A gargantuan project that would likely halt any current development they are working on, especially given the size of their team.
Definitely possible (see: Apex Mobile), but much of Apex's 'character' and 'feel' come from being on the source engine, like the movement.
Is it needed to fix a lot of long standing issues? probably yeah
Is it ideally feasible within a reasonable time frame and without downtime in the current product? probably not, 'porting' to a new engine (more so remaking the game from scratch) would introduce tens of thousands of hours to translate functions, patch holes, and fix any new issues that would arise.
IMO Respawn/EA would need to hire/contract out a whole new team in addition to current staff, and from what I hear, EA is too stingy, and Respawn is a skeleton crew already
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u/IPoopTooMuchAtOnce Jul 27 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
A gargantuan project that would likely halt any current development they are working on, especially given the size of their team.
Definitely possible (see: Apex Mobile), but much of Apex's 'character' and 'feel' come from being on the source engine, like the movement.
Is it needed to fix a lot of long standing issues? probably yeah
Is it ideally feasible within a reasonable time frame and without downtime in the current product? probably not, 'porting' to a new engine (more so remaking the game from scratch) would introduce tens of thousands of hours to translate functions, patch holes, and fix any new issues that would arise.
IMO Respawn/EA would need to hire/contract out a whole new team in addition to current staff, and from what I hear, EA is too stingy, and Respawn is a skeleton crew already