Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield

• aksdb@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Evolution isn’t wrong. It’s not like Unreal Engine gets rewritten from scratch for each major version.

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  • Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly, people forget that most of the well known engines today are as old or older than Creation Engine, they're all patched/upgraded as it fits, though Creation Engine has no apparent version numbers and it's made by Bethesda so you get free internet points and a feeling of superiority for hating on the popular thing.

    If you took these folks opinions as truth you'd think Bethesda games are massive flops that barely sell 10 copies and are a study case on how not to develop a game, but the real world is very different from the echo chamber...

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    • all-knight-party@kbin.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It boggles my mind how many things people say about this game that are patently untrue, obviously extremely biased against the game/studio, or make it seem like this game killed their dog.

      The game has issues, for sure, some things like the nonexistent city/building local map systems are indefensible, but damn dude, I wish people would just try to have mature discussions with realistic expectations about it instead of whatever this shit show is that we call "gaming discussions"

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      • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For $120 AUD expectations will be high.

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      • Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gamers will never be mature or have realistic expectations. They cannot fathom that people are enjoying a thing they don't like, and they're very vocal about it, it's petty, really.

        I try to move myself off of these discussions but there's always one comment that drags me down the well because it's so blatantly untrue, but it's miserable. Lemmy, kbin and Reddit are overly negative places where it seems the goal is to get everyone mad with terrible takes.

        People need to remember that opinions aren't factsz and learn to shut the fuck up and let people enjoy things.

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    • TheOnlyMego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh don’t get me wrong, Bethesda games are generally great (with notable exceptions like Fallout 76), and do phenomenally well in sales. However, dismissing any and all criticism of the games’ numerous flaws (including glitches which often carry over between subsequent titles, like clipping through collision boxes and falling through maps) is willful ignorance at its finest. Every Bethesda game has performance issues and game-breaking bugs, and there was no reason to expect Starfield to be any different in that regard.

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      • SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        clipping through collision boxes and falling through maps

        These are famously common bugs across games in all genres running on all kinds of different engines. I’d go so far as to not even call them bugs because computers simply don’t have the power to calculate collision down to the picosecond/picometer. Every game that’s ever been made has sacrificed precision in physics for performance.

        Perhaps the reason it’s more noticeable in Bethesda games is because they typically have way more persistent, physics-enabled objects. That’s actually a strength of the engine, and something no other developer really even attempts.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not really a good metaphor for software.

    Or maybe it is if you meant how many weird and inefficient things living creatures have because it was good enough. Think about that the next time you accidentally choke on nothing

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    • aksdb@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_evolution

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  • executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or the Source 2 engine, which is just a patched version of the Quake 1 engine.

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  • Rough_N_Ready@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Except unreal engine literally was rewritten from 3 to 4.

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    • aksdb@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is, literally, not every major version. I didn’t say “all Unreal Engine versions are evolutionary steps over their predecessors”, I said “they don’t get rewritten from scratch for each major version”.

      Someone else also brought up the Quake engine, which has even more evolutionary steps; even with forks like the Source engine.

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Evolution frequently discards baggage.

    Bethesda just keep piling shit on top without doing any of the necessary groundwork to make it run well.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  aka Gamebryo

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  • Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That's the engine in which Creation Engine was based on, so what? Saying that name won't somehow invalidate everything that was developed using the two engines or accomplish anything really. By your logic, we should call Source 2 engine the Quake engine

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