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It's not started in december 2024, lets explain the root of sun leak situation...
What was happened?
Year 2021. Noclick as a new youtuber has been in search of fresh video material and something exclusive to work with in the future. A project named Overcharged has been in progression on the scene since year 2018, several teasers were made to show what is done.
Time passed... the release date was revealed for february 2022. Some time before, at the beginning of the year Noclick contacted with Overcharged team to ask for some pre release footage and gameplay showcase. At that time MikeDoubth was the main coder, he also agree with that collaboration. The mod get to RELEASE. First impressions were shown, some quick and more advanced patcher were done (at that time the mod version wasn't changed, the count has been simply named as patch 1-2-3 and only half of the year the mod has been updated with version number change).
2022 conclusion - mod gets is first release, it received positive article in PC Gamer magazine, everybody watching, more videos coming fine. But after Radhaz review in 10 of march in the 12 august Noclick re did his look into the mod, some minor founds were incorrect, that was the first red line cross.
Meanwhile from dev team respective the leader was changed, several members left the team. MikeDoubth an 2018-2022 code lead said good luck, do whatever you want with mod.
Year 2023. It was the most productive, a bit silent but more news and screenshots were present with Brijee takes the lead. Some numbered patches has been published with close attention to the potential problems which was shown in reviews. Let just skip the patches timeline and go straight to the reworked version 1.5. It was calm meet, looks like nobody from youtubers really checked up the changelog but first big update was really important, it fixed the bad sides of the mod - crashes in gameplay, fully reworks the flash and smoke grenades logic into triple A gaming standart, some custom npcs AI were updated, it also include some new features.
Post patch open survey identified that 50% players using low end PCs which defiently dont match the system requipment of the mod, received debug files appeal to not enough memory (mostly RAM, in other cases cpu and rarely gpu), integrated video is not supported just to be known.
It also important to note that MikeDoubth were replaced to Nickolay Aulov (He left too shortly after the 40 days in team) and Alexsay (Modern UI menu creator).
This year was fall down to the Noclick rating, he tried different variants to get hot video footage which raise the views fast, several sources says his girlfriend has gone to his best friend cause he have a own can, which Noclick didn't. Gone mad he started to think and think how to achieve some money faster.
2023 conclusion - absolute silence, both sides are strongly busy. Over team keep creating new content and in the same time fixing crashes and the goad were achieved in ver 1.5. Meanwhile Noclick tried to get up from life depressions.
Year 2024. The 'war' begins. in 5th of march Noclick did review of mod version 1.5 which claim the mod state is unfixed, broken. This time he put more fake non existing into the video footage by using expanded console commands and using keybinds to modify or shutdown gameplay directly ingame in real time.
Devs wont react on it, but the fixes were made for the real shown game moments, mostly for gameplay balance cause at this state the mod was playable fine.
Later in 14 april Radhaz updated his review now for 1.5 version, its important to note that he started to speak about good sides, not only bare hateness.
Another time passed... at the same year in october the next version 2.0 has been released, not all in dev team were agree with the right time cause some half of the assets did not finished at that time but still it cannot take longer time between versions and fan expectations, discussions. Even more 2024 year been more silent than ever, some team members changed their goals in life.
Radhaz did new review and stream about 2.0 version in 22 october with main focus at the unbalance but noted some improvements, stability.
December incident. Aka the sun leaking meme was born.
Started by preparation from Noclick exactly after Radhaz review, he decided to create 'bomb' effect into mass media by creating scandalous movement. He spent 30 days in november to find some guy who can modify game dll files and do selective profiles launch game block (thats the same guy who later provided a 'proofs' of developers steamid code blocks) which was his own code lines.
After all preparations were done Noclick says to his fanbase to click report the download sections in moddb.com website with malware reasons. Short time after mass reports been done and fake blocking code were shown to staff, the mod link has beed removed instantly. No hold, no skips, no hide of the link till the developers answers to this situation were made, just instant mod removing.
The community reupload were made shortly after that with uncluding of modified dll files and was used as reference in the most known, popular december sun leak video. A 'bomb' did the effect and the fans started to harass the mod page like a million of pieces from the explosion. Cause the plan works and evebody believe that devs is the real devils.
2024 conclusion - every side is under 'the pressure'. Over team got real burnout which affect into the many new assets and creations time but some of them let unfinished (it's not a problem for players side cause every unfinished stuff is NOT included in 2.0) some team members thinking to do own things or go to university to get higher qualification. Noclick finished his plan for the reviews and money earn, he already did practice on Fast Detect dev team to put some negative on it and later repeate his big destructable achievement into Overcharged 2.0. At the end of december the over team were complete broke down.
Year 2025. A new 'hope'? Only Brijee stayed with the project. 2 weeks were passed for winter holidays with talking with fans about the fact - left or continue the project.
At the 21 january Brijee started the discussion with the Noclick (it's been a 3 years pause between the chat) with open question what Noc trying to achieve. Noc responded really fast like he expected for it, his requirement was to earn 10.000$ from Brijee itself cause everybody else from the team left at that moment. Brijee declined that deal and Noclick says 'prepare for consequences...'.
So at the 14 february Noclick did his part 2 video to keep the pressure on the devs. It is important that he accepted the state that his malware news was fake not real.
At the same time Brijee proved to the moddb staff the point of no malware were in the mod archive-link. But the link cannot be restored for that moment. Plus another reason for develop the new version was the 20ani update for Half-Life 2 from Valve side which broke up surface shaders in global mods which is require SDK rebuild of the any mods. (That problem is also shown in part 2 of Noclick video to show how bad the mod is).
Week after somewhere in 20 february the new animator has joined the dev team and gives a new hope for those 'frozen in time' assets that made in 2023, mostly the more new weapons which is planned. With march begins it also speed up the development and the 2.5 version was announced as result (quick note: 2.5 was started in complete silence in the middle of february).
A new Tactical team was formed for infamous (by smod) tactical addon form recreation and the one more new approved member started his work on re-imagine the mapadd spawns for 2.5 version.
All the current work was focused in one direct goal - just finish the all work in progress assets and stuff, also the poll were posted on moddb.com with main question about project rebuild-rework which earn a most ot 'yes' answers.
Summer hacker attack on the discord server. It was organized by using exploits of the platform to earn admin rights and leak the mixed development files with fake ones. At the end of the 21 august it was officially confirmed what's behind it is MikeDoubth (original code overcharged lead till 2022) and his hacker friend Gigaslav. While talk with Gigaslav he responded that move as 'act of power' to introduce MikeDoubth contribution as mapadd and combineguard, cremator AI author (and more) to blame Brijee for every other thing. This also can be seen as move for potential Noclick part 3 video in the future cause MikeDoubth sold his old friends and their private chats completely in dirty hands.
Today is the 1 of september and the story is not yet ended, we expecting the another wave of pressure and bot reports. The 2.5 version of overcharged will be released but for this time you should realize with 2 or 3 people it's not complete team, plus the fact that all the planned content will be available to the players, the next potential 3.0 version or not, will take 3 or 5 years to rebuild in new form which means the end and conclison for current decade of overcharged.
In additional, just watch Nocleak channel stats and do your decisions:
It's been a long 7 years with high ups in years 2020 and 2023 and painfull downs in 2022 and 2024 but at the end i (Brijee) want to say thanks to all who watching the project in the different stages of development, it was really BIG project plus every charge have it's own over.
Our music reply to the latest events of development, listen both they have different vocal lines and overall style.
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