... and here I was thinking the initial version already looked final!

Thanks for the breakdown! It's looking fantastic and it feels like way more models than three ✨

No pre-made models? 👀 Is this procgen?

There's a great talk about this topic from last year about Unreal myths, backed by profiler results. "Don't use Tick" is actually the first myth in the presentation: youtu.be/S2olUc9zcB8?...

Forbidden as in bCanEverTick=false? Otherwise if the timer is doing what tick was meant to do you can set the Tick Frequency from 0 to 0.1. Timers are just ticks in a different part of the engine.

You can also use Initial Life Span / Set Life Span on an actor and Unreal will handle the Destroy.

Same, though then I ditched my utility ai implementation for a state machine graph. Currently investigating state trees to see if they can eventually become an all in one solution, but they are really terrible to debug right now.