Triage

I’ve been working on this alone and some of my early conclusions are load-bearing. If you’ve cracked open an old Unreal Engine 3 game before, this post is me asking you to check my work.

Half a day of poking the dead client with a stick is done. It’s in great shape. Every way in is bricked shut. So the next stretch is the slow one: decompiling.

A 16-year-old game boots on Windows 11 and hands me the whole character screen with nothing behind it. Then every other door I try is bricked shut.