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Friday Fun Thread for October 4, 2024

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I'm still playing a shit ton of Mechwarrior 5, but I encountered a problem. The 32:9 UI Fix mod I'm using bugs how Arena fame is handled. Every mission I complete, it re-awards me all the fame I've ever won again, complete with pop ups with each rank I pass. It wasn't too bad the first time. Now that I'm rank 4, it takes an excessively long time. The root of the problem seems to be that the mod was authored prior to DLC6 which adds arenas. But I figured I could fix that myself.

Let all 114 GB of the Mechwarrior 5 modding toolkit download last night. Took a peak at the uasset files the 32:9 mod replaces, found the one that needed to be reimported where the Arena fame was bugged. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Opened it up in the mod tools, corrected its UI positioning for 32:9 again, pak'ed the mod. Only thing that happened was, I think some amount of unprocessed arena outcomes were queued, but in a bugged fashion. So when I first attempted to use my mod, it just spammed the fuck out of me with seemingly blank screens. I thought it was broken worse than before, but then turning off all mods had the same problem. So I just hit spacebar until they all went away, caught up on whatever unprocessed event queue was happening, and now it's right as rain.

There is something magical about being able to peak behind the curtain of things and change anything that annoys you on a PC.

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