Uncia on 22/11/2003 at 23:02
ISA is using UnrealEd. Period. Everything else they rewrote from scratch so they could design an engine they needed for the game, not the game that was possible to do with the engine.
Renzatic on 22/11/2003 at 23:08
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Originally posted by Uncia ISA is using UnrealEd. Period. Everything else they rewrote from scratch so they could design an engine they needed for the game, not the game that was possible to do with the engine.
I think that's the worst thing they could've possibly done. I hate Ued. I mean it, I really hate it.
Epos Nix on 22/11/2003 at 23:27
I didn't see too much in the demo that the core Unreal Warfare engine couldn't have done, even faster no less. If they gutted the engine to put in their own slow-as-molassas version, that's time they could've spent optimizing instead. :o
Uncia on 23/11/2003 at 01:27
Yeah, just look at those wicked shadows in UT2k3.
blom0344 on 28/11/2003 at 12:48
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I'm hoping they change that requirment for the full release. I mean, they don't make that big a difference at all, and really only serve to slow the game down even further. I have a Radeon 9600 in this box, but I'd like to play this on my laptop as well which has a DirectX 7.0 card in it
If they don't they will sink their own game. The bulk of buyers will be casual gamers mostly unaware that Geforce4 MX cards are just really faster Geforce2 cards. Imagine the numbers that will install the game only to find that their graphic cards are totally outdated for this game.
I just dug up a Geforce 4MX that was lying around at my work, but I am not that fanatic a gamer that I will buy a top-end card for just one game
Uncia on 28/11/2003 at 14:26
Dude, I can play the demo comfortably with a 4200Ti, which cost me some $80US months ago. If that's top of the line, the new Radeon cards must be fucking NASA technology.
blom0344 on 30/11/2003 at 12:10
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Dude, I can play the demo comfortably with a 4200Ti, which cost me some $80US months ago. If that's top of the line, the new Radeon cards must be fucking NASA technology
You are missing to point........ Joe Average will just assume a Geforce 4 is a Geforce 4. Most PC's are bought as a package, with the retailer making cuts whereever he can to beat the competition. So, why not ship the PC with a budget card that has the label Geforce 4 to it. (and make a profit with an inferior MX instead of an Ti)
It is the same sort of deceit as advertising with a Pentium 4 based on a Celeron. You and I may see through that , the general public surely does not.
Anyway this is a situation where you your card will not just perform poorly (which you could tune by resetting properties untill you CAN run the game) This time people will have NOTHING at their hands...
Or do you believe the cute girl in the toy-shop will have given him a warning about the graphic cards specs he will need........
Morte on 30/11/2003 at 13:06
Yeah, but Ion Storm can hardly be blamed for nvidia ripping off their customers, can they?
BlackCapedManX on 1/12/2003 at 02:59
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Originally posted by Epos Nix I didn't see too much in the demo that the core Unreal Warfare engine couldn't have done, even faster no less. If they gutted the engine to put in their own slow-as-molassas version, that's time they could've spent optimizing instead. :o
Yeah well can your core engine generate accurate shadows for those 4 pixel by 4 pixel rivets on the metal barrels based on the dirrection of the light from your pistol's flashlight? Huh? Can it?! Didn't think so. You may never notice it... at all... ever. BUT IT"S THERE!..... Mwahahahahahaha!!!!
My assumption would be that all of this minute lighting shit that you'll never notice is almost like foreshadowing (oooooo pun) for what they may end up doing in TIII... you know, where it will actually affect gameplay while making your game run at sub-par speeds.
Could just be me guessing though.
