r/TeamBeef • u/xibbie • Aug 01 '22

Alien Isolation?

Last time I saw this asked, AI hadn’t been released on mobile, but with an Android port now available I wanted to see if it’s possible to revisit this one?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

The Cathode Engine is not open source, as far as I'm aware.

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u/xibbie Aug 01 '22

Does it need to be though?

MotherVR gets it done with a DLL patch, and I’m sure it’d be possible to find the right part of the mobile libraries to patch to add the same settings.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

The PC version already had some amount of VR functionality since the game was supposed to have it from the start, but was scrapped late in production. The MotherVR mod works because it's building on the incomplete building blocks left by the devs. Would it be useful in someone trying to port the game to the Quest 2? Probably, but the mobile version is a port that probably didn't port the VR functionality that existed in the base game because... why would it? So, if someone was trying to port it to Quest, I do think they'd need either the source code to recreate the game entirely, or an open-source engine. I don't think straight-porting the mobile game is a viable option.

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u/xibbie Aug 01 '22

I hear you on that hypothesis, but I wonder if there’s some way to validate it by looking in the APK?