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Star Citizen News - Star Citizen is now being built using the Amazon Lumberyard engine after several years in development. Lumberyard is a free AAA cross-platform 3D engine. Both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 will use the engine from now forward.
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And what is going to happen when this one cant get the job done either?
Remember all the arguments about 64 bit and the old engine and how they had to rewrite everything?
Oh and what about those fake videos they showed around last summer and fall what engine were those on? I guess it doesnt matter since they were movies and not actual game play.
You seriously cant make this shit up. For the past how many months or years have they said it was X when in fact for the past year they have been working on Z.
Either way LY is simply better for 'interfacing' I still highly doubt its foundation will do what they have been claiming they have been able to do for months (with no actual evidence where people could actually play it). But theyll be able to have Twitch guys and yourtubers make better quality rhetoric streams so thats probably the most important thing.
Derek Smart was very adamant about how Cryengine wasn't able to do what they wanted. Sorry I'm a little mad right now I was hoping CIG was done with the bullshit.
- Big reason: Lumberyard is free
- Possible reason: it is cross platform
- bonus reasons: Twitch integration, Amazon are rolling out new features, publicity, etc.
And - clearly - the Lumberyard engine has been designed to accept stuff done in the Cry engine - no surprise really given Lumberyard is simply CryEngine plus some stuff.When they started none of the available engines offered a complete solution; in-house work was going to be needed. Which meant recruiting skilled staff. I believe that one of the reasons they went with Cry is that there was a pool of ex-Crysis staff available for hire in one place. And setting up a German office facilitated this. I don't know this but I do know that recruiting staff can be expensive and time consuming.
Lumberyard is simply CryEngine plus some "additions, fixes and improvements". 996 of them currently. That's according to Amazon.
So maybe the move will help but fundamentally if they "couldn't get it working" in Cry I don't really see this helping. Conversely if they get it working in "Lumberyard Cry" I would assume that they could get it working in (non-Lumberyard) Cry.
Now if Lumberyard was based on Unity ... now that would be odd but going from one version of CryEngine to an "enhanced" version of CryEngine - why wouldn't you?
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When it comes to switching over it shouldn't be huge task considering the above also. This also means the game will be using amazon aws rather than google cloud services which might be a good thing. Hopefully it will also mean better twitching.
Lets hope amazon has been working on some of the backend netcode issues, basicly I think the game is still using starengine but also now gains any modules amazon has been working on for "Lumberyard".
I can say this for sure my download speed for the update are blazing fast compared to before.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
If you can move from CryEngine to enhanced CryEngine, do so quickly and painlessly and the Amazon licence agreement allows you to carry on doing your own stuff (which it does) why wouldn't you?
I mean it's running on "lumberyard" right right now so if there's any delays it probably won't have to do with this change, I wouldn't be surprised if this helps them speed things up as they probably wont have to work on w/e amazon added to cryengine.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
So if they REALLY rebuilt Cryengine specifically for Star Citizen why the change? Thats what I was trying to get at with my original comment. I highly doubt the Amazon version is as good as the claimed version these guys had and showed those fake movies on last summer at the conventions. I am sure people will go back and see if Roberts mentioned the version of Cryengine they were on but I think he was asked that and from what I remember he claimed it was their (CiG) rebuilt one.
Regardless its another version, but at least this one can actually be verified as an actual change from the original one they said wouldnt work. But like I said above I don think this one will work any better because I doubt highly Amazon has had the time to redo that core aspect. Especially since they have had it for about a year and CR supposedly has had it for much ,longer AND he supposedly had the original designers working for him. Which also begs the question how are they working for him and not Amazon?
This whole thing stinks but what else is new. But they have ZERO excuses now. If the game wont work then what? They throw Amazon under the bus and claim to go back to 'their' version? Which I dont think exists either, or the very least doesnt work, because if it did and it worked why switch?
Time will tell I suppose 2.6 whatever that actually means is out I suppose people will point out any major changes good or bad. But I suspect there wont be any significant differences other than, as I said above people with Twitch and youtube running the game and streaming much faster. Which for most people is a m,oot issue.
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I have had my share of issues with SC and still do but this is just sad.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
From what I have read - and don't follow SC that closely - they were planning to use Google so this will mean they use Amazon. According to the licence agreement though they don't have to.