Heya larian!
First of all thanks for bringing up new life to vanilla D2 with the new engine available for the whole game and not just for the expansion.
A few short questions:
- Stuttering - A lot of players (myself included) were being plagued by stuterring issues (v-sync issues or ocasional slowdowns even on very-high end machines). Is that finaly fixed on the new engine? was something you were aware while building the new engine?
- Performance optimizations with lower-end machines - D2 was no pearl in therms of playing it with lower-end machines. It seemed clear that the engine was not very well optimized for lower machines, was that taken into consideration while aplying the changes to the engine or since we'll have extra-eye-candy, it will be even worse?
- From the screenshots i can already see the smoke seems a lot better, will the destruction of "vases" and other destruction animations will be updated, as they were realy bad in the "old-engine" ?
- will we finaly get some fall damage?
- Does the new engine has a name?
- What was the priority in features on the new engine? - Lighthing / higher-res textures / shaders / shadows, etc.
I know its probably hard to answer and probably won't have any, but heck, i wanted to ask anyways.
Thanks all!
