Defiant Explorer
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Update 1.7 may come out sooner, but that's not good news.
🕑 Added 2024-03-22 18:12:22 +0000 UTCTo help you understand my current state, I will describe my last few days. First of all, and this is not the main reason, I got sick again. Fortunately, this crap only hit me hard on the first day but it started getting weaker the next day. Nevertheless, for almost three days I ate nothing and slept most of the time, completely weakened. My appetite partially returned only yesterday evening. I ate a little, regained a bit of strength, and went back to work (testing the last piece I added to the game a few days back) until about ~ 4 am.
Now begins the main reason for this post. When I finished work, I had a little snack (yay!) and quite pleased with myself went out to the balcony to satisfy a nasty habit of mine. I live on the top floor of a high-rise and half of the city is visible from my window - all the way to the horizon. There was some strange humming, unclear where it was coming from. Taking a cigarette out of the pack, in my mind was something like that: "okay, losing three days is unpleasant, but I can still make it in time..." Flash on the horizon. Four or five seconds of silence. A shockwave that makes the whole house shake. And then a few more times. Flash. Silence. Shockwave. And then the lights in the whole city go out. Darkness up to the horizon.
"You fucking kidding me." Yeah, I said it out loud at that moment. Well, not in English of course, but that's pretty much close by meaning. There hasn't been a missile strikes on the power system in nearly a year. I'd almost forgotten about them. But here we go again...
The lights come back only around 3:00 p.m. How long it stays like this, I don't know. And I guess you could say I'm lucky. As I write this, it's already dark outside. And only parts of the city have light. But you've just gotten a description of what modern warfare looks like through the eyes of an eyewitness! I also don't know if this was a one-time action, like "today only - two Russian missiles for the price of one" or if the strikes on the energy system will continue.
But grim jokes aside. I've made a decision. The update is ~90-95% complete. Given the circumstances, I'm not sure I can meet the 31 March deadline. Or even if I do, who knows if I'll have the technical ability to post the update by that date. Today I'll bring the small remaining section from the draft into the game, test it, and start the prep work for technical readiness for release (new patrons to credit section, afterword, list of changes, etc.) Yes, it doesn't end up where I want it to. Yes, it's only basically tested (by my standards). And a lot more of those yeses... But I just don't know what to do. If it hadn't taken so long to develop this episode, I might have asked for extra time from you. But not this time.
I don't really believe that I won't have electricity problems in the coming days. And that's at best. Which means I won't be able to work normally. At least on a tight deadline. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'll try to get the episode to its intended point. But if there's another blackout or any kind of light outage - I'll post a prepared version of the update right away, while I have a charge and crappy mobile internet. Otherwise, this all risks dragging on for who knows how long. And I apologize if the episode doesn't end where it logically should. I know... I just can't see a better way.
And, hey, Universe? Veeery funny.
UPD. The trigger event (blackout) happened about 5 minutes after I managed to publish this post yesterday. And the lights were out until... this moment. About ~20 hours? You get the situation.
Yesterday, while I had a charge, I managed to add the last component needed for the update to work, and once again took it through the 2 main routes (Meralion alive/dead) all the way to the end. It's passable to the end. However, some non-critical bugs can't be excluded due to the large variability and combinations of different factors. Alas, testing it as it should is an unallowable luxury right now. Who knows how long all shit this will last? Days, weeks... longer?
So, the emergency update will be here in an hour or two. There's one more thing I need to do that I need the internet for. And since this is will be 1.7 without ~10% of the content, that means its number will be... Huh, I didn't do it intentionally. Okay, let's hope I'll have power in the next two hours.
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Defiant Explorer
Yes, but not on the power grid. Otherwise, over the past two years, there have been weeks when it was quiet. But there were also weeks when every day (or rather night) there was an explosion somewhere. Because of my bad habit, I've seen ~100+ such explosions at least. And I've heard... I don't know, a few hundred more? Nothing unusual to me in what I described in this post. Except that the power grid was hit that time. That's unusual. And that means no power, which in turn ruins all my plans to work and release the update. Which is why, and only why, I've informed you of this. As for the current moment, the situation has slightly improved. There is electricity for almost half a day today and yesterday (before that about 3-4 hours a day). I even just got out of a hot shower. A pleasant little joy. But how long it will last I don't know. I just hope they don't shoot the power grid again. There are unpleasant rumors in the city that one more such strike and there will be no light in our city at all.
DamnedFrog
I hope you are still OK, it's seem Russian are conducting a massive missiles strikes campaign for several days now.
Lars
Sorry you have to go through that. Can't honestly imagine. Thanks for making this great game and above all stay safe!
Lost in the Woods
The update will be good even if it ends early, and take care of yourself and your loved ones, if there was a hug emojii i'd be sending it =(
Lonely Wolf
Effectively, this is really some sinister news, which I believe can only truly be understood by people who are experiencing a situation similar to yours... To be frank, that's partly at that what I was thinking (about of this possible bad things), when I concluded my last message here, in wishing to you the best for yourself and for those close to you... But unfortunately it seems that international politic issues don't takes care into account the opinions << of the common people >>... In the context that you have been undergo for two years now, the question of the update date is TRIVIAL; so the most important is to hope that nothing more serious happens to you {and I specify well in passing (for the trivial term): that this just my personal opinion}... In any cases: I wish sincerely fortitude to you my friend, (by the way, don't stress yourself out too much about your game) and above all take care of your health (because that's well there the main thing).
DamnedFrog
Sh!t! From what I read, it was a massive strike. 150 missiles! Aimed mainly at electrical installations. It seems the power dam on the Dnipro was severely hit. I hope your family and friends are OK. Take care of yourself and your relatives.
HarleyQueen
Oh noo. I wish you all the best!! 😰
Chien_perdu
Oh shit, that's terrible. At least you are safe and unharmed. Fuck you, putin! I hope the electrical grid will get better soon and may they never hit your city again. Stay safe out there!
