Didn't Blizzard recently go and start making all their new content with that kind of tech? I think we had a thread on that some time ago. It's not as high-tech as UE4, but still.
tell me someone is going to the tech artist panel :( Might ask over at the tech-artists site if they mind putting the slides up. Hope this GDC online thing happens soon.
There's also some good info on the TAO wiki- if anyone finds an inaccuracy, please fix or tell me: http://tech-artists.org/wiki/DirectDraw_Surface http://tech-artists.org/wiki/Normal_map_compression
Id-tech, more like MID-tech, amirite gaiz? Still excited for the game, I mean, despite Doom 3 and Quake 4 not being the best ever, they were enjoyableish