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Gearbox's new Risk of Rain 2 DLC is being torn apart on Steam, and original devs are concerned (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[โ€“] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DeltaTime is the old "tie the physics to the framerrate" thing old console games did because they knew they'd be running at a certain frame rate

When I was learning unity for a week it was literally lesson #2 in 3 different video lesson series NOT to use DeltaTime like that

[โ€“] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Oh god. This brings me back to QBASIC days and how I upgraded my computer and it broke all my programs because I was an idiot and controlled time delays using for-loops, lol.