Ray-Tracing? Physics? Open Zones?

[Sorimachi87]

Anything to the physics like hair and clothing, i assume needs a rewriting of the games engine which is most likely not going to happen anytime soon. I think Yoshi-P said we arent going to Directx 12 so thats probably not gonna happen either. Then again never say never... right?

[Taliriah]

Anything to the physics like hair and clothing, i assume needs a rewriting of the games engine which is most likely not going to happen anytime soon.

It already exists (things like floppy viera ears etc) but it seems that it doesn't update at a fixed rate independent from rendering (which is the "correct" way to do physics simulation in a game), so with a high enough framerate you don't notice it because it settles too fast. They can probably fix that without "rewriting the engine", but it may be a significant refactor (and probably not the kind of things that has a good chance of getting a very high development priority)