i'm extremely worried about kenshi 2

[ᗜˬᗜ Crossek ᗜˬᗜ]

what if we are not getting any news about kenshi 2 because UE5 really is as bad as threat interactive says?

[Steelfleece]

Or because the devs are working on trying to craft a game rather than spending all their time on press releases trying to push a kickstarter or something. I'm kind of hoping it's that.

[Cattrina]

Everything is well, do not worry :)

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

the game is progressing along fine.
there is no news because they are trying to not hype the game, to much hype can be very bad. information will start coming out once they are closer to actual release into Beta testing stage.

also not good to read to much into article's like that, the engine will have had year's more work done to it by the time the game actually comes out.

[Bleiser]

Originally posted by Hatsune Neko Gaming:

the game is progressing along fine.
there is no news because they are trying to not hype the game, to much hype can be very bad. information will start coming out once they are closer to actual release into Beta testing stage.

also not good to read to much into article's like that, the engine will have had year's more work done to it by the time the game actually comes out.

Wait are you saying kenshi 2 is coming no sooner than like 2030? :(

[Hox]

Is it really on Unreal 5? That's a shame

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Originally posted by Bleiser:

Wait are you saying kenshi 2 is coming no sooner than like 2030? :(

no. there is no determined date. that date comes from a Dev saying he would eat his hat if it didn't release until then.

Originally posted by Hox:

Is it really on Unreal 5? That's a shame

a much better engine then some, but yes it is.
also much better then Unity and its cash crab against developers.

[bunny de fluff]

Unity cancelled the pay per download policy, but the damage is done.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Unity cancelled the pay per download policy, but the damage is done.

not fully. they still have the new pay rates. granted they are smaller then originally planed, but they are still there.

[Bleiser]

Originally posted by Hox:

Is it really on Unreal 5? That's a shame

UE5 is the best engine overall in general terms right now without talking about niche or specific cases. It does have problems of course because no perfect engine exists but most of the problems come from two reasons.

First is because most games that came out on UE5 so far have been made with the earlier broken or incomplete versions of UE5 that were basically tech preview at that point.

Second reason is because engine is a tool and how well it is used or how bad depends on the user. Game studios are just not willing to put in the hours to optimise their games prior to launch. This problem has been ongoing for 20 years now.

[bunny de fluff]

Game engine is like operating system, nobody has either the time or the talent to make one by themselves anymore. Now it's either unreal, or unity, or godot, or some other proprietary engine, maybe even ogre 3d , but nobody is making a new one from scratch, if they are being serious about game making.

[Striker]

I am not sure but I think there are some very good game engines that are still just in house. Like Elder Scrolls, or Amazon's Lumberyard. So in essence, they can still be made from scratch if the company has the money.

[bunny de fluff]

Nah, if they know what is good for them, they would do what the CD Projekt Red is doing, switching to unreal. There is absolutely no point in making your own operating system or game engine. Maybe you could, but you definitely shouldn't nowadays.

[Anti-Communist Action]

Originally posted by Hatsune Neko Gaming:

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Unity cancelled the pay per download policy, but the damage is done.

not fully. they still have the new pay rates. granted they are smaller then originally planed, but they are still there.

Will Kenshi 2 be similar to Kenshi, or are you guys taking a different approach?

[Shidan]

Originally posted by Anti-Communist Action:

Originally posted by Hatsune Neko Gaming:

not fully. they still have the new pay rates. granted they are smaller then originally planed, but they are still there.

Will Kenshi 2 be similar to Kenshi, or are you guys taking a different approach?

We're not devs, we're just moderators. We have virtually no involvement when it actually comes to the game's development.

But the devs have been open about their design philosophy for Kenshi 2. The idea is that it will be Kenshi, but in a better and more stable engine, and with new features they originally had wanted to do with Kenshi 1 but couldn't due to time restraints, engine limitations, etc.

[Steelfleece]

Originally posted by Striker:

I am not sure but I think there are some very good game engines that are still just in house. Like Elder Scrolls, or Amazon's Lumberyard. So in essence, they can still be made from scratch if the company has the money.

Bethesda's engines aren't always the most stable. Plus, that's an ongoing in-house project that's been going for ages from a company that isn't exactly tiny. Props for being very moddable though.