We’re going into ship of Theseus territory here, but do you really know the extent to which they overhauled the engine? Because when I hear blocky terrain I think of LOD generation which all modern engines use to save processing power. Unreal engine itself is still the same propeitary engine based on C++, which similar to CE, has been overhauled over the years. Really what I see is you getting into the semantics of what makes a new engine without understanding the changes to the back end.
I guess what I was getting at is that it might take another engine overhaul or two before it starts to feel “next gen” to me. Maybe consumer hardware isn’t ready for a game at this scale that has trees that don’t look like paper, textures that don’t look muddy up close, and some sort of particles floating around in the air so that the world feels less static. There have always been sacrifices made to create a world at this scale that performs well, and I just don’t think we’ve hit peak yet. This stance seems to put people on the defensive for some reason. It’s still a good game, don’t shoot
We’re going into ship of Theseus territory here, but do you really know the extent to which they overhauled the engine? Because when I hear blocky terrain I think of LOD generation which all modern engines use to save processing power. Unreal engine itself is still the same propeitary engine based on C++, which similar to CE, has been overhauled over the years. Really what I see is you getting into the semantics of what makes a new engine without understanding the changes to the back end.
I guess what I was getting at is that it might take another engine overhaul or two before it starts to feel “next gen” to me. Maybe consumer hardware isn’t ready for a game at this scale that has trees that don’t look like paper, textures that don’t look muddy up close, and some sort of particles floating around in the air so that the world feels less static. There have always been sacrifices made to create a world at this scale that performs well, and I just don’t think we’ve hit peak yet. This stance seems to put people on the defensive for some reason. It’s still a good game, don’t shoot