But it says dynamic lighting in the blogpost: "As you can see, our dynamic lighting capabilities are much improved in the new engine, allowing for softer transitions and more striking colors during the day."
@@Zol_1312idk at this point I’m not confident that the elder scrolls VI will deliver. Good luck living up to Skyrim with modern Bethesda at the wheel.
I was so hyped for this game when they first showcased it. However unfortunately just because of the time waited the original trailer and attention is not going to return the same and people who are not following along nor care about game development or understand it, are going to follow this pattern: - Find out Hytale is releasing/has released. - Watch/Play/Stream the game. - Immediately judge it asking why did it take them so many years to produce what we saw in the trailer. - Focus on every little (or big) flaw/s of the game. - Bore of it, get mad with it and stop Playing/Watching/Streaming. The long wait HAS to pay of hugely with very little bugs and issues to save the game from the sinking period of years they have been developing this. Or it'll be a Cubeworld 2.0.
@@mistplayzop Brother don't compare this to Cubeworld. The dev behind that actually just made a horrible game that felt nothing like the prototype version people fell in love with. They already had a great established foundation, but decided to ruin it by making the player be stuck in a designated area if they wanted to progress. It was a case of betraying the expectations of the community.
@@mistplayzop I agree that it‘s scary to think that all the wait will have been for nothing, but that’s always a possibility, so far Hytale development seems promising.
I think it's cool that Hytale is gonna be a place people can make money for their creations but also I kind of don't love that. Java Minecraft Modding is done for free, Which means anyone can play with anything. Paid Mods just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, It's part of why I think Bedrock is so shit. I'm not against people making money, I think stuff like tips and patreons and such are good, but turning modding, or creation period, into a profit driven concept worries me slightly. All these references to Roblox as if Roblox isn't running an extremely predatory business model, I dunno if we should want something like that.
I'm sure most people are okay with creators making money for their quality mods and such, but it's actually such a slippery slope. There's a very likely possibility for something like that to devolve into people making low-quality stuff only for profit, instead of people making nice stuff because they like the game and getting rewarded for that. Minecraft mods are good because people make them out of passion for the game, not because they'll get money out of it. And those passionate people can easily be ran over by greedy people trying to make a quick buck, whenever there's an official marketplace in the game.
I totally understand you, that for a server hosted for friends, it kinda sucks to pay for mods (or server plugins), but as a developer myself, spending a lot of time developing something, might not be as motivational without being paid for it. I do, btw, think it's more motivating to get donations, rather than require a fixed amount of money, as donations truely means that people like the project, and doesn't pay because they have to hopefully, the best tools being developed for Hytale will be free, and accept donations thru Patreon, Paypal or any of other donation services, but I want the developers to not make it free if donations doesn't work out for their projects, as the time a developer spends developing, is in fact extremely valuable. a developer working for a company may have far better income than an average person, while developing stuff for a game may be the worst possible income they've ever had, even if it's a full-time project while not having a job sure, some developers don't care about writing code completely for free, I've done it myself, but in my case, I wrote cheat scripts for bad, text-based web-games, starting to write the code the minute I get bored by the game, just to make it "fun" again, then starting to share the code to a limited set of people, just in case there's a cheat detection within those games. never been detected, tho, I've even written a crazy cheat script for the web based Cookie Clicker, which doesn't trigger the "cheater" achievement, free script at Greasyfork, btw
Damn, every time i look at Hytale artstyle i just can't understand it. It is so complicated, like the devs specifically made it so in order for people to try harder to replicate it😂 I remember trying to make my own Hytale-styled model, i almost broke my brain xd
it reminds me of a lot of the older minecraft texture packs from back in the day. i dont recall the names really since its been over a decade but it is very reminiscent of that to me
The more detailed art style of Hytale will probably make it harder for builders to be creative in using specific blocks for non intended purposes like for example in Minecraft, you can blend different blocks that are supposed to be different materials and make them visually cohesive to one another. The mostly accurate texture and detail that Hytale blocks have will make block mixing tricky.
It seems just if you took the art style WoW, Hearthstone or HoTS has, and applied it to a Minecraft theme. Not to say that itself isn't complicated, it definitely is.
Keep in mind some of these assets are placeholder and all this is work in progress. From what they have shown, this engine upgrade will allow a great amount of improvement in most aspects of the game. I'm Hypetaled
@@halothreekiller It's a sandbox game, the game is made to be able to be rapidly expanded in content via mods. The whole purpose of the engine rewrite was to make sure they don't fail in that goal from the very release, by having a stable foundation.
@@halothreekiller ...how? it's a sandbox game with insane modding potential and a community that'll be HUGE on launch and just grow from there. the base game is full of stuff too just by itself it has about the same replay ability as minecraft
I've been waiting since the original announcement, and I'm one of the people still excited for this to come out at any point! I did get deep into Terraria in the meanwhile though lol
I'm not because we were promised Minecraft 2 and instead are going to be getting Roblox 2. I predicted the game would turn to shit the instant Riot/Tencent bought them and lo and behold I'm absolutely correct
@@WatsonDynamite It didn't really change from what it was at the beginning tho. Everything they promised then is still being worked on. People just want reasons to be mad
Yes. They've been saying the game's release is just around the corner since day one. They refused to admit that the game is nowhere near release and that essentially everything they've ever shown will never be released to the public.
@@bigdaddynero yeah I hope riot is able to weasel themselves out of this little mistake they’ve made and move past it. Poor guys got led on by false promises and poor investments.
better buy it on a single platform to see if you actually like it, and be happy to either save your money for the rest of the platforms if you don't like it, or be happy supporting the long development time by buying for all platforms if you like it. don't buy just because you can, buy because you like what you buy, and want to support it in that case, and rather spend the rest of the money on something else you want/need
It didn’t surprise me positively tho. 6 years since announcement and what felt like ages since the last update, all we get to see is still them walking around like a game tech demo. We have yet to see actual gameplay, I repeat, 6 years since announcement and it still looks like we went backwards.
Why do y'all act like this? If you followed the blog or actually watched the video you'd know that they rewrote their engine from scratch then started reimplementing everything they already add in the new engine and this is what they're showing us rn (along with stuff that's possible using the new engine). Do you think you could make a game like this in this time?
@@ZedDevStuff Im aware of all that, by the way. Still, them saying that over a hundred content creators have already played the game behind the scenes, I would assume that after 6 years, they probably must have a little more to show, at least more than decrease in quality of footage we have seen 6 years ago. While I have understanding of the situation, I can still now speak of being "positively surprised" at all. This is no progress in the overall state of the game as we've seen it, after all. Progress for their development situation, absolutely. But no kind of "new footage" to get excited about. Rather, it looks like there won't be no playable public release within the next two years still. Which Is simply a frustrating situation to be in, considering we have seen nothing of actual gameplay - as how it plays first hand, when their former goal was so have a beta in 2019. Saying this was a pure miscalculation triggered by wrong expectations of how the trailer will was received, would be an understatement.
They worked so long just to say "nah we're scarping everything" I just can't understand so much work and they just threw it out of the window and now a handful of people is actually waiting because everyone else forget it's being worked on
@@ZedDevStuff They rewrote because of console/mobile. That's a big negative. Mobile especially is very limiting in power/capabilities. They have spent over 5 years changing their minds and making no perceivable progress.
Ngl though, the visuals already look dated. I get that it's a style, but it leaves a lot to be desired...especially the stained glass windows and fireplace.
@@PlasmaWarrior. Yeah... but not much here looks good, it's very low detail... flat, just... flat. Pun intended. Having said that, I am completely on board if combat is good and there is plenty to do in the game(unlike minecraft).
I love your excitement about hytale! never giving up hope! I'm also just as hype, I signed up to be a beta tester all those years ago, maybe maybe maybe
I want hytale to do something to let everyone like the game for example making more realistic cooking imagine a team of 5 for example 2of them makes a potion and the other 3 of them goes on an adventure to get suplies for the recipe this will bring people who loves cooking games and people who loves going on exciting adventures together that's just an example imagine more and more things like that
Well based on the wording, this is definitely the FINAL development year. Which means Hytale is probably slated to launch summer 2026. I knew it was optimistic to hope for Summer 2025, but honestly, it's on the horizon.
I bet they're just on point where they wanted to be, based on their summer 2023 update, as they wanted it to be playable, if I remember it correctly, which doesn't mean alpha or beta release, but as a version that can be running the game, potentially with game-braking bugs. let's just hope the testing team doesn't really find a lot of major bugs, as that might delay the official release even more than currently expected. I'll expect major bugs in the testing, but that's mostly because I'm a developer, and I know there's a big chance of finding the bugs when it's the least expected time. developers even have a rule of thumb, where major updates shouldn't be released right before the weekend, even if it's tested internally for bugs, just because there's a chance of bugs being discovered by users just an hour after releasing the update. for a developer, that means they have to fix before they're done working for the weekend
@@doriantermini the difference now being their economical support by Riot Games, and now gearing up for 3rd party playtesting, which actually makes it reasonable to say it this time. at current state, I would bet the game to be ready for purchase in 2026-2028, leaning more towards 2027
@@lassebrustad much as it would be nice for stuff to happen sooner its better to have them be well set up Gmod would never be what it is now if they botched its early days
Seeing a comparison between the old and new engine, I can't reasonably say much but it *feels* nicer to look at, might even be a style difference since it's been a few years. But I hope it means something about their progress that it feels the way it seems.
engine tweaks do a lot of heavy lifting for example when triple games changed to poor ones it really showed so its far better to slightly notice a shift then watch a game blow up your pc for nothing
I dunno, a lot of it could just be texture changes, like using a texture pack for Minecraft. Even things like lighting/shadows don't require an engine change; we can see that with shaders Minecraft. A surprising vast assortment of games are available on Unity or UE that look completely different from each other despite using the same engine. The way graphics are rendered are the main thing engines do visually. The engines largely are the determining factor in what a game is capable of. Whether it is developed to take advantage of those capabilities is another story entirely. And if they actually did redo the engine for the sake of console/mobile (what they claimed back in 2021), then those capabilities could end up being very restricted for PC, because of how limiting mobile is in particular.
Truly I hope that the lack of characteristic visual aspects of the legacy engine is because they focused on the gameplay and stuff that will support modding the game in the future. Because if it was that long in development there's certainly no reason why bloom, volumetrics and fire asset (as an example) are missing. The lighting in the new engine looks way worse in comparison (with the video that showed the rain atmosphere - basically the reason I got into engine development as I want to make something similar myself), and as a bit of a graphics programmer myself I see no reason why is that the case. Especially that those are some of the effect, that while not trivial to implement, definitely were already researched and porting them even across a different programming language should not put that much of a strain. Shaders are commonly written in separate languages like GLSL or HLSL, and they are not that hard to port as they operate on similar basis. That being said, I hope that this is a sign of them putting much more consideration into more aspects of the new engine, I can't wait for the final breakdown, but to be honest that's not a impressive jump in the sense technical graphics improvement, I hope they are holding stuff back from us.
Oddly seeing such little assets in this really makes this feel concrete and no longer conceptual and nebulous. I think I can finally feel excited now. I mean I've been a believer day 1 and following very closely but I still have moments of "what if this is an elaborate illusion" Now I'm excited for what hytale does, but really I'm excited for the culture surrounding it. Will it be like an mmo boom of years gone? I just can't see hytale going uncontested. Very. Excited for all of the art that comes from this.
Soooo after all these years i see nothin in this "trailer" which Minecraft using a Shader and some 64x Texture Pack cant delivery longer than Hytale "exists"
I felt like that was too colorful but in a good way, actually you will be probably able to configurer saturation. And in general I think that was a really cool and Comforting blog post
I kinda wish they would keep the old engine and look as like a separate or optional shader. The OG hytale look is nothing short of its own nostalgia and there's just something special about the way it looks and feels
I'm loving the updates as usual, but I've been noticing a bit of a "doom-posting" vibe from people waiting, I understand why they think this way, but I have to ask these people one thing. Would you want a game that is ready when the players want it, but it's unfinished and buggy? *OR* Do you want the game to be feature-complete & polished when it eventually comes out? Because you can't have it both ways.
10 years in development, 6 years since the project was announced. i've been following the development closely the whole time. all i have to say: see you in another 3 years
@@jem And I've got 3 things: changed engine mid-way, studio size increased massivly & we don't owe them anything (because we haven't given them money) look, if you don't like that it's taking this long and you're not interested in buying/playing the game when it comes out, that's fine, but don't complain like some mf from Twitter
Do you know if the game will be feature-complete and polished? And do you know if the game will be feature-complete and polished *compared to the cumulative expectations of 6+ years in development?* That's the issue. That's why people are doom-posting. It's a very risky move, because now the launch will be a monumental event that needs to be flawless.
Some feedback to however is managing the blog posts over there: Putting the technical explainer out after the main blog post would be better so you don't wind up frustrating people who are waiting for bigger news and only get something super niche that most aren't likely to have an interest in. I like the technical explainers and they still manage to pull the wind out of my sails in the current order, better have them as a cherry on top.
I've finished 2 years of college, finished 3 years of university + graduated, started a family business, got my first car 😂😂 so much shit has happened, I can't wait any longerrr😭 they're gonna say end of 2025 just like every year😢
I’ve been looking forward to this game since the initial trailer in 2018, when I was wrapping up my college years. Now I’m working and have my life together. I’m still waiting for it, but I really hope it lives up to the hype. There’s nothing more annoying than a game being revealed too soon, only to be a disappointment or just okay.
I’m so excited for this game, but I’m worried that by the time it releases, I’ll be at a different place in my life where I won’t be able to enjoy it as much as I could now 😪
@ranjitsharma5811 there's prolly not even a height changing in hytale like every player character needs to be the same or the balancing in pvp will be tedious
One of the most important things that gave Minecraft its longevity aside from general mods was the advanced shader support. With this new engine, does this mean that Hytale will also be able to end up looking as good one day down the line? With modded shaders and graphics?
I'm thinking we will have some sort of public beta or alpha at the least in 2025, and I think an actual full release would be 2026, unless they are much more ahead than what I've gathered 👀
Nope not yet. This isn't the kind of updates you'd hear if they're that close to release. It just means steady progress. It still a good thing of course.
ngl i just wonder if maybe there will be npc that u could build a house for to move in just like in terraria. it would be cool to be able to build ur own town in single player with npc u can actually interact with cuz i always loved an idea of being able to make and slowly expand ur town.
Feels like half the commenters here didn't even watch the video, and just want to make jokes about how games take a long time to develop. This is amazing news. This blog post is really big.
It's weird that this new clip looks more like an older version of the game and the old clip looks like a newer version lol, let's see how things turn out next year though.
@@lunarknight3597 ??? You do know what happened, right? They're showing the early stages of them making use of the new engine they spent years building. Your theory makes no sense, because they would just show us more pre-rendered footage, instead of this. They know it looks worse. It's half-finished, by comparison.
Man, there are too many people whining in these comments. This development team is one of few that has such a healthy approach to making their game. They don't jump the gun for easy money, but spend their time, even halting completely to properly create the game they want. With the more I see of their development strategy, the more I appreciate it. For the people in charge to see the ginormous interest in the game and yet not succumb to their greed, instead seeing that objectively their game wasn't ready to support that level of attention long-term, is greatly impressive. Maybe they'll lose a bit of momentum at the start, but with this approach I think the game will ultimately succeed in the long run.
It seems like asset porting and creation will probably really speed up now I have a good feeling in me bones (heh) for the beta to drop some time next year
Yeah. It may be because im a Gd player and im used to wait, but honestly Geometry Dash's update after 6 years turned out to be one of the best videogames ive ever played So yeah, im more than ok waiting for a videogame to be cooked nicely
"They don't jump the gun for easy money" even though they changed their game from Minecraft 2 to Roblox 2 specifically for the purpose of bringing their chinese overlords Riot/Tencent that extra buck 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you people are so delulu it's CRAZY
It depends on the weapons I think. Every weapon has different attacks and I think something smaller l I'm e daggers has basic but fast patterns but a dash attack and larger weapons like hammers maces has full directional swing that heavily effects knock back. And charged extra strong attacks So some what?
same, i'm 23, now i have to think about how i will pay for my house, car and family, the game seems worse than it was in the first trailer, whoever made the decision to change engine needs to be fired.
They are loosing the target audience after 6 years of blue balling us. Who could have seen that coming? In that time I had several girlfriends, finished school, started studying at a university and im in my last year now.
@@muslimann7483Seems like you were busy with your life to be waiting for the game to come out, keep it that way until the game comes out and stop whining
@@tigre2azul oh wow The game looks worse than the very carefully set up and scripted trailer? What a *huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge* surprise The game looks just fine, they shifted their marketing direction and are now showing behind the curtain more
@@theblackspark2644 Game devs should stop advertising products to consumers half a decade before even a simple taste test manifests then. It's not the consumers' job to know the inner workings, we're the economic incentive. Deliver on promises or don't bemoan people complaining about wait times
i notice the "shield" in Hytale doesn't fully resist damage, but it makes you take less damage. this is honestly what Minecraft should do. the shield should make you take reduced damage. maybe 25% less damage at base. and then with enchants that could maybe increase to a max of like 75% damage reduction
Shields reducing damage won't work pvp-wise. Imagine this... I'm about to strike my opponent and my opponent is about to strike me. My options are: 1. I strike, my opponent strikes = we both deal equal damage to each other. Fair outcome, nobody is more hurt than the other. 2. I block, my opponent strikes = I deal zero damage to my opponent by my opponent deals some damage to me. I lose that attack encounter, because I got hurt and my opponent didn't. So choosing to block is always the worse decision over just choosing to strike. I could see a potential solution in that perhaps shields could stun an opponent who hit it, but I feel that leads to way more problems down the line.
I hope this game will have shaders because right now I think it looks pretty muddy and boring, to not say ulgy , just like minecraft. A bit more saturation and better lightning would make this game looks so much better and I think that with new technologies it could still perform nicely
I had just entered middle school, I graduated high school, took a gap year, and now I'm in the middle of my third year of university. The fact that torches' flames are just now stopped being static PNGs without even particles is beyond me
Hytale will be the last one ~ summer 2028 Half-life 3 - spring 2028 Riot's MMO - hiding in the shadow realm The elder scrolls VI - mid 2026 Silksong - summer 2025 :)
Minecraft shaders and mods need to be available for Hytale and other similar games, such as Vintage Story. Nothing seems to compare to Minecraft shaders when it comes to graphics or mods for customized gameplay for these type of games and that's pretty much why Minecraft is still played, despite how bad it is when it comes to block building shapes, having only stairs as roofs for example or that you can't build with smaller sizes of all building items so that you don't need to build a massive house to look detailed because you can use smaller ones in less space, that way trees would also look more real life while still being blocky, but right now they feel...too blockly, at least for me.
Just leaving my hope and understanding for the games time here beacause here's to much negativity (I mean how many games have been unpolished in the last years just because they were launched to early? Please stop the whining guys and yes Im also a young adult who wAS sO yOUNG bACK tHEN)
This comment is unbelievably dumb. Yeah, no shit they could've made door animations in the last 8 years. They already did. If there aren't any ready right now, it's because they haven't remade/reimplemented them, after they spent the last 2 years completely remaking the entire code the game is built on.
I think a lot of the nature colors look a bit like a brainrot fortnite reel. Bit too intense. If they keep that look i'd probably make a more toned down and more moody resource pack.
The team told me to clarify that they meant "static lighting" not dynamic lighting
DISCORD: discord.gg/AWkjNSVKkQ
But it says dynamic lighting in the blogpost: "As you can see, our dynamic lighting capabilities are much improved in the new engine, allowing for softer transitions and more striking colors during the day."
We know the game will have dynamic lighting anyways (torches can be carried)
Maybe colored lights specifically cant be carried?
@@bennygn9642 Yeah, they made a mistake. They meant to write static lighting.
This almost makes me jealous my descendants will actually get to play this game.
Don't be, they won't.
@Quaggz That's too cynical imo. Hytale and GTA 6 will probably release before Squadron 42 and Star Citizen.
Imagine if Hytale, The Elder Scrolls VI, and GTA VI all came out in the same year.💀
The game awards would be *HEATED*.😅
Check out a game called 'Tesera' it is really cool
@@Zol_1312idk at this point I’m not confident that the elder scrolls VI will deliver. Good luck living up to Skyrim with modern Bethesda at the wheel.
I feel like a skeleton occasionally being revived for a couple minutes to see hytale news...
The sweet sweet embrace of the fomo marketing trends were forced into~
I hope this perfectionist approach on the game development won’t bite them later on, people have been waiting for years.
it probably will tho
@@ryzoth4242 Kinda like how Star Citizen and Squadron 42 need to be GOTY-worthy atp to be profitable.
I was so hyped for this game when they first showcased it.
However unfortunately just because of the time waited the original trailer and attention is not going to return the same and people who are not following along nor care about game development or understand it, are going to follow this pattern:
- Find out Hytale is releasing/has released.
- Watch/Play/Stream the game.
- Immediately judge it asking why did it take them so many years to produce what we saw in the trailer.
- Focus on every little (or big) flaw/s of the game.
- Bore of it, get mad with it and stop Playing/Watching/Streaming.
The long wait HAS to pay of hugely with very little bugs and issues to save the game from the sinking period of years they have been developing this. Or it'll be a Cubeworld 2.0.
@@mistplayzop Brother don't compare this to Cubeworld. The dev behind that actually just made a horrible game that felt nothing like the prototype version people fell in love with. They already had a great established foundation, but decided to ruin it by making the player be stuck in a designated area if they wanted to progress. It was a case of betraying the expectations of the community.
@@mistplayzop
I agree that it‘s scary to think that all the wait will have been for nothing, but that’s always a possibility, so far Hytale development seems promising.
I think it's cool that Hytale is gonna be a place people can make money for their creations but also I kind of don't love that.
Java Minecraft Modding is done for free, Which means anyone can play with anything. Paid Mods just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, It's part of why I think Bedrock is so shit.
I'm not against people making money, I think stuff like tips and patreons and such are good, but turning modding, or creation period, into a profit driven concept worries me slightly. All these references to Roblox as if Roblox isn't running an extremely predatory business model, I dunno if we should want something like that.
Minecraft has just simply gone downhill or perhaps it's better to say plateau'd.
you dont care about predatory business models you just want free shit lol
I'm sure most people are okay with creators making money for their quality mods and such, but it's actually such a slippery slope. There's a very likely possibility for something like that to devolve into people making low-quality stuff only for profit, instead of people making nice stuff because they like the game and getting rewarded for that.
Minecraft mods are good because people make them out of passion for the game, not because they'll get money out of it. And those passionate people can easily be ran over by greedy people trying to make a quick buck, whenever there's an official marketplace in the game.
I totally understand you, that for a server hosted for friends, it kinda sucks to pay for mods (or server plugins), but as a developer myself, spending a lot of time developing something, might not be as motivational without being paid for it. I do, btw, think it's more motivating to get donations, rather than require a fixed amount of money, as donations truely means that people like the project, and doesn't pay because they have to
hopefully, the best tools being developed for Hytale will be free, and accept donations thru Patreon, Paypal or any of other donation services, but I want the developers to not make it free if donations doesn't work out for their projects, as the time a developer spends developing, is in fact extremely valuable. a developer working for a company may have far better income than an average person, while developing stuff for a game may be the worst possible income they've ever had, even if it's a full-time project while not having a job
sure, some developers don't care about writing code completely for free, I've done it myself, but in my case, I wrote cheat scripts for bad, text-based web-games, starting to write the code the minute I get bored by the game, just to make it "fun" again, then starting to share the code to a limited set of people, just in case there's a cheat detection within those games. never been detected, tho, I've even written a crazy cheat script for the web based Cookie Clicker, which doesn't trigger the "cheater" achievement, free script at Greasyfork, btw
Mods should be free. Period. There are ways to fund development of mods without putting a price tag on them.
Damn, every time i look at Hytale artstyle i just can't understand it. It is so complicated, like the devs specifically made it so in order for people to try harder to replicate it😂
I remember trying to make my own Hytale-styled model, i almost broke my brain xd
it reminds me of a lot of the older minecraft texture packs from back in the day. i dont recall the names really since its been over a decade but it is very reminiscent of that to me
The more detailed art style of Hytale will probably make it harder for builders to be creative in using specific blocks for non intended purposes like for example in Minecraft, you can blend different blocks that are supposed to be different materials and make them visually cohesive to one another. The mostly accurate texture and detail that Hytale blocks have will make block mixing tricky.
It seems just if you took the art style WoW, Hearthstone or HoTS has, and applied it to a Minecraft theme. Not to say that itself isn't complicated, it definitely is.
@@TheShizzlemop Faithful 32x or Medival Style textures?
@@TheShizzlemop Sphax Pure BDCraft?
I love how detailed the stove block looks! And colored lighting?!
Keep in mind some of these assets are placeholder and all this is work in progress. From what they have shown, this engine upgrade will allow a great amount of improvement in most aspects of the game. I'm Hypetaled
yeah your right and so many people ignore that fact
This "game" is just turning into a project made to improve itself continuously. If anything actually ever does release it'll be overengineered slop
@@halothreekiller It's a sandbox game, the game is made to be able to be rapidly expanded in content via mods. The whole purpose of the engine rewrite was to make sure they don't fail in that goal from the very release, by having a stable foundation.
@ it’s a sandbox game, they’re adding too many systems. It’ll be over done with no replay ability
@@halothreekiller ...how? it's a sandbox game with insane modding potential and a community that'll be HUGE on launch and just grow from there. the base game is full of stuff too just by itself it has about the same replay ability as minecraft
I've been waiting since the original announcement, and I'm one of the people still excited for this to come out at any point! I did get deep into Terraria in the meanwhile though lol
I'm still rooting for the Dev's success. :)
Same!
I'm not because we were promised Minecraft 2 and instead are going to be getting Roblox 2. I predicted the game would turn to shit the instant Riot/Tencent bought them and lo and behold I'm absolutely correct
@@WatsonDynamite It didn't really change from what it was at the beginning tho. Everything they promised then is still being worked on. People just want reasons to be mad
cringe
@@WatsonDynamite did you never seen the trailer, it was always like that
Gives me hope for more frequent blog posts again!
Oh god I hope so
I hope they manage to capture the vibes and looks of the legacy version
this is the most important blog yet
it iss! and I'm guessing that the next bp's will be even crazier :)
Had to scroll quite far to see you here! Hello Slamma! The GOAT of fanmade Hytale music
This is my first time catching a blog post fresh off the oven, still watched.
Damn that’s crazy. Haven’t they been saying the same things for 2 years now?
Im so bored
Lmao
Yes. They've been saying the game's release is just around the corner since day one. They refused to admit that the game is nowhere near release and that essentially everything they've ever shown will never be released to the public.
@@bigdaddynero yeah I hope riot is able to weasel themselves out of this little mistake they’ve made and move past it. Poor guys got led on by false promises and poor investments.
Colored lighting will be one of the biggest features, Minecraft is really lacking something big because of its absence.
Vintage Story a very detailed survival Vowel title is beautiful because of light indeed
LETS GO, i have been waiting since i was 11 and now im graduating highschool later this year lol
When this game release i buy it on all platforms that i own
Based
better buy it on a single platform to see if you actually like it, and be happy to either save your money for the rest of the platforms if you don't like it, or be happy supporting the long development time by buying for all platforms if you like it. don't buy just because you can, buy because you like what you buy, and want to support it in that case, and rather spend the rest of the money on something else you want/need
They said it's probably gonna be free to play so you won't have to if they do indeed make it F2P
Finally, the game will release in 2573, cant wait!
Actively working on a mechanical heart so I can be alive when it releases!
Good to see they’re showing more now. Hopefully I’ll have a PC by the time it comes out.
It should come out on more devices thanks to the new engine. They mentioned mobile a while ago, no idea if the new engine does indeed supports it now
It didn’t surprise me positively tho. 6 years since announcement and what felt like ages since the last update, all we get to see is still them walking around like a game tech demo. We have yet to see actual gameplay, I repeat, 6 years since announcement and it still looks like we went backwards.
Why do y'all act like this? If you followed the blog or actually watched the video you'd know that they rewrote their engine from scratch then started reimplementing everything they already add in the new engine and this is what they're showing us rn (along with stuff that's possible using the new engine). Do you think you could make a game like this in this time?
@@ZedDevStuff Im aware of all that, by the way. Still, them saying that over a hundred content creators have already played the game behind the scenes, I would assume that after 6 years, they probably must have a little more to show, at least more than decrease in quality of footage we have seen 6 years ago. While I have understanding of the situation, I can still now speak of being "positively surprised" at all. This is no progress in the overall state of the game as we've seen it, after all. Progress for their development situation, absolutely. But no kind of "new footage" to get excited about. Rather, it looks like there won't be no playable public release within the next two years still. Which Is simply a frustrating situation to be in, considering we have seen nothing of actual gameplay - as how it plays first hand, when their former goal was so have a beta in 2019. Saying this was a pure miscalculation triggered by wrong expectations of how the trailer will was received, would be an understatement.
They worked so long just to say "nah we're scarping everything"
I just can't understand so much work and they just threw it out of the window and now a handful of people is actually waiting because everyone else forget it's being worked on
@@ZedDevStuff They rewrote because of console/mobile. That's a big negative. Mobile especially is very limiting in power/capabilities. They have spent over 5 years changing their minds and making no perceivable progress.
@@MarEvayave man seeing people like you actually makes me reconsider working as a dev when I'm out of college. Can't appreciate shit
Hey, I've just stumbled upon your channel! Thanks for summarizing all the cool Hytale stuff, I've been wondering what was happening with the game
good ol update: random small showcase, "progress going good", beta will come somewhere in the next decade
"Just give us another 100 mln and we promise that Star Citizen will enter beta stage eventually" ahh energy fr.
hyflop gonna release! !! trust me guy
Ngl though, the visuals already look dated. I get that it's a style, but it leaves a lot to be desired...especially the stained glass windows and fireplace.
@@jasonmarcus1683 A lot of assets shown in this video are still placeholders
@@PlasmaWarrior. Yeah... but not much here looks good, it's very low detail... flat, just... flat. Pun intended. Having said that, I am completely on board if combat is good and there is plenty to do in the game(unlike minecraft).
I love your excitement about hytale! never giving up hope! I'm also just as hype, I signed up to be a beta tester all those years ago, maybe maybe maybe
I want hytale to do something to let
everyone like the game for example making more realistic cooking
imagine a team of 5 for example
2of them makes a potion and the other 3 of them goes on an adventure to get suplies for the recipe this will bring people who loves cooking games and people who loves going on exciting adventures together that's just an example imagine more and more things like that
mod that yourself since they have live scripting
Well based on the wording, this is definitely the FINAL development year. Which means Hytale is probably slated to launch summer 2026. I knew it was optimistic to hope for Summer 2025, but honestly, it's on the horizon.
I bet they're just on point where they wanted to be, based on their summer 2023 update, as they wanted it to be playable, if I remember it correctly, which doesn't mean alpha or beta release, but as a version that can be running the game, potentially with game-braking bugs. let's just hope the testing team doesn't really find a lot of major bugs, as that might delay the official release even more than currently expected. I'll expect major bugs in the testing, but that's mostly because I'm a developer, and I know there's a big chance of finding the bugs when it's the least expected time. developers even have a rule of thumb, where major updates shouldn't be released right before the weekend, even if it's tested internally for bugs, just because there's a chance of bugs being discovered by users just an hour after releasing the update. for a developer, that means they have to fix before they're done working for the weekend
"It's on the horizon." That's what we said in 2019 and 2021 and 2023. lmao
@@doriantermini They were almost done with it, until they decided to pretty much start from near-scratch after they were acquired by Riot.
@@doriantermini the difference now being their economical support by Riot Games, and now gearing up for 3rd party playtesting, which actually makes it reasonable to say it this time. at current state, I would bet the game to be ready for purchase in 2026-2028, leaning more towards 2027
@@lassebrustad much as it would be nice for stuff to happen sooner its better to have them be well set up Gmod would never be what it is now if they botched its early days
I was not expecting more stuff already!
Seeing a comparison between the old and new engine, I can't reasonably say much but it *feels* nicer to look at, might even be a style difference since it's been a few years. But I hope it means something about their progress that it feels the way it seems.
engine tweaks do a lot of heavy lifting for example when triple games changed to poor ones it really showed so its far better to slightly notice a shift then watch a game blow up your pc for nothing
I dunno, a lot of it could just be texture changes, like using a texture pack for Minecraft. Even things like lighting/shadows don't require an engine change; we can see that with shaders Minecraft. A surprising vast assortment of games are available on Unity or UE that look completely different from each other despite using the same engine.
The way graphics are rendered are the main thing engines do visually. The engines largely are the determining factor in what a game is capable of. Whether it is developed to take advantage of those capabilities is another story entirely. And if they actually did redo the engine for the sake of console/mobile (what they claimed back in 2021), then those capabilities could end up being very restricted for PC, because of how limiting mobile is in particular.
i think is only for mobile performance
Release Date in 2030?
Star citizen will come out in 1.0 before this ;)
@@Aegie Lets be real here, both games will release right before the heat death of the universe.
@@Izzmonster yeah
Truly I hope that the lack of characteristic visual aspects of the legacy engine is because they focused on the gameplay and stuff that will support modding the game in the future. Because if it was that long in development there's certainly no reason why bloom, volumetrics and fire asset (as an example) are missing. The lighting in the new engine looks way worse in comparison (with the video that showed the rain atmosphere - basically the reason I got into engine development as I want to make something similar myself), and as a bit of a graphics programmer myself I see no reason why is that the case. Especially that those are some of the effect, that while not trivial to implement, definitely were already researched and porting them even across a different programming language should not put that much of a strain. Shaders are commonly written in separate languages like GLSL or HLSL, and they are not that hard to port as they operate on similar basis. That being said, I hope that this is a sign of them putting much more consideration into more aspects of the new engine, I can't wait for the final breakdown, but to be honest that's not a impressive jump in the sense technical graphics improvement, I hope they are holding stuff back from us.
Oddly seeing such little assets in this really makes this feel concrete and no longer conceptual and nebulous. I think I can finally feel excited now.
I mean I've been a believer day 1 and following very closely but I still have moments of "what if this is an elaborate illusion"
Now I'm excited for what hytale does, but really I'm excited for the culture surrounding it. Will it be like an mmo boom of years gone? I just can't see hytale going uncontested.
Very. Excited for all of the art that comes from this.
Soooo after all these years i see nothin in this "trailer" which Minecraft using a Shader and some 64x Texture Pack cant delivery longer than Hytale "exists"
I felt like that was too colorful but in a good way, actually you will be probably able to configurer saturation. And in general I think that was a really cool and Comforting blog post
Those little logs and probably rocks will be like many games where you use them to creat basic tool and then take down a tree or break big rocks
I kinda wish they would keep the old engine and look as like a separate or optional shader. The OG hytale look is nothing short of its own nostalgia and there's just something special about the way it looks and feels
Minecraft was in Alpha for years... why not release it? I think no one would mind.
Bro im gonna be a woman before Hytale releases.
I really dont care how long it takes tho cus i have bigger shit to worry about than a game
they need to get the MVP out, update with time and stop being perfectionists
I'm loving the updates as usual, but I've been noticing a bit of a "doom-posting" vibe from people waiting, I understand why they think this way, but I have to ask these people one thing.
Would you want a game that is ready when the players want it, but it's unfinished and buggy? *OR* Do you want the game to be feature-complete & polished when it eventually comes out? Because you can't have it both ways.
10 years in development, 6 years since the project was announced. i've been following the development closely the whole time. all i have to say: see you in another 3 years
@@jem And I've got 3 things: changed engine mid-way, studio size increased massivly & we don't owe them anything (because we haven't given them money)
look, if you don't like that it's taking this long and you're not interested in buying/playing the game when it comes out, that's fine, but don't complain like some mf from Twitter
@@jem Then go away for 3 years instead of leaving the same comment on every video lol (not directed to you specifically, but u get what i mean)
Do you know if the game will be feature-complete and polished? And do you know if the game will be feature-complete and polished *compared to the cumulative expectations of 6+ years in development?*
That's the issue. That's why people are doom-posting. It's a very risky move, because now the launch will be a monumental event that needs to be flawless.
@@Prinzherbert the cumulative expectations are entirely the fans own fault
I have some hopes yes but I'm mostly taking this entirely as it comes
Question: Can you befriend a certain NPC? Like if it sees you getting attacked it will help, or give you discounts for helping with stuff.
That would be amazing!
Some feedback to however is managing the blog posts over there: Putting the technical explainer out after the main blog post would be better so you don't wind up frustrating people who are waiting for bigger news and only get something super niche that most aren't likely to have an interest in.
I like the technical explainers and they still manage to pull the wind out of my sails in the current order, better have them as a cherry on top.
As long as kweebec corner doesn't looses hope, i will never either.
If Hytale releases during my funeral, I'm coming back to life.
Thank you, Connor
I've finished 2 years of college, finished 3 years of university + graduated, started a family business, got my first car 😂😂 so much shit has happened, I can't wait any longerrr😭 they're gonna say end of 2025 just like every year😢
I’ve been looking forward to this game since the initial trailer in 2018, when I was wrapping up my college years. Now I’m working and have my life together. I’m still waiting for it, but I really hope it lives up to the hype. There’s nothing more annoying than a game being revealed too soon, only to be a disappointment or just okay.
Yeah, I expect this game to come out sometime in 2027. Their pacing is very insightful
I've been following Hytale since its announcement and damn I might actually graduate before I get to play this
I’m so excited for this game, but I’m worried that by the time it releases, I’ll be at a different place in my life where I won’t be able to enjoy it as much as I could now 😪
Is it intentional like when in first person perspective the character looked like a dwarf compared to the furniture and stairs
Likely just picked a short character
@ranjitsharma5811 there's prolly not even a height changing in hytale like every player character needs to be the same or the balancing in pvp will be tedious
Me when I saw this, YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!👌 Btw thanks, kweebec corner for keeping us updated.
So I’ve got it! It’s Minecraft meets Warcraft 3 map editor.
One of the most important things that gave Minecraft its longevity aside from general mods was the advanced shader support. With this new engine, does this mean that Hytale will also be able to end up looking as good one day down the line? With modded shaders and graphics?
I imagine, yes.
I'm thinking we will have some sort of public beta or alpha at the least in 2025, and I think an actual full release would be 2026, unless they are much more ahead than what I've gathered 👀
Nope not yet. This isn't the kind of updates you'd hear if they're that close to release. It just means steady progress. It still a good thing of course.
@raandomplayer8589 if it's going to be longer than this, this really be an unbearable wait 😭
Chances are this game will be cancelled and you'll never get to play Hytale.
@bigdaddynero let's come back to this 👀
1:37 i would like if day was more bright and alive but anyways
if the camera in game is like that I would vomit mid game due to nausea
Brother istg with the dry spell we've gotten recently whenever Hytale crossworn and silksong release is going to give me a heart attack
ngl i just wonder if maybe there will be npc that u could build a house for to move in just like in terraria.
it would be cool to be able to build ur own town in single player with npc u can actually interact with cuz i always loved an idea of being able to make and slowly expand ur town.
This blogpost was pretty cool
Feels like half the commenters here didn't even watch the video, and just want to make jokes about how games take a long time to develop.
This is amazing news. This blog post is really big.
Did they just turn off smooth lighting in the old engine or did it always look like that? Cant remember anymore its so long ago lmao
I’d like to see a creator team cook a simplified 16 / 32 / 64 bit texture pack with complete compatibility with the release version.
It's weird that this new clip looks more like an older version of the game and the old clip looks like a newer version lol, let's see how things turn out next year though.
I have theory
old clips are just pre-rendered
@@lunarknight3597 ??? You do know what happened, right?
They're showing the early stages of them making use of the new engine they spent years building.
Your theory makes no sense, because they would just show us more pre-rendered footage, instead of this. They know it looks worse. It's half-finished, by comparison.
@@altrivotzck6565 no my man I'm talking about that hytale trailer looks like pre-rendered
@@altrivotzck6565 no bro I want to tell is that their trailer is like some pre-rendered stuffs
not about new engine
Man, there are too many people whining in these comments. This development team is one of few that has such a healthy approach to making their game. They don't jump the gun for easy money, but spend their time, even halting completely to properly create the game they want. With the more I see of their development strategy, the more I appreciate it. For the people in charge to see the ginormous interest in the game and yet not succumb to their greed, instead seeing that objectively their game wasn't ready to support that level of attention long-term, is greatly impressive. Maybe they'll lose a bit of momentum at the start, but with this approach I think the game will ultimately succeed in the long run.
It seems like asset porting and creation will probably really speed up now
I have a good feeling in me bones (heh) for the beta to drop some time next year
Yeah. It may be because im a Gd player and im used to wait, but honestly Geometry Dash's update after 6 years turned out to be one of the best videogames ive ever played
So yeah, im more than ok waiting for a videogame to be cooked nicely
"They don't jump the gun for easy money" even though they changed their game from Minecraft 2 to Roblox 2 specifically for the purpose of bringing their chinese overlords Riot/Tencent that extra buck 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you people are so delulu it's CRAZY
@WatsonDynamite remember? When the game turned into a full on moba in the rrailer? With the guns?
Will the combat system have directional attacks? (Like Mount n Blade, Chivalry,etc)
It does, although as far as we know it only affects knockback (Most noticeable in slow, bulky weapons like the mace)
It depends on the weapons I think. Every weapon has different attacks and I think something smaller l I'm e daggers has basic but fast patterns but a dash attack and larger weapons like hammers maces has full directional swing that heavily effects knock back. And charged extra strong attacks So some what?
I’m glad I keep completely forgetting this game exists I would hate waiting for it.
okay i didnt realize how early they have started with this game
i was 15 when this game was announced. I'm now 21. my excitement is wavering at this point
same, i'm 23, now i have to think about how i will pay for my house, car and family, the game seems worse than it was in the first trailer, whoever made the decision to change engine needs to be fired.
They are loosing the target audience after 6 years of blue balling us. Who could have seen that coming?
In that time I had several girlfriends, finished school, started studying at a university and im in my last year now.
@@muslimann7483Seems like you were busy with your life to be waiting for the game to come out, keep it that way until the game comes out and stop whining
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@@tigre2azul oh wow
The game looks worse than the very carefully set up and scripted trailer?
What a *huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge* surprise
The game looks just fine, they shifted their marketing direction and are now showing behind the curtain more
I love how im super patient with the wait of hytale release because of how i think every masterpiece takes time 😌
I bet the miner skeletons is affected by a curse from the place they mine making them turn into undead creatures.
I'm sure by "everyone" you mean the 100 people that are still following updates of the games and have not forgotten about it already
I love this channel and I love this game
Honestly despite Hytale taking FAAAAAAAAAR TOOO LONG TO DEVELOP
At least I know when it releases it will be a full game
I think consumers simply don't understand the time frame of video game development.
@@theblackspark2644yes but usually it is faster than this
@@theblackspark2644 Game devs should stop advertising products to consumers half a decade before even a simple taste test manifests then. It's not the consumers' job to know the inner workings, we're the economic incentive. Deliver on promises or don't bemoan people complaining about wait times
i notice the "shield" in Hytale doesn't fully resist damage, but it makes you take less damage.
this is honestly what Minecraft should do. the shield should make you take reduced damage. maybe 25% less damage at base. and then with enchants that could maybe increase to a max of like 75% damage reduction
That's an old clip. We have no idea if it actually will function like that.
Shields reducing damage won't work pvp-wise. Imagine this... I'm about to strike my opponent and my opponent is about to strike me. My options are:
1. I strike, my opponent strikes = we both deal equal damage to each other. Fair outcome, nobody is more hurt than the other.
2. I block, my opponent strikes = I deal zero damage to my opponent by my opponent deals some damage to me. I lose that attack encounter, because I got hurt and my opponent didn't. So choosing to block is always the worse decision over just choosing to strike.
I could see a potential solution in that perhaps shields could stun an opponent who hit it, but I feel that leads to way more problems down the line.
I hope this game will have shaders because right now I think it looks pretty muddy and boring, to not say ulgy , just like minecraft. A bit more saturation and better lightning would make this game looks so much better and I think that with new technologies it could still perform nicely
2025 Alpha baby
Well it did surprised me that this game is still active
old footage still makes me sad
I think i was in elementary when hytale was announced. I'm one year away from graduating
I had just entered middle school, I graduated high school, took a gap year, and now I'm in the middle of my third year of university. The fact that torches' flames are just now stopped being static PNGs without even particles is beyond me
The kitchen floor is not symetric
I hope the still have some skeletons with the blue eyes, I preferred that design
Which will come out first?
- Riot's MMO
- Hytale
- Half-Life 3
- The Elder Scrolls VI
- Silksong
Hytale will be the last one ~ summer 2028
Half-life 3 - spring 2028
Riot's MMO - hiding in the shadow realm
The elder scrolls VI - mid 2026
Silksong - summer 2025
:)
The game looked way better before engine change. I hope it will get better
Damn, now I need to find a Cryostasis Capsule, See ya'll at 4862.
Forgot this game even existed
hytale is the game of all games, you can make any game you can think of inside it
I'll only be surprised if the game actually releases
Minecraft shaders and mods need to be available for Hytale and other similar games, such as Vintage Story.
Nothing seems to compare to Minecraft shaders when it comes to graphics or mods for customized gameplay for these type of games and that's pretty much why Minecraft is still played, despite how bad it is when it comes to block building shapes, having only stairs as roofs for example or that you can't build with smaller sizes of all building items so that you don't need to build a massive house to look detailed because you can use smaller ones in less space, that way trees would also look more real life while still being blocky, but right now they feel...too blockly, at least for me.
i sure hope this comes out before 2099
cant wait for create mod to be remade in hytale
This game is definitely releasing by 2050
Just leaving my hope and understanding for the games time here beacause here's to much negativity
(I mean how many games have been unpolished in the last years just because they were launched to early? Please stop the whining guys and yes Im also a young adult who wAS sO yOUNG bACK tHEN)
Couldn't imagine being in development since 2018 & not being able to animate a door opening.
The game has been in development since even earlier, by 2015. A bigger point!
This comment is unbelievably dumb.
Yeah, no shit they could've made door animations in the last 8 years. They already did.
If there aren't any ready right now, it's because they haven't remade/reimplemented them, after they spent the last 2 years completely remaking the entire code the game is built on.
nah you can see door animations in some old dev videos this video is just misinformed
@@lunarknight3597 They might have simply not redone the animations in the new engine, yet, so idk if it's misinformed.
@@altrivotzck6565 oh sorry you're right
welp, see you guys in 2026. maybe then.
I think a lot of the nature colors look a bit like a brainrot fortnite reel.
Bit too intense. If they keep that look i'd probably make a more toned down and more moody resource pack.
Lets gooooo beta next year boys
god 6 years ? im gonna croak before i even get to touch the game lmao
Have you changed your mic recently? Cause it's kinda bad, especially on the more high pitched sounds.
The game is done. I’m almost too old for this already 💀
Hytale before Silksong I'm calling it now