Garry Newman's Garry's Mod 2: S&Box | General topic discussion

[M U Z U N G U]

For those who haven't wasted their life on Gmod for 4,000+ Hours and only play the game modes it provides and never dwell in the life to develop and create them, then let me introduce what the logo above me is.

Garry's Mod 2
[Technically]

In a summarised explanation, S&Box is a project developed and led by none other than Garry Newman himself alongside Facepunch Studio with the intention of creating a modern spiritual successor of Garry's Mod. It began with using the Unreal Engine 4 as the coding foundation when Valve was still in development of Half Life: Alyx and the new Source 2 Engine. Once HL:A was released, it also came with an underwhelming workshop tool that is very fixed to only work on the game and wasn't considered to be a Source 2 Development Kit. But with fortunate events, Garry Newman managed to attain a unique version of the Source 2 Engine editor (in a considerably messy state) where there is a vast amount of tools and application that can be utilised to create a game based on the engine itself which was a massive dub. The S&Box team would then proceed to create their own version of a development kit and create the new sandbox game alongside it and currently it has gained considerably good progress.

If you want an in-depth information dump of what is S&Box, when it started and how it is currently, have a watch and read below...
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S&Box Development Blog Site
S&Box ChangeLog (Commits log)




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Now the question.... Why do I make a thread about this project? It is the Garry's mod modern future and to be frank, being the game that has carried the childhood of millions of players' lives, the current state it is in is a former shell of what it used to be but has aged considerably well enough to be where it is today and will be a game we will return every once in a while but there will be a time when it will be a nostalgic memory of a bygone generation and will be shelved alongside other games that were considered the main root of a game genre and has carried its vision with multiple branches on top of it (E.g: Half life (3D FPS), Minecraft (Open world Sandbox survival + Hunger Games), World of Warcraft (MMORPG), Elder Scrolls (Single player RPG) and etc ).

Hopefully, Garry Newman and his team will be able to release S&Box and carry the Garry's Mod legacy for the future generation and be able to push further to what the previous masterpiece cannot simply due to technological limitations back then.

Until then, let this thread be a space to talk about people's thoughts on S&Box and potential future sandbox games as it's a topic that is interesting to look into to express opinions about it.​

 

[ShadoWiz4rd]

I can't wait to be an Overwatch soldier clearing a city durring an AJW in VR.

 

[Merlinsclaw]

As much as I want S&Box to be GMOD 2, there's a few things that need to happen.

Garry himself has stated that he hates RP gamemodes and honestly the game looks more to be more of a 'roblox 2' rather than a Gmod 2.

That being said, I do hope things work out and that RP gamemodes do develop. It may be some time before we see some schemas (like CW, Helix, NS, etc) pop up though

 

[TheDeNuke]

As much as I want S&Box to be GMOD 2, there's a few things that need to happen.

Garry himself has stated that he hates RP gamemodes and honestly the game looks more to be more of a 'roblox 2' rather than a Gmod 2.

That being said, I do hope things work out and that RP gamemodes do develop. It may be some time before we see some schemas (like CW, Helix, NS, etc) pop up though

Yep, he is going to make it hell and high water to develop for just to avoid that outcome. Garry ain't the old innocent Garry from 2005.

 

[M U Z U N G U]

Yep, he is going to make it hell and high water to develop for just to avoid that outcome. Garry ain't the old innocent Garry from 2005.

How much Garry could try to dismay the RP Genre as much as he could, it will be a staple regardless. Example being that any games with Sandbox being the primary selling point will always have a segment of the general community wanting a roleplaying experience and there will be modders who will deliver that part. The only concern being that if Garry is willing to go far as to make it a rule that no RP servers are to be made in S&Box in which it will cause a massive backlash if so.

 

[Gr4Ss]

How much Garry could try to dismay the RP Genre as much as he could, it will be a staple regardless. Example being that any games with Sandbox being the primary selling point will always have a segment of the general community wanting a roleplaying experience and there will be modders who will deliver that part. The only concern being that if Garry is willing to go far as to make it a rule that no RP servers are to be made in S&Box in which it will cause a massive backlash if so.

Garry hired Conna (the guy who made Clockwork) into Facepunch to work on s&box. I doubt they're going to do anything to stop people from making RP gamemodes. Hell, they've helped a few of our people get access to the s&box preview.