dylanTheDeveloper

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 dni temu

Is it good though

dylanTheDeveloper, 4 miesiące temu

All dictated by management with zero input from anyone else. I get sad for developer’s working for EA. Having zero influence on the games they make. I believe that everyone can have a great idea or a solution to a problem no matter what department they’re in.

Lots of developers have overlapping skills from making they’re own games that aren’t being utilised.

Working under EA is probably alot like working for McDonald’s, yeah if they did it ‘this way’ they would sell more burgers but good luck getting your voice heard.

dylanTheDeveloper, 4 miesiące temu

Well you see managers need to be paid more than everyone else and theirs lots of managers. Plus headcount is in the hundreds to pump out all the features and art assets within a few years

dylanTheDeveloper, 4 miesiące temu

Also Unreal Engine has 24/7 support from the engineers at epic through Unreal Development Network which costs quite a bit of money.

dylanTheDeveloper, 4 miesiące temu

There’s no propaganda, the studio is in Russia and the game was released shortly before the special military operation by coincidence. They wanted to release it on Defender of the Fatherland day since that’s a pretty patriotic day which fits the game pretty well but Putin also wanted to release revenge on that day so now it’s all muddled.

I’ve played it and the game feels more like a parady similar to Fallout so if you count fallout as propaganda then Atomic Heart is also propaganda

dylanTheDeveloper, 4 miesiące temu

More A’s

dylanTheDeveloper, 6 miesięcy temu

Time moves ever onwards with or without you

dylanTheDeveloper, 6 miesięcy temu

But does it compile?

dylanTheDeveloper, 6 miesięcy temu

But the traffic AI is so cooool

dylanTheDeveloper, 6 miesięcy temu

Or better open source security since everyone and his dog tries to crack it and the open source community patches it

dylanTheDeveloper, 7 miesięcy temu

Usually publishers have multiple products in development simultaneously with varying degrees of investment, the more money invested into a studio to develop a game the more urgent they want it finished.

dylanTheDeveloper, 7 miesięcy temu

Bungie announced a new Marathon game

dylanTheDeveloper, 7 miesięcy temu

Not to mention the sheer complexity when it comes to multiplayer sessions and replication

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu

My favourite game is Blender apparently with over 4000 hours

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu

I think what starfield is missing is full body animations that go along with conversations, seeing NPCs pick stuff up or pace around while talking and communicating through body language

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu

We got like 3 colors

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu

Halo Watch

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu

Release Blasphemous 3!

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Unity has fallen, billions must use blueprints

dylanTheDeveloper, 8 miesięcy temu

Yes

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

All hail the glow! The glow protects, the glow keeps us safe in its warn red,green and blue bosom.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

‘All games featuring left handed protagonists will incur a 50% fee per purchase based on the first 4 weeks of sales’

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

Poor Vin Diesel

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

Suddenly there’s an 150% increase in Dev jobs using Unreal Engine 5

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Also if theirs a engine bug you can crack it open and fix it yourself, handy if you’re not a AAA studio who has epic Devs on speed dial. Though I believe you do have to share any code alterations with epic if it’s hosted on a private repo

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m sorry but Blender game engine was pretty cumbersome to use. It was officially dropped awhile ago and last I heard it was picked up by the community

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m having fun zooming around the galaxy as a tough bounty hunter/vanguard. Has all the good bits of Fallout (exploring abandoned buildings, weapon variety, base building etc). I swear people are not even playing the same game with how they describe it.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s crack for my brain

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

Exactly what I experience in every Bethesda game. Boring ass main quest line where a bunch of British people telling me about starsigns or some shit and then I joined the vanguard and never touched the main plot again because exploding pirates and space hobos while exploring planets is where it’s at.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

I personally like to explore barren world’s and drift around the galaxy but I can see how boring it would be for alot of people.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

I can see why the reviews are between ‘Best game ever’ and ‘worst game Bethesda made’ and it’s so strange. I personally love Starfield and it’s universe while my friend hates it because it’s boring for him.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Okay but Martys RTGI is great and works in quite alot of games without much tinkering (just need to access depth buffer), don’t mind paying for it. Useally sub and let it expire once every few years.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

When he goes into battle he stands there waiting for his turn to attack, only to not realise you have to control your companions aswel

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

Could give space engineers a go

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

Or we brought the wrong version 😿

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

You’ll die someday and the sun will explode in a few billion years

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Modern game engines are extremely complex machines, starting from scratch would take decades because it’s fundermental things like drawing geometry in a 3D space, getting input, memory handling, garbage collection and all that low level stuff that needs to be re-done. Physics requires lots of work, so much infact for a time HAVOK was the go to plugin for most engines (still kinda is) just because of how God damn hard it is to have nice physics and high frame rates (tried to build a physics engine from scratch in C++ and I couldn’t get past the floating point position problem so anything too far away from 0,0,0 would spaz and handling multiple collisions on an object simultaneously caused all sorts of freaky things to happen).

Then when that’s done you still need to write additional tools and plugins so developers can import assets and scripts into the engine plus a level editor for designers to place objects, triggers and all that fun stuff.

After that you can now start making the game.

Bethesda probably rewrote huge chunks of their engine to support larger texture sizes and improve performance across the board for Starfield.

If they do decide to dump it then they’re most likely to use an existing engine like Unreal or Cry rather than build one from scratch.

Personally I believe the reason why they didn’t re-write the character movement is because it would also mean altering way to much stuff on the front end.

A good example would be if I use FunctionGetVelocity in my script to determine if a player is moving and it use to return an int but now it returns a float because of the rewrite, without conversion would mean you’d probably get a crash.

Another example would be AI related. If I use a variable to get a rot data type but now that’s been replaced with a struct that needs to be split to get rot now suddenly you have to touch the code to make it compliant.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

With nanite, live coding and lumen Unreal is unbeatable at the moment and lots of studios are hiring like crazy for Unreal Engine specialists to try and beat the competition.

If CDPR wants to compete they’ll have to do a ton of work making those tools for designers and artists easy to use (alot more in-house engines still have source 2 hammer editor style toolkits and command line conversion tools which are shit compared to Unreals drag and drop advantage).

Plus Unreal 4/5 was built to be as modular as possible so you can build whatever you want while CDPR engine was built specifically for this genre of games Cyberpunk is in. They definitely could and I see the engine having potential but afraid that’s it’s not flexible enough without serious work.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

I think the hardest thing to do is having complex facial expressions overlapping when characters talk. You could do face capture for every dialog option but that would be a massive task.

In alot of engines characters mouths are controlled by a lip sync system that uses, pitch, tone or text fed dialog to ‘mimic’ words being formed in the mouth. It’s far easier to have that and then having facial expressions as a separate animation layer that’s blended together and triggered based on a enum that’s selected by a script (say a players dialog option says “Your a mean man” and the player selects it, the NPC knows what you selected and in that dialogue option theirs a little enum (it makes more sense if you treat a dialogue option as an object) that contains the facial expression or expressions that are appropriate to use in response).

Full facial animations are used mostly for cutscenes because actors cost money while in game is just the engine trying to move the mouth using code (I know Farcry 5 had this where only the important characters had full facial animations and the rest just flapped their mouths up and down).

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Bethesda really needs to tweak their subsurface scattering for the skin and eyeballs (maybe have a separate render method of eye scatter)

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

The one thing Unreal still has bug wise is the fact I can’t place hundreds of actors in a blueprints viewport because it lags like Satan but if I run code that spawns the same amount attached to said actor or drag the same quantity into the level itself it works without issue.

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

Some populated areas are lacking that nice complex shadows, without nice lighting it looks flat

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu

No FreeSpace games?

dylanTheDeveloper, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

They had some kickass developer streams on YouTube. I still remember when they were playing Saints Row 3 and (I think it was the lead designer) being amazed that a helicopter had an interior texture for the cargobay even though 99% of the time you wouldn’t see it. Also skinballs and how they used markers to determine NPC behaviour out in the world.

Also the horror story of how they spent weeks compiling visibility volumes for Saints row 1 and having to satisfy silly requirements set by Microsoft such as having a game trailer play on the title screen if no input was detected for a set period of time. They just played a video of them playing the fucking game so they didn’t have to do any cinematics lmao.

The Red Fraction Guerilla stream was extremely interesting. How they managed to make destructible buildings and the limitations of that system. They used a stress mechanic that used key parts of a buildings frame to determine how stable it is (can’t remember if they used vertex weighing or not).

But unfortunately the most talented on the team didn’t get much of an input of where the IP went

dylanTheDeveloper, 10 miesięcy temu

I mean if its just playing it normally and not proper testing (run there and jump while spamming the inventory key until the game breaks kind of testing) then that’s a pretty sweet deal

dylanTheDeveloper, 10 miesięcy temu

High fi Halo when

dylanTheDeveloper, 10 miesięcy temu

I want to roll dice to determine how good the sex was

dylanTheDeveloper, 10 miesięcy temu

Survival

What are you planning to do cunnilingus with that requires the survival skill