• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’d wager technical debt is the reason. It’s no secret that Bethesda’s engine is bad. Bad code makes it harder to do bug-fixes, because it’s harder to find the root cause of things and the risks of having accidental side-effects is far higher. There’s only so many hacks and emergency fixes you can slap into a codebase before it becomes a house of cards that collapses if you breathe on it the wrong way.

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      1 year ago

      Hopefully having MS money will allow them to take the time to learn/create a new engine, it already showed its limits in Skyrim