CryENGINE V Released, Now Under A "Pay What You Want" Model

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CryENGINE V Released, Now Under A "Pay What You Want" Model

Crytek used the Game Developers Conference this week to launch CryENGINE V...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ine-V-Released

[juno]

Cryengine used to have an OpenGL renderer, also supporting Linux. No word of Vulkan is no good sign.
It's a shame, it looked very well, technically

[darkbasic]

If they will not support Vulkan I will offer them half a penny for the full source code.

[nir2142]

what about the editor? why we still need windows? we still depending on windows!!!!

[FireBurn]

I tried creating an account but their website gave a 402 Bad Gateway error, now it says an account is already created with my email and I cant log on with it even after a password reset :-/

[triangle]

No Vulkan or OpenGL support?

[rabcor]

No Vulkan or OpenGL support?

OpenGL support is here (but I hear it's shit) don't hold your breath for vulkan (considering the mountain of years it took crytek to make the opengl renderer playable) Crytek just don't like Linux very much.

[chris200x9]

According to docs it builds on linux http://docs.cryengine.com/display/CEPROG/Linux I can't try it though since the site is flipping out, I keep getting wrong password even though I reset it and tried 3 times.

[juno]

docs seem not yet updated, still for cryengine3 which used to run on Linux, of course

[1ace]

I tried creating an account but their website gave a 402 Bad Gateway error, now it says an account is already created with my email and I cant log on with it even after a password reset :-/

same situation

If they can't even give you a website that either works, or fails properly, I'm not gonna bother trying the rest of their products.
(I know, not the same guys writing those two, but that's the impression they give me from their company)