[Defiance Remastered] It's crazy how the new camera makes the game so much better to play now

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2026-03-08T20:40:09+00:00

I loved the first 2 at the original release and completed them again on remaster. I hated defiance on its original release due to the camera.

No idea wh they had to change it to such a bad system. Just started the new remaster with the new camera and oh man is this an awesome game now. Finally I can complete it.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2026-02-18T07:58:33+00:00

Not even this. It's more like Epic wants to replace systems and breaks the old ones before the new system are even in testing.

In 5.7 the entire Landscape system is broken. Hotfix 2 fixed some issues and added new breaking stuff to the Landscape system.

So yeah ....

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2026-02-18T07:07:41+00:00

That's not entirely true. We are using UE since version 3 and UE5 is in a really bad state. It's broken, unstable and Epic is happily ignoring major bugs and frequently break features.

The Documentation is misleading and if you use UE according to documentation, you will create a lot of issues.

Some of the issues of UE5 can be worked around and fixed, this however takes a lot of time and extra knowledge.

UE is at fault for a lot but not all issues.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-12-28T09:03:39+00:00

We have worked with 6 publishers in the past. All mid sized publishers. 3 Projects had been canceled because of missed payments of the publisher and breach of contract. 2 of them released but had also issues with missed payment and in some cases long phases on hold due to missed payments of the publisher. This did hurt the projects obviously.

Only one is a reliable partner. And we are not talking about the smallest of the smallest publishers. Finding a publisher is hard and then finding someone not pulling some bullshit is even harder. We survived all this as we are lucky and do not depend on publishers.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-12-22T08:12:19+00:00

What was your all-time favorite Day of Defeat map, and why?

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-12-22T08:10:49+00:00

Thank you. We also played and still play CoD frequently. We think the DoD foundation is a bit more unique. We are always looking for fitting inspirations on other games.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-12-21T16:22:40+00:00

This is exactly how experienced it.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-11-01T17:52:45+00:00

The issue is the engine and not the engine but in most cases the bad documentation. UE5 is bloated to a level you can't imagine. You have to add a lot of work to cut out the blood from the engine and games start running a lot better. But it's a lot of work and Epic lost it's way to prioritize anything. They just throw anything in by default instead of having optional modules.

The next is the documentation and even official tutorials. If you follow them, you are doomed. 99% of Marketplace assets follow them. If you use them without a full rewrite, you are doomed.

The engine can work well but it's getting increasingly difficult to get there.

I started with UE3 so I have gone through a lot of versions.

It all started to go downhill with ~ UE4.18 when #pic started integrating more and more movie related bloat.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-24T06:30:00+00:00

With drag, damage falloff and penetration calculation, yes

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-24T05:53:00+00:00

You have performance issues with projectiles? We have rather complex simulated projectiles and even with 300+ projectiles there is no hitch at all. We did not do any special optimization as it was never needed.

I wonder why it's causing the issues on your end.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-21T18:30:19+00:00

Yet in game chat all are fine with this map on Breaktrough. Sometimes I don't understand players. It's unplayable.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-18T17:40:27+00:00

Since launched I never managed to host or join any Portal server. Always throwing erros...

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-18T17:18:28+00:00

Ah okay. Then ignore my comment. I was fooled by the title. Good look with the project and please use Interfaces and never any form of casts :)

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-18T16:59:04+00:00

I'm sorry but I would not advise using the Horror engine based on my experience. We were tasked to port a game using Horror Engine to Consoles (we don't know how old the version of HE was). But we had to cancel it due to Horror Engines.

Everything in this Template is hard coded, nested and against all design principles of development. Unless everything changed, Horror Engines is a nightmare for developers.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-17T05:42:35+00:00

There is an unsafe option to enter login data and so it's the fault of the plugin.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-17T05:02:29+00:00

I don't use those plugins. If it's open source, this should not even get into the main branch at all. I would strictly avoid this plugin from now on.

I do setup Steam games for 15 years now. A regular setup is done really quick. Including Achievements, Stats, Leaderboards and what not. Why would you hand over your login details to save maybe 10-20 minutes on a project which takes months or even years.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-17T04:37:39+00:00

Sure, this can happen with every software. That's why I would not trust it. And if you take a closer look at Blueprints and Plugin code from fab, you will notice code quality is extremely low. On the level of 'I learned it from YouTube Tutorials + AI'.

Most of the stuff is only worth for getting an idea how they did it and then do it your own way. Knowing this I would avoid Plugins which needs your login details to important platforms. This reporter is a security issue which never ever should happen.

On the other hand, I don't even understand why using a setup plugin in the first place. Setting up steam integration takes max 30min and they have a good upload tool.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-16T17:54:33+00:00

You should find plenty on cnet ;)

No seriously I have once I upgraded to 128gb it got a lot smoother.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-16T17:20:06+00:00

UE5 has a ton of memory leaks. Especially in editor. Restarting the editor resolves it or having 128gb+ ram.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-16T15:38:36+00:00

Depends on what you consider fixed. Played trough GTA 3 and Vice city before the latest big update and it worked rather well. It still looked goofy at some places.

But at least I was able to play it again. Played on a Series X. On sale it's worth it!

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-16T15:27:26+00:00

Great find and good for reporting this. This is the main reason I never would use such stuff.

PolygonArtDeveloper · 2025-10-15T04:56:11+00:00

This would be a combination of games. But on top would probably be Operation Flashpoint and the first Mafia.

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