Originally posted by MumboJumbo

Originally posted by Scarfe

Over that time, Unity has moved to the center of our decision matrix.

Bloody BS corporate speak. 

Well they plan to provide more updates on the choice coming over the next few days, Brian Fargo and chums have also gone for Unity, probably for similar reasons: 

Unity Chosen to Drive Wasteland 2

They usually do their updates every other Wed and tomorrow should be their next one. I expect to see a lot more info around Unity and what it means for the game then.

Originally posted by winter
 The Games only alittle over 60% funded and only has days left on kickstarter. I think Pathfinder has bigger thing to worry about then the unity engine. If they don't make their kicstarter goal it will be several more years, if ever before pathfinder  see light of day. By which time any engine they use will be outdated.

Well that is radically different from my infomation. They are already fully funded from investors. This kickstarter is to add some talent to their dev staff and get the game ready for testing earlir. If they make the million it should enter early enrollment in 2015 instead of 2016. If they make two million (doesn't look likely) it would be even earlier. They have plans ready in case they get 3 million.

Originally posted by adam_nox
Unity is fine for retro games like wasteland 2 and shadowrun returns and project eternity.  Those games are throwbacks to baldur's gate era.  Unity is NOT good for a serious mmo, it will be hamstrung by it's limitations.  Whether people think that it's capable of great things or not, so far there's been no examples of anything great about Unity.

Being a Unity developer I disagree. The only direct limitation of Unity as far as MMOs is the server/client architecture and possibly the UI.

There are already solid, professionally built assets for those to be used in combination with Unity. Furthermore, with the experience they have on their team they could just as easily homebrew their own system to tie in with Unity. I would assume they've likely gotten the source code for Unity as part of their negotiation to make it even easier to tie in their own systems.

Finally, Unity has a lot of great functionality and enhancements that you might not get with MMO specific engines that will help speed up their development.