Crytek is redoing the Material Editor and as you can see from the roadmap there is a node graph for shaders in development but that's probably further down the line.

Only need to make a shader to handle the job, so no CRYENGINE is not useless for it. It's up to the dev team handling the task.

Yes its broken in the Editor. Works fine where it's needed though in the game launcher.

Legacy Entities is available from the GameSDK. Just copy the scripts.pak and entities.xml from the GameSDK in. The new thing which is still under development is Components which will take over for Legacy Entities, but its not there just yet. Just create a project in the Launcher and use the type of ...

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Scaleform is supported just fine. Looks like you are missing the GameSDK and the generic stock HUD. The FLA source files is on the Github repo. You can find the GameSDK on the Marketplace or make your own custom solution which would be better.

Guess its a bug then. Please report it on the github repo issues section with steps to reproduce the issue. Thanks.

Good to see it's been finally fixed. Hasn't worked since 5.3

Full sourcecode for both the Editor and Engine is on the Github repo

Great work, thanks for sharing.