Sauerbraten: cube 2
http://sauerbraten.org

yay, let's throw away a few years of work and start over again!

acutally, they waiste more years using wet-engine,
an animation that requires 5 months of work with the wet-engine,
could be done in 5 days with the cube-engine,

and they could implent features such as ragdoll physics, dynamic lightning, dynamic shadows, ect. ect.

im not saying that it is 100% possible,
but theres a possibility that it could be as powerful like
CELLFACTOR:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=9855&type=wmv

that means that you will have something thats 3 or 5 times more powerful than the half-life engine.

IMO 0.49 should be released next week, and the devs should start working on this cube-engine

hmmm, planned release date: mar. 31. todays date: mar. 27. I say they must release it in five days (buffer for mirror problems, etc.)

what I'm saying is it toook them about a year and a half to get this one version out, and to work on a different engine would make them lose all thier work.

also, what about those of us who cannot download files without permission, and got ET through RTCW platinum.

some people are under restrictions due to firewalls, supervisors, etc. and the only reason they have access to TC:E is because they got the right version of RTCW that came with ET.

Cube or Sauerbraten are of minor value. There are a lot of better alternatives, than using this sort of game core, since those listed above are made for arcade games. TC:Elite on the other hand aims more in the dircetion of a tactical shooter with very realistic elements.

Main criterion which is speaking against any sort of standalone or GPU-based release, nevertheless, is, that they do not wish to share their code with any others!

Also cheatprotection, advanced mapping tools and their gathered experience with quake related software is coming in handy, which would cause a big banana skin, if they would change.

If you have always been working with one game core, have the know-how and also achived quite a lot of success (tc:q3), then you might want to stick to the quake-line.

ET's (PLC) product life cycle is still not expired, yet. It is still in the "Cash Cows" period, which means, that it has a huge share of the market, while this other one mentioned above will never pass the "Question Marks" period and will soon be a so called Poor Dog.
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Bottom-line: No one plays this sort of game, while ET has a huge community, which can get extracted with a high quality product as TC:Elite.

Compare the following:

CUBE:


W:ET

yes i agree,

but what about ragdoll physics? dynamic lighting?
these features are very importent to have if you wanna compete with other games, to keep your game/mod up to date, you really need to have these features, these features are really importent to have in the game now a days.
this mod's physics is really outdated. allot of people dont play tce anymore, they play other mod's that TCE cant compete with

the features that i have mentioned are very very difficult to implent on the WET-engine,
i heard it is possible, but the devs would never manage to implent this in theyre hole entire life time,

no wonder they only have about 8 active members.
working with less than 10 people on a game-engine thats really difficult and complex to modify things, is insane,

they really need to have more people in the team,
if you check out one of those commercial games, and check out the credits,
you will see how many people worked on the project,

more than 100, sometimes more than 250 people,

and sometimes the game still have allot of bugs, even if so many people worked on the game,

imagine just 8 or 9 people working on this totally converted mod,
thats actually not a mod, but more like a hole complete game,
because ET and TrueCombat is totally different,

thats just Crazy,
and thats why its better to have more people in the team,
i saw a talented modeler, showing all his work on the main.forum,
and it looked impressive,
the weird thing is, that Coroner didnt let him join the team,

thats almost the same like refusing 100million dollars from someone thats willing to just give away that amount of money.

a handful of people can make things more easier, and allot of things can be done more quickly.

wich means, they'll hear less complains about "wheres the update" from the true fans.

me no likey cube for a couple reasons:
1. no cheat protection. aimbots and wallhacks will take over. this is a definite thing. I've already seen like 20 people get busted for 'em in TC:ET
2. graphics. we have THE best WET graphics, and I don't think cube can handle it.
3. Playerbase!!! this is a big one. on Xfire, since I can remember, ET has been around the #2 download for free games, and hasn't dipped below 5. Yes, most of these people won't get TC:E, but if 1% go for TC:E, that's about another 1000 players.
4.other mods. many people get ET just for mods, and I personally use TC:E most of the time (not all!) for ET, and there are literally hundreds of other mods, as well as a few bot mods.

IMO, switching engines, and throwing away all the WET work is a biiiiiiig step backwards, because the devs are farmiliar with ET, and they would need to go over the cube code a few times to figure out how to mod it right.

The best engine move in any case would be to Q3 GPL, which would be quite easy as ET is heavily based on it. Its an engine that the devs are used to working with (for ~5 years or so now) and it has endless posibilities. But thats not going to happen in a near future (as its been stated many times).

the funny thing is, I think that Q3 TC is on Q3 GPL...

best to just stay on ET, than to hae to rebuild a playerbase.

Q3TC 1.X code is lost... however TCE is based on q3tc 0.45b13, which is on Q3. ET has a lot of limitations though. Like the issues with the playermodels/animations, etc.

Sauerbraten: cube 2
http://sauerbraten.org