so sad i got lots of great things in tower but i wont have it anymore
Uh, Server one will be up until April or something.
Also, all items and money earned in GMT will transfer over to Tower Unite.
An addendum to @macdguyâs post:
I have dealt first hand with GModâs âwonderful limitationsâ.
Like the maximum entity count in the map, or the dropping of network messages and scripted entities on clients.
And let me say, we did everything in our power to patch the game up with âgum and paperclipâ solutions in Lua.
I wrote a VBSP compiler specifically for GMTower that replaces an unused XBOX segment in the file format with an additional entity data lump.
This allowed us to get away with having a few more entities in the game.
But then we started hitting limits on brushes and static meshes.
And there wasnât much we could do about that without having direct access to the source code to GMod.
And anyone who has dealt with software limitations knows how much it sucks to not be able to implement the features you want.
And let me tell you, we pushed right up against those limits until the bitter end.
Now weâre using the Unreal 4 engine:
- It has support for a nearly unlimited number of entities (actors).
- We have full access to the source code to add any features we want.
- And it looks BEAUTIFUL!
Working on Tower Unite is huge breath of fresh air for us developers.
I donât know of a better way to say it.
Tower Unite is GMTower unleashed.
Itâs the GMTower we wanted to make but werenât able to before.
Yeah it costs money, but so did Garrysmod + CS:S + HL2 and any other prerequisites people needed in order to play.
And that money supports us, so we can continue to make cool games.
You guys want that right?
Weâve got a ton of cool ideas and we canât wait to show them to the world!
Peace out!
EDIT:
Oops old thread bump, sry.
I donât want GMT to crumble down, completely.
Please, my PC canât even handle a single Unreal Engine game.
But⌠if you need to do this, then do it.
Theyâre already doing it. Itâs not going to change. Canât run it? Buy a better PC. Canât afford it? Get a job. Iâm sorry to be blunt, but iâm getting sick of people asking the same old question when they probably already know the answer.
Try the performance tester before thinking you canât run it. Also, my beast of a PC canât even handle normal GMT (I get at most 15 FPS) and the same machine gets 120 FPS on Tower Unite.
To be fair, I think thatâs because Source engine is poopy and doesnât utilize even half of your computerâs potential.
After all, it does only use like 1 core of a CPU lol
Itâs also because all of the code for GMT is in Lua which is pretty slow to start with. Also Source is terrible with outdoor environments.
Hah, sucks for you, I get possibly 20+ FPS or something like that.
Also, once I get the performance tester ready, Iâll edit this post (if possible) to show the results.
EDIT: With detail on 16 I get around 10+ FPS on Unreal.
Phew, atleast its not 5 FPS!
Same, honestly. I currently get crap FPS (as well as a weird glitchy sound problem) when running Unreal 4 games on my computer, but Iâm hoping to do a custom-built rig soon enough, so it probably wonât be a problem upon release.
Ive already built mine:
I should try running TU on my new desktop and see if itâs any better than what I get now
#2 is back up for now, if you were wondering. At least it was this morning.
Yeah, mac put it back online, since the TU dedicated server is still being updated.
Thereâs a lot of people, so weâll keep it up to meet demand.
The gamemode servers for #2 are up as well??
I really hope that they do well with tower unite because originally I just thought that it was going to be a large money grab because of the popularity of GMT but I think I was only saying that because I was sad to see GMT go but I feel like if they do it right by basically making an improved version of GMT then i shall be happy but there is a huge margin for error and if they over step there margin then it will go down like second life. So please donât let fans of GMT down and just keep the community alive.
From a worried fan
Trust them, the devs knows what are the risks and knows what they are doing, they promised and Will make a solid and great game full of things they werenât able to make in Garryâs mod tower
I dunno, but I see better buy this game than playing in Garryâs Mod (full of LUA errors) Also, Tower Unite isnât so expensive, I guess ($15 / 15âŹ). The game perfecly could cost more than that price for all the content it has, soâŚ
Considering how much of a success Gmod Tower has had in the past, i think thereâs very little doubt that would happen. Look at it this way, look at what they have achieved in Gmod, now imagine what they could do if they werenât limited by the engine that they have. Have faith in them. I know i do considering what they have already achieved.