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“I believe we’re going to do a Convoy Ambush from both sides, so you can be in the convoy, or you can set up an ambush.” “With the vehicles, we’re going to introduce a new mode,” Spearin says. Despite the new technological possibilities, Sandstorm will for the most part still keep its, erm, boots on the ground. Rather than plump for heavy tanks or helicopters, New World have stuck with lighter vehicles suited for transportation and fire support – machines that compliment the infantry game rather than replace it. “Especially on the story side of things – it’s basically like a road trip.” “It’s primarily infantry-focused close quarters, but with UE4 we’re able to expand the environment a lot, and that allows us to introduce vehicles,” Spearin explains. But with the move to Unreal Engine 4, the call of vehicles has proved too tempting to pass up. Traditionally, an infantry focus has been one of the things that distinguished Insurgency from its peers – particularly the careening, driving-on-two-wheels hedonism of Battlefield multiplayer.

“The speed, the amount you can do with lighting, in such a short time compared to Source, is amazing,” Spearin notes. In a contemporary engine like Unreal Engine 4, by contrast, it’s possible to spawn a player in a Sandstorm map and play it without leaving the editor, all while making changes on the fly. The Insurgency team became accustomed to waiting upwards of two hours for their PCs to become usable again – only to discover small errors, tweak the map, and begin the compiling process all over again.

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Like many developers working with the last generation of engines, they compared compiling to baking – not just because it’s the point where all the code and design rises into something you can enjoy, but because it used to take absolutely ages. “Our artists are pleased, our programmers are pleased, we’re all very happy.”īack when the Insurgency team relied on Hammer, the Source editor, they would meticulously block out a level using a brush tool, before compiling the map to see how it plays. “Working with Unreal is night and day versus working with the Source engine,” Spearin says. New World looked elsewhere and became early adopters of Unreal Engine 4. However, by the time development began on Sandstorm, Valve had long since moved away from licensing their tech to other developers.

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As part of the mod team that put together Insurgency for Half-Life 2, New World’s creative director Andrew Spearin worked with Valve’s Source engine for the best part of a decade.

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