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this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 hour ago

i have appropriately low expectations.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

We need more diversity in game engines, not less, so I'm fine with this

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

That isn't really saying that much. It could still be a creation engine that has a UE5 renderer on top. Like the Oblivion remaster.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Ok and does it run optimized on old hardware and Linux? I'll easily skip it if it doesn't. 😜

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

does it run optimized

it's 2026, so obviously not.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 points 7 hours ago

If it works on Windows, it works on Linux. (God I love Proton)

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

You might have to upgrade your PC for this one (/s)

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

Bethesda...Bethesda never changes.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 25 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Loading screen after loading screen after loading screen, but hey you can put a cheese wheel in funny places.

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[–] Maldreamer@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually a good news and I am glad creation Engine will be used, The best part of Bethesda games are the modability creation engine and its predecessor provide. Unreal engine is not moddable and is not even beginner friendly, while someone like me can fire up Geck or creation kit and do a full fledged quest mod.

[–] who@feddit.org 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I guess you've never had to reconcile the disaster that ensues when multiple CE mods update different parts of a game's .esp data.

If they touch properties that happen to be near each other, the mods that try to preserve properties that don't concern them end up stomping all over one other, leaving the player in a horribly broken land of conflicts and sadness. The mods can't help it, because the engine's modding system and data structures are fundamentally too coarse to allow touching only what's needed, and too stupid to make reliable conflict resolution possible. The endless quest to work around this flaw is why Skyrim has uncountable patch mods, which shouldn't be necessary in the first place. It's a bloody awful design.

I get that you love the possibilities afforded by modding. We all do. But please don't glorify Creation Engine in this area. What's under the covers is embarrassing, and particularly bad when more than a few mods are used at the same time. Players and modders deserve something better, and a competent engine developer absolutely could deliver it.

As someone who has spent too many hours dealing with its fallout, I wish Creation Engine would die.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it's a new version, you'd hope they'd fix at least some issues - me, massively coping

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's mostly a tooling issue, so they really could, but I still doubt it.

I remember installing conflicting mods with Fallout 3, and you just had to run a tool to examine the mods and merge the changes together (and warn you if they genuinely conflicted). It was like a 1 click process and I'm amazed it hasn't been moved into the engine itself.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is also available for the more recent Elder Scrolls games, like Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Shit, haven't got much time left to finally play through Skyrim.

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