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Article #720757Re: Pillars of Eternity
From: Werner Punz
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:59
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:59
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Am 08.02.15 um 03:59 schrieb Ross Ridge: > Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote: >> Not sure if it really is unity based, I think Obsidian use their own engine. > > In fact, Obsidian is using the Unity engine for Pillars of Eternity. > I'm not sure why that matters though, this isn't an FPS. The fact that > it's being made by Obsidian should matter much more, whether you think > that's good or bad. It's hard to see how using, say, the Unreal engine > instead would make it a better game. > > Ross Ridge > Actually the problem with the old (I think version 4) of the Unity engine simply was that it did not scale to well (No real multithreading capabilities). You clearly could see that in Dreamfall Chapters Part 1, which is a beautiful game but ran into serious performance issues. This however is a non issue for inifinity style games which have way lower graphical requirements. The speed problems are resolved btw with the newest version of Unity which is slowly being adopted as we speak. Werner
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