New engine live?

DTrain514
DTrain514 Posts: 26 Just Dropped In
edited 31 March 2025, 14:05 in MPQ General Discussion

They always said that we wouldn't really notice the new engine ideally, and now we have a new Deadpool daily background? Unless I'm just not remembering it from before.

Seems like an odd thing for them to update among the many other things.

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  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,497 Chairperson of the Boards

    I could be mis-remembering, but I'm pretty sure we already had this background in game from when Jeff was first introduced into the game along with some new event where you had to fight against a bunch of Jeff's

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,584 Chairperson of the Boards

    And answering the original question, no. The new engine isn't out yet.

  • DTrain514
    DTrain514 Posts: 26 Just Dropped In

    Wishful thinking perhaps

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,414 Chairperson of the Boards

    Yep, that's a leftover from the April Fools Jeff events. Since it's April Fools this week, it's probably on purpose!

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 139 Tile Toppler

    But there’s a chance it could be totally accidental 🤪

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 552 Critical Contributor

    Must be an april fool's thing coming up.

  • Zalasta
    Zalasta Posts: 307 Mover and Shaker

    I thought that they had committed to having the engine released in the first quarter.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,536 Chairperson of the Boards

    I’m guessing we may have to reinstall when the engine changes; or else the installer will do that in the background, but it’s going to necessitate that amount of data coming and going from your phone. You’ll notice when it happens I’m confident

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,739 Chairperson of the Boards

    The new engine would require a 2gb+ update. We haven't seen that yet.
    No new engine and we enter Q2.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,584 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Zalasta said:
    I thought that they had committed to having the engine released in the first quarter.

    From the last update I found, a post on Feb 7 (https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/91581/mpq-2025-dev-update-2/p1) it mentions if all went well, it would be a couple of months. I don't think they actually committed to a date, but could be wrong.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,414 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Zalasta said:
    I thought that they had committed to having the engine released in the first quarter.

    They did say we wouldn't notice, right?!

    (OMG we will absolutely notice, so much stuff is gonna break I can't wait)

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,584 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Zalasta said:
    I thought that they had committed to having the engine released in the first quarter.

    They did say we wouldn't notice, right?!

    (OMG we will absolutely notice, so much stuff is gonna break I can't wait)

    Agreed. I think it is clear that the devs know the new engine is a turning point one way or another. The game could implode and end within months or it is going to rejuvenate and the game thrives for another ten years. I don't think there really is a middle ground at this point.

  • ThisisClemFandango
    ThisisClemFandango Posts: 973 Critical Contributor

    I find your lack of faith disturbing.
    Bcs have demonstrated time and time again what a crack squad they are.
    The new engine is gonna be so damn good it will make us all applaud in admiration.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,414 Chairperson of the Boards

    @LavaManLee said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Zalasta said:
    I thought that they had committed to having the engine released in the first quarter.

    They did say we wouldn't notice, right?!

    (OMG we will absolutely notice, so much stuff is gonna break I can't wait)

    Agreed. I think it is clear that the devs know the new engine is a turning point one way or another. The game could implode and end within months or it is going to rejuvenate and the game thrives for another ten years. I don't think there really is a middle ground at this point.

    Nah, they've put way too much into this project to let the game die after a few months.

    Again you sort of have to read into what they've said, and have some context from very old statements they've made, but I believe the actual goal of this rebuild is not gameplay or feature related at all.

    Currently the game requires a frankly insane amount of day to day manual handholding from their team -- all the events, rewards, and offers are populated by an actual person. Why this hasn't been scripted and automated for 11 years is beyond me, but it apparently has to do with the nonsense pile of jank code that the previous developers built.

    So moving off of that model to one that's automated is a big win for them, in that they can either run a smaller team or reinvest that labor into other stuff. It's at worst neutral for us -- I don't particularly care how new events or offers get populated, and hey, maybe we get new features.

    There will be a bunch of bug fixing to do though. Doing a ground up rebuild of something this old and weird is not easy at all and stuff is absolutely going to get missed.

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 139 Tile Toppler

    Maybe that’s why the new engine’s development is taking so long? It’s hardly motivational to be working on something that going to get yourself or large swathes of your team made redundant…

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