HPL3

[Newsman Waterpaper]

A new HPL3 feature mentioned by Thomas in this interview is "streaming":

One feature that I think people will notice especially is the streaming, which means there will be no loading screens between levels. Our goal is to get it as seamless as possible so the entire game feel like one big environment that you travel through."

Interesting! I wonder if this will have any significant effect on how custom story creators approach level design.

I'd imagine it might make things a bit more complicated. Won't it also have a greater chance of causing problems with the performance like fps drops? I'm not really sure how streaming works, though. How are you going to do things like preloading? I can only imagine it being extremely intensive for the system.

Also, won't custom story creators have to take this into account when designing their levels?

I hope this "streaming" is a just optional feature.