October 6th, 2020 Livestream Q&A: Why is everybody updating Engine?

October 6th, 2020 Livestream

Q&A: Why is everybody updating Engine?

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why is everybody updating engine mostly because there are either like new features or optimizations and things like that which is why it's pretty important to keep up to date with, the engine yeah but it's often a tricky task it's not very easy things can break very easily when things change in the engine some things I know for instance that we're going to be able to use in the coming versions is like I think we're going to do better instancing of conveyor belts for rendering it's like tools for imposter sprites which is kind of sus

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, which are tools for us more so than like people will notice it there's also an update to the networking like the netcode part of unreal engine which we're partly using the latest version because we needed to, but there's more stuff that might fix like there's a bunch of issues where where like you'll get stale network issues that kind of packs up, or like builds up as you play that are fixed it's kind of like memory leaks but for netcode I guess it's a way to describe it that's been known that's been in the game for a long time and it's finally fixed in 425 so I'm looking forward to that, which hopefully will make some net part of the netcode better now it will not fix like maybe lag and stuff like that but we have fixes for, for player lag and a few fixes for play like it won't fix everything coming, I don't know if it's part of the fluid update but I think maybe we're shooting for it but we don't know if we're gonna get it or not yeah but we're we're working really hard on fixing network, like related problems but also upgrading like the netcode part of the engine so that we can have better tools so to speak to track down bugs and like fix certain systems, and like connectivity issues and stuff like that so I mean there's a there's a lot of stuff in the latest and real engine version that I don't remember right now partly I wasn't built because I don't develop much anymore but I think it's going to be juicy