DayZ Gets An Engine Upgrade For Better, Faster Updates
Dean “Rocket” Hall and the rest of the crew at Bohemia Interactive working on DayZ managed to get a full team upgrade back in March. While we thought this was just a complimentary thing to help speed along development, it was actually done so that they could quickly overhaul and upgrade the core engine that powers the game.
PC Gamer grabbed some significant quotes from a Reddit AMA where Hall – who is expected to leave the DayZ production cycle after the game is stabilized – commented about the new engine, saying that...
It's not really a “new” new engine, but rather a “new” version of the old engine since it's been iterated on so much that it's no longer the same thing. You know, sort of like what the Source is now compared to what it used to be or how id Tech used to be known as the Quake Engine way back in the day? Same thing.
DayZ producer Brian Hicks further explains to make it easy to digest for the non-techies, writing...
So how and when will gamers get to see the benefit of this new engine? Sooner than you think. Dean is pushing out the content “in a modular fashion over time.”
Modular engine updates will enable the team to implement new code or features in parts without disrupting the rest of the game. In theory, this means that DayZ players will get updates a lot faster and in greater abundance than before.
But that's not all. The team has also made the leap up into 64-bit server architecture, which means that they can make use of more RAM and end-users with big rigs will begin to see much better returns on their hardware investment. Sadly, this also means that the game may or may not be as 32-bit friendly once the 64-bit implementation is complete. As of right now, only the testing has been completed, so the roll-out of the new 64-bit servers should be coming soon.
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So what are the benefits of a 64-bit server? It means more items, more loot, better AI pathfinding across the map nodes, as well as more zombies populating areas in larger groups. In other words, DayZ is about to go full-blown zombie apocalypse mode.
According to Dean...
That's great news for anyone who's been waiting for DayZ to mimic the dangerous and intensity of the show The Walking Dead. It also looks like H1Z1 will no longer be competing against the gimped version of DayZ, but it will soon be competing against the game sporting all the features that made it famous in the first place.
Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.
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