Aaryn Flynn opens up about difficulties of Frostbite engine

*Waits with popcorn*

I am in the hope that BioWare gets a person that has a deeper understanding of Frostbite to work on the team so they can give guidance for the creation of tools and won't be reassigned during development.

If the reports are correct during the development of Anthem they had two people from DICE helping out with the game and with I think it was six months before launch they were sent to FIFA.

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Or just use Unreal Engine 4.

Why so they can use a game engine that has a different set of problems they will be unable to get around?

Unreal isn't a perfect engine either, watching the video breakdown of Fallen Order by Digital Foundry they mention that Respawn isn't the first developer to run into I/O streaming issues causing freezing and stuttering.  So do you think BioWare will be able to work around those issues or do you think they would run directly into them and have issues just like if they were using Frostbite just without two games of experience with it.  Not to mention other developers at EA seem to be doing fine with Frostbite its just a BioWare issue because they don't have the tools they need to use to make their games. So that means they would have to go back and make all the tools they need for Unreal and hope they work out.  Just because you read an article about "how hard Frostbite is to use" and I won't deny that, but it doesn't mean switching engines would mean that all of a sudden BioWare becomes proficient in making the tools they need to make their games.

Popcorn is always good, did you put real butter on it?

I didn't read the article, but is this the same Aaryn Flynn who previously stated that the decision to use Frostbite was made internally by BioWare (while he was General Manager, i.e. approved by him) and not mandated by EA and he still thought it was a good decision despite the troubles they had with Mass Effect Andromeda?

Buttered popcorn and butter flavored salt, sounds like a combination I can get behind.

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That decision fucked up Andromeda in the first place.