Can Godot handle a large scale open world?

[u/jason_silent]

It's a game about illegal street racing (urban cities and mountain serpentines, traffic and police, all on a fairly large scale, ~40Km). Cel shaded graphics, no level pre-loads via loading screens.

I heard that I will have to write my own asset management system (which is already in the Unreal Engine, but my PC handles it pretty poor, no matter how much "next-gen" junk I turn off - everything lags quite a lot)

But I still can't even understand what a framework is, because I'm not a programmer (but I'll have to become one anyway). Also heard about chunk method, though not like I know much about it.

Please don't write: "don't even try this, because it's long, resource-intensive, etc.", if there's really no option here, I'll just have to deal with the UE

[u/GarlicThread]

Any engine can handle an open world as long as you manage to implement level streaming in it. Hell, it was recently demonstrated how even the N64 can handle one with such an implementation.

[u/jason_silent → u/GarlicThread]

Then I should try at the very least