• cooljacob204@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There have been some theories floating around that they did this to avoid sanctions so they can share code with related Russian companies.

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      1 year ago

      That seems very unlikely to me.

      Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary–Russia_relations#Hungary_and_the_Russian_Federation: Hungary has mostly remained neutral-to-favorable to russia while remaining part of NATO. So I suspect they don’t have as strict export control laws as other NATO countries.

      But also: What would be the point of open sourcing your engine so that a russian company can work on it or use it? If you are going to be doing back channel exchange of money to outsource improvements then that is a REAL good way to get your assets seized. And the commit history will be a good indication that something hinky is happening. And if you are going to back channel it you just give them a private FTP server or something.

      I am not huge on warthunder so I can’t really speak to the technology. It looks like it has some good scale capabilities though. So I could see this as being the first step to try and pull an “Unreal Engine” and branch out that way. Although, odds are this will be closer to a Cryengine.