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What are the chances of STO getting a new engine?
newnja
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As the title says... I've been wondering, was there any mention of it from Cryptic? The engine is pretty dated now, would be awesome if they actually came up with something more up to date.
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I doubt it.
Even if WoW updated... you can't hold every game to the same standard because of one thing.
Available resources.
Cryptic doesn't have the resources Blizzard has. So any engine updates won't be full on, if any. It will probably be more model and texture enhancements like we've been getting. They've remodeled and retextured some of the canon ships when we got T6 versions. They've done an excelent job with the new ships...
Do what you can with what you got.
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Tacofangs and his team do excelent work.
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So far improvements to the existing engine have gone pretty good. Some of the newer missions are looking really nice with excellent graphics. Whatever they've improved seems to be working. Thumbs up
A new engine may be even less feasible. With a new game developers make iterative improvements to core systems. Take for example Halo 1 through Halo 4 (all were built on the same platform Bungie developed and simply kept adding onto.) A strictly hypothetical STO 2 (for the record: devs have said no to this) wouldn't dump Cryptic's engine entirely. It would be improved (as we saw with Neverwinter.)
Replacing the engine adds to the technical complexity of the project (everything now has to be rebuilt) and that complication can mean that simply hitting an old par takes considerable effort. Just take Mass Effect Andromeda. Hey, new engine! Was it a magic panacea for the series' problems? Nope, because whatever Frostbite did for the game it also introduced a host of other development challenges that Bioware wasn't able to deal with in full.
So now consider a new engine, made by a small developer, for STO 2. Whatever it would hypothetically do, it would NOT make the game objectively better. It might hypothetically allow for some specific improvements but at a significantly greater cost (precluding other systems and content) and with a certainty (it's software development!) of introducing new bugs and limitations of indeterminate scale. It's a costly lateral move, best undertaken when there is a definite problem with a dev using their current engine on their next project (see. Halo 5.) Otherwise, you build on what you have.
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The chances are less than zero.
Now now, theoretical physics has yet to safely describe events of a negative probability. They could invert and push other impossible outcomes into reality.
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Good thing he didn't ask for a new game engine to improve PvP while criticizing the devs and stating the game was P2W lol.
It's already out and defaults to 64-bit on my system. It'll show up after you've entered in your password to go the second screen of Launcher under "Options" to "Use 32-bit Client"(which is probably unchecked).
Even Blizzard didn't replace World of Warcraft's engine, they simply have updated it over time and it wouldn't surprise me at all if WoW's engine has several unsolveble "legacy" issues that prevent it from becoming more like modern MMOs gameplaywise. Also Blizzard has loads more resources then Cryptic.
So TL:DR replacing game engine of a pre-existing game is so hard that in 99.999% of the time it's simply not worth the effort.
I see no purpose of prolonging this discussion further so I'm asking any moderators out there to close it. Thanks.
it was not stated anywhere by the op that he or she is even looking for a version 2 of the game, just an updated or upgraded engine which doesn't require a completely new game.
again there is no mention of a new engine by the op which are you jumping the gun a bit by suggesting it is the case.
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Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
You mean like lighting 2.0 and progressive improvements to character models, environment art, and ships? Look, we understand you but understand us when we say that an "engine upgrade" that doesn't fall into what Cryptic is already doing is a monumental undertaking equal to or greater than a second game (given that you're not only looking at replacing content [built for current STO] but also basic systems). The OP may not have intended to bring STO 2 into discussion but it's a handy reference point to add context to the topic. This is not a small proposal or one that is likely to happen (answer to both from devs: they have no plans to replace the STO engine or the game itself.)
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Maybe lighting 3.0 where risa gets its day night cycle back, even though the dil asteroid already has the varying light cycle which could be adapted for the risa map.
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