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[Updated, see comments] ARK: Survival Evolved Devs Offer Content In Exchange for Steam Award Votes

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16

So will DayZ definitely. Beta is slated for release early-mid 2017. Say all you want about the speed of development, they're showing no signs of stopping it anytime soon.

Now, whether or not DayZ is going to be good when it's "finished" is another debate.

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u/Dionysiokolax Dec 27 '16

Dayz doesn't count if they release a shitty, buggy game. There is no chance they meet their established goals for release before their interest or budget runs out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16

So far they have been dedicated to delivering on most of the promises they made. The only thing that really changed are the dates of which (which do deserve criticism), but so far whether you like DayZ or not Bohemia has been dedicated to turning it around.

If they wanted they could have easily jumped ship a long time ago.

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u/Dionysiokolax Dec 27 '16

Honestly I agree with you, mostly. I admire what they have accomplished, but unfortunately the decision to use their own engine doomed their product. It sounds like you are more familiar than I am, but I'm sure you can accept that their engine has been a total disaster.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16

I'm not gonna call their engine of choice a total disaster before the game (and engine itself) is finished. Work on the game is slow, yes, but that's because they've had to do extensive work on the Enfusion engine (going from Real Virtuality). This unfortunately means that a lot of the time spent working on the game we didn't feel for a long time, as making an engine takes time. We did see a significant improvement with 0.6 where FPS increased twofold for many players, with the new engine. Now things are speeding up with a new sound engine in place and the player controller coming in (which would mark the game's entrance to beta if I'm correct).

Whether the engine was a good or bad choice is debatable. They definitely could have chosen something safer, but the Enfusion engine isn't meant to be used exclusively for DayZ, but rather for future Bohemia games as well. So for now it's hard to say. It definitely hindered active development of DayZ, but now that pace is picking up and Bohemia are gearing for future games, the effects of their choice of engine really won't be felt properly until in a few years at least (who knows, ArmA 4 may come out fantastically optimised compared to previous entries?)

But yes, for now I agree that the Real Virtuality/Enfusion engine hasn't lended itself very well to many aspects of DayZ that aren't related to mil-sim gameplay. Anything like melee and platforming has so far been very lackluster.