UE5 redeemed?
If a studio starts a project right now, we aren't going to see anything for like 5-6 years.
Not anymore, the 5.6 version of this demo has basically flawless frametimes. That's the cooler part over the nearly 30 frames won.
they wont. only the Expedition 33 devs migrated mid project. Wukong, Silent Hill, Avowed and Stalker devs didnt bother.
Yep, once you have bunch of other middleware attached and your own code that builds on top, switching over can be very labor intensive.
Didn't Wukong switch from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5 in the middle of development?
https://gamingbolt.com/avowed-moved-to-unreal-engine-5-3-with-support-from-the-coalition-rumour
I think he was just looking for an excuse to praise Expedition 33 and call bigger devs lazy
right at the start. they had a trailer for it showing how they migrated to UE5 back in 2021.
Only to 5.3. So they didnt get any of the UE5.4 cpu improvements which caused a lot of the framerate drops while traversing through the city.
it's not that hard if everything goes right. if something goes wrong it's a huge problem on an already tight timeframe.
Cores load is essentially the same between screen, so it's a general optimization and not parallelization optimization
Ah yes, move those goalposts
Normally to migrate mid-project is almost a nightmare, specially if they don't have the project in the previous version and if the changes aren't minimal in certain things.
Expedition 33 has over 400 people in the game credits, and this is without having credited the outsourcing teams they must have used.
Avowed was literally the first game released on anything other UE5.1 and that was a 2025 game. Every other developer used the same UE5.1 release that was released back in spring 2022.
In theory, there shouldn't be breaking changes from one minor version to the next. In practice: There's always something breaking when you change minor versions. At least in my experience, both at work and in private.
The stuttering is a PC thing and reality is many devs don't care about PC. It is what it is.
it will disastrous, they cannot switch midway, unless there is super strong reason behind it
Harsh. There are real issues and growing pains but nothing else is pushing graphical fidelity forward like UE5
at 640p with muddy upscaling
Expedition 33 migrated to the newest version months from release.
Ah you're referring to the console versions. Yea it's definitely too heavy for current gen and is best experienced on PC for now.
still runs like ass on PC, it just gets brute forced with more powerful hardware
You have to expect an engine pushing super high fidelity features like nanite and hardware lumen to be heavy. It has a ways to go in optimisation sure, but it's not a heavy engine for no reason.
Welcome to ongoing product development.
I disagree. Peish has the right idea, this should have been one of the use cases when Epic creates version upgrades for Unreal Engine:
lol what goalposts? You mean me answering literally the question that was posted? Which was just when we might expect devs to utilize these performance upgrades? Right now or in 2-3 years.
In response to this, i pointed out the last time UE5 got a major CPU upgrade and how no one bothered to upgrade to it aside from a bunch of programmers straight out of college. Expedition 33 for the first few years had just one programmer with any game development experience. He then hired 3 more people straight out of college to help him build the game on the latest version.
You are calling devs lazy who didn't switxh to a version of UE that came out of beta many months after their games released? lol
