Updated AO engine movie

**Quilluck** · Jan 20th, 2008, 05:53:13

This looks excellent. Great work to you and your team Sil

Now go out there and advertise this to hell and back so we get some new shiny people with new shiny textures to play with

**Shadow** · Jan 20th, 2008, 06:50:06

Looks great, maybe it'll bring more players.

1000 Active on rk1 atm is, well an insult.

**Voriuste** · Jan 20th, 2008, 08:41:05

Osman: I love you

Seriously though, excellent work. A friend of mine who i showed AO ages ago was like 'meh this looks crap' and gave up after playing for 20 minutes. Showed him the new videos (he is currently a WoW gamer) and his reply is 'holy crap' and is now re-downloading AO.

Osman, if i ever meet you, I'll buy you a drink of your choice, and probably a few more too

This will breathe new life into Anarchy Online, as someone has mentioned before, it will effectively be a relaunch, a new game, except with an existing player base

**Exachix** · Jan 20th, 2008, 08:58:21

=O.

That's awesome.

Kudos to the programmers.

And yeah, It'd be nice to know the min requirements for that engine, as I know people who are running AO on a laptop so may not be able to use a highly powerful engine or such.

And Does this mean the Shadowlands will be getting a simmilar face-lift?

**Cheapthrill** · Jan 20th, 2008, 08:59:25

This with alot of RK content could be AO redux. Can't wait and hope you guys push the publicity on this, would be kinda a first to have a game revamped so much and I'm sure mmo sites will lap up the idea of ongoing development that gives a game a new lease of life.

**Dagget** · Jan 20th, 2008, 09:50:04

Originally Posted by Leddja

Any existing character pic/video from the new engine??

I think you can spot a couple of unicorns, as well as some bare npc's. Guessing that they are placed here and there but no clothing textures yet.

**Armus** · Jan 20th, 2008, 10:01:40

Will it support wide screen resolutions properly?
Such as 1920*1200 or 2560*1600.

Looking great btw.

**Crisalys** · Jan 20th, 2008, 10:45:53

Originally Posted by samsunggg

Will it support wide screen resolutions properly?
Such as 1920*1200 or 2560*1600.

Looking great btw.

Dunno about 2560 x 1600, but I already play AO @ 1920 x 1200... What I want to know is if it'll support a full size window on multi-monitor/video card systems (I currently have two monitors side by side with a desktop resolution of 3520 x 1200).

**streppelchen** · Jan 20th, 2008, 10:56:40

1650x1050 with current engine and lagfree with full settings
with the new engine it should be even faster

oh and PLEASE SIL MAKE AO SUPPORT QUAD CORES!!!!
this would be what i want,it looks ubah as the game is

**Malaxia** · Jan 20th, 2008, 11:44:19

Sil this is AMAZING !

One thing though : Will it be optional for those customers with outdated computers ?

I can't wait to see the new engine

**Bothead** · Jan 20th, 2008, 11:55:46

Originally Posted by Silirrion

We arent developing specifically for DX10 no, it will be updated to DX9 with the options for later development down the line. The first priority is bringing it up to date in the first place. So the new engine will not require or utilise DX10 when released.

This is so SWEEET, I'm just sitting here grinning from ear to ear while looking at the footage

Kudos to FC for this upgrade, I just can't wait for it!

**Ebag333** · Jan 20th, 2008, 13:00:23

Originally Posted by Malaxia

One thing though : Will it be optional for those customers with outdated computers ?

I doubt it. They might run side-by-side for a while, but it'd be a tech support nightmare to support both engines at the same time. Not to mention, how would you update? Give everyone both (and double the size of your AO dir)? Double the amount of programming and QA? Double the time it takes to test something? Double the bugs?

It'd be really cool if they did, but I really can't expect them to.

**Terrorgnomy** · Jan 20th, 2008, 13:34:12

wonder how much it will increase the requs to run ao .... cant afford to upgrade my second computer atm ;P

**wethepeople** · Jan 20th, 2008, 13:39:34

Originally Posted by Terrorgnom

wonder how much it will increase the requs to run ao .... cant afford to upgrade my second computer atm ;P

shouldnt at all tbh , the problem with the current engine was that it was so old trying to run and push the best graphics on it as possible. and that created alot of graphics lag , once this new engine come out , it'll smooth the edges out on the engine that was having some problems with pushing what the game wanted , so in all actuality , unless your running a very very very old comp like 3-4+ years outdated on everything , i doubt this new engine would affect you much

**XenonDe** · Jan 20th, 2008, 13:40:21

AWESOME!

I love the Still Alive too.
Graphics looking great and the person who made that video should get a medal too, very nice compostion. Really got me excited.

**Contra** · Jan 20th, 2008, 14:10:44

Sil becoming Game director was the best thing that happened to AO <3
I love your work guys and i'm enjoying the feeling that a whole team is working very hard to keep all of us sattisfied.
That "still alive" thing at the end not only will it become an org name but a trade mark for sure lol

Thank you!

**corinthians** · Jan 20th, 2008, 17:07:26

i just **** my pants

**kehaan** · Jan 20th, 2008, 17:54:35

Hello.

I would just say that it looks very good.

Keep up the great work!

From Kehaan.

**Gwenneth** · Jan 20th, 2008, 18:08:56

I think I just soiled myself.

**Cyrinno** · Jan 20th, 2008, 18:49:15

I have just started AO. I am a subscriber and the game has opened up alot of depth with that. I have to say the graphics almost turned me off, but an ARK greeter saved me and now I am having a blast. All my friends however stopped playing after 20mins because of the graphics. I am so glad the game is being updated, graphically and gameplay, looks like I'll be here to stay.

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