Update Speculation thread

Yeah, we try to make it look and feel good. Airbags are another things we tested and cannot do properly atm

 

That's how it is used right now. The AI can use the image output of the simulation to learn how to drive
Its free for academia and research, so lots of students use it

 

We love to interact with you all, you give us the spirit to create a hopefully great game

 

The amount of effort spent on the 32 bits was getting too much work for the amount of players. In the last steam hardware survey, there was not a single player with it

The Levels demanded so much memory that they would crash - and this is not fix-able, that's a hardware/operating system limitation

About the time/effort: every time we commit to our version control system, it would recompile both versions. Now its only 64 bit, making it twice as fast.
Btw, The launcher is still 32 bits.

 

We continuously try to improve all the subsystems, but the day has only so many hours

 

The community affects us quite a lot as we try to listen, understand and improve the shortcomings of the simulation. Some things are planned way ahead and are not affected by you so much. The next car is a masterpiece and took us the last 7 months to create for example

 

I have no idea, i'll need to ask our experts. That being said, we are always trying to calibrate/improve these things

 

maybe, maybe not?

We are working on a research project indeed, and he'll post some updates on that soon

One new map is in the works right now, but its still a bit to go.

bge_coconut is an experimental branch for testing rendering features indeed
And yes, we are working on several improvements on the render side of things, but vulkan needs to be released and used first for a lot of the newer features to work well.

Ah, no worries. We skipped one update this time as we took some time to work on things that take longer. We are planning on going back to 3 months after this update hopefully

1) yes, after this
2) yes, but a lot of work on the update prevents us from doing so right now X|

1) The update after the next will have an initial version of it. Expectation management: Its in its very early stages still and needs a lot of work still. We'll work how it works and what we'll focus on together with you all from there on.
2) we have so many more ideas what we want to work on, that we have enough work for the next 20 years
i.e. deform-able ground, huge levels, .....

Not sure, we haven't thought about this yet.

Phew, i hope i could answer some questions

 

1) We are currently in feature freeze with the whole company. That means that we all are working the next weeks on getting the game as stable and release-able as possible. Once our QA is happy that everything is in a 'ok-ish' state, we can think about releasing it
(This is also why we don't publish roadmaps or hard dates, as we want to publish with good quality - otherwise we'll need to always rush it to make the deadline happen)
2) Yes, a lot. The team has a lot meetings. If you're interested i'll try to push them to write a blogpost together

 

This is an ongoing effort for the past several years. TorqueScript's tentacles reach all corners of our codebase, so it's a huge effort to deal with it during normal development, as well in our efforts to remove/port it. With some luck we might be able to finish this year!