I'm going to start from the tech end. Silicon CMOS is tapped out so you can't out-grow a performance problem. It has to perform well day one. 7 nm GPUs comming soon will have twice the transistor den… (View Post)
That would be good for UWE perhaps but it's not good for fans of either NS1 or NS2. It will be an entirely different game that I have no interest in playing. It's going to need to sell millions of co… (View Post)
What made NS1 infestation look better is a combination of being lovingly placed by the mapper, not covering 100% of surfaces (pre-NS 2.0 infestation textures were made by baking a transparent texture… (View Post)
NS2 has always felt quite laggy. I suspect it is simply the way the game engine is "pipelined". In the sprite hardware era, games literally chased the beam; things were drawn by specialized… (View Post)
I'm in favour of a blue sky research mod, if that is the goal. Making a game more fun is a many dimensional landscape with a few lonesome peaks in a vast desert. Hill-climbing will only get you to th… (View Post)