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DF Direct: Crysis 4's uncertain future is a grim portent for the industry
Crysis 4 is "on hold" and Crytek is facing layoffs - so what does that mean for the company that was once Germany's biggest games dev + the industry as a whole?
Crysis 3 and its Remastered counterpart have also long formed part of the DF test suite for CPU and GPU reviews - I think the " Highly Explosive Materials" train ride and the argument between Prophet and Psycho earlier on in Welcome to the Jungle are burned into my brain after so many benchmark runs. The Crytek layoffs are significant, corresponding to around 60 people or 15 percent of the company's workforce, and come after Crysis 4 director Mattias Engström left in November last year, returning to Hitman developer IO Interactive. The engine's (largely undeserved) reputation for poor performance hurt pickup by console developers, and these days, CryEngine is less common than it used to be - despite being used as the basis for the recently released Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
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