I'm really hoping performance improves significantly with Vam 2. Performance is one of the main reasons I never really fiddle with Vam and just stick to looking at scenes mostly. Hope desktop controls improve as well.
I doubt it will improve as much as it
should, unfortunately, but it should be better at least.
Mesh is actually a shitty programmer and what makes matters worse is he actually refuses to hire more help because he wants to dominate control of the project and reap as much money as possible as he still charges while working on VAM2.
He actually had to abandon VAM (original) entirely and start from complete and total scratch because it was so fucked. Just the loading systems, alone, are enough to shame him so severely if it ever came out his real identity and he programmed such a disaster it could literally prevent him from getting a programming job for life. Easily one of the greatest programming fails this world has ever seen.
Worst part is, there isn't really a full ETA and the game could get stuck in bottleneck development at any time as he is actually learning while he develops VAM2 because he was so astoundingly ignorant he is having to completely massively overhaul his skills and knowledge (also a core reason he is doing it from scratch).
The good part is this means he ditches a fucked up base and doesn't reuse any of that disaster. The other good news is he becomes better, over time, and creates a better product (if the world doesn't legitimately meet the apocalypse first).
The bad part is his comments about the game's performance and future are a mix of good and extremely bad. He is still targeting 2-3 characters, basically max, at a time he says in Discord and believes achieving more isn't realistically possible despite many games feature far more complex physics and animated characters on screen than his goal is attempting (and it isn't a matter of his character vs other's "quality" issue, either... he is just ignorant). He also is quite upfront he expect to build only a certain base framework and then expects other even shittier programmers to make modules/extensions to add functionality, fix what he doesn't do or add, etc. for him which is going to create part of the clusterfuck that is VAM original.
Supposedly we will get another demo this year but I don't fully believe that because he also claimed he released a demo using the words "recently", when someone asked him in Discord like a week or two ago, and it was fucking years ago in 2022.
Speaking of performance, have you tried the new multi-threaded performance fix some random person made to fix his fucked game's performance (that he refuses to make official despite promoting it, himself, for some reason). It helps with the game's incredible CPU bottleneck and might make you have a better experience.
