thats why it got cancelled, too ambitious and it wasnt looking like a stalker game, the story outline got leaked and it sounds SO scripted
... In the meanwhile there is also a fan made s.t.a.l.k.e.r game being made if its even real...
What are you even talking about? If anything, UE4 is BY FAR the easiest engine to mod games on and the games made with it are specifically modified to allow almost complete control for the mods. Do some research and you will see what I'm talking about. Epic Games Launcher (basically UE4) offers literally all the tools you need, plus assets to modify and inject, code editing and tons of other utilities for ALL games made with UE4. My only issue with the engine choice isn't modding, it's that the textures will unfortunately have to be different, as UE4 is a relatively bad choice for dimmly-lit environments with saturated colors (it's incredibly good for bright stuff, but that won't fit the game well).
just because something has accesible tools and is well documented it doesnt mean its easy to mod, you can technically mod the shit out of serious sam, its a very moddable engine, but the recent versions of the engine are quite complex and are hard to understand unless you spend a ton of time reading documentation, same applies to UE4 tenfold.
It LITERALLY took me 25 mins to learn enough to mod UE4 games to a major degree, whereas Serious Engine V2 (Serious Sam 2) took me almost a week to learn. Also, just modding is a JOKE if you have prior experience with the engine and most modders (on PC at least) do know UE4 fairly well. It's not as hard as you seem to think and on UE4 you can learn to make a game from scratch within a day (and not a crappy one, a decent 3rd/1st person shooter for example) if you simply check out the documentation (not even that really, watch the 5 video guides and do the engine tour on startup and that's all you need).
show me one first person shooter with an active modding community made on UE4, by active i mean active as the xray engine modding communityIt LITERALLY took me 25 mins to learn enough to mod UE4 games to a major degree, whereas Serious Engine V2 (Serious Sam 2) took me almost a week to learn. Also, just modding is a JOKE if you have prior experience with the engine and most modders (on PC at least) do know UE4 fairly well. It's not as hard as you seem to think and on UE4 you can learn to make a game from scratch within a day (and not a crappy one, a decent 3rd/1st person shooter for example) if you simply check out the documentation (not even that really, watch the 5 video guides and do the engine tour on startup and that's all you need).
As I said, load up Epic Games Launcher and you can get a fair amount of example games that allow modding:
literally all of those dont have an active modding community, again, just because something is moddable it doesnt mean it gets modded.
It belongs to the same category as the other game you mentioned (Serious Sam) in that it's an FPS that can swap to 3rd person anytime you want just by pressing a button and, let's be honest, for crowd control the 3rd person camera is very useful (lets you see more). I did word it weirdly, I admit that, didn't mean that it's not an FPS, just it's not JUST an FPS.
the third person camera was only accesible through cheats on clear sky and CoP, devs forgot to remove it in SoC, that doesnt mean its a TPS
