same game engine?

[heydonno]

anyone know if this will use the same(or upgraded) game engine as TF1 or switch to a 3rd party like Unity or Unreal?

[donmiwi]

I would say they use the same but more optimized and improved game engine because of backward compatibility of the mods.

[cszolee79]

Originally posted by donmiwi:

backward compatibility of the mods.

I really hope it will be so.
Just copy TpF1 mods to TpF2 with no changes and upgrading needed. That would be perfect.

[Dan]

Pretty sure Urban have been building on the same base engine code incrementally since Train Fever.

But calling it "the same engine" is probably a little misleading - the transition from Train Fever to Transport Fever was a massive overhaul, and I doubt it'll be any different this time.

I highly doubt there'll be direct mod compatibility. They'll probably keep a similar but updated modding API, so it probably won't be too difficult for people to port basic content mods across (vehicles, stations, etc)

I think the best you could hope for would be an external conversion tool... but even that is probably unlikely, as there'd be just too many factors to account for, and it'd be a bit of a waste of their development time considering they have a whole new game to finish making.

[RAZORLIGHT]

Using the same engine isnt a bad thing if they improved it enough.

[Dan]

Originally posted by RAZORLIGHT:

Using the same engine isnt a bad thing if they improved it enough.

Certainly... they've carefully built up a toolset specialised to these games over all the years since Train Fever, and it'll only get better. No reason they'd jump to an off-the-shelf engine now.

[canophone]

For some reason I doubt the engine would have moved from C++ to C#, especially with the performance needs.

[jm764]

Looks like a major overhaul of TpF1's engine but probably still compatible from the look of things, we'll have to wait for more info (or a beta test if they have one for it), to know for sure.

[canophone]

Originally posted by jm764:

Looks like a major overhaul of TpF1's engine but probably still compatible from the look of things, we'll have to wait for more info (or a beta test if they have one for it), to know for sure.

With a Q4 date and currently in Alpha, I'd expect a beta starting during/by summer months (in ~2 months).

[fatfluffycat]

I remember there was a mod that allowed you to use Train Fever modded vehicles in Transport Fever.