so true. IF we could have had a bunch of other classic modules with that engine, my god. That would have been glorious. Not to mention how they would have evolved the engine as it went along.
Faery Tale Adventure had a day/night cycle, with semi-realistic darkness, and that was developed in 1986 by one person in seven months on a new type of computer released late the previous year.
That they would update and possibly refactor their engine just so you can have a day night cycle?
I don't actually want one. It was just pointing out how ridiculous what he said was. And it should be a banabble offense to change people's names like that in the quote. It's slander against fluent who's banned so he can't even defend himself.
I didn't say it was working.
"Important"? You think too highly of yourself. Nobody is important. Everyone is expendable.
Oh noes! He found out, lads!
seriously I agree. Even if they don't add schedules or anything how fucking hard is it just to make it fucking dark sometimes? Like this has been a thing in games forever. Its dark in their dungeons. Make it dark outside sometimes, what the fuck. Why even create this controversy.It's not a tiny thing at all.Are you fucking kidding me? Ok fuck this shit, fuck it really hard. They can't even add this stupid tiny thing. But hey, throwing boots!!!
A day-night cycle is only valuable if it changes something else than lighting. For that, you need serious systems to make it work: NPCs schedules that change with the time of day, visibility and stealth differences, moments to trigger quests and events. Not many games have done it right. I can think of two: the Gothics, and Arcanum (and the Witcher 1 to a lesser extent). In both cases NPCs did different stuff at night than during the day. Night time has sleeping people, valuables behind lock and key, patrols, stealth possibilities, etc.
Either you go full cycle, or you don't do it. Larian is wise not investing resources if they're not willing to go all in on this.
Also, given the way Larian does TB while other characters not in combat are in real time, the flow of time wouldn't work well for cycles. Does time only pass for characters not in TB? In that case, what happens if players outisde the fight join it, while some are in nighttime and the others in daytime? Which visibility rules do you apply, for one? The alternative, that time passes for everyone based on a IRL clock, isn't better. In that case, one fight of 10 rounds could start during the day and end during the next day, a full cycle having passed while in fact the fight would only have taken 1min in D&D time (6s/round). Both ways of doing cycles would have problems.
I don't know how you can justify them when the 99% of the classic RPGs from 1992 till 2020 had a day night cycle, even if only ahestetic just for the world-building. They all had a surplus of resources to throw in the bin?
The resources saved from not implementing a day\night cycle will be put into creating fucking talking squirrels or cats, considering this is Larian.
Why do you care who respects you and who doesn't? That's a pretty weak strategy.
Too late internet will cite codex as the source.
See? They read us.
Like I said in the previous page L-AAA-rian won't rewrite their engine to feature day-night cycles. I'd bet a good sum that they can't implement it without serious low-level rework. This would then impact the scene editors they are using... imagine the whole project being delayed for a year.
Feature creep isn't a good thing fyi
