This 9 minute trailer for Aion’s future is best viewed in HD. What you are seeing is a collection of projects NCsoft is working on for Aion, to be released at different times and not as a single update/patch.
Some of the features noted:
- DirectX 10
- Cryengine 2 upgrade
- New zones
- Dynamic weather and seasons
- Player Cities
- Mounts
- More fluid combat
- More weapon types (crossbows for starters)
- New classes
- City sieges
- Player owned cities
- More
No this video isn’t new, but it is a good indicator.
They extremely modified the CryEngine 1 to get what you see now in Aion.
I don’t think that they’ll upgrade to CryEngine 2.
Most likely they modify the CryEngine 1 in terms of HDR as you can see in the Visions trailer.