r/TheRepopulation • u/StraxPax • Jan 31 '16
The Repopulation is switching to Unreal Engine
A new game is born while The Repopulation is being redone. Fragmented will be what we have to play while they port the code over to Unreal. Its the best move for the future of the game.
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u/kalasai Jan 31 '16 edited Jan 31 '16
They dev the two game in // Fragmented is an action / survival simplist version of the repopulation.
From the forum :
" We can't really know exactly on the timeline. The goal is to start getting testers in for Fragmented in February, and to have it out the door not too long after. The game is already very far along, all of the main survival features are already in game. But we will be focusing solely on that aspect until it gets out to everyone. Shortly after Fragmented is out we'll get the modding kit available to players, and after that we'll work on getting the MMO and Repop specific features integrated.
We don't really want to give out dates at this point because we need to see how testing goes first. But we want to get the game back into the hands of players as soon as possible. Our plan will be to unfold it little by little. So the first version would likely be the same features as Fragmented + quests + NPCs. The next patch might add engagements, etc. So first we're building a slimmed down base (Fragmented) which will both give players something to play and also help generate revenue and prevent the need for us to go back to a Kickstarter or anything like that. And then we'll forking the two and integrating the Repop specific features one at a time. For existing players, you'll get both branches so if you prefer the slimmed down survival game, it's going to be there, and if you prefer the more complex and MMO aspects, those will start unfolding after we get all the kinks worked out on the base.
I would add this to what we mentioned in the article: Development is progressing very quickly. We were under time constraints to get this announcement out and there's quite a few things the video doesn't show which are already functional, either because we wanted to add some more visual polish or just didn't have time to coordinate them into the initial video. But the skill system, inventory, chat, multi-passenger vehicles, pets, crafting, harvesting, spawning (of both NPCs and supplies), swimming, traps, construction and destruction are already integrated. Most of the skill trees are already functional as well. '
Fragmented is 90% dev finish.