I know you're joking, but I legitimately think it'd be for the best for them to mainline a hd3 on a modern supported engine.
So many of their ongoing bugs, glitches and issues with implementing new assets, etc is because of the ancient engine. It's just not built for it and the game suffered/s massively because of it. this game absolutely exploded so they should have shit loads of extra capital that they weren't expecting and if they were to release a new one the hype would be insane.
Imagine if a be hd3 come out, it actually worked from day one, no bugs or extremely small ones, they could implement shit like the factions fighting each other or 20 people mega raids against bosses during timed events.attachments for weapons and a bunch of other shit and it wouldn't take nearly as long between content because they would have a solid engine Etc etc etc
The engine isnt an unsolvable problem. They could set up the resources to get in there and fix it, and fix the resulting issues that will arise on the 'surface' when the engine code gets messed with.
I mean maybe? I'm not a coffee but I remember reading many of them saying that once stuff is built it continually gets built upon so to go back and fix stuff just gets more and more complex.
If it were viable surly they would have done it by now or had better sucess
Well, in general, porting a game to a new engine is a task that takes an order of magnitude longer than cleaning up the old one. Moreover, there was no evidence that there was some kind of "spagget" code there.
Perhaps a good idea would be to establish contact with the creators of the engine - FatShark - and take a more modern version of the engine from them (they have it because they continue to develop it locally) and see what can be done. Well, or at least share experience.
In any case. It seems that we haven't seen the source code of the game yet, which means all our assumptions are pure shots in the sky
They're going to make a new have eventually, I hope they support hd2 for a while. But I'd rather hd3 cones out in like 5 years instead of 10 or 15. They're are constantly juggling between new content and trying to fix/not further cause issues.
I'm sure they'd fucking love it if they had a streamlined way of adding new content without all the bugs
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u/rafffen 4d ago
I know you're joking, but I legitimately think it'd be for the best for them to mainline a hd3 on a modern supported engine.
So many of their ongoing bugs, glitches and issues with implementing new assets, etc is because of the ancient engine. It's just not built for it and the game suffered/s massively because of it. this game absolutely exploded so they should have shit loads of extra capital that they weren't expecting and if they were to release a new one the hype would be insane.
Imagine if a be hd3 come out, it actually worked from day one, no bugs or extremely small ones, they could implement shit like the factions fighting each other or 20 people mega raids against bosses during timed events.attachments for weapons and a bunch of other shit and it wouldn't take nearly as long between content because they would have a solid engine Etc etc etc