Long time ago on the forums, I saw someone criticizing CCP for using Unreal as it's DUST engine. Their point was that the Unreal engine was old and had been surpassed.

I purchased X-Com: Enemy Unknown on the day it was released and was pleasantly surprised to see Unreal as the engine of that game.

I'm guessing that CCP knows a thing or two.

Knows... that it's cheaper then building their own?

Do you really want them distracted by building thier own engine?

Or do you mean that was the only alternative to the Unreal engine?

X-Com is a good game.

Unreal engine 3 is great. If you want to make games with it too, You should follow my video tutorials I'm making in a few months. It's graphics are limiting only by the platform you are putting the game on. Remember dust has a terrible texture loading issue that makes it look like a ps2/ps1 game. It will be fixed. To test this fix stare at an ugly gray crate on any map. Make sure it looks super ugly. Then wait 2 minutes, don't look away.

TADA, high res textures suddenly appear!

Point is it's awesome and you should make games with it too. : )

Textures taking ages too load = proof of awsomeness?

The way Unreal Engine handles textures is one of the worst aspect about it, simply because of the pop-in. No point of having hi res textures if you can't even see them most of the time.

The main issue is that Unreal Engine 3 generally performs quite poorly on PS3. But we're way too far into development now to make any fundamental engine changes (not to mention the whole licensing situation). It could change if Dust is developed on PS4 or other next gen consoles in the future (or even PC) but for now we'll just have to make do.

Dust is not going ti be 'developed' for ps4 as its basically going to be a direct transfer. (Buy ps4, download dust client, input details, pick up from where you left off on ps3)
They are probably aware that unreal 3 doesn't perform to its maximum potential on ps3 due to the fact ps4 will be out within two years, so when ps4 is released......unreal 3 will run max performance.
They planned ahead is all, very smart thinking on ccp's part I say.

I've always hated the Unreal engine, there was just too many incredibly bad games made with it in early PS3 years that tarnished and made the console look bad in comparison to the 360. It used to be a tell that the game was garbage (if it was on PS3).

They would have done good to use something like the Havok engine, which is proven to work extremely well on the PS3. The Unreal engine just doesn't seem to play well with the PS3 architecture. My guess is that before Sony bought the exclusivity, the 360 was the main focus and thus the Unreal engine would have performed admirably, while us PS3 users would have gotten the shaft, as like the olden days...

Consoles in general wasn't a main focus back then ... it was a goal, but not the focus. PC gaming is still relevant, but now a days, console gaming is larger, that's why I'm sure Epic will be working much more closely with Sony, Microsoft, etc to make UE4 work as best as possible

Long time ago on the forums, I saw someone criticizing CCP for using Unreal as it's DUST engine. Their point was that the Unreal engine was old and had been surpassed.

I purchased X-Com: Enemy Unknown on the day it was released and was pleasantly surprised to see Unreal as the engine of that game.

It seems that CCP knows a thing or two.

and still ******* fail. 128 players in this game and im still waiting.

The sad thing is that Unreal allows limited building destruction.

I mean, who wouldn't want to destroy towers and bridges and watch everything collapse?

Correct me if I am wrong.