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Will 343 continue using a version of Bungie's engine?

by uberfoop @, Seattle-ish, Wednesday, April 03, 2013, 00:43 (4013 days ago) @ car15

Isn't the Destiny engine completely new?

Hard to say. I mean, even if you know exactly how the development has been going, how do you classify something as a "new engine?" How much does someone have to leverage source code from a previous engine for the current engine to be or not be a "new" engine?

That said, it's at least probably different enough from Reach's engine that most people would consider it new. For instance, it's fairly certain that the lighting model is going to be quite different, and it's also very likely that there will be huge differences on the network engineering side due to it being a very coop-centric game. There's also been talk about efficient large-scale occlusion handling and such...
Bungie will doubtless have done plenty of Bungie engine work. They've just about always done it between major releases.


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