Is the game unfinished or early access?

[project_overkill_203]

Is this game finished? It says beta in the name so led me to believe maybe it's early access or from the looks of it in it's alpha stages or perhaps done. Name is confusing me but I want to play it if it's not still in dvelopment.

[Solais]

Yes and no.

It is finished, since it holds games that were finished before. On the other hand, it's a dynamic engine game hub, meaning that technically, it will never be finished, it will be supported forever, as it will eventually hold all future Serious Sam games too.

There are also Remasters planned for the games that Fusion currently contains, though when they will be released is not decided yet.

[project_overkill_203]

Excellent insight. Thank you. as a long time fan of the series I'm glad the devs actually still support these games and their community. Have them all on every platform including this but was debating on where to start with them on steam. guess this would be my best option being it's still being supported. Again thank you.

[76561198246139876]

Originally posted by Solais:

Yes and no.

It is finished, since it holds games that were finished before. On the other hand, it's a dynamic engine game hub, meaning that technically, it will never be finished, it will be supported forever, as it will eventually hold all future Serious Sam games too.

There are also Remasters planned for the games that Fusion currently contains, though when they will be released is not decided yet.

What do you mean by Empty Servers...Oh, Fusion will be supported forever? It will include even Serious Sam 15 or what?!

[Solais]

Yes.

[76561198246139876]

Originally posted by Solais:

Yes.

What? WHAT?! One big question. Does this mean we will not get graphical upgrades after SS4 or it means we will get graphical upgrades for old games even after post-release?

[Seriously Stupid]

Graphical updates for older games are only planned insofar as there are people who will voluntarily choose to work on them, and if the developers approve of it. For instance, HD's remaster is intended to update its older SED1 graphics, among a few other things. But since those are painted, the same cannot be done for BFE's textures, which use photorealistic sources.

[76561198246139876]

Originally posted by Seriously Stupid:

Graphical updates for older games are only planned insofar as there are people who will voluntarily choose to work on them, and if the developers approve of it. For instance, HD's remaster is intended to update its older SED1 graphics, among a few other things. But since those are painted, the same cannot be done for BFE's textures, which use photorealistic sources.

Well, Soulmyr already remade a lot of SD textures. So, i think supporting his mods in unmoddable version, or even taking his textures and putting him in credits would be faster and
as for me better choice for the team. Because they can spend much more time on SS3 and LOTB remasters + other things to do in HD, and little bit of other SD textures, that are not will be remade by Soulmyr or someone else at the moment of remastering start.

[NSKuber]

Game engine will be constantly updated to latest versions. This means Fusion will always support whatever graphical technologies Croteam adds for new games. So, of course, graphical upgrades will be there for new games.

This doesn't mean that those upgrades will affect older games in Fusion. They will still have worse textures/polygon count, and won't have newest entities Croteam will be using on new games' levels to improve visuals.

[[UFO] rad87gn]

At some point the beta tag needs to be removed and update the FAC page to explain it never ends. Think the time is near or here. IMHO.

Thanks to Croteam for making this hub transition to me a real success.

Looking forward to SS4 ! Woot! Woot! :)

[janis2017]

It's always haw been working, maybe it has now more fps and better-looking ground textures. for now light streaks looks unrealistic on max settings.

[[UFO] rad87gn]

Originally posted by janis2017:

It's always haw been working, maybe it has now more fps and better-looking ground textures. for now light streaks looks unrealistic on max settings.

I'd love to see a snap shot of that.

[Tayzor Azul]

Originally posted by Solais:

There are also Remasters planned for the games that Fusion currently contains, though when they will be released is not decided yet.

Does this mean that the original games will get "Updated" or will be new standalone games ?

[Solais]

Updated.

[Tayzor Azul]

Originally posted by Solais:

Updated.

So does that mean leaderboards will be cleaned ?
And those that were banned from leaderboard get a 2nd chance ?

[Solais]

Likely. Leaderboard needs a fix anyways, though that's up to Valve.