Obviously the lack of it mean't that the artists were essentially working in the dark on top of being told to simply upload created assets to a blank project server.ДЄdditional problems added with the update. Level streaming is also used for artists to see their assets in work so that they can get a better grasp of what is going on and how they can improve future assets. For a studio that stated they had worked on Oath for 2 years before going into kick starter it'sвЂ¦ Surprising to say the least that Level streaming isn't present. вЂ“ Unreal Engine 4 Documention This is a feature that is absolutely necessary in a game of Oath's desired scale and must be present from day one. This makes it possible to have worlds broken up into smaller chunks so that only the relevant parts of the world are taking up resources and being rendered at any point. вЂ“ The Level Streaming feature makes it possible to load and unload map files into memory as well as toggle their visibility during play. In my opinion, this is an extreme red flag as it looks glaringly obvious that 'Extrinsic Studio' is nothing more than a proxy for Ready Up Studios should shit hit the fan. вЂ“ There is another company operating at the same address as 'Ready Up Studios' (the devs), by the name of 'Extrinsic Studio' and when contacted, answer on behalf of Ready Up Studios. Did they need to make trees? Were the trees supposed to be chopped down? Do they randomly spawn? Considering how integral a mechanic like housing would be to a game and it's art, you'd think they'd have it all planned out and would inform their artists. The artists were puzzled as they were never detailed about how the housing even worked. вЂ“ Critical information that the artists were lacking gave a very telling sign as to the stage of development and how planned the devs were (or more, how little they planned.) An example would be when the artists were given instructions to simply 'leave alot of flat land so players can build houses'. Read: Is there a point to play coop online multiplayer game/mmo if I have zero friend?

When the devs did provide the character parameters, they were not even hooked up to a working model which from artists knowledge, takes at most 5 minutes to do (they did it themselves btw).

Things like run speed, jump height, model sizes and what not that were needed to determine appropriate collisions and heights for things like fences and boxes. вЂ“ The devs at Oath were very hesitant with providing very necessary information to the artists namely something as basic as the parameters of the character models that would be used. The artist even goes to say something along the lines of 'LikeвЂ¦ wot? There's no kind of story? no kind of lore to this area? What kind of mmorpg is this? Is this a leveling area? The starting zone?' At some point, the artists were given the vague instructions 'Just pick one of the grass areas on any of the islands and start from there I guess.' as design notes from the devs for the an area they were meant to create. вЂ“ The devs at Oath showed a lack of understanding of even creating their game. вЂ“ The devs at Oath actually hired ANOTHER art team in attempt to continue progress on their game whilst blatantly evading paying their original artists. вЂ“ The devs at Oath basically commissioned an art studio for art, didn't pay the studio for said art on false allegations of plagiarism and continued to defame the art studio while using 6 grand worth of assets they never paid for. I haven't watched the entire video at the time of posting it since it's quite long but from what I've garnered (and you can find out yourself from watching it as well) is that: I was personally looking forward to Oath quite a bit too since it looked like it had all the right mechanics from Dragon Nest that I really enjoyed. I'm surprised it wasn't posted sooner on here.

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