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[SureBOT]

After roughly 1 ½ months without any news, we wanted to present you a new feature of Enderal - The cut-scene system!

The development is going fairly well at the moment – Big parts of the level-design have been finished, the first quests and dialogues have been written and implemented with the help of Articy:Draft, new models (Armour, vegetation, architecture) now adorn the world and Enderals music-library grows constantly with new soundtracks , battle-and exploration music, as well as bard-songs.

We once mentioned in an interview that we’re aiming to make Enderal as cinematic as possible. We’ve now created the foundation for that, thanks to this first draft of a cut-scene system. It still work in progress, but this ingame-video of the English version, set in the small coastal village Flusshaim conveys the idea of what it will and does look like. Camera-cuts and tracking shots will also be possible and we’re planning to thus make special moments of the game more emotional or immersive. If you take a close look, you’ll also notice two custom-made armor-sets!

More feature-presentations will follow.

All the best,

The SureAI-Team

[Hazzmat]

Posted some comments in the link.

[Daniel]

Wow! Awesome video, thanks for not using DOF (seemed like no blur at all atleast!) -- much appreciated! Didn't know you had come that far into voice acting but it sounded really, really great. Better than Bethesda's actors already! Shows how far passion for something over greed really goes! Loved the surroundings and equipment that was worn as well.. sigh. I am a bad critic, I only give praise. I shall remain silent and see what others have to say in future updates.

[Nicolas Samuel]

Rest assured, Daniel. Your praise is very appreciated. I can't even start to say how much support and appreciation personally helps me to get going even when we're facing obstacles!

[Hazzmat]

Didn't know you had come that far into voice acting but it sounded really, really great. Better than Bethesda's actors already! )

Yes indeed. It doesn't have that 'hamminess' (Hadvar in Skyrim is one of the worst) in the dialogue that Skyrim usually has. You can really hear that they're father and son by the way they say 'walk blessed' to each other.

[Daniel]

That's great to hear. If you ever need some praise and encouragement, I'll be right here!

I hope you can find the time to answer my long message, by the way! Two weeks in now? I think, haha -- no pressure!

[badgesareus]

You can really hear that they're father and son by the way they say 'walk blessed' to each other.

That's interesting. My impression was that the older man was like a priest or some religious leader, and he was saying "my son" in a generic, priestly way. The English voice acting did sound great, with emotion in it.

[Hazzmat]

Well yeah, the ranger called him father too so that's why I think that but we'll see.

[Metaporic]

Seriously impressed with that voice-work. When I first saw the text come up I thought oh 'here comes the cheesy half-English voice acting' . Was really worried that under pressure from whiney english players you were going to toss in some English voice acting just to silence them (Seriously some of the comments I read about SuireAI's use of of German VA made me turn red). I loved the German voice work in Nehrim and was worried you'd make some compromise were neither ends up great. However it seems that your ability to get great voice-talent exceeded my expectations ha-ha. In fact I am really looking forward to the extra coverage you might get with a full English version of the game and am sure to enjoy not having to read subtitles all the time (Not that I mind anyway).

Nehrim was one of the best games I have ever played and was only held back by the Oblivion engine. Enderal looks to be even better and as it's running on the Skyrim engine is sure to be a lot smoother and able to avoid most of the problems that the Oblivion engine introduced.

[Hazzmat]

That's true. The engine of Oblivion couldn't handle so much detail so it resorted to stuttering in cities and other areas even on high-end computers. The Creation engine seems a lot smoother.

[Metaporic]

That's true. The engine of Oblivion couldn't handle so much detail so it resorted to stuttering in cities and other areas even on high-end computers. The Creation engine seems a lot smoother.

Yea I remember being disappointed that my new system could not run it flawlessly on max settings. The Skyrim engine (Creation Engine) handles general performance a good deal better, it can handle a lot more objects and ofc higher quality textures. It's not just graphically though, the U.I is improved (Barely ha-ha) combat is massively improved - melee, archer and magic . Skyrim as a whole feels much smoother and more refined than Oblivion did, its shed a number of clunky features that really held the engine back. SureAI finally has the engine they deserve. Once Enderal is done we just need Nehrim to be ported to Skyrim ha-ha, about ready for another playthrough.

[badgesareus]

Once Enderal is done

By the time Enderal is done, including patches, there will probably be an Elder Scrolls VI out or in the works, and SureAI will be planning their next complete mod, if they are not totally burned out by then.

[Hazzmat]

That's quite a hyperbole. When Nehrim was released Skyrim wasn't even announced and figuring that Enderal will be released in a (hopefully) shorter time span.

[badgesareus]

I don't think it is hyperbole at all. Some game developers announce a new game years before it will be released. As I recall, there was quite a long period of speculation about whether there would ever be an Elder Scrolls V after Oblivion was released, and Bethesda had virtually nothing to say about it for a few years. Then, they popped an announcement that there was indeed an Elder Scrolls V that had been in the works for some time, and it was due to be released in less than a year from the date of the announcement. I've read that Bethesda has been recruiting and that possibly an Elder Scrolls VI is in the works, specifically with an eye to the next generation console games, but surely it would also be for the PC.

If you listened to the entire interview, there was mention that SureAI was originally planning an add-on for Nehrim, and that when Skyrim was announced, they decided to wait and do an entirely new complete mod on the newer engine, instead of the Nehrim add-on. So I think my speculation is not hyperbole in the least. Of course, there was also a hint that they hope to become a commercial venture if Enderal is successful, which would presumably put an end to their complete game modding.