RimWorld switches engine from Unity to the devs' own, faster Waylith Engine, all apparently without breaking mods somehow
Ludeon Studios, developers of sci-fi colony construction sim RimWorld , have announced in a Steam update that the game will be moving over from Unity to the studio's own in-house Waylith Engine in its upcoming update 1.7.
Ludeon Studios, developers of sci-fi colony construction sim RimWorld , have announced in a Steam update that the game will be moving over from Unity to the studio's own in-house Waylith Engine in its upcoming update 1.7.
The short version
- Ludeon states that the game will "look and play exactly the same", but performance will see an improvement of around 2-4x.
- Ludeon notes that some may appear as "potentially unsupported" due to the version changing, but will still function just the same.
- Saves also can be carried over from 1.6 to 1.7, meaning there'll be no loss of progress just for updating.
What happened
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Why it matters
I played RimWorld's Ideologies DLC and forced drifters to smoke crack and knife-fight a unicorn.
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