Virtual Captain posted:

Virtual Captain posted:

PTU is shutting down

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...holding F for inner thought to turn my ship on my head looked like it did some owl poo poo. Completely unhinged and started rotating. Finally got the ship on, then black polygons start popping out of my right hand...

Terminally Bored posted:

What's the context for this?

lofi posted:

I can't see how CIG are going to get around the 'licensed for one game, made two' thing. SQ42 and SC are pretty blatently different games.

lofi posted:

Does that mean all steam games are the same game? Mostly I'm swayed by the fact Skadden are involved, afaik they don't come out to play if they don't feel pretty confident of a big paycheck.

Alan Smithee posted:

is Lesnick even a thing there anymore

Thirsty Dog posted:

A dev I know has said there’s a strong rumour the game is having to be remade in another engine due to the crytek thing. Is there any hint of this being true?

TheAgent posted:

hello

• after many, many assurances that the crytek lawsuit would not proceed, chris & co are scrambling (no elaboration)
  
• emails, contracts, recorded conversations and biz licences are being sent for review (legal review?)
  
• Erin "extremely nervous" about outcome, although showing a "carefree attitude" around the office
  
• "I know for a fact he doesn't want another Gizmondo on his hands. Once was enough."
  
• aegis backer event: "Our goal was to be totally positive. We nailed it."
  
• production on certain parts of the game are stopped completely until legal avenues are resolved
  
• mostly that means engine and server improvements
  
• this halt is scheduled to begin 9/3, but employees have known about it for some time
  
• engine switch most likely in the cards, deep discussions about stadia/UE4 ongoing
  
• "Anything made or built with CryEngine would be discarded and re-coded." including animations, models, maps, client and server side code, etc
  
• "We'd have to redo a lot of work. It'd be worth it, because it's the only way forward."