Yep. I've brought up the question numerous times about Unreal 3 vs Unreal 4. Apparently we're using a hugely modified version of Unreal 3 now - to the point where moving to Unreal 4 just doesn't seem realistic. Most of the things we'd want from Unreal 4 we've already created ourselves at this point anyway!

I do know though that the project is currently running DirectX 11.

Edit: I think an example of where we've drastically improved beyond just Unreal 3 is the lighting. CCP Android works on this stuff a great deal. I'll try to get him to chime in with some details later.

Does the 3rd link down work for anyone else, it says im banned from twitch when i am of course not lol

Just so people understand:
An Engine is a set of tools, those tools can be modified or rewritten completely, in the end you can have a game with the "UE3" engine logo, but it ends up looking better than any UE4 game, just that it takes a lot of time to implement those features when you can just get UE4.

CCP have already invested heavily into UE3 to the point where UE4 doesn't offer them that much more.

Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to compile this, Kovinis! I've just got home and had a 16 hour sleep (The Fanfest trip was physically and emotionally exhausting) but am anxious to start sifting through all that I've missed on the interwebs, as painful as I know its going to be. Most of my time in Iceland was spent yelling at people in person, and I only had an ipad so it was tough to catch up on the online side of the crisis. I'm still just reeling at how badly CCP messed up their attempts to talk about how they were transforming Dust into the game we've always wanted it to be.

I know there's even more information to be compiled and linked (like all of the CCP responses / official statements / clarifications in one place, unless someone else has done this already. If someone has, I'd love to get a link to that too.) This is going to be one of my focuses here over the next few days. Making sure its all documented and that we get the community all the answers they were owed from the very beginning.

We are running on a heavily modified UE3 engine. Heavily modified means that we have taken almost all parts of it and extended or changed them. Take our lighting for example, we have completely moved to fully dynamic lighting that supports bounce lighting. Take a look at a presentation one of our programmers did a few years ago on our lighting. The presentation is a little old, but the key concepts are still the same.

http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2012/CCP/Malan-Dust_514_GI_reflections(Siggraph2012).pptx

This technology has been in active development since then and is getting very advanced (IGÇÖll see if I can get CCP Photon to do a devblog on the current state of it and where we intend to take since it)

We are also using a few very impressive middleware technologies. That means that we get code from companies that are experts in a certain technology and integrate it into our game. The NVIDIA PhysX middleware is a good example. It contains things like advanced particles, advanced physics and GǪ yes destruction. So the reason we are not doing destruction right now is not that our engine does not support it, but rather its not our focus right now.

What engine is chosen at the beginning of development should be thought of more as a starting point for a game rather than a box that the game is developed in.

CCP uploaded some more Videos from Fanfest on their Youtube Channel. If you have the time and watch all of them, you can get a general feel for what CCP envisions for the future. Which is naturally relevant for Dust in the long run too. Some videos that every Dustie should see.

OVERALL CCP DIRECTION (their idea of "EVE united" gives the impression that we may be playing all three games with one subscription. Would be pretty nice, though P2P)

EVE ONLINE DIRECTION (I think especially in the end there is relevant information, with the "new spaces")

MORE SAND IN THE BOX FOR DUST Q&A

I hope they release the "Dust Progression Panel" too. There was some interesting stuff there. Sorry if there is anything already in the Original Post. I think there are mostly press ressources. Didnt check them all though.

And you forgot this one, i nickaned that article on CCP love for their playerbase

there is now a dedicated legion forum. It wouldn't hurt to copy this thread into there.

Have you guys put together yet that making **** shiny and gleaming does not make it look good? That dark maps are fine, so long as the players have some control to be able to see, that glare DOES NOT give a sense of immersion and that it only makes your players ******* annoyed?

Trying to battle enemies with the sun at their backs is tough, but a valid tactic nonetheless.

Agree that growing the sandbox is 10x more important than artistic polishing...