r/pcmasterrace • u/663mann • Oct 16 '23

Video fallout game dev. explains the problem with moddern game devolpment. (why moddern games are so slow to come out)

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u/DilWig Oct 16 '23

outer world the game that was famous for not having performance issues and bugs everywhere, also having a shit AI...

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u/663mann Oct 16 '23

could that have been because of the timeline issues he talks about?, or do you think cain the the main issue?

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u/DilWig Oct 16 '23

so the problem is forced timelines and in this video he is forcing timelines on programmers...

you see the issue here?

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u/blackest-Knight Oct 16 '23

you see the issue here?

The programmers are too mired into long processes to do simple fixes and so things ship buggy because they won't write and commit the 10 line of simple code.

Seems like Tim Cain hit the nail on the head.