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Entropia Universe will switch from CryEngine 2 to Unreal Engine 5. Here are some preview images showing the development. We'll update the post when more become available.


11 August HUD Preview


15 July - another creature concept art


15 June - new flying creature concept art


3 June - new creature concept art


10 May environment concept art


6 May - seems like a nice environment for groundhogs


22 April - new environment never been seen before...


8 April - Hiryuu concept art



25 March - Empire Carbine



18 March - Empire Carbine concept art



11 March - our favourite desert location



25 February - some plants



18 February - sand and stones



4 February 2022 - Environment



31 January 2022 - More Sabakuma concept art



23 January 2022 - Sabakuma concept art



15 January 2022 - first video showing character movement

13 January 2022



3 January 2022 - Hiryuu concept art



25 December 2021 - environment video

17 December 2021 - armor prototype



11 December 2021 - Hiryuu concept art



3 December 2021 - Hiryuu concept art



23 November 2021



19 November 2021



11 November 2021



3 November 2021



26 Oktober 2021



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08 Oktober 2021

 

It's really sad they host these images there, dramatically reduces images quality. There are few tricks to avoid reduction but obviously they don't know these. I've actually downloaded the images and ran them through filters to increase quality but you can't make gold from mud...

Regarding the engine change. It's weird. MA/Calypso certainly has more resources to create, convert and optimize assets than some planet partners have. So we might see even more of divergence between the planets...

And I believe you can build something great with any modern engine. "we can't be better because we don't have x" is a lame excuse. Award-winning Elder Scrolls Oblivion was built with Gamebryo, also Defiance to name a real MMO, but MA couldn't do it, they needed CryEngine 2. Aion, another MMORPG was built with CryEngine 1, released before MA switched to CryEngine 2 and it looked better than VU10 and needless to say it had a much more diverse gameplay. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is an already released CryEngine game too:

CryEngine was basically licensed by Amazon for their Lumberyard Engine which is why Star Citizen switched from CryEngine to Lumberyard, it was an comparatively easy switch, a proof that it can be done with a modern Sci-Fi MMO. New World was too created with Lumberyard. But MA needs Unreal Engine 5. Ok. Let's see what we get in 2023 or 4 or so. Here's New World:

 

New image, Hiryuu concept art in post #1.

 

If you are quick this can be your 3rd one: https://gamefound.com/projects/modiphius/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-the-board-game#/

 

The existance of a feature like RCE cannot be an excuse for not having a good story/setting, not having great gameplay or simply not having a well directed and well delivered state-of-the-art game. While not many people might go to Vegas to hear the story of the town going there is still pretty immersive. Going to Entropia is not. If you consider it a casino it's a bad casino, if you consider it a game it's a bad game. The point is it could be a great game without putting off the gamblers. If you are doing a game anyway, if you have to create assets anyway, why not doing it in a way that results in a great product attracting more people. Entropia's problem is mainly MindArk's denial of consistent direction. At this point over decades. It has been better during a short period of First Planet Company/SEE Digital Studios, driven by people like Creative Director Andreas Roman, Krister forgot-the-name and yes, also Marco Behrmann.

At this point and with Unrealverse in the making it would be best to admit that the Planet Partner concept was a total fail, consolidate the planets under a consistent sci-fi scenario and erase everything that doesn't fit, and re-name the result to Project Entropia.

 

We should have something like a MA's history of hype buzzwords article. MMORPG bla bla VIRTUAL WORLD bla USER GENERATED CONTENT bla IT'S DYNAMIC bla CRYENGINE2 bla CRYPTO bla TOKEN bla METAVERSE bla while ist hasn't changed much at all in 2 decades.

In the early 2000 we've started as players in an MMORPG, then we turned "participants" in Virtual World, then we became "multi-world" MMO players again and now we are citizens of the metaverse.