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The Making of Side 7: Gundam Evolution private server project


Project community server: https://discord.gg/side7 On September 20th, 2022, the live-service first-person hero shooter "GUNDAM EVOLUTION" was launched. A little over a year later, on November 29th, 2023, it abruptly reached its end of life. As a passionate enthusiast of hero shooters and the Gundam franchise, the game's

We might manage to decode the packet compression and encryption, but accurately replicating the physics interactions and other backend processes without direct reference could take years of speculation and still fall short of the original gameplay experience. To this end, I established a Discord server and appointed an early and passionate supporter from my social media discussions as a community director, allowing me to concentrate on development while he advocated for the project's revival. Over the course of a month, through meticulous examination of SDK and kismet analyzer dumps, alongside strategic runtime injections, hook implementations, asset swaps, and API enhancements, we reached a pivotal milestone just nine days post-service termination:

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