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Claude_Lib Jul 1, 2016 @ 11:55am
id Tech 6 open source?
So, is the any hope they'll open source the game engine how they did with every other iteration earlier?
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Totally Skr3wd Jul 1, 2016 @ 11:58am 
Probably not until they release Tech 7. iD has only been known to release source code after the engine reaches EOL. So don't expect the source to Tech 6 to be released for a few years.
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Claude_Lib Jul 1, 2016 @ 11:59am 
On a second thought, they didn't open source the fifth version of the engine, which was used in Rage and Wolfensteins. So I guess the chances are pretty low.
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fenderjaguar Jul 1, 2016 @ 12:10pm 
Open source? is it buggery

There might have been a time back when, but these are the same people putting denuvo in their .exe
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rawWwRrr Jul 1, 2016 @ 12:14pm 
Tech 6 has only just been introduced with DOOM. Why would they open source it already?

As far as Tech 5 is concerned, just because it hasn't happen yet doesn't mean it won't happen at all. So far there really hasn't been anything to indicate that id would change that strategy. The only unknown is how much Carmack influenced those decisions and if his absence from id will prevent Tech 5/6 and future engines from being republished as open source.
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fenderjaguar Jul 1, 2016 @ 12:16pm 
Originally posted by rawWwRrr:
The only unknown is how much Carmack influenced those decisions and if his absence from id will prevent Tech 5/6 and future engines from being republished as open source.

I think a lot of influence. Carmack is gone. Willets loves DRM. He nearly had us authenticate with an online server when we went into the sewers in RAGE.
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ko Jul 1, 2016 @ 12:42pm 
Zero chance. Bethesda uses their engine for in-house stuff like The Evil Within (Tango Gameworks) and Wolfenstein (Machine Games).

But with the latest iteration id software can't even make their engine stable for their own game. Not at launch and not now weeks later. It's probably a garbled mess with a nice, modern OpenGL renderer bolted on. I doubt the CTD issues will ever get fixed at this point. id are trash tier now on the tech front.

And as mentioned above, they seem to spend more effort on crazy DRM than on shipping a working engine.
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