Just more evidence that this game is vaporware. The cloud tech doesn't work in the wild, and it will never release.

Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves.

Yeah, Epic bought Cloudgine in January so all of the tech is now being incorporated into Unreal. Besides, Reagent co-developed Cloudgine alongside Ruffian, Epic, and of the Cloudgine devs themselves so perhaps he can lend his expertise to the Unreal team now.

https://venturebeat.com/201...

MS had this to say about working on Cloudgine though:

"We are excited to see gaming experiences get better with cloud-computing becoming part of UE4. Also, a sincere thanks for both studios’ work done in partnership with MS Studios to build the cloud-powered technology in “Crackdown 3” from scratch."

So, for those who wondered why CD3 took so long and why "da power of The Cloud" isn't in the wild yet, notice the words "from scratch" being used to described the cloud-powered tech used in CD3. CD3 is the first game to utilize the cloud in this way, and currently CD3's development is all about the campaign (being handled by Sumo) because the MP/tech wrapped up in January of this year.

Yup, might do wonders for Fortnite Save the World as well!

Crackdown 3 is the most important game this generation above any and every game!

That's because Sumo Digital is finishing things up instead of Reagent.

But what about the cool destruction? They haven't showed that off in the last 2 e3s, that was the main appeal of the game for me, and many others I'm sure. I get an awful feeling it will be dumbed down a lot or scrapped altogether.

“But what about the cool destruction? They haven't showed that off in the last 2 e3s, that was the main appeal of the game for me, and many others I'm sure. I get an awful feeling it will be dumbed down a lot or scrapped altogether.“

Verified Resetera user.

“It's still in MP yeah, it'd be a disaster for them to not have it in at this point given the resources they've thrown at it. From what I know the plan for what the cloud tech would do in that game was much, much larger in scope from when dev started to how it's used now.“

Annoying part is I don't give even the smallest crap about the power of the cloud. I just wanna play the damn game. Not really getting this for it's multiplayer anyways. So it keeps getting delayed over a feature I'm not even going to use. I get that's what has many people excited about this game, but it's just frustrating

It figures.

A verified insider source over at Resetera had this to say:

"From what I know the plan for what the cloud tech would do in that game was much, much larger in scope from when dev started to how it's used now." https://www.resetera.com/th...

I think this has more to do with MS having the concept of always online console with the xbox one im the beginning, which the developers banked on for their game with the cloud.

That whole always online concept backfired and MS did a 180, and Crackdown 3 was already well into the development which the notion of having the user have an always online console.

They had to back track with the SP to accomitdate to the change which caused a lot of set backs. But that is just my guess.

The reason I said that was because had it been cancelled years ago people would have possibly lost their jobs if they didn't start working on a different game.

I agree and because the game was from PlatinumGames you'd know it would have been awesome. It might have had a few problems when it got cancelled, but because the game was from PlatinumGames I know without a doubt they'd have found a way to make the game work and be a blast to play.

That it did and it is disappointing we'll never be able to play it.

Actually, when his cloudgine company was bought by Epic earlier this year, they offered him a job to head up that part of things. So instead of splitting his time between both his companies, he basically left one (Reagent) and went where the cloudgine was going which was Epic.

there was no "fed up of the crap..." nonsense. Just a business opportunity to continue working on what he started with cloudgine. And as for the final game. It looks like they scaled back on the cloud (its still there but not the main focus) and ramped up the visual style which is why it looks way better than it initially did.

Well David Jones did work on it for 4+ years so it's not like he ditched out right in the middle of development...

@darth

Actually David Jones co-founded Cloudgine and since he still had ties at Reagant they were co-oping development on the cloud portion of the project. David Jones has been working on this title for 4+ years with Reagant and Cloudgine... it's not like he ditched out on the project right in the middle of development.

His work is probably mostly done anyway, he saw the opportunity to work with Epic on their next big project and he took it. the article is a lot more doom and gloom than the facts actually are.

"Cloudgine Limited is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded in May 2012 by Dave Jones, best known as the co-creator of the Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown video game series, Maurizio Sciglio and Marco Anastasi.[1] All three were previously employed by Realtime Worlds, of which Jones as creative director, and worked on APB: All Points Bulletin (2010). Cloudgine prioritises on real-time cloud computing technologies, which can be integrated into video games to allow complex calculations to be executed on inferior hardware.[2]

Their first game, Crackdown 3, was announced by Microsoft Studios at the June 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo.[3] Bearing the working title Crackdown, the game was announced to release for Xbox One at an unspecified date.[4] Although the game was later scheduled for a 2016 release,[5] it has since been delayed into late 2018,[6][7] and will additionally release on Microsoft Windows.[8] The game will make extensive use of Cloudgine's proprietary cloud computing technology, which they claim will make the game able to process physics calculations thirteen times as fast as with a standard Xbox One.[9][10] Meanwhile, Oculus Studios released the Cloudgine-developed freeware Oculus Touch game Toybox in December 2016.[11]

In January 2018, it was announced that Cloudgine had been acquired by Epic Games for an undisclosed sum.[12][13] Epic Games plans to natively integrate Cloudgine's technology into their game engine, Unreal Engine 4.[14]"

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