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Outcast - A New Beginning | Combat Trailer
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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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Oh wow, I never expected a follow-up to this. Like ninjan said - it was peak software rendering. It essentially drew a metric buttload of sprites to show a lumpen heightmap. It even abused that for a few special effects, like a scanning grid that would've been nightmarish to recreate before shaders existed. Games barely had z-buffers.
But this was right when everybody bought a 3D accelerator card. Quake 3 Arena came out six months later and required one. Unreal Tournament supported software rendering up until UT 2004, but even with Michael Abrash optimizing so hard that removing instructions actually hurt performance, a cutting-edge Pentium 4 could get walked by a Voodoo card.
This soft reboot looks appropriately silly for what made the original fun.