From what I understand, reforger is the engine port for Arma 4. I’m going based on what someone reviewing it posted on YT 5 days ago. It looks pretty amazing. The before and after between it and Arma 3 are night and day different. I believe it’s a new engine based on how it looks and behaves and the fact the vehicles aren’t as volatile as bitcoins.
So what I came to this site to look for in the forums or blogs or whatever was what the timeline or plan would be for a port to this Reforger/Arma 4 engine. What’s not clear is how much of DayZ is still based on the Arma 2 engine. Like, it would be awesome to know how much of an abstraction there is between the game logic and the engine. It would be awesome to know if there are plans to port to the new engine that doesn’t have issues rendering shadows and grass and objects miles away or if they plan to save that for like DayZ 2 for instance. When they took it from a mod to its own game, i wonder how much that decision was around pushing the edits into the core game code and engine and such. If so, porting it to a new engine could take quite a while.
So what I’m also pointing out is that BI made Arma, not DayZ guys, so they drive the engine features, not the other way around. I would expect all these features from an Arma title and then a plan from the offshoots to adopt them as they evolve. That said, it could also be that the devs on DayZ’s side are just cherry picking code out of that main project or that the forks are wildly different because maybe the abstraction between “engine” and “game” wasn’t very clearly defined from the beginning so a port might be a huge lift.
just my 2 cents. Would be amazed to hear dev feedback on this. Feel like it’s a reasonable ask from a reasonable person, but of course I’m biased. ;)
