Boo-hoo they lose a little bit of the millions they make back from sales at the cost of making good games.
I suppose the lesson to be learnt there is, if you gonna make your own engine then it better be fucking good.
Starfield - No Man's Bethesda
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I suppose the lesson to be learnt there is, if you gonna make your own engine then it better be fucking good.
I'm not crying for the big boys, but I do feel bad for the smaller developers or Indies out there. If they use the Unreal 5, then that's a decent chunk taken out of them.
You don't really have to feel bad for Indie's though, because they never cry about not making enough millions and millions off the game. I've only ever seen Indie's come out happy their game does so well (when they make a good game). They know what they sign up for when making a game off the Unreal Engine or whatever other problem they use to make the game. They don't have the ridiculous expectations or overhead so the fee doesn't impact them really.
I know all that, but I still feel kind of bad, because I do have a negative bias towards Epic. Epic knows they don't need to charge that much for the smaller studios or individual person, but they'll throw a bone every now and then. What I have noticed is that most indies go for the Unity Engine, because it's cheaper. Especially the studios making their games pixel art or 2.5D style.
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No reason to use Unreal if you dont need it for your game. That is just smart game making.
Of course. And not a single one of those difficulty modes involves the AI improving one iota. Like nearly all difficulty modes, they're just jacking up the damage the enemies can deal and take and sometimes lowering the damage the player can deal rather than making the AI smarter or even just giving them better guns or whatever. It's the reason why I hate difficult modes in general. The same tactics that worked on easy are going to work on Nightmare difficulty, it's just how much of a damage sponge they are and how easily they can kill you that changes.
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Heck, Skyrim Anniversary Edition's survival mode was a mod that got included in their Creation Club.
What they really want is people to mod the get and make it good for them, so that they can sell us the mod on the Creation Club and profit off other people's work.
They had "Get players to fix game - ??? - Profit!" on the whiteboard and never got around to filling in the second line.
In a way I feel like they'd have better projects if they focused on making worlds without any actual game there and just let people use these worlds as creation tools themselves.
Like remember that Sony game Dreams? Or even Little Big Planet to a lesser degree, where you could make full games within their toolset and engine. Bethesda can do that on a bigger scale, give us full worlds with NPC behaviors and put all the foundations of a game there, then let the minecraft types go to town on it. Actually nevermind they already do that.
It's because they're the only coke dealers in town, and it's usually pretty good coke, but unfortunately it's cut with laxatives.
You just need modders to wash it up into something that isn't going to make you shit yourself.
Funny bug time, sometime spaceship can land and unload enemy, since they all come cramped together its a great place for a grenade to kill them all, once they're all dead, the spaceship close its door and fly off, often with the corpse. Apparently once the ship is high enough it'll despawn (maybe after a minute), but the corpse don't, instead they fall back to the ground and if your really lucky it happen in front of you and the gravity of the planet is really low so that they bounce around like T-posing super ball.
A game dev (not related to Starfield), explains in her twitter thread why the NPC models looks so dead. Highly recommend reading the whole thing
It's actually quite fascinating, because she also brings up how the eye muscle movements can be seen in movies as well. She does mention how faces are hard to capture in games.
It's actually quite fascinating, because she also brings up how the eye muscle movements can be seen in movies as well. She does mention how faces are hard to capture in games.
From the very start Bethesda's open world games have amounted to "here's why you're here, here's the set pieces, now go nuts." Bethesda open world games have had little real story, the whole point has always been to have the players craft the story for themselves. Really, it was Minecraft before Minecraft was a thing.
This is why Bethesda games are so keen on supporting modding. It lets them get away with not providing much in the way of worthwhile content in their actual games. Plus it lets them release a half finished game that the modders will fix.
The reason people are noticing this these days is now that Bethesda paved the way for open world games there's plenty of games that are both mostly bug free and have worthwhile content of their own, plus still being fairly moddable.
Good thing then that space ships fire laser beams and photon torpedoes and not ballistic projectiles.
Except Starfields don't lol. I mean, they have that stuff but you specifically use ballistics to pierce the hull once the obligatory stagger meter is done via laser (somehow). Nor does its tech level seem to be up to Trek with actual targeting computers and such.
Also the perennial problems with balllistics in space. Vacuum doesn't carry heat away, and anything you fire, will, by physics fire you back just as much. So to shoot something that can pierce a ships hull, you're eating a not-dissimilar backforce yourself, which even with bracing (and there's no planets worth of solid mass and gravity to lean on), is going to knock your course off completely with every shot while building up immense thermal stress on the weapon itself. All those weird-ass atmospheres a ship (or a person carrying a gun) goes in and out of are also going to be hell on the guns maintenance, at a minimum to stop it from corroding away.
And the baseline concern, of space being kind of lethal. Which carries over into the ground as well. If ballistics misfire or explode on you... you are open to the non-mercy of space. Trek and the like have magic healing pens and force fields and such to re-establish pressure for hull breaches. Starfields half-attempt at being "hard sci fi" doesn't get to that level of luxury. Prettymuch only the most crazed of people would carry that sort of risk around instead of using magnetic or electric weapons, or possibly even stuff like Prey's paste gun.
Dogfighting combat in space is pure space opera. The only realistic combat out there would be capital ships firing missiles at each other from light-seconds away.
TBF, can we really call any form of space combat "realistic" in any medium? I mean aside from the debris flying around in zero gravity, space dogfights will probably be something none of us will be alive to see.