Unity vs Unreal vs Source vs CryEngine

[OzFalcon]

With competing engines making notable headway,
Has Valve dropped the ball for Source 2?

I'd love to see Black Mesa using the Rubikon physics engine but I get the impression even Xen with it's engine updates will not be going down this path.

[thray]

Black Mesa will not be changing to a different engine.

Valve is doing what Valve does.

[💚SuperMax💚]

Originally posted by uЙЯёLiAвLӗ Carmuh:

Valve is doing what Valve does.

Mining money from TF2, Dota 2, CS:GO and Steam itself!

[Valvatorez(Cox Cable = awful ISP]

Not going to change engines when all the work is done on Source. IF Crowbar Collective did that you'll get what happened to Duke Nukem Forever. More delays and a crap load of work for no reason.

Also Cryengine stinks and performers worse than the engine Bugthesda uses for Fallout.

[Marmo]

RE Engine.

[Ray tracing is faster]

Yes Source 2 is never going to take off like Source did. Unity and Unreal will retain their positions from previous generations: Unity for minimum budget indie games, while Unreal will be used by every other game. CryEngine remains niche.

Also id Tech > all of these for shooters at least.

Originally posted by Red:

RE Engine.

Not in the same league as UE4 or CryEngine.

[Marmo]

Originally posted by Some kind of mech:

Not in the same league as UE4 or CryEngine.

You're right. It's so much better.

[Ray tracing is faster]

Originally posted by Red:

You're right. It's so much better.

No, only console noobs who never modded a game or used an SDK before think it's good. Its optimization/resource consumption is worse than all of the above; RE2 Remake has below average graphics yet doesn't run any better for it, CPU optimization is below CryEngine, it is technologically obsolete.

But UE4 and CE are almost certainly more flexible and capable with regards to the kinds of games they can make, and can push graphics much further and have better integrated physics and other features. And once you look past these, go ahead and compare RE2 technologically to say Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus which delivers more intensive environments (more open, more objects and more physics) with far better graphics yet performs at least twice as good when comparing max settings on each.

DMC 5 runs better for the same reason most games from that genre run better; small static environments and nothing beyond, visual quality obviously not pushing many boundaries since the camera is farther away from things.