Night and day basically.
5 is a bloated hosgepodge of nothing working or performing right.
Chaos introduction was the turn for the worse.
Performance between .24 and .25 also lowered a good 20fps.
Cryengine, but you have to do a lot of work to get it viable.
If you start right, without prototyping things you know won’t work (like landscape for one?) Then at lasts you have a chance…
Define people? Grupies on youtube don’t exactly qualify or count in polls…
Other studios? They have the backing to take the source and make stuff work. Indys do not…