Does POE require a new game engine? if yes how much does it gonna cost?

I've heard people complain that their PC is super fast still facing lag issues does it mean its something wrong with the engine side?

anyone here have knowledge about how new game engine works?

I have heard BNS MMO is upgrading from unreal engine 3 to unreal engine 4 making it look better at the same time offering more performance with lesser system requirements?




We dont have to force GGG to work or something for new engine but lets just share our knowledge on how stuff works...

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PoE engine has retro game quality gameplay, if they're not coming up with a totally new game & engine for 4.0 they're never gonna fix the game

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4.0 100% sure, 1 more character and new act's...
i really doubt we're going to get anything better than this.

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trezorzetto wrote:

4.0 100% sure, 1 more character and new act's...
i really doubt we're going to get anything better than this.

1 more character? i dont think our passive tree have space for that where did you get that info?

There's honestly no way to change the entire engine at this point. And honestly, there's no reason to either. Most if not all other currently available engines would probably break down far earlier than the current poe engine, they're not meant for the sheer insanity of the likes of CoC.

The engine is constantly getting improvements and updates. Big changes would lead to a ridiculous amount of bugs (as we have clearly seen at the start of this league).

Does PoE require a new engine? No. Does it require a better one? It would certainly make things better, but we're only getting there step by step.

I must admit that I have no clue here.

I'm not a programmer. I'm not a developer. What do I know? I know that within the rule set of DX11, GGG are making - and continuously updating their own engine - based on the need of the game. There's several examples of them updating several areas of the engine based on the progress of the game - even the physics engine.

I have a suspicion that "NEW ENGINE!!!" is too easy to shout out as the "fix over all fixes", without people having no clue about how PoE would run in said engine, nor how good the current engine is. It's just too easy for us "bystanders" to blame the engine.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be awesome. I'm just saying that I do not know, and neither do most of you.

This whole game engine thing comes up from time to time, and is always just silly. To be clear, games do NOT change their engines. Not if they know what's good for them. At least not in the same version. A PoE 2, which is not on the table as far as we know, may have a different engine, but not this one. It just messes way too many things up. Hell, there are developers (Bethesda Game Studios, for example) who use essentially the same engine for several gaming titles over a span of many years (not that I'm saying this is a good thing).

Did you think Legion was a buggy release? Just wait and see what'll happen if they chose to dig really deep in changing shit. That doesn't mean GGG can't further optimize and tweak their engine - and in fact Chris has said they do, with every patch - but they certainly aren't going to replace it. No, not in 3.8. Not in 4.0 either. Cos games don't wholesale switch engines, as it only achieves one thing - it breaks them. Bad.

As for your example, firstly they're upgrading from Unreal 3 to 4, which means the basic architecture will be similar. That's nothing like what you're asking PoE to do. If GGG were to make a similar-to-current custom engine for PoE, it'd once again be their own thing, subject to probably being the same quality (or lack thereof) of their current engine, just updated. Secondly, "Depending on the manpower, this could take up to years to implement." - hence why almost no game does it. https://mmoculture.com/2018/05/blade-soul-ncsoft-previews-upgrade-to-unreal-engine-4-for-asian-fantasy-mmorpg/

better question is..

how much is gonna cost for actually new servers, I already gave up on a new game engine..