The New Game Engine

Vandeda

I am just as Rich as Arti and I want to know when the game engine Going live and if it Not Soon i am going to Leave AO as well This game is Geting the wrong patches and Add-On's I am going to say this One TIME ( AO ) = ( ARK ) = (FUNCOM) Get your ass in gear..... And post a date for the game engine And you need to Post The name of it thanks

Dangerbot

The only estimate we've heard is November.

Just 4 to 8 weeks away, depending on which side of November they planned.

That wont happen of course. Bank on 2011.

reids

Definatley not November, all we've seen since the promo have been a few re-modelled heads :/

Gridpain

November 2012 is a good guess

byteflush

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Originally Posted by Vandeda

I am just as Rich as Arti and I want to know when the game engine Going live and if it Not Soon i am going to Leave AO as well This game is Geting the wrong patches and Add-On's I am going to say this One TIME ( AO ) = ( ARK ) = (FUNCOM) Get your ass in gear..... And post a date for the game engine And you need to Post The name of it thanks

I do not Know Arti but (THEY) Have moved to VS2005 which Is compatible with the engine they'Re working On..... the name Of the engine Is Dreamworld you're Welcome

Gatester

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Originally Posted by reids

Definatley not November, all we've seen since the promo have been a few re-modelled heads :/

Character models are the most difficult part are they not?

Graftmage

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Originally Posted by Gatester

Character models are the most difficult part are they not?

They are not part of engine (Means even said that they can be used in the "old" engine we have now).

ninor

problem is that the new models have a higher poly count and bigger textures and that would probably kill the old engine...

reids

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Originally Posted by Gatester

Character models are the most difficult part are they not?

No idea, but it would be nice to see an ig screen of them rather than a screenshot of them in 3dmax or w/e FC use

Dangerbot

The old engine is unkillable. If they put the new models in today, it wouldn't have a negative impact on anyone. Might even slow the rate of /quitters. At least buy them another month.

Proof of unkillableness: Go spawn 500 unicorn ships with an FXscript. They render just fine.

Gatester

My post was in reference to the longest part of the process

Nac714

More problems in the game than eye candy graphics. Gameplay > GFX anyday. Anyways even with the new engine the appeal will be lost pretty quickly, maybe not for new blood but for people that have been playing a while..... we saw past the low poly enviroments ages ago. i still think this engine looks reasonable considering the depth of the game.

No rush fc, i'd rather have a game that works than one crashing ever few moments..... oh wait i think i messed up :P

Berinda

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Originally Posted by Nac714

More problems in the game than eye candy graphics. Gameplay > GFX anyday.

While it is somewhat about eye candy, it comes down to the fact AO does not take advantage of modern computers with its current renderer. Some of the newest technology can't even run the game at all.

Switching to a new engine is important for the long-term life of the product, but I fear they're three years too late. They've been working on a new engine for AO since 2006; they started in Ogre. They could have saved a ton of effort, time and money and have the engine out by now if they had laid in parallel with AoC while the AO engine was being improved to run that game.

ninor

Looking at the problems AoC had at the start, including the engine... no they should defnitely not have been out with AoC.
But yes, they "wasted" a lot of time on ogre, but that's easy to say in hindsight. It might have been the "right" desision at that time.

**Ebag333**

Keep in mind that the AoC engine has changed over time as well. When they first looked at upgrading the AO engine, the AoC engine was considered, but it was deemed a more difficult upgrade than the Ogre engine.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Think of it this way, with many companies if the upgrade had failed/stalled, that would have been the end of it. FC has enough faith in AO to start all over with the engine upgrade to the AoC engine. This is not a cheap process, FC is investing a lot of money into it.

Techmagos

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Originally Posted by Vandeda

I am just as Rich as Arti and I want to know when the game engine Going live and if it Not Soon i am going to Leave AO as well This game is Geting the wrong patches and Add-On's I am going to say this One TIME ( AO ) = ( ARK ) = (FUNCOM) Get your ass in gear..... And post a date for the game engine And you need to Post The name of it thanks

i am Just as Annoyed as Anyone and i Want to know when you will start using Punctuation cause if it is Not Soon™ i will be happy to see you leave AO and take Your hard to read whiny Posts with you i disagree with everything You Said above here's my Formula for it pay attention i ONLY post ONE time (Punctuation) = (YOU + NOW PLZ) = (ANARCHY ONLINE) \ (STFU) And post a date and time For your thank You note thanks and welcome!

mykenna

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Originally Posted by Vandeda

I am just as Rich as Arti

erm...what?

does this have anything to do with the rest of the stuff u said?

Dangerbot

Thinks he thinks Artyomis's 'special treatment' recently has something to do with the 900 billion credits he has.

So he's hoping to play the special card for a response.

Why would anyone care about that?

NotDavidBowi

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Originally Posted by Vandeda

I am just as Rich as Arti and I want to know when the game engine Going live and if it Not Soon i am going to Leave AO as well

Cya.

Manicmouse

Can i has your stuffs?