Not to mention the “one size fits all” engine ue5 is known for being bloated, and thus its a shit engine for anything that needs a high framerate
ozoned@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah, we just laid off all the engine people we use to build the games we’re known for.
And now we’re moving to an engine none of us knows and isn’t ours. What’s the worst that can happen?
Totally certain Microsoft will be a good steward and give them time and money to completely transition to …
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
Exactly. You expect us to believe you laid off half your workforce and your games will be completely unimpacted? Either you had terrible management and a ton of completely unnecessary employees or (more likely) you’re lying.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I was interested in the claim about engine swap, and it seems to be a popular suspicion that is not in the OP but laid out in detail with links there: shanethegamer.com/…/id-software-layoffs-spark-fea…
What AAA studios still use their own solutions now, except for Valve and Rockstar? Is everyone else on game engines world’s Chromium? That’s a big loss to players and the gamedev as art.
tb_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ubisoft has Snowdrop, EA has Frostbite. FromSoft uses their own engine. Bandai Namco has the RE engine. Square Enix uses their own for the FF games. The Horizon and Death Stranding games are built on the Decima(?) engine. Nintendo does their own thing.
There’s plenty more out there.
CD Projekt and 343 have been the highest profile switches to Unreal, I suppose. I think Unreal Engine has been most prevalent in “AA” releases? Though I’m sure there’s a lot I’m not thinking of.
Voumig@lemmy.pt 2 months ago
IO Interactive also use their own engine. They are a minority but some big studios do it. It’s expensive but being able to make something custom and not have to rely on Epic is probably pretty nice
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t you mean Capcom?
tb_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whoops, I do.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Square enix has used unreal since KH3, they purposefully didn’t upgrade to UE5 for Rebirth though because the devs had made enough internal tools and procedures for 4 that it didn’t make sense to upgrade yet. Not to mention they were aware of the performance issues of 5 and would rather tackle the devil they know when it came to optimisation.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
But, Id Software INVENTED FPS game engines! Valve didn’t even invent Half-Life’s first engine; they borrowed an early prototype of Quake.
Yeah, I know Carmack isn’t on the payroll nowadays, but there’s still some competent people who know how to design 3D engines on their own.
d00ery@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Excellent point. In fact unreal (tournament) were the primary competitor to quake back in the day. And now it’s full circle with id using unreal engine…
Glad that whole competition thing is working out so well for consumers.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bethesda still uses NetImmerse dervived Creation Engine. Or is it called Hero Engine now? I always knew it as NetImmerse which morphed into Gamebryo and then that morphed into Creation.
LongLive@lemmy.world 2 months ago
4A Games - Modded X-Ray engine
GCS Game world - X-Ray engine