CryEngine

So I don't know, like, again, I, I can, um, I, I can go off this all day, but like, I'm, I'm, I've always been skeptical.

Um, Yes, it is a DirectX 12 upgrade version of CryEngine for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

But I've always been skeptical of ray tracing, and now I'm just like, this has just made things worse.

It's just had an overall net negative impact on the game industry with this performance hog.

Dangerous kind of came in and ate everybody's lunch

and then like he's like I'm going to use an engine that isn't for multiplayer and I'm going to have it be like the old Ultima games where if you pick something up and put it down somewhere else it just stays there which was unstable when it was 2D now imagine trying to do that with the CryEngine and have multiplayer which a thing the CryEngine isn't known for Like, not massively multiplayer.

Oh, yeah, great ideas.

They're all around.

And then it kind of goes.

CryEngine is still around, but it's not what it was.

They were kind of hit by this race to the bottom with Unity and Unreal.

I remember it very well.

And then Unreal was like, we're free as well, but it's a 5% gross revenue, gross profit, gross revenue charge.

I was like, okay.

And then CryEngine tried to follow that.

And then you had Lumberyard, if anyone remembers that.

But yeah, we talked about that in the last one, and I think it was, it was good timing considering this post.

But he spends a lot of time talking about the switch from CryEngine to Lumberyard and how Space, uh, Star Engine is different from Lumberyard, and the first part of this finishing question for you is, like, why do you think he spent so much time on that? Like, what is it that got to him that he felt he needed to answer? The second one-

Okay, I'm gonna-

Hold on

But, uh, there were definitely, [laughs] it definitely had some pain points that had the majority of the team like, "Why are, why are we doing it this way? This is, this is rough."

And obviously they've branched quite a bit in their own directions, but New World and Star Citizen share that, that CryEngine DNA, right? Do you see any very clear similarities between the two games?

Yeah.

So I don't see it so much, uh, in game outside of, uh...

Yeah.

Wow, they...

The story of their switch from CryEngine to Lumberyard to Star Engine, they now call it, is a, uh...

That's a crazy...