Space Race II Advent Calendar

Mainly to distract myself because I am very excited for BO7.

Wanna see what the map looks like?

Week 1 down! Three more to go!

Week 2 is done! Halfway there!

Week 3 has arrived! Less than a week away from playing BO7!

The final week! Black Ops 7 has arrived, therefore, this Advent Calendar is complete!

Credits

Kirloper -- Weapon Assets (The GOAT)

Synty Studios -- SRII Maps

NunSuperior -- Promeatheus Map (Also made by Synty Studios but NunSuperior is a huge inspiration nonetheless)

Kuromi -- SRII QnA bug reports (Thank you)

Antipothis -- Blackjack Sofia bug reports (Thank you)

Cityrobo, Okkim, Arpytrooper, Potatoes, Nathan, Devyn, Kodeman, JerryAR -- The tools and scripts needed to make the craziest things possible in H3. It goes unappreciated how much custom scripts carry these guns and the support needed to keep these scripts going as Anton updates his game with constant codebase changes. I am not very good with code, so I am grateful to have the front of the coding already handled by all of you. Thank you so much for making this possible.

Weapons featured in this Advent Calendar were made originally by Infinite Warfare / Treyarch. It will be some time before individual releases will become a thing so, for now, the red moon packs will be where they are kept.

To say BO3, BO4, and IW now have over 90% of their weapon roster and then some, in H3VR, it has been my goal for a while and I'm proud to have accomplished it to near completion. I also know the remainder is going to bug me down the line, as it will to the fans of the guns not yet ported to this game, but full transparency, I made too risky of a gamble getting this done and nearly lost it all in the process. I recovered. I delivered. I believe I've earned my time playing the new jetpack era COD.

When I burn myself out of BO7, this will be where I return to, to get back to work making the stuff I wanna see in this game, because this game has become my passion project as much as it was for Anton. I had no such avenue before I played H3VR and it's been THE place to store what I hold dear, be it Nerf blasters, COD guns, silly skins, or anime waifus galore.

... and in making this advent calendar I've discovered... something... that could help close out a longtime ache of mine.

Compared to the last Space Race, being hard stuck on Medium settings, having difficulties and wasting hours baking lights that never appeared in game... To running Ultra Settings recording videos with minimal issues, if anything the bolt speeds of guns hiccuping slightly, with lighting near one to one with what I intended from editor to game. Massive improvement. Massive weight off my shoulders.

Here's a hint. It's the shadows. Wonder if you noticed, if you cared to see them. The ugly H3VR shadows cause the ugliest perf issues. I can kill them and score big like I've shown here, an oh boy does that open Pandora's box.

I'm going to cross lines we never thought to draw in the sand. I'm going to push this boulder up a treacherous mountain, because I think what people like Kodeman have done for this game, others have not done enough to give it and him his kudos.

Because I'm still here. When LioZuto, Kapitan Greythorne, Devyn, NunSuperior, Marcel, and countless other modmakers have moved on from this game, andd I dread the day I see Volk, Jerry, Wolfie, Niko, Muzzle, and people like us have to stop and move on. I feared that I myself had a timer, and that timer came and went.

My dinky laptop has a breach in its chassis and my two external harddrives complain if their cords get touched the wrong way, but they're still running fine. I can still access my Unity Project from when I first started making H3VR mods, all the way up to the one I used to make this advent calendar happen, others aren't as lucky having corrupted projects screw them over. I have a part time job that can truly support this hobby of mine, monetarily, physically, and mentally. Others, they work full time to pay for their livelyhoods, and can no longer afford to mod the funny hotdog game.

All these blessings, these rare blessings all bestowed upon me, I'd be squandering that fortune if I didn't act upon it. So I will. In due time. Sooner than you think, even.

Redmoon sets now, but I'm not done with H3VR just yet. Keep an eye out for me. I'll be back with more crazy shit, I can guarantee it.