In the game “Helldivers 2”, you may encounter 100 inexplicable ways to die. In addition to 80% of them coming from friendly forces, a few inexplicable bugs will also kill soldiers. For the Arrowhead Games team, Said that the dilemma of fixing bugs and server problems currently points to the Stingray engine – the engine has stopped updating in 2018.
According to player sharing, some players encountered an inexplicable situation of dying as soon as they left the mission during multiplayer games. Players would not come out of the landing pod, but died as soon as they landed. Although it is generally speculated that the landing point of the friendly landing pod is too high. It’s due to close proximity, but without Replay confirmation, there’s really no explanation. It can only be attributed to some kind of bug.
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However, in addition to facing the dilemma of too many players to overcrowd the server, the game “Battlefield 2” does still have many bugs, which makes the update and repair work even worse. “Vesper” developer Andy Touch discovered that “Battlefield 2” The development engine of “Soldiers 2” is a Stingray engine that has stopped being sold and updated in 2018.
The Stingray engine was formerly Bitsquid, developed by Swedish developer Fatshark. In the past, the engine has launched the “Warhammer: Vermintide” series, and also included the first generation of “Jedi Warriors”.
Hold up, Helldivers 2 was made with Autodesk’s Stingray engine?! pic.twitter.com/3LBBEIGyMg
— Andy Touch (@andytouch) February 19, 2024
In 2014, 3ds Max developer Autodesk acquired Bitsquid and renamed it Autodesk Stingray. However, the Stingray engine Sales and development stopped in January 2018there has been no official support for the past 6 years.
Therefore, overseas developers discovered that “Battlefield 2” was originally developed using the Stingray engine. Of course, even the discontinued engine may still create a successful product. After all, the performance of “Battlefield 2” exceeded many people’s expectations. , which also surprised Arrowhead. They did not expect that the second generation would attract so many people.
This news was confirmed by the CEO of Arrowhead, confirming that “Battlefield 2” is indeed developed using the Stingray engine. Because of this, Arrowhead’s engineers are currently fixing the game without update support from the engine developer.
Although the game cannot be logged in, the number of simultaneous online users of “Battlefield 2” has not plummeted recently, and it has set a new record on Steam. 457,000 people online at the same timeresults, and officials also confirmed that it will soon beImplemented the function of hanging up the network and kicking people offline。
This is true. Our crazy engineers had to do everything, with no support to build the game to parity with other engines.
And yes. The project started before it was discontinued.
— Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) February 21, 2024
Therefore, players who want to join “Jedi Warriors 2” to participate in democratic delivery with friends can wait a while before jumping into the trap.
