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- Oct 20, 2016
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It's DP, it is the epitome of a development hiccup.
At this point we have had to completely update the code standards, rewrite major portions of the game, and have spent more time reverse engineering things than we should have, just due to how badly it was thrown together.
The game is essentially a lot of different middleware thrown together and than once Runewake started to actually do their own thing it went to hell. The major stopping point (other than bugs) is if it is worth rewriting the way that data and files are accessed, as it could increase performance and stability by 20-40% (the bottleneck itself accounts for 60% of the performance usage after all of our improvements).
It is something that needs to be done before we start having open testing as it would mean an all new client and having every person download the new client again would be costly. Other than that it is just having people go over to find any critical or major bugs, and fixing those before preparing for release.
