The lack of available resources for the developers, denied requests for additional team members, unrealistic deadlines, and unpaid overtime all reportedly led to low morale throughout the team, causing employee review scores to plummet and bonuses to be removed. Exputer says that the engine "accrued massive tech debt after generations of augmentation," which is possibly why the studio decided to use Unreal Engine 5 for its next Tomb Raider project. Cloning Lab endgame mission, which was only two years' late, and the report claims "sat finished but was deemed unsuitable for release as a result of underlying networking issues and persistent bugs." Many of the issues have been attributed to Crystal Dynamics' long-in-the-tooth 'Foundation' engine and a lack of resources. The situation didn't really get better post-launch either, with more or less every content drop missing its targeted release date - such as the recent addition of the A.I.M. Exputer's report details some of the events surrounding Marvel's Avengers' difficulties since its launch, which received quite a bit of criticism and saw Crystal Dynamics scrambling to release patches to fix the game's problems.
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