Out of curiosity, how come? What is it about Steam that makes it indispensable? Steam achievements? Social integration? Ease of having all your games in a single catalogue?
Ease of having all of my games in a single catalogue, for sure.
Ease of having all of my games in a single catalogue, for sure.
If this will be windows store only, then good bye.
Same here. But if it is as big of a PITA as Gears Ultimate was, they better batten down the hatches because a s***storm of monstrous proportions is coming. Simply downloading and installing the game was a long, drawn out, nightmare. Took months to address performance issues that should have been solved before release, and even longer to add the graphics settings control it has now.Yup. I heard about so many issues with Windows Store ROTTR. I enjoy Gears games, and would like to play it, but not enough to go Windows Store. Not unless it's ever on an extraordinarily low sale price.
Ease of having all of my games in a single catalogue, for sure.
Its software and its not software for the F35, a windows level operating system or some space ship software. Companies with much less money than microsoft are still making game engines.
What epic is able to do is their problem. Unreal Engine conversion to dx12 might well be harder to do than create a dx12 engine from the ground up because its a mass of code already. Not to mention their engine was already behind the curve so why think they have the expertise above other groups?
Engines are also heavily modified by groups. eg. source engine in titanfall. Oxide developed their own engine on a relatively small budget and without a massive company (around 200 people on many projects). They've supported mantle, dx12, dx11 and plan to support vulkan.
that microsoft doesn't seem to have their own engine is kind of an embarrassment. If they thought enough to buy havok, then they should have thought about building an engine to take full advantage of their hardware and windows. Or at least buying one
UE4 is behind the curve? Are you serious?! UE4 is perhaps the most advanced engine out there. There's a reason why so many devs use it.
Also, UE4 is one of the few engines that actually have a dynamic global illumination system.
Cryengine is the most advance engine out there(in terms of material quality ue4 looks plastic).it's just IBL which was hindering it but with new SVOTI ( and not VXGI) it is unbeatable in visuals.The reason why so many devs are using it probably also has a lot to do with EPIC making it free (with royalties).
Actually I'm pretty sure that UE4 doesn't have a truly dynamic GI implementation. It was planned at one point (SVOGI), but EPIC dropped it.
The reason why so many devs are using it probably also has a lot to do with EPIC making it free (with royalties).
Actually I'm pretty sure that UE4 doesn't have a truly dynamic GI implementation. It was planned at one point (SVOGI), but EPIC dropped it.
Cryengine is the most advance engine out there(in terms of material quality ue4 looks plastic).it's just IBL which was hindering it but with new SVOTI ( and not VXGI) it is unbeatable in visuals..
Great video and one of my friend following this game. Rich textures and lightmass GI makes this and paragon look marvelous but what I am talking is about the closeness to real life material quality which only Cryengine provides atmCryEngine is great, undoubtedly, but I haven't seen any engine with material shaders that look this great, whilst running at this frame rate:
So what other engine should they be using then, according to you? You don't think they know what's best for them?
No 3D engine currently supports real time global illumination for all light sources, as it's way too expensive. But LPV, or light propagation volumes looks very nice in Unreal Engine 4 whilst running very fast.
Great video and one of my friend following this game. Rich textures and lightmass GI makes this and paragon look marvelous but what I am talking is about the closeness to real life material quality which only Cryengine provides atm
watch from 15 23
just for material quality and PBR/PBS and not for sharp textures.
Have you played Paragon? That's the best incarnation of UE4 graphics so I'd compare to that. It looks incredible
I am new to gaming.Have you played Paragon? That's the best incarnation of UE4 graphics so I'd compare to that. It looks incredible
I think their open beta for Paragon is still going so you can just download it and walk around in it for free. I think it will be F2P too when it comes out so either way no cost to you. Personally I thought it looked fantastic and it has less of that plastic-ey overly bumpmapped Unreal 3 Gears of War look to itI am new to gaming.
That's what I'm saying but Cryengine SVOTI has not started to mature to make it useful or intense battle game like the one in OP though upcoming 5.x updates make improvements.Problem is that all of these solutions are work in progress for UE so to simply say that "UE4 has dynamic GI" is a statement that comes with a ton of caveats, which was really my point.
And the current dynamic GI solutions in UE4 are certainly nowhere near SVOTI in Cryengine (unless you count Nvidia's VXGI, but the performance hit and compatibility issues, makes that a bit of a non-starter).
Actually it's about the GPU. On HD7750 now.I think their open beta for Paragon is still going so you can just download it and walk around in it for free. I think it will be F2P too when it comes out so either way no cost to you. Personally I thought it looked fantastic and it has less of that plastic-ey overly bumpmapped Unreal 3 Gears of War look to it
That's what I'm saying but Cryengine SVOTI has not started to mature to make it useful or intense battle game like the one in OP though upcoming 5.x updates make improvements.
yeah but I don't think it would be available before final launch of the game.I'm not able to find it in current alpha gameplay videos on youtubeWell it's used in Kingdom come: Deliverance, but I suppose that isn't really an "intense battle game" to quite the same degree as GoW4, although it still does feature some fairly heavy combat scenes.
We're not, or at least I'm not, discussing whether Microsoft is capable of making their own game engine. No one in their right mind would doubt that, as Microsoft is one of the most capable and influential software producers in the World. But to make a game engine from scratch that can rival the likes of UE4, Frostbite 3, CryEngine etcetera would be an enormous undertaking, and probably not worth the effort to be honest.
UE4 is behind the curve? Are you serious?! UE4 is perhaps the most advanced engine out there. There's a reason why so many devs use it. Also, UE4 is one of the few engines that actually have a dynamic global illumination system, and a multithreaded animation system.
Yes, but the Nitrous engine is specifically engineered for RTS games. Making a more flexible engine that can support a wide variety of games would be much more difficult.
Q. Can I make a massively multiplayer game with Nitrous?
A. Yes. Nitrous is designed to handle very heavy workloads like you would see in a massively multiplayer game. From high unit counts in gathering places to lush and full environments, we would love to help bring your world to life.
Great video and one of my friend following this game. Rich textures and lightmass GI makes this and paragon look marvelous but what I am talking is about the closeness to real life material quality which only Cryengine provides atm
watch from 15 23
just for material quality and PBR/PBS and not for sharp textures.
It would be if not plageud by gpu vendor specifik effects and optimizations.that looks good. But I suspect this wont be that great at launch.