Whatever happened to continuous maps/world (no load screens)?

[Llama8]

I don’t know, I asked about it here.

Why isn't LE open world?

I was having a chat with a friend earlier & one of the big things we miss about Sacred (1 & 2) is the open world nature of the map. Which raises the question, why isn’t LE open world? Obviously the time travel bits would need to be different “zones”, but what are the technical challenges to making an aRPG open world rather than how LE is at the moment?

I’d assume you’d do it as each time period was it’s own large level with loading whenever you timetravel (excluding the “small” bits like in/near the temple of eterra…