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Game Engines
Ababyatemydingo
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So what game engines are some of the next gen MMOs going to be using? I know that Warhammer is using Gamebryo but not sure of others.
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An engine is primarily a code library. As a company if you are investing your money in a project that is going to be going for 5-10 years, odds are you are going to want to build from the ground up. I'm surprised that Warhammer is using a packaged engine.
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
Vanguard used a heavily (and badly) modified version of Unreal 2.X. I think I read that SOE's DC Comics MMO is going to use UE 3.0.
It's not that surprising. DAoC was a licensed engine too, wasn't it? I think games with packaged engines have actually outnumbered custom engines. Even the Everquest engine was originally from a tank game.
Asheron's Call is like that, and it is a lot more wide open then WOW. Asheron's Call 2 was also that way, you could run from one end of an island to the other, but the islands were so large that you were better off using the portals that are available.
Actually, DDO and LOTRO are both using the 2nd version of the engine Turbine developed for AC2. Is there much zoning in either of those games?
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Isn't there an MMO being made on the U3 engine? I think its called Huxly or something.
what about crossing continents or going into an instance? Does that zoning not count?
Are you a programmer? If not, I don't think that means what you think it means.
Of course, CoX has the problem that players can hit up to 85 mph on a regular basis, I don't know of any other non-vehicle based games where zoning would have to take that kind of speed into account.
But UO has definite server lines that can be annoyingly difficult to cross, and enemies won't follow over them, etc.
It all loads as you go, but getting over some of those lines is a lot more annoying than a loading screen for zoning. :P
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Tanarus?
Glal: As someone posted earlier, Lineage 2 uses UE too. I dunno if that counts as a 'decent' MMO though.
I think that single handedly caused 80% of their cancellations.
I know I was pissed.
It's still shitty from what I hear.
Man.
Vanguard.
Just bad.
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