19 Oct 14, 08:51PM
Vanquish, I'm not complaining about sauer (I only play pubs from time to time anyway) - I'm complaining about the map quality especially for ctf and similar modes. The additional freedom of the cube2-engine leads to worse maps (gameplay-wise). Many sauer maps are true works of art, from a technical or visual point of view - however, the restrictions of cube1 lead to maps with better gameplay.
The point is: AC as a game has nothing to gain from an engine change. It would be a lot of work, just to gain a little eye-candy. I actually made the test: I updated the cube1 import filter in sauer, so it could read current AC maps - to compare the performance of both engines on exactly the same map. I wanted to see, if we could gain something from a change. The result was: sauer reaches a little less fps than AC.
I don't care the least about eye-candy - and at least all those AC players who use gamma 200, texreduce and brightskins do neither.
In conclusion: the whole discussion about "better" engines is bogus, unless someone can show that AC could actually gain something relevant. Also, as long as no one volunteers to do the work...
How about we move the discussion back to a topic, that actually matters for the current state and near future of AC?
The point is: AC as a game has nothing to gain from an engine change. It would be a lot of work, just to gain a little eye-candy. I actually made the test: I updated the cube1 import filter in sauer, so it could read current AC maps - to compare the performance of both engines on exactly the same map. I wanted to see, if we could gain something from a change. The result was: sauer reaches a little less fps than AC.
I don't care the least about eye-candy - and at least all those AC players who use gamma 200, texreduce and brightskins do neither.
In conclusion: the whole discussion about "better" engines is bogus, unless someone can show that AC could actually gain something relevant. Also, as long as no one volunteers to do the work...
How about we move the discussion back to a topic, that actually matters for the current state and near future of AC?