A heads up:

Out of interest and totally unrelated to any prior discussion (hear, hear) I gave in to my play instinct, prokrastinated and downloaded and compiled O3DE via github, started a project, downloaded undocumented dependencies, started a project, recompiled because the engine has different modes to run as an independent SDK or to be compiled together with a project, started a project, and guess what ...

... it didn't work. Graphics glitches in the editor, errors because missing pipelines and assets, a bunch of warnings not exactly human readable ...

... tl, dr: Hands off. At least on Linux, maybe better on windows, idc.

    Pixophir Welcome to the world of cryengine I mean Lumberyard, scratch that, Open 3D Engine it is.

      I never tried it, but I watched this video when it came out and gave it a pass.

      I've messed with CryEngine before. The graphics are amazing, but that's just about it.

      Hu ? That nose ... is it .... oh no ... it is him ! Wearing his crown, the king of ... it is Michael Jackson !

      I tried Cryengine back when it first became freely available (around 2010 I think). The docs were poor, things didn't work well, and their system falsely banned people from the editor so often that the Cryengine forum had a massively long "Post your account name here and we'll unban you" thread.
      (You needed an account to start the editor. But if two people tried to use the editor from the same IP (like a school or an office) it would auto ban them, or something like that)

      So I won't say I have a lot of experience with CryEngine, but I did try it around 2015 I think. Basically, I will just download any 3D engine and time how long it takes me to make a spinning textured cube. Usually it is not long. With CryEngine I spent an entire night, probably like 4 hours, and I could not get a texture to apply to the cube, or make it spin. So it failed the test. It wasn't even worth my time if it takes that long, I can't even imagine the hell of making a full game. For reference, this is me doing the same thing in Unreal Engine 4 in 2 minutes (granted I did a dry run before I recorded the video, but it didn't take that much longer).

      I've got this weird problem that has been plaguing my cellphone for days. Every time I use the internet on my phone( on my laptop via hotspot), I notice that all of my call credit disappears for someone reason; this is despite me not using all of it to activate the internet service for my phone. I'd also randomly hear my phone telling me that I don't have enough call credit to "make this call", even though I'm not making any calls and therefore can't even hangout on the "call" that I'm supposedly trying to make; somethings I even get this message in a foreign language I don't even know how to speak. Does anyone know what the problem is, and how to fix it?

        Audiobellum maybe a virus? I dunno, it sounds strange. If you can, I might see if you can take the phone to your cell provider (or equivalent) and let them take a look to see what is going on.

          Audiobellum I've got this weird problem that has been plaguing my cellphone for days.

          Are you serious? Sounds like it might be compromised. You can try anti-virus, I use BitDefender, that might be a good first step.

              cybereality I originally assumed it had to do with me, having too many ads on my phone auto updating but, deleting the ads hasn't helped. I already have a anti-virus on my phone; Avast Mobile Security. I'm going to assume it's crap and try out BitDefender instead.

                It's a good thing I have a regular push-button phone with a walkie-talkie. You've probably forgotten about them by now:

                  Tomcat I haven't forgotten about those but, I need my cellphone to use my internet on my laptop( a statement that wouldn't have made sense 20 years ago).

                      I had a similar issue on my laptop years ago when some hackers proxy routed my connection through China. I had noticed my internet was slow for like 2 weeks and I was getting strange ads. What they did was proxy the connection, so when I went to a website it would first route to some Chinese hacker server, then they would respond with the real website, but modified (replacing the ads with their own, and probably logging the connection, and who knows what else). It was a simple fix in the network settings for me, but this is easier to do on a computer. You can check anything related to VPN or proxy servers in the network settings. You can also do a traceroute from you laptop to like Google and see if there are any suspect IP addresses.

                      Audiobellum I think this phone is unique to the country I'm living in. it's probably called Digicel DL 3 Pro( Digicel is also the service provider).

                        packrat It's one of the only options I have available to use internet at my home right now; I live in a pretty poor location in my community on a hill. The internet I have right now is quite slow, but it gets faster after when I go down the hill. There was some other service provider that made it possible for me to use a modem but, there services stopped working in my area after a hurricane and it hasn't been fixed since.