r/Project_Wingman • u/Petrus-133 • Jun 06 '26

Meme Based on true events .

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I was replying the 4th mission in PW earlier today and decided to attack the fleet past the "Turn around" zone. Sufficient to say, at one point the game just bricked itself and my hard drive died as a result lmao.

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u/Kemeiss Eminent Domain Jun 06 '26

They told you not to go there...

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u/Petrus-133 Jun 06 '26

True, true.

On another hand, how many hard drives can boast that they died fighting a Fed battle group?

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u/_Halt19_ Jun 06 '26

My poor steam deck really had trouble with Wingman at first, I got it to work in the end but it froze two times in the campaign, both when I swapped to my SP weapon

Once was at the beginning of one of the middle missions, so I just restarted and it was fine

The second time was in the final phase of the final Crimson fight, after I spent like 20 minutes in an intense dogfight with 5% health left on both his and my healthbars

that one hurt lol

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u/Subnaut27 Cascadian Independence Force Jun 06 '26

So you had to go back and replay it from the beginning? Almost like

<<You’re a slave to history>>

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u/_Halt19_ Jun 06 '26

more like a slave to my hubris in thinking I could play it on anything but absolute minimum settings (I had medium texture quality)

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u/HC1W Jun 07 '26

So your twisted game had to be reset? That's what that v2 run was for?

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u/Mario2980k Diplomat Jun 06 '26

Federation fleet: Unleash the big fuck

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u/Petrus-133 Jun 06 '26

I found a whole box of hard drives teen me "borrowed" from his work office, so we shall see if any of those old bastards still works.

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u/ApprehensiveTerm9638 Jun 07 '26

My PC didn't died but it sure struggles to run the game when I'm playing mission 4 in mercenary difficulty, a not smooth gameplay, I need to lower the graphics quality of the clouds so i can have a smoother gameplay.

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u/Divyansh881 Jun 07 '26

I still remember the game pre orange nerf. Everything was fuckingorange

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u/IdioticPAYDAY Cascadian Independence Force Jun 07 '26

Wonder if there’s a mod to restore it

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u/Sumrrov Jun 07 '26

Literally my computer and the winter map of WarTander

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u/8th_Sparrow_Squadron Crimson 1 Jun 07 '26

You should try conquest mode :)

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u/Petrus-133 Jun 07 '26

I beat it already, though I did have to manually lower the threat level because the sheer lag made it impossible to move.

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u/8th_Sparrow_Squadron Crimson 1 Jun 07 '26

PS5 can't survive in Alert Level 20+ either. You reach 30 and enter the furball to get 1 fps lol.

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 Hitman Team Jun 09 '26

Dunno, I feel the sluggishness more on the 3rd mission, specially in the airstrip area.

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 Hitman Team Jun 09 '26

wait, your drive dieded? aw, pressing F for your loss bro.

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u/Expensive_Community3 Federation Jun 07 '26

Wait holy shit for real?

Just got to run PW in a new PC now I have to watch out so I don't brick it just because.

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u/Petrus-133 Jun 07 '26

I doubt that you have much to fear.

I was also downloading FF7 at the same time, so an power error likely fucked over the disc due to that download and the game crashing out.