Profile of SturmtigerCobra

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2018, 19:40 PMTiger Baron

Honestly after Relic left their skeleton crew to deal with CoH2, and how they dealt with DoW3, whatever these guys make will surely come out better than anything Relic will make in the future, I'm sure of it.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2018, 13:49 PMAmiPolizeiFunk

I suppose we should offer to make a forum for them.

I'm still on the fence about this game tho, not quite sure what to make of it after seeing the gameplay footage. It looks like and even more simplistic version of COH1 but with robots.

https://www.pcgamer.com/we-dont-feel-anything-is-off-the-table-says-sega-on-growing-its-pc-catalogue/
PC Gamer: As part of your Searchlight program, you're looking for developers to collaborate with. You just announced a collaboration with Two Point Studios, with former Lionhead staff Mark Webley and Gary Carr. What can we expect from that?

John Clark: We released a game called Motorsport Manager with Playsport Games and they're a very talented startup—industry experts, great developers, just wanting to bring a vision and develop this franchise and develop this community.

Same with Two Point—a group of veterans which are starting up, ex-Bullfrog, ex-Lionhead. They have their vision, they have a vision which aligns with [the] principles we’ve got in franchise building and developing community and delivering really strong, valuable experiences.

What was the process behind signing Two Point? Did they approach you, did you scout them out? How does that conversation start?

A bit of both, really. So we have our A&R (artists and repertoire) guys, we’re constantly coming to shows such as [E3] and others where we’re always talking to developers, to people who know developers, and to channel partners who say “these guys over here, they’re doing something really, really cool.” We just keep talking to people and telling them what is driving us at Sega and we do end up finding some really, really cool opportunities.

And we’re looking to do more of that. We’ve started our relationship with Playsport Games and we’ve released a game and we want to work on more and build a franchise together with them. We hope to get to the stage with Two Point where we’ll launch a fantastic gaming experience and we’re really excited—we’re not saying what it looks like at this stage, but we think that that’s going to be the start of something big to come.

Jump back to quoted post1 Mar 2018, 05:22 AMSturmtigerCobra

Relic news TBA
It looks like Sega or MS are gearing up to buy a new Vancouver studio for their mobile games IPs run by former CoH1 vet;
http://www.smokingguninc.com/

On our trade and investment mission to Japan, @GeorgeChowMLA and I
stopped by the international headquarters of @SEGA - the owner of Vancouver’s
@relicgames which is creating 50 new jobs in BC this year. Great to see Japanese investment and B.C. talent coming together #BCTECH

https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2017-2021/2018PREM0012-000114.pdf
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018PREM0012-000114?WT.cg_n=HootSuite
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The delegation, which included Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology Bruce Ralston and Minister of State for Trade George Chow, met with technology leaders Fujitsu and SEGA to promote investment in B.C. and partnerships with B.C. tech companies in information communications technology (ICT), wireless, quantum computing, and digital gaming and entertainment.

“With some of the world’s largest tech and IT companies, Japan’s growing investment in B.C. is a show of confidence in our tech sector and economy,” said Ralston. “Our research infrastructure, deep talent pool and culturally diverse population are a magnet for tech investment.”

“Solidifying our relationships with Japanese government agencies and tech companies is an important part of our growth strategy in this sector,” said Chow. “We look forward to continuing discussions with many of our valued tech stakeholders at the BC Tech Summit in Vancouver next May.”

Premier Horgan also gave a keynote speech promoting B.C. at a gathering of over 150 community, government and business leaders in technology, natural resources, agrifoods, tourism and international education.

Quick Facts:
- Japan is B.C.’s third-largest trading partner with $3.7 billion in goods exports in 2016.
- B.C.’s total exports to Japan, which are primarily commodities, are more than double that of the second-ranked Canadian province.
- In 2016, B.C. exported $985 million in copper and $969 million in metallurgical coal to Japan.
- B.C. is a leading supplier of wood products to Japan. In 2016, B.C. exported $726 million in lumber.
- B.C.’s ICT companies employ over 20,000 people and generate more than $9.5 billion in annual revenues.
- In 2016, B.C.’s interactive gaming sector comprised more than 150 companies, employing nearly 6,000 people full time.
- The Province established its trade and investment representative office in Tokyo, Japan in 2007.

Just like World War I got a sequel, Battlefield 1 is getting a followup later this year. The game is Battlefield V. It was previously known as Battlefield 2 internally at EA. Battlefield V will return the series to World War II in a main entry for the first time since 2009’s Battlefield 1943, GamesBeat has learned from sources familiar with EA’s plans. These sources wish to remain anonymous.

Battlefield I is a huge success for EA. It sold faster than Battlefield 4, and it has surpassed 25 million players as of December. Fans were excited to return to a historical setting after years of modern military shooters from both Battlefield and competitors such as Call of Duty. Publisher Activision also showed that the appetite for the second World War is still high with its release of Call of Duty: WWII last year. That is the best-selling Call of Duty since the franchise peaked with Black Ops II in 2012.

This is an entirely new Battlefield game and not a remaster of the 2005 Battlefield 2. EA will reveal it soon, and it will launch it before the end of this calendar year.

EA and Battlefield developer DICE decided on this strategy several years ago. They knew they wanted to get away from the modern and near-future settings for a while, but it also didn’t want to burn the WWII setting right away. This led the studio to start with WWI knowing that it could always still go to WWII with the next game if Battlefield 1 didn’t work out. Of course, that wasn’t the case — Battlefield I finished 2016 as the No. 2 best-selling game in the United States, according to the industry-tracking firm The NPD Group.

While EA is going with World War II, some fans may remember a recent rumor from December that DICE is working on Battlefield: Bad Company 3 that takes place around the Vietnam War. That rumor isn’t accurate. If EA is considering a sequel to its console-focused Bad Company spinoff series, it likely won’t happen soon. That said, DICE is listening to fans of Bad Company, and it is keeping a potential sequel in its back pocket in case it needs to make another strategic shift in the future.

After all, I’m not sure a new Battlefield 3 set during World War III would make sense.

Jump back to quoted post21 Feb 2018, 16:40 PMRosbone

TL;DR
The main point of Relic updating its engine is that consoles need very specific code written for them. So maybe this is an indicator of testing the console arena. PC Games are slow because the author has no idea what hardware you have. So they write to generic libraries OpenGL, DirectX, OpenAL, etc. Consoles run very well because they know exactly what hardware you are running. The code can be optimized down to the hardware register level increasing speed 2x or 3x over generic PC libraries. Throw a Playstation into the mix and it gets even harder because the CPU structure is completely different and there are specific cases where you can pipeline multiple commands simultaneously. Console require a much deeper understanding of the hardware.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/324680/discussions/0/490125737459924224/
MegalomaniacNG (Reinhard Pollice) 12 Nov, 2015 @ 3:44pm
Originally posted by Dolt Gorbles:
While we're on the subject did you guys get the name of the IC engine?
It's a bit of a missing gap in Relic's technical history (inbetween Essence and whatevertheyused for Homeworld) that's been bugging me for years
(some people incorrectly - I think - label it as the Phoenix engine but that's the codename for the Space Marine engine, IIRC)
Reinhard Pollice;
So the Relic RTS engine was written for Impossible Creatures. It shares a lot of core code with the Homeworld engine. Relatively close relatives of the IC engine are Dawn of War and The Outfit. More far away is Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes Online and very far away is Company of Heroes 2.

Actually the Space Marine engine is not a Relic engine. At its core its the Vigil Game Engine that was created by Vigil Games for Darksiders and Warhammer Dark Millenium Online (Relic was Co-Developer on that). Guess who owns the Vigil Game Engine?

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/06/13/the-tech-that-built-darksiders-ii.aspx
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What’s the hardest technical feature you’ve ever had to get working?

Bonstead: Getting the game to run on PlayStation 3. [Laughs]

Bennett: I guess…the trouble with that was that we only have six guys, and we primarily developed on the 360. You can hit play in our editor and then start playing the game as if you were playing the PC SKU, but this mean that sometimes the PS3 SKU takes a backseat, but it’s probably only two to four weeks behind.

Bonstead: Our goal is to keep all versions of the game at perfect parity, but it’s tougher for us to develop on. We started with a PC engine on DS I, and then ported that to Xbox and then ported it to PS3, so we learned a lot there. We kind of had to figure our how to develop for multiple systems as we went along, but I think we got pretty close to keeping the game equal across all systems.

Bennett: One other thing was that even though our PC engine was working throughout development, it wasn’t designed to be released to the public, so when it came to doing the PC version we had to put in about six months of work to bring that up to par.

Bonstead: That’s why the PC version came out so late. THQ said, "Hey, you guys have an engine that works on PC, why don’t we put out a PC version?" We were like, "It works for us!" There is a lot of robustness and video-card testing and proper keyboard and mouse control design that you have to work out when you do a PC game.

Bennett: None of our user interface was built with mouse and keyboard in mind, so we had to go back and completely redo that.