Thread: UI and animation sync issues - Will 2.0 fix this?

Originally Posted by Mishakai

The reason is because the new architecture is different enough that is simply can't be dropped into 1.X, which is why we even have 2.0 in the first place. Trust me, if SE could have revamped everything w/o a complete rewrite, that would have been the route they took to fix the game from it's release state. Unfortunately, they bumped into so many issues with the gfx engine and it's extremely tight integration to the UI and other things that they were unable to do that with a live game.

They aren't revamping everything either. And after spending seven years working on the current game engine, they are not going to abandon it. It's a huge investment to create a new game engine from scratch. And what issues with the GFX engine are you referring to? Sounds like you are saying they hard coded the UI or something. The game passes all user interaction thru a lua interpreter. The UI is polled and updated 30 times a second. It's not part of the 3D rendered image.

You've been playing since Mar 2011. You tell me, have they made many substantial improvements to the game? Of course they have. They proven the existing game can be improved. So there is no reason for a rebuilt client/server engine.