@RayD_O1 wrote:
As a matter of interest how long have DICE been using the Frostbite engine.?
Since the early days, I believe. But it went from a focused engine for BF and other shooters into EA's "everything" engine used across all games (sports, racing, action, shooter, etc.) that's grown into quite the hydra over the years.
And it comes with years of reporting on teams struggling to work with the engine that's apparently notoriously difficult to work with - compared to trying to build a sand-castle in a sandbox of hypodermic needles - and breaking extremely easily.
@edgecrusherO0 wrote:
@RayD_O1 wrote:
As a matter of interest how long have DICE been using the Frostbite engine.?Since the early days, I believe. But it went from a focused engine for BF and other shooters into EA's "everything" engine used across all games (sports, racing, action, shooter, etc.) that's grown into quite the hydra over the years.
And it comes with years of reporting on teams struggling to work with the engine that's apparently notoriously difficult to work with - compared to trying to build a sand-castle in a sandbox of hypodermic needles - and breaking extremely easily.
Good info, thanks, kinda makes me wonder why they have persevered with it for so long if it's so complex / quirky.
@RayD_O1 wrote:
@OskooI_007
Eye opening indeed and maybe goes some way to explaining why everything seems to take so long.
As a matter of interest how long have DICE been using the Frostbite engine.?
Frostbite debuted in 2008 with Bad Company. After Bad Company 2, EA decided to use Frostbite for most of their in-house games. Shortly after Battlefield 3, EA made the Frostbite engine team their own seperate entity no longer part of DICE studio.
After Battlefield V the lead rendering architect of Frostbite Johan Andersson (aka repi), left EA to become a stake holder and CTO at Embark Studios with former EA Executive Patrick Sunderland.
Frostbite is a great game engine, but the editor and dev tools sound difficult to work with. Jim said he doesn't understand why EA doesn't use more off the self software for the dev tools.
