can elite dangerous in the future switch game engine to make the game better. we all want more and more but this engine cannot handle all the things we want running in the same time.
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What makes you think it can't handle stuff. I haven't seen any evidence of that yet.
I'm more inclined to think that some developer team members are not so good at handling the actual engine, honestly.
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I am guessing that you havent heard the news about SC changing engines......
Switching the game engine for a live product already two years in the market would be suicidal. Even switching mid-development is pretty prohibitive, unless you want to start over from scratch. Game engines nowadays not only render the pretty pictures on your screen, they also define how you build and pipeline your content and are deeply entangled with your game code.
The reason why SC - at least in theory - can switch from CryEngine to Lumberyard lies in the fact that Lumberyard is built upon an older version of CryEngine, so the two technologies are in parts compatible. Devil will be in the details, of course. Rough guess, this stunt will throw SC release back by two quarters at least. And Lumberyard is still in beta, so there will be a lot of obstacles and missing tools they now have to deal with. Speculation, this switch is driven by economical reasons. CryEngine is on the expensive side of engines you can buy.
The reason why SC - at least in theory - can switch from CryEngine to Lumberyard lies in the fact that Lumberyard is built upon an older version of CryEngine, so the two technologies are in parts compatible. Devil will be in the details, of course. Rough guess, this stunt will throw SC release back by two quarters at least. And Lumberyard is still in beta, so there will be a lot of obstacles and missing tools they now have to deal with. Speculation, this switch is driven by economical reasons. CryEngine is on the expensive side of engines you can buy.
For an engine that runs elite dangerous and planet coaster (which lets you experience things first person btw) i think the cobra engine is somewhat remarkable.
I would be interested to know what you think it cant do? If it's because there are bugs if you could just show me a game with the features and scope of ed without bugs ill be more inclined to agree.
Im really not sure why the community always seems to think we can armchair code better than fd!
I would be interested to know what you think it cant do? If it's because there are bugs if you could just show me a game with the features and scope of ed without bugs ill be more inclined to agree.
Im really not sure why the community always seems to think we can armchair code better than fd!
Might happen when the announced drop of 32bit support comes.
Guessing some people replying haven't heard the news from Roberts Space Industries. Or are sarcasm blind.....
Game engine could be updated. FD handles Cobra Engine and for the future could develop a new version v4 to v5, instead of micro update from v4.1 to v4.2.
But the technologies based of Cobra will remain. Because it allows Xbox, PS4, and PC development.
Not going to happen.
The Cobra Engine can certainly be optimized, and Frontier is doing that with every release. Moving the game to a completely new engine would require hiring additional staff to handle the conversion, retraining the current staff to adapt to the change and denying their customers access to any new content for months, if not longer. I wonder what the OP is trying to run in addition to Elite: Dangerous that he can't do while the game is playing? The problem probably isn't the game engine. It might be an older PC that is being taxed by the game in which case, switching to a different engine isn't going to be the fix. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and upgrade your rig.
The Cobra Engine can certainly be optimized, and Frontier is doing that with every release. Moving the game to a completely new engine would require hiring additional staff to handle the conversion, retraining the current staff to adapt to the change and denying their customers access to any new content for months, if not longer. I wonder what the OP is trying to run in addition to Elite: Dangerous that he can't do while the game is playing? The problem probably isn't the game engine. It might be an older PC that is being taxed by the game in which case, switching to a different engine isn't going to be the fix. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and upgrade your rig.
"News" you say? Whats this "News" you speaketh of, Sir?
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I guess I'm sarcasm blind. The problem with text based communication is that you can't read tone of voice. Most people, when submitting a sarcastic comment, will either include an emoticon to indicate such or wrap their text in a faux <sarcasm> tag. In absence of such indicators I tend to assume that the author is speaking seriously and with a straight face. The OP can always clarify their intentions later.
Being a typical cynical Brit I assume everything is sarcasm until proved otherwise.