Jericho during 'Crossroads' & they hug each other. Can I achieve it that way?!<

My brother found this on our 26.1 Java server while exploring a cave. The chunks must've been generated a while ago (since it's close to spawn)... Considering our server has existed for more than a year, I can't imagine how long this boy been just standing there unnoticed.

(the seed is -9041548597302285598, coords in the image)

P. S. idk if this will work on bedrock, y'all can check

Sorry, can't get rid of the UI, I don't have a private server to enable freecam mode.
And pardon the icons I forgot to turn those off 🙏

I kinda like how this turned out, especially I think the deep purple color really suits the Lvl 8 spoiler. It makes it more cartoonish and fits the super simplified texture which looks odd otherwise.

What do you guys think?

Am I the only one who hates the fact it's THIS large now?? Whenever I try to use nitro to go up the Rising City desert ramp straight to the museum this dude is always in the way. Am I doing something wrong or is it genuinely a common problem?

I think they should at least chop it in half so that we don't bump in it constantly. Plus, this giant pile of grass completely covers the museum's facade, ruining the view.

>!I think the plot twist with Alice becoming an android is genuinely good. It's prompted at throughout the whole game with Luther's remarks and her weird behaviour, but still comes as a fairly shocking moment in Crossroads. Kara basically deciding to ignore this fact since the beginning of the game is also a nice touch which adds to her deviancy arc.!<

>!I think many people found it underwhelming because, perhaps, the majority of players reached the Canada Border Inspection Station safely. I, however, got caught while escaping Detroit and was sent to the utilization camp, which I feel is the true, canon, lore-accurate ending. That's where we truly get to witness Alice in her skinless & robotic nature, and it simply makes sense following up that recent revelation. The station and boat endings make it feel like "uh ok I learned that she's an android, it basically has no impact on my perception or the story from now on", while the camp is a logical continuation of this arc.!<

As u/Key_Instruction5610 said in their recent post, the Jet is very underrated and is barely used in public servers. I agree with them on this, I love the Jet and often use it myself. But I recently got to ride the Stunt again, and after a few flights, I must say: this guy is CRIMINALLY underrated. You can rarely see anyone using Jet, but I've basically never witnessed a player who'd actively use Stunt.

It was updated with the addition of its machine guns in the 2023 5DOV, which finally gave it a use and could've finally made it more popular. But it seems like half of the players had no idea about this update and the other half just forgot / dgaf about it. Obviously the machine guns are slightly worse than the Jet's rockets because they have to be constantly aimed at the enemy and have shorter reach, but they're still incredible in closer-range pvp. They're not bad, just have a bit of a different purpose. Plus, THEY'RE COMPLETELY FREE.

I think the only visible disadvantage you can point out with the Stunt is its slightly worse speed, so in terms of chases, you're only able to compete with another Stunt or a mediocre land vehicle. But again, it isn't really meant for chases; imo, it's rather meant to quickly take down a vehicle in a short range / a situation where a plane is more agile, like a path with short bumps in the way.

And lastly, it's ONLY 300K. It's a third of the Jet's price and, as I said, can still compete with the Jet in some aspects. But I guess people don't get to know about its advantages because NOBODY USES IT.

P. S. and it also leaves a cool fancy trail

This year's live event was absolutely amazing, and the update turned out nearly perfect. However I feel like the vibe of the map is now partially lost.

The new terrain is... nice. It feels very OG, and even though I didn't play at all during the era it is from, I sorta feel the charm. But am I the only one who finds the fact it's now EVERYWHERE fairly annoying? These classic mountains (the ones in pic 3) used to take up a large portion of the map even before the event. But we had locations like the volcano mountain (smoother terrain) and the Crater Desert (added in 2022).
Now we only have:

- 90% of land: classic 2019 terrain
- 10% of land: desert and beach (same texture of sand lol)
- w a t e r

it's nostalgic, but imho it's starting to feel more boring - and the pale lighting just makes it worse - so what do you think guys?

The photos are taken from DatBrian's (s12, 13, 14) and ItsP1X3L's (16) videos

lowkey:

- skyboxes: amazing
- colour grading & textures in terrain (grass, snow etc.): amazing (very colorful which i like)
- vibes: amazing

Basically my idea is Badimo should do something similar in their future seasons. The upcoming summer season would go great with the S16 vibes, and S12, 13, 14 should be the standard for quality for autumn, winter and spring - respectively - seasons.

To whoever might say that 2020 lighting was way better - yeah, perhaps. But I wouldn't bring that one back. The general vibes and atmosphere of s12-16 would fit the modern map way more, imho.

If you have anything to add / suggest - please write in the comments!

edit: phew i didn't get totally flamed, let's gooo

THA NUMBAAAAAARS MASOOON

Alr so this game was actually peak, the story was way deeper and harder than the old MW trilogy that I've played before. I recently found out that WaW is actually connected to Black Ops since Reznov is also there. I'm really looking forward to continue the BO story, which honestly makes perfect sense and is easily understandable right now even without playing the previous part.

So my question is, does World at War really add anything crucial to the story? Should I play it now to get the full picture or can I just move on to the sequels? (I wouldn't mind playing WaW too later on, therefore if it isn't lore-wise important right now, I might play the next parts and play it like a "prequel" sometime later)

I found a tutorial on how to build a benchiest benchy benchlike benched bench but I encountered an issue. See, if I make it so only the "neck" of the armor stands for the legs is out of the ground, the trapdoors kinda float in the air. But if I make it so the trapdoors are perfectly on the tops of the stands, the "body" parts of the stands come out of the ground. Does anyone have any idea on how to improve this?