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Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

as a professional software dev, games with fozens or hundreds of abilities that interact with eachother scare me

[โ€“] mriswith@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yea, in things like MOBA games you have to compensate for so many edge cases that the amount of interactions between abilities is as you say, scary.