Hero Engine: why?

The technical aspect why and who is interesting to discuss but it's not something for this forum.
My respect to all people who are well studied programmers but well this forum is full of trolls and people that are full of them selves, so pardon me if I don't take every ones word for it.

I did some programming myself during education but It was more the necessary basics as a part of a different study, I wouldn't claim that I know the fine points this engine and Biowares decision or the complexity of coding.


How ever what I can point out is this.

MMO's tend to be CPU depended, this translates into that the CPU has a big impact on your FPS.

Now think of it like how the average player experiences this engine.


1: It doesn't support dual/quad cores (even though Bioware stated that SWTOR would) this automatically means a FPS loss.
This is a common question asked by people, why is the FPS bad well this a part of the reason.


2: Another thing is people asking why the loading screens a long.
Well no matter if you use a SDD and have a fast computer the loading screens are pretty long.
This has also something to do with the hero engine.


3: Character responsiveness, basically the choppy gameplay.
Well I don't know if it is hero engine related so I can't point a finger.
Seen some claims here and there.
What I can say is that I've seen this done much better.


4: No DX 10/11 , DX 10 has been out for a long time DX11 improves FPS.
This is engine related.
The lack of AA and other eye candy is something I will leave in the middle.


Point is many problems people run into are because of the engine choice.
Now I am not stating that making their own engine that would be tuned to their MMO needs would have been a better option financially and time wise.

I'm just stating that this engine has limitations and does cause some problems.

How is it ignorant to say that a company wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on game where you can't even sit in a chair?

Not only did they choose a horrible engine they don't even know how to implement minor features with it.

Needs moar cylinders! Dis engine am not haved enuff HOARSEPOWAH!

Hm. Need moar hoars cylinders. O'yes.

VREWM!


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How is it ignorant to say that a company wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on game where you can't even sit in a chair?

Not only did they choose a horrible engine they don't even know how to implement minor features with it.

How is it ignorant to say that a company wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on game where you can't even sit in a chair?

Not only did they choose a horrible engine they don't even know how to implement minor features with it.

AMEN I have a good gaming pc

and everything is slow loading, major lag if you play for long time due to memory leak

I play a lot, being disabled it allows it haha, but after 3 hours of gameplay the game is eating over 2 gigs of ram and slows to a crawl.

oh and don't log out using quit button in game it takes FOREVER for the game client to quit.


what I do is alt tab, open task manager and end task on swtor.exe then the game instantly exits.


then i relog for another 3 hours of gameplay before the memory leak monster eats it all up again.


and this is on a SSD hard drive.

Thats wierd, I sit in the captains chair of my ship whenever I craft....

But it does seem like there could have been room for a new engine somewhere in that $200mill.