Quick Update. (Patreon)

Hello all, I hope you had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Mine was terrible, but luckily everything has worked out okay.

So for Christmas I was driving home from Uni and had my Computer packed away so I could work over the holidays and finish the second part of Shadows and the latest update for DLC, when somebody smashed into me on a roundabout. Apparently they forgot the part of the Highway Code which says "give way to the right".

They wrote off my car and also flung my desktop in back so hard it dented the casing. Luckily I was fine, they were fine, it is their fault and the insurance company is dealing with the car.

Now here is where the real terror set in, eventually when the recovery company got me and my stuff back to my family home, the computer wouldn't boot. Just got post beeps whenever I plugged it in. I'd also been an idiot and not done a back up since before making DLC. I'm a student and I took out a loan to build this computer a while ago, and I can't just replace parts and such and thought I was screwed, so I gave it to a family member who had some friends in their IT Department and offer a repair service, hoping and praying it would be something small.

Here's the part that really worried me even more, I had to sign a form saying I consented to data loss, and they warned me a lot of the time computers get wiped. I'm at this point accepting I've screwed myself so badly I'm basically going to have to just abandon this as a part time thing. So I've been waiting a couple of weeks and got a call to say they've needed to replace the GPU and the motherboard and some other bits and I can pick it up, my family member has also covered the costs.

Get home, turn my computer on expecting the worst and the create your account screen and I'm absolutely shocked when my name comes up and it asks for my password, I log in... and this is my PC, everything is here.

My family member also bought me a new external hard drive to back everything up and I'm going to be doing it weekly from now on religiously and that is what I'm currently doing right now. Then soon will be the SoM and the DLC updates as they were both nearly done. 

Sorry about the silence, I didn't know what was happening and with everything that happened I tried to just push it out of my mind and enjoy Christmas, especially as I have Uni exams as well all this month and I was really, really stressing about how I was going to pay for the PC, if anybody would lend me money, how I was going to recreate the models etc and especially when I'm stressed I'm awful at communicating (my GF will confirm and also nearly murdered me for ignoring her for basically the holiday too).

So yeah, hope you had a better Christmas than me, but you'll get the promised updates soon and I'm sorry for the delay, also big up PC World in the UK because they get trashed on the regular online and in this instance they've absolutely saved me :)

WP