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Rumor: New “Erebus” platform found in Unreal Engine 4 [Update: Or not - Read OP]

Raylan

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A new "Erebus" platform has popped up in the latest release of Unreal Engine 4 which could very well be Sony's next console – the Playstation 5.

Erebus was found as a new platform in the engine's supported platform list.

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In Greek mythology, Erebus /ˈɛrɪbəs, -əb-/, also Erebos (Greek: Ἔρεβος, "deep darkness, shadow"), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony identifies him as one of the first five beings in existence, born of Chaos.

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After Orbis (PS4), Morpheus (PS VR), Neo (PS4 Pro), now Erebus?

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Smiles

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welp I for one cannot wait to get in on this I want to retire my PS4 skipping the pro so make it soon Sony
 
Abriael

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Sounds like a lot of baseless speculation. It could be literally anything.

It's worth mentioning that speculation and rumors are two entirely different things.

Also resetera -> internet -> Resetera.
 
Mr. Pointy

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It's clearly Vita 2.

YOU THOUGHT THIS POST WAS SARCASM, JOJO! BUT IT WAS SERIOUS!
 
gofreak

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I don't think it's a Sony console.

It's used in a boolean evaluation for determining if cross console multiplayer should be allowed - whereby PS4 and Erebus or PS4 and Xbox should not be mixed. If it was PS5, presumably PS4 and PS5 could crossplay...

So I think it's something else. It could be another Microsoft console, or perhaps Google Yeti... another Nintendo console seems unlikely at this stage.


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The psuedocode for not allowing crossplay on PS4 is:

if the existing platform is ps4, and a console in the party is either Xbox or Erebus

or the existing platform is Xbox or Erebus and a console in the party is PS4

Then don't allow crossplay, basically.
 
kitsuneyo

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It sounds fairly plausible to me.

gofreak said:
I don't think it's a Sony console.

It's used in a boolean evaluation for determining if cross console multiplayer should be allowed - whereby PS4 and Erebus or PS4 and Xbox should not be mixed. If it was PS5, presumably PS4 and PS5 could crossplay...

So I think it's something else. It could be another Microsoft console, or perhaps Google Yeti... another Nintendo console seems unlikely at this stage.
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I don't see how this works given Switch and Xbox can crossplay and both are on this list. Edit - also Xbox and Windows

Edit again -

I love this comment on the linked article.

Ps5 has to be 16x more powerful than the ps4 that means 128 gb ram or similar. Ps2-32mb ram PS3-512mb ps4-8gb so for ps5 with 128 gb to be sold for 500$ or less cant be a 2019 machine it has to be 2022 so stop fooling yourselves with fake news and stupidity
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Patitoloco

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Hell yeah, the times of Orbis and Durango are coming back, this is the most fun part of the generations.
 
gofreak

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kitsuneyo said:
It sounds fairly plausible to me.



I don't see how this works given Switch and Xbox can crossplay and both are on this list. Edit - also Xbox and Windows
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The list with definitions includes everything (PS4 also). I means the boolean evaluation further down:

Code: 
const bool bPS4SeenOtherConsole = (
            ((PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_XBOX) || PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_EREBUS)) && ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_PS4)) ||
            (PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_PS4) && (ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_XBOX) || ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_EREBUS)))
        );

The use of that bool later boils down to, basically:

if the existing platform is ps4, and a console in the party is either Xbox or Erebus

or the existing platform is Xbox or Erebus and a console in the party is PS4

Then don't allow crossplay, basically.

There are other things controlling crossplay, but that's one of the rules involved.

Maybe I've read that wrong, if so, feel free to correct.
 
Bonejack

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Could also be the Google thing, or maybe something from Apple. It's literally just a codename without any further information.
 
kitsuneyo

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gofreak said:
It's another boolean evaluation further down:

Code: 
const bool bPS4SeenOtherConsole = (
            ((PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_XBOX) || PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_EREBUS)) && ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_PS4)) ||
            (PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_PS4) && (ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_XBOX) || ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_EREBUS)))
        );

The use of that bool later boils down to, basically:

if the existing platform is ps4, and a console in the party is either Xbox or Erebus

or the existing platform is Xbox or Erebus and a console in the party is PS4

Then don't allow crossplay, basically.

There are other things controlling crossplay, but that's one of the rules involved.

Maybe I've read that wrong, if so, feel free to correct.
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I see what you mean, but why doesn't it mention Switch? Also given the early stage Erebus is probably at, I don't think this rules anything out.
 
Cugel

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I was about to buy a PS4 pro this afternoon... should I skip ?
 
unapersson

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gofreak said:
The list with definitions includes everything (PS4 also). I means the boolean evaluation further down:

Code: 
const bool bPS4SeenOtherConsole = (
            ((PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_XBOX) || PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_EREBUS)) && ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_PS4)) ||
            (PartyPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_PS4) && (ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_XBOX) || ExistingPlatforms.Contains(OSS_PLATFORM_NAME_EREBUS)))
        );

The use of that bool later boils down to, basically:

if the existing platform is ps4, and a console in the party is either Xbox or Erebus

or the existing platform is Xbox or Erebus and a console in the party is PS4

Then don't allow crossplay, basically.

There are other things controlling crossplay, but that's one of the rules involved.

Maybe I've read that wrong, if so, feel free to correct.
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It could just be a way of stopping people accidentally partying up with friends on PS5 while it isn't supposed to exist yet.
 

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Hmm, PS4 was called Orbis before it was officially announced... so I'm gonna go with a maybe?
 
gofreak

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kitsuneyo said:
I see what you mean, but why doesn't it mention Switch? Also given the early stage Erebus is probably at, I don't think this rules anything out.
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There are a few booleans used to determine if crossplay should be allowed... one is 'bEveryoneAllowsCrossplay', which I guess will be automatically false if a platform is PS4. That would handle Switch/PS4 mixes, or anything/ps4 mixes.

The bPS4SeenOtherConsole bool might seem redundant in that case, but maybe it was added at another point and is still being maintained for some reason. Maybe it's a double lock on PS4 definitely never ever mixing with certain other consoles. (If that were the case it would again lean on it definitely not being a Sony console).

You're right in that it's very difficult to read much into this...but if you were going to read anything into it, it might indicate the opposite of it being a Sony console.

The other possibility, based on the 'TST2' name, is that this is just a dummy/test thing. However, other commits that make reference to Erebus talk about specific performance savings 'on erebus', which might suggest specific hardware rather than just a software branch. Again though...we're extrapolating a bit.

But if it's an actual machine and if we're going to extrapolate, I'd say signs point away from it being a Sony machine.
 
KOHIPEET

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Interesting….
Also for some reason while reading TST2, I immediately associated to something like TestSTation2.
 
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