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It's interesting in that respect what the developers of Frost Giant Studios, comprised of ex-Blizzard RTS devs, are planning for Stormgate. Complex RTS games ne
by codeflo 4y ago
It's interesting in that respect what the developers of Frost Giant Studios, comprised of ex-Blizzard RTS devs, are planning for Stormgate. Complex RTS games need a deterministic ("lockstep") simulation to be viable over the network. On the other hand, they are using UE5, which as you indicate, has a completely different server/client model.
What I've gleaned from interviews is that the simulation part of the game including the netcode will be completely custom. The way I understand it, they're effectively only using Unreal Engine for rendering, sound, UI, cutscenes and so on, but all the gameplay logic is their code. Customizing an off-the-shelf engine to that level has to be highly nontrivial, and probably out of reach for smaller projects.
- meheleventyone 4y agoActually as long as you have access to the lower level APIs changing that stuff out whilst not trivial isn’t that crazy. The big win with UE in particular is then phenomenal art pipeline and tooling which would take an age to reproduce in a custom engine.
- bob1029 4y ago> The big win with UE in particular is then phenomenal art pipeline This is the only fear I have with 100% DIY - If I want to go much beyond 90s graphics, I will need to do a lot of extra work (aka "draw the rest of the owl") to even begin talking to artists. That said, there are ways to build games that do not require elaborate art tool chains. AAA visuals are the antithesis of my target. I am perfectly happy trying to do art in code until the wheels pop off the bus and I have to retool for an external art team.