- Twitter user c0mpl3x1ty who happens to be an electrical engineer had a few drinks and went to Twitter to bash how open world zombie game Dying Light's city has no way to generate power
- c0mpl3x1ty knows how power grids are supposed to work in real-life
- Twitter rant went on for nearly 30 minutes
- “I admit that I got kinda drunk,” he said
- he made the following tweets:
- c0mpl3x1ty showed some proof that he knows his shit:
“I work for the reliability coordinator,” c0mpl3x1ty told me. “Our company is like the air traffic controllers of power for the western interconnection. I see every power line 115kV and up in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. I travel some and always make a point to take pictures of substations.”
- And here’s proof:
“The only thing more horrifying than the zombies in the game is the NERC [North American Electric Reliability Corporation] violations at these substations,”
“Granted, the game probably doesn’t take place in North America, but even in Brazil, they have high safety standards regarding their electrical grid because if they don’t, people DIE. If I saw one of those giant switches at a sub that looks like something out of Frankenstein’s lab, I’d shut the power down and dismantle the whole substation myself.”
- Dying Light developer Techland responded via email, saying the following:
Ok the cat is out the bag. Yeah it’s true, our electrical systems break conventional design. But when you’re stuck in a zombie outbreak you’re going to have to adapt and therefore bypass certain “rules”. The people of Harran had to apply a really resourceful design which required the existing infrastructure to be tweaked. That’s why when you look at the current electrical setup in Harran things appear “wrong”.
We didn’t want this ground-breaking design out in the public before we could patent it, but your interest has shown us that electrical engineering world as a whole needs to know there are other ways to generate electricity despite “conventional knowledge”. Feel free to share this with your fellow engineers.
- The Dying Light devs then revealed a terrible secret about how the city gets it's power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIl7og6WQqw
- Techland continued:
“We’re totally open to any investors who want to buy this flawless design from us for heaps and heaps of cash,” said a Techland spokesperson. “This will then let us fund our other great ideas like a Dying Light theme park, Dying Light: A VR Farm Simulator Experience, and Dying Light: The Sitcom.”
http://kotaku.com/dying-light-creators-respond-to-fans-drunken-rant-1734010921
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
