NASA has informed us that we’re going to have a solar storm in one week, and you want to prepare to spend the next 12 months developing your next game, level, or scene to showcase after the crisis.
Select your 5 essential tools, without considering what the industry demands—only your personal preferences.
I'll start:
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It takes me 12 months to sculpt things anyway, so I'll just do all the baking after the solar storm
if I'm going that long without internet I'm going to spend it failing to write a game from scratch
All my main apps would be downed, no data transfers to anyone, me doing 3d for myself? Ridiculous!
All my apps are perpetual, though, so no change, there.
3ds Max 2022, Zbrush 2022, 3d Coat, PS CS5, I guess the last Allegorithmic Substance Painter over Designer if I had to choose (which I wouldn't have to so I'll add BM Fusion). It probably doesn't really pay to be that stubborn, but at least I'd prevail in this hypothetical scenario.