the hard drive of my laptop has failed [not surprised]

it's not hard to fix, i could just buy a new hard drive, but i am planning on getting a new pc so i will wait until then

this happened last week i think. until that point i have been able to work on small progress, with some limitations when testing, so more is actually done than you might think

but now i can't make progress at all, maybe for the final few days of my laptop's life, but i doubt it

everything is backed up on an external hard drive so nothing will be lost

it's just waiting now until around christmas

although nothing is lost, i will likely be recreating some elements of design, most importantly the office [not an entire change, just an improvement]

blender and sfm have struggled to run on my laptop so getting a pc will enable the map and the office to end up much better

the map will be created by me so i won't need to rely on the maps provided on the sfm workshop any more, and the display of the roster and overall quality of the graphics will be improved

i will try to optimise the game as much as possible though, despite the quality increase, by mimimising animation frames and colour depth. this won't impact the quality, but because of how graphics are stored, and if applied to all renders, it will help optimising a lot