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Originally Posted by Magnum
I keep failing and get infractions points in understanding where is that HARD work in programming SH5. There is still a LOT of script line left from SH3, including bugs.. and moders are still work very hard to fix these issues.
Sorry, but I never saw such a game like this.. where the devs drop a junk on the market and the moders are called out to fix it. All my respect to the artwork/artist team, is what it sells SH5 so far.... they should get all the credits.
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Let me go back to my car anology and maybe this will help.
Lamborghini designs a new engine. V-12 with all the newest technology (ceramic cylinders, aluminum block...). The engineers work very hard on having the base engine design sound...but the suits force them to stop work on the engine so it can be sold 1 yr before its ready.
Who is at fault?? Sure maybe the engineers over promised what they could build with a given budget and timeframe (ie maybe the Devs over promised what they could do in the limited time Ubi gave them). Or maybe the suits just say "this is good enough...release the engine".
The programmers did a good job with the engine. The graphics are good, MOST of us dont have constant CTDs (without mods and playing vanilla). The ideas of role playing, moving about your ship, morale system, even the dynamic campaign system (which I will still contend is junk as it stands right now)...all great ideas (but poorly implemented).
So I would say the engine is sound. The implementation was VERY poor. BUT if a SDK were released... then the engine (which none of our modders would be willing to recode the ENTIRE engine) is a sound foundation that the modders could make shine.
Much like the GWX, RuB, NYGM teams did with SH3. They did NOT have access to the engine (no sdk) so the engine again was sound. They just polished it up. If the engine was BAD no amount of polishing could make a turd shine
Im not absolving UBI at all.... by far. But I am saying the Devs did a good job on the engine itself. The implementation of that engine was less than stellar.... Thats all I was saying.