It needs an overhaul, mainly from the poor maintenance and upkeep, the small issues that they have ignored over the years have added up. Most games get those when the underlying technology is obsolete, but STO uses a relatively modern DX version, with a completely modern lighting model that they replaced a few years back. Originally posted by Salamand3r-:It doesn't really need a new engine. So thank god we got easy to use engines whit easy to use tools nowadays that speed up the process for creating amazing games or lets say amazing worlds. It took over a year just to finish the Quake engine which is over 10 years old. They dont need to redo it just further improve it.Īlthough in my personal opinion I am hoping any other company comes up with a competitive engine soon otherwise Epic will keep its monopoly and thats never good.Įngines used to be the most effort put into when developing a game. I think Defiance tried doing some sort of scammy thing by making Defiance2145 in order to get people play the new engine which didnt look better at all but people had to buy all stuff from new again.Īnyway Unreal Engine is the future no matter what you think about the lag input or not. If they ever decide to make a STO2 maybe but then they will have to kill STO. Yeah if changing engines would be so easy more games would do it.Įven Counter Strike was undergoing a huge amount of problems with that. That engine needs to die and be reworked from scratch at this point. The input latency in UE games has been getting worse for generations, and UE4 reached a peak that to me makes B元 completely unenjoyable. Again, the only distinct change might be lighting, and since that's already done.there's no reason for it.Ī new graphics engine also won't fix any of the underlying systems bugs.Įdit: Also, please god no more Unreal engine games. You could put it in a 'new engine' tomorrow, and unless all the assets are reworked, it wouldn't look any different. In terms of poly counts and texture resolution, the game isn't lacking.Īside from that, a new engine won't change the quality of the underlying assets - models will still have the same amount of polys, textures will be the same, lighting effects will likely be the same (since, again, the game has a newer lighting model anyway). It's been continuously updated since release, and has had a lot of graphical features implemented.

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