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Damming indictment of slipspace engine if this turns out to be true. I wouldn't have even given this a small possibility.Halo’s developer is reportedly switching to Unreal Engine | VGC
Halo Infinite has suffered numerous delays and cuts, which are potentially partly due to its tech…
Big if real.
Not if Certain Affiinity (ex Bungie devs that already know the blam engine) already did it for that rumored Halo project they've been working on for some time. Now add The Coalition's expertise in the mix to assist and 343 wouldn't exactly be starting from ground zero.
Should be doable. Fortnite is literal base building in real time.
Halos engine claim to fame was being able to go from a massive indoor area to a massive outdoor area with no loading. Definitely innovative for the time. But can be done by nearly all engines now.
I think you're looking at performance. When really the bane of slipstream is iteration and tooling. They can hire as many people as they want at 343i, but the ability for everyone to make changes to the game simultaneously appears to be the bottleneck. Bungie indicated this with Destiny, it can take a whole day to recompile just to move a garbage can. I don't know if that's been solved, but unreal engine makes its changes in real time with lighting etc, and now with DXR (I'm not sure if yet available), you can pretty much make the whole game without baking lighting once in the editor with pretty good confidence of knowing what it will look like. The time savings would be massive.
I suspect they're more than willing to cut down the graphics to increase performance. From a pure performance perspective there doesn't seem to be much to worry about. SP they would crank it up, and MP they would crank it down respectively. It's a reasonable compromise, one that UE is good at if we look at how Gears turned out.Indeed, performance scaling is abit weird atleast on PC with the current engine. I cant imagine that getting worse when they transition to UE, though you never know
But is that something they can ship as an end-user mode like what Forge is, with ability to save the final results to reship to others? Or does that require developer licenses for every user that would dabble in "UE-forge"?
They'd likely have to make it a very cut down version for it to evade licensing. But good points, not entirely sure what type of legal requirements now that they have to pay to license UE vs just giving out their own engine.
Can’t see them shifting.
