Garry's Mod 2

01-02-2019, 03:33 AM

lechn Wrote: I'm really really hoping this allows as much craziergame mode ideas to spawn, the current limitations on gmod are hurting game mode and map development.

There are heavy downsides to this decision by Facepunch:

• UE4 requires a more powerful PC than Source. Tons of people play GMOD on their laptops but those same laptops aren't likely going to be able to handle UE4 titles.
  
• UE4 doesn't natively support Lua so almost all mods and maps that already exist will have to be ported over to C# to work with UE4.
  
• Servers may need to have more resources (storage and memory) to accomplish the same server mechanics that we all expect these days.
  
• The communities will get even more split on issues regarding GMOD versus S&box which could turn off potential newcomers.
  
• Licensing with Epic Games is definitely not going to be like licensing with Valve; I don't know the relationship between Facepunch and Valve as a result of this decision.
  

There are some upsides to this decision however:

• UE4 supports more up-to-date APIs such as Vulkan and DirectX 12 than Source.
  
• Even though Lua is faster on average than C#, there's more things you can accomplish with C# than with Lua.
  
• UE4 makes it easier to port games over towards console players than with Source.
  
• UE4 is open source (I've made a thread on this already).
  

I can think of more negatives than positives with S&box, but I can't say for certain if any of those negatives are warranted until the final product is released.