simplest solution is best solution, this seems a good way to not over complicate things

"Because it was easier to make function and most people would never notice" Real devs.

You are a psycho for doing this in Godot!

They should have made the interiors of Dark Bramble really small so it all fit! :3

51:00 I think the supposed way might be to wait for second tower to submerge (about 1:30 before end of the loop), so it's clear up top, and watch the movie until loop ends. This mechanic (for this specific location) was optional-optional in the base DLC, I believe, because it's very time limited and stressful.

If it works it works

Gotta love the audacity of some of the commenters to confidently assert that it would've been better to put Dark Bramble in the sun as if they had the slightest fucking idea what they were talking about 💀

Ive not played the dlc but the trailer makes it seem like they used the dark sphere for something maybe?

Why would you put a planet's interior in a sun instead of the planet?

In game dev, there's a solution that is 90% of the way there and easy, and a solution that's 100% perfect and very very hard. Should you do reflections "for real" which is super expensive, or just copy pixels from the right part of your screen that you're already rendering anyway. Should you make a realistic water simulation that accurately simulates every drop of water, or just have a flat sheet that can be raised or lowered in different spots to simulate waves and ripples. Should you simulate a real weather system, or just have it randomly decide to switch the weather at a certain time. Nobody cares about the black circle of dark bramble. Nobody noticed it. It makes no difference. It's 10x less work.

Hey man, do you know how to make blocks detect if they are touching a block in another chunk? I'm trying to add water but their side faces end up generating at chunk borders even though there is more water next to them, which makes a weird gridlike shape.

How to install the mods in GOG hydra version? its appear "u dont have a license in steam"

I would love to be able to play around with the game like that! How do you do it?

[DLC SPOILERS] after watching your videos about the dark sphere, now I'm curious if this strategy was inspiration for the cloaking of the Stranger.... idk a black sphere outside the plane of the solar system sounds familiar.....

I’m just wondering why they didn’t put it inside of Timber Hearth or something. I’m pretty sure there’s enough space there that isn’t taken up by caves for the pocket dimensions. No one’s gonna see it or get there without cheating, at which point they probably already don’t care for immersion, so I don’t see anything wrong with that idea.

Thanks for this!

i dont know if the mod works with 3 players but when me and 2 of my friends join me the game starts lagging very bad idk if its just a problem with us or the mod?

Some version of "Oh no I don't wanna do that, that sounds like so much work. X is fine, that works fine." seemed to happen all the time during development. I'm sure there are some stories that would have been interesting to you all but I have unfortunately forgor

It was kind of an obvious answer, it would have not made sense if you were inside and you instantly die after the sun starts going supernova.

The sun collapses in on itself for the supernova, which would probably cause a whole bunch of issues. Totally makes sense why they put the sphere somewhere else.

why not put the sun in the sun

Why didn't they put the sun inside the interior of dark bramble, though?

It kind of sounds like they put it where they did, then came up with the idea of putting it in the sun after they'd already implemented it, and then came up with reasons to justify not doing that. They do sound like good reasons though.

I'm curious, do planets in Outer Wilds achieve their orbital movement via altering their translation directly, or do they achieve it by setting the velocity of the planet based on some gravitational equation (which might make it easier for the planet's orbits to affect eachother?) As always, great video :)

A lot of gamedev is finding compromises that work while not having too many drawbacks. Players don't know how hard something is to implement, they only see the results, and chasing perfection most often results in a lot of wasted time for very little in return. So, the decision they made was probably the best for the game.

12:27 THE MAGISTER IS HUMAN. NO ONE IN THE ROOM KNOWS WHAT A S'MORE IS. ITS A HUMAN THING.

Hi xen, I hosted the game and a friend joined and it worked just fine, but when a second friend joined the game started freezing (0fps). Is the mod designed to work for only 2 players or is it a port forwarding issue?.. we are four friends that were so excited to play together but now i need to find a solution

It can all be oversimplified into one phrase: Technical Debt

Nice dude, my girlfriend likes this game so maybe I could play it with her like this.

You think a couple of guys can do what 3 billion lions can’t?

Not every solution has to make sense in a game. I have learned personally that sometimes smoke and mirrors work better than a real solution because simply put it's just easier

The dark bramble is just weird. Like, why does the supernova hit the inside of it? Where are the insides canonically? If the seed on Timber Hearth fully grew, would the supernova hit the insides when it reached Timber Hearth or the original ice planet?

interesting

Its cool cuz you can see there was already a dark phere in the solar system before the stranger was added. So they saw no one kinda found it by normal means or noticed in general and just added a cannon black sphere.

It would be cool if we could see a time-lapse of the planets orbits with N-body physics; imagine seeing how the orbits evolve over time

This is one thing that kinda baffles me about Unity that Godot solves (though Godot has its own short comings). Godot allows entirely separate 3D worlds that do not interact with each other. No need to separate things on layers. In Godot a space like dark bramble's interior can essentially be a pocket dimension that can't be discovered in the main level

Since this video got a big bump in traffic when the game was released on Epic Games for free: The mod does NOT work with that version, unfortunately the way I used Epic Online Services to do the multiplayer conflicts with how Epic does its DRM. You might be able to get it working with port forwarding and stuff but I know nothing about how to work that.

Without watching the video.. Might be because it's the simplest way to make sure that the supernova reaches the inside of dark bramble roughly at the same time as the exterior

Wait, lorewise, why does the supernova kill you if your in dark bramble. Does destroying the planet destroy the pocket dimension or is the explosion just making its way in through the planets entrance hole portal thing

Oh yeah, it makes absolute sense why they did this! Gave me a headache just thinking about what they'd have to do if they put it in the sun

"Okay, bye" indeed, an adequate ending

should've painted fake stars on this black sphere

There’s just no reason to put it in the sun. Putting a scene far offscreen is a tried and true method. You’d be surprised how many games do this

Additional problem: Dark Bramble is in the sun. The player puts the scout in dark bramble to make it visible. The player looks at the sun The sun collapses The sun vanishes inside Dark Brambles internals. Immersion = Ruined. Just to add to the small list of issues. 😅 Game dev hot tip, keep things that are separate separated. You get more flexibility and freedom for lower costs like they said.

Have you considered some kind of click and drag to collect many coins at once?

ok but why isnt the dark bramble in the sun?

i saw the dark bramble black hole and thought it was the quantum moon. i flew towards it and was so nervous as more and more stars were vanishing and then i realised it wasn’t something i was meant to notice lol. hilarious moment

i love that this stream has reached past Andrew Cunningham’s audience so there’s just some guy with a fake mustache and gaster makeup for no reason

Maybe they could have used some kind of rendering trick so that the black sphere shows whats behind it when looked at, though I don't know enough about rendering to know how they could have done it

i get stuck on a black screen 💀