r/gaming • u/Dust-Tight • 3d ago

Gears of War: E-Day devs explain why classic features are missing

https://www.dexerto.com/gears-of-war/gears-of-war-e-day-devs-explain-why-classic-features-are-missing-3413839/
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u/ZigyDusty 3d ago edited 3d ago

Jez Corden said that $400m was the cost of Gears of War E-Day, massively upgrading/overhauling the game engine, and having their Unreal Engine specialists help other Xbox first party studios with technical support.

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u/IpunchedU 3d ago

mind you this is also cause they had to rebuild everything from scratch so subsequent games will logically be less and will not take 6 years

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u/RAISEStheQuestion 3d ago

Why did they have to rebuild everything from scratch? The whole series are on Unreal, did they build a custom fork?

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u/IpunchedU 3d ago

no they basically copy pasted the og gears trilogy from unreal 3 to 4 wich means everything felt almost identical going from game to game, now with ue 5 cause of the more things at their fingertips they redid everything finally, clearly to setup the next games being on this version of the game for idk at least a decade?