CryEngine 5.5 released

Do you think an engine upgrade would bring back the features they promised to reinstate and didn't the first time around?

 

I expect nothing and I don't listen to anyone's promises made in advertising. To me it's just noise. Someone has to beat the drums, so there. (The broken promises to restore a once-existing state are a different thing altogether.)

The licensing terms for Cryengine have been modernized, though, did you see that? You can start using it without payment, commercial or not, and only start paying a percentage when you make over a certain amount of money with your product. I still have reservations but it sounds rather attractive.

 

Sad to say we are stuck with this version due to the simple fact that it was a custom built for MA to deal with RCE. So as you can guess, they can't just simply upgrade to the latest version. But yes, I guess it was all a gag.

A RL project is calling you. It really really is. :)

 

Terrain Object Blending: Users can mark Entities with a Mesh Component to become a part of the terrain mesh, empowering more realism, especially with

I like the sound of this functionality... although i feel there should be a programmatic solution.

At first glance that looks like a: this bit has same texture as terrain solution

 

There might be a gfx update.

 

Does cryengine 5.5 allow for mechs?

 

I don't know, but now you get the full source code and could add whatever you're missing.

 

Happened so long ago. But what I can remember is it has something to do with the MMO/RCE system MA needed a custom build and paid Crytek extra for such a version. It was a hot topic for a while since well, first time ever done. The only time MA stepped in on the forums to talk more about it, if I'm right, was when Cry3 came out and they posted a few times that it wouldn't be possible to update due to the custom build that was being used. (yes, at the time they had no idea about such things called Deeds).

But yes, for you I did post on question about it on PCF.

 

Yes that was the post I was talking about after 3 years of us knowing about it. It was a hot topic around 2009-11. And again, I'm not sure exactly what the custom build was for but there was one. If you look at that thread I think I even talked about it before this post.

 

Unless of course they outsourced the inter workings to have Crytek build the new system, and as you put, are stuck with the new code which I'm sorry, but is much more believable? Need to ask, why hasn't MA moved on if they did code it all in-house?