Why485 🐀

This account is going inactive. I currently have no plans to delete it, because despite the search being almost useless, I don't want to create dead links to a lot of personal history. I might occasionally check DMs, but I won't be posting anything new here anymore.

The site says we have cleared 1 million signatures! I hate being like this, but there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real. That means we have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them! I'll have a video on this later today. eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/s…

The #StopKillingGames EU Citizens' Initiative is the best shot we'll likely get at a pro-consumer outcome. This is NOT just an internet petition. Only 200k more signatures means the EU Commission MUST take action. If you live in the EU, consider signing! eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/s…

I play a lot of retro games. I'm spoiled by the fact that you just install a game and play. For the next generation of gamers, this is becoming increasingly untrue with even singleplayer games like The Crew being rendered inoperable due to mandatory server-side connections.

Since release, Tiny Combat Arena has been designed to be able to be played 100% offline. This means with no connection to Steam whatsoever. If Steam isn't detected, the game will save all its settings locally, and Steam APIs and features are bypassed/forwarded to local versions.

@ZealousFoX Let's ask Grok

This account is going inactive. I currently have no plans to delete it, because despite the search being almost useless, I don't want to create dead links to a lot of personal history. I might occasionally check DMs, but I won't be posting anything new here anymore.

@chihirobelmo Oh, yeah mission design was different, but the mechanics were the same. Yeah I don't think the mission design in Over G was very good compared to the "boring" missions in EAF, but Arena mode for me was the main draw since it gave you a sandbox to play the awesome simlite game.

@Why485 I remember each missions of OverG were designed to play with Ace Combat style Ammo rearm on air + enemy respawn on air. where you could play no ammo rearm on air if you choose hard mode but enemy numbers were same.

抽象化のセンスの問題というのはあってエナジーエアフォース aimstrikeからOverGへの変化はあまりいい方向ではなかった気がする。個人的にはaimstrikeはやり過ぎで無印くらいが嬉しい。

@Why485 @CarlHaufle @dannyodwyer @nuclearoption @HiddenAsbestos @bahamutod We were making some of the most successful flight sims in the industry at EA in the late 90s but unfortunately the execs looked at us and said “give us a million seller and we’ll keep making them”. The market just wasn’t there for a rapidly growing company back then.

@CarlHaufle @dannyodwyer It couldn't be just me. It'd need to include other developers like Mitch behind @NuclearOption, @HiddenAsbestos' Thunder Helix, VTOL VR's @bahamutod, and more. Going over the death of the "mainstream flight sim" in the 00s, and its recent revival is a much more interesting story.

WHAT NOCLIP DOC DO YOU WANT IN 2025? (there's also a doc behind this image but we're not gonna get into that right now...)

@CarlHaufle @dannyodwyer @nuclearoption @HiddenAsbestos @bahamutod This is a topic that I can talk about for hours. It's a complex narrative that weaves not just the rapid technological improvements of the 90s PC games, but also massive cultural shifts and changing tastes. Interview veterans of the industry too! I'd love to hear their thoughts!

Following the decimation of an armored column with cluster munitions, a plucky battle tank attempts to main cannon snipe an AV-8B. #flightsim #indiegame [ Tiny Combat Arena by @Why485, @micro_prose ]

I've re-released my first game/mod, Keys 🗝️ Now that Half-Life 2 has Steam Workshop support you have no reason not to play it! Go play it!

@real_bf4 Nuclear Option is insanely good.

@Why485 Nuclear option is fun, definitely needs some more attention to the core gameplay, but the core feels really good. Arguably same with vtol, would love to see some dynamic battles and a tasking system to get people working together. But maybe that will come in time

Made this to explain where the entries I play in this very niche genre with only a handful of games stand.

@SaratogaOSINT @Kerbo46188000 I wanted to include only games which have been actively developed in recent memory.

@DoublTroublGum In terms of the fidelity of the jets themselves they're (debatably) not THAT different. What really sets Falcon apart though, is the way the campaign creates a context and environment where the jets are employed in a far more realistic way, with more realistic considerations.

@Viper1Zero I think it's the best flight sim made in the last 15 years. Not that, that would be a long list, but the level of ingenuity in its control scheme, is/was a total trailblazer, and the quality of its execution is sublime. VTOL VR makes it look so easy.

@Why485 VTOL VR is peak