The dropped the "3.x" version numbering system and the engine from now and one will be called "CRYENGINE" indicating it changes all the time.
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Crytek Announces the Arrival of the New CRYENGINE®
Frankfurt – August 21, 2013
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) August 21, 2013 – Crytek have ushered in a new era for their state-of-the-art CRYENGINE technology, with the launch of the new CRYENGINE; an ever-evolving technology service, with always up to date access to the latest features in CRYENGINE for commercial game licensees.
CRYENGINE users will also benefit from the coming together of Crytek’s Engine Licensing and Research & Development teams; a move designed to double the level of one-to-one care game licensees can tap into, in essence offering Crytek’s R&D as a service for developers using the new CRYENGINE.
On top of these changes, the new CRYENGINE supports development on current and next generation consoles (Xbox One, PlayStation®4, and WiiU™), alongside PC, with further platforms to be added in the near future.
In line with the new services, the all-in-one development solution will no longer be identified by version numbers; reflecting the fact that constant updates and upgrades are always being applied to keep CRYENGINE at the forefront of its field.
Areil Cai, Director of Business Development – CRYENGINE said: "Supplying an engine is not about delivering a static piece of software. It’s about Crytek being an R&D team for our game licensees; providing the latest, greatest technology we can, all the time. As an industry, we’re all looking to deliver games as a service now – and we feel the same approach can be taken with game engines. Today's announcement reflects this progress, as well as our ongoing commitment to making sure CRYENGINE® licensees always stay well ahead of the game."
Also commenting on Crytek's announcement, Carl Jones, Business Development Director at Crytek, said: "Since CryENGINE 3 was launched in 2009, we've dramatically changed the engine so many times, with so many major new features, it’s not the same engine anymore. We have revolutionised many parts of the engine: we have overhauled our entire lighting system, built movie quality character rendering and animation solutions, vastly improved the speed and effectiveness of our Sandbox editor, and even our rendering has changed with tessellation, pixel accurate displacement mapping and now physical based rendering; all of this while maintaining our first principal: that making games should be real-time, all the time. CRYENGINE is a new engine from Crytek – and it always will be!”
This week also sees a major update to Crytek's free CRYENGINE® SDK; granting non-commercial users access to a raft of the new features that recently helped to make Crysis 3 a visual benchmark for gaming. It is two years since the launch of the free CRYENGINE® SDK. In that time, the engine has been downloaded over five million times and is used for non-commercial projects every day by a constantly growing community and more than 400 universities. The update to the free SDK will take user feedback on board and remove some restrictions, which prevented users from working offline.
These changes to the CRYENGINE service are being marked with a new website which can be seen at www.cryengine.com. Over time, the site will grow to offer new options for game developers, and will ultimately become the central hub for all official CRYENGINE content online.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
CryEngine 3 is fantastically optimized. edit: Wait CE1 wasn't THAT bad either.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
I Saw it! The muddle evaporated! Actually... maybe it was a pot-hole. Hard to tell when glancing at the road for a split second @ 200mph from inside of a cockpit.
Just set the graphics to ultra, at ~5fps, it won't be a split second
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
I Saw it! The muddle evaporated! Actually... maybe it was a pot-hole. Hard to tell when glancing at the road for a split second @ 200mph from inside of a cockpit.
See it brings all kinds of questions and mystifies the racing genre! Racing has never been such a saga of uncertainty!
The problem the Cry Engine makes is they decide on a new feature for their engine and then make it insanely good looking, even if the feature is not very noticeable.
So then we have something like Crysis 3 where it needs insane PC specs and the game at a glance doesn't look good enough for the power it needs.
They should instead try to focus on features that make a huge difference while also focusing on a way to do it in a efficient way.
The Frostbite engine just seems like a superior engine now, especially with how Battlefield 4 looks.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
I'm really getting tired of all these tech demos and sexy looking engines. I must be getting old since I seem to have lost the ability to get excited about graphics.
I'm really getting tired of all these tech demos and sexy looking engines. I must be getting old since I seem to have lost the ability to get excited about graphics.
You've lost excitement because from past experience you already know this level of graphics/technology will stay only in those sexy looking videos / tech demos for the next few years.
Besides, the older one gets, the more they know good graphics don't make good games.
"Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world there is a duck watching you."
Fuck Polish government for oppressing women!
"People are such awful conversationalists that they’ll interrupt you when you’re answering a question they asked."
Anyway, if with new engine comes another Crysis - I don't mind. I'm not a fan of series but I kinda liked singleplayer. Altho, I have no idea what Crysis 4 could be about, the story has ended.
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It's actually great for modders seeing these tech demos, at least for engines that offer SDKs (like CryEngine). All sorts of groovy stuff to mess around with.
Anyway, if with new engine comes another Crysis - I don't mind. I'm not a fan of series but I kinda liked singleplayer. Altho, I have no idea what Crysis 4 could be about, the story has ended.
They hinted they might be dusting off their canceled 2006 Redemption game at some point:
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Yerli recalls another time around 2006, when Crytek turned its technical prowess toward creating deeper emotions, toward a game that would make the player truly feel something.
Yerli says that he killed that project himself, even after Electronic Arts had signed on to publish it.
Mute evidence of the game is found around the Frankfurt headquarters in a series of sculptures, the largest of which Yerli keeps in his office. The game was called Redemption.
Yerli describes it as The Last of Us meets Crysis 2, a third-person shooter set in an open world with the central goal being to protect your companion character, a 10-year-old girl.
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"I would say [Redemption] is one of those games that most likely you may see back again," he says, "because that cumulates the name of the company."
Trailer:
It looks like Alan Wake.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
That's what I mean silly, the visuals show similarities.
He explained what the gameplay was in the text
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
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