Bethesda's engine disallows that entirely. Everything has to be chunked into pieces with loading screens between -- every previous Bethesda game has done that, so it's not really a surprise.

Agree it would be neat, but I also already have No Man's Sky, and I'm looking forward to Bethesda competing on story.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It blows my mind that Bethesda have owned id Software for over a decade and haven't at any point got them to make a version of id Tech engine for their games.

There's literally no reason the graphics wizards at id couldn't make a Bethesda branch of the engine that uses similar or identical workflows to Creation but also employs all the best practices for a modern open world engine.

Like, modders have made their own Open Morrowind engine from scratch, in their spare fucking time. It runs all the same files and all the same mods work, without any of the drawbacks of the Gamebryo engine. It would be trivial for id's engineers, with their experience and resources, to make something better. For some reason Bethesda just... keep bolting new shit to the creaking husk of their old engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd argue it would be smarter to upgrade CE to meet modern standards than creating a branch of id's software while porting all of existing Bethesda tools.

we don't have access to the source so we can't really say things are bolted on. it's also possible that code is removed as it's made obsolete.

I don't think you would have to create an entirely new engine to support elite dangerous type of warping, or elevators even now they could make the illusion better

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