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Anon wants to play CoD (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm no game dev, but did they not consider saving the dinos once and loading them in to each map as required?

[–] seth 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be object oriented programming. They took the subject occidented antigramming approach to development.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

subject occidented antigramming

I knew there was a cool technical term for what I've been doing all these years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard of that phrase, but I like abject oriented programming. In this case, they're using the concept of inheritance, but with assets:

Inheritance is a way to retain features of old code in newer code. The programmer derives from an existing function or block of code by making a copy of the code, then making changes to the copy. The derived code is often specialized by adding features not implemented in the original. In this way the old code is retained but the new code inherits from it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They probably tried and failed. IIRC the original Ark was build on a pre-release version of Unreal engine 4. There were probably loads of things missing or broken in that engine. When they couldn't make UE load assets from a shared storage location, it was probably just easier to ship all dinos with every map.

[–] Sylvartas 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I seriously doubt that. Assets handling is one of the most important things in a game engine, and not having to duplicate every asset for every map, including for entitlements reasons (e.g DLC ownership) is an extremely basic feature.

It sounds more like they seriously misused blueprints and/or DataAssets. To be fair, epic games did say a bunch of sightly misleading things about them when they released the engine to the public, but anyone using the engine noticed that blueprints could dramatically bloat your install size and/or memory usage in some situations, and found some workarounds.

Also they really should have been following the engine's updates. Now I wonder if they're the reason why Epic insists that we should really avoid being too far behind the "current" engine version for games that are actively maintained...

Source : been working with UE4 (and 5) professionally since UE4.12