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During Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, Saxs Persson, the vice president of Epic Games, commented that the new technologies coming soon to the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) are part of the “foundation of Unreal Engine 6”.

We made the decision at Epic Games to move our first-party team to UEFN earlier to speed up feature development with the aim of creating better, more robust tools for everyone faster.

At the moment, it may seem that UE and UEFN are still a long way off, but the Verse, Scene Graph and API that we'll be releasing in December are all part of the foundation for the future of Unreal Engine 6.

The goal with Unreal Engine 6 will be to unite 'Unreal Engine 5' and the 'Unreal Editor for Fortnite' in a single engine, allowing millions of players to co-exist together in a single project, like a true metaverse.


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[DeepEnigma]

Make Unreal Tournament again. It's time.

 

[Fake]

Consoles won't survive.

 

[Bitstream]

Good god, no. Games about to be 4k FSR from 640x480.

 

[Comandr]

Glad to see they're starting on in early; Unreal seems to be iterating quickly. Five bucks says UE6 is fundamentally designed with some sort of AI in mind.

Good god, no. Games about to be 4k FSR from 640x480.

No one tell him the switch 2 is coming out.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Glad to see they're starting on in early; Unreal seems to be iterating quickly. Five bucks says UE6 is fundamentally designed with some sort of AI in mind.


No one tell him the switch 2 is coming out.

320x240 with DLSS3

 

[Loomy]

Five bucks says UE6 is fundamentally designed with some sort of AI in mind.

100%.

 

[Thebonehead]

Excellent - Looking forward to playing 4k games on a 5090 at 44fps with UE6

 

[Dorfdad]

Excellent - Looking forward to playing 4k games on a 5090 at 44fps with UE6

I’ll be at 8k 60 on ps5 Pro with pssr….

 

[rkofan87]

why??????????????????????
optimize ue5 for ps5.

 

[Rivdoric]

The 6 version promises no more stutter.

Just teasing you, don't worry the stutter feature will be kept.

 

[violence]

Given that fewer and fewer developers are making their own own engine. Unreal should create its own rival engine to compete with itself. Kind of like SmackDown and Raw.

 

[tommib]

320x240 upscaled to 720p here we go.

 

[IntentionalPun]

"The goal with Unreal Engine 6 will be to unite 'Unreal Engine 5' and the 'Unreal Editor for Fortnite' in a single engine, allowing millions of players to co-exist together in a single project, like a true metaverse."

I imagine considering some of what we are seeing in 5.5 won't be production ready for quite some time that we shouldn't expect UE6 to be about amazing new graphics / lighting features.

 

[Rivdoric]

320x240 upscaled to 720p here we go.

720p ? Jesus, are you using 4090 SLI to reach that high on UE ?

 

[ReBurn]

It will probably be released just in time for games to run like shit on PS6 and NextBox.

 

[PianistaMacabro]

Please Godot be our next blender

 

[CGNoire]

UE6 should be about Physics.

 

[TheUndeadGamer]

I’m concerned with how well next gen consoles will handle Unreal 6. I mean current gen can’t seem to handle all that Unreal 5 has to offer. But maybe that’s always been the case?

 

[ZehDon]

Given UE5's overdraw issues and heavy load, I really hope UE6 has a major performance improvement focus given how ubiquitous it's become. The performance versus image quality gulf has been insane this hardware generation.

 

[tusharngf]

Made for next gen machines. Probably ps6 and 4xxx range or above gpu's.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I love advancements but 5 doesn't even seem near optimal for the hardware we currently have.

And that is not a compliment. We have way too high end HW to be having some of the issues we've been dealing with particularly with this engine.

 

[mckmas8808]

why??????????????????????
optimize ue5 for ps5.

THANK YOU!!!! Unreal Engine 5 games just started getting good this year.

 

[Buggy Loop]

They should build the engine on the foundation of zero stutters

That would be a good fucking start Tim

Also we’ll get what, half a dozen games pushing UE5 in the whole gen? Sad. Took too long for devs to pick it up.

 

[pqueue]

why not fix their ganky UE5.X first?

 

[Hrk69]

 

[miklonus]

One, I like this news, two, they still release games on PS4, and there's a very real possibility that they'll still be supporting PS4 come the PS6's launch.
Words of a "The First Descendant" player on PS5 who just played with some PS4 scrub about 12 hours ago. Trust me, I know.
When this industry cuts Xbox One, and PS4 off, then I can truly embrace Unreal Engine 5 and 6, and whatever they bring.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

They obviously aren't stopping work on UE5, tim sweeney was working on UE4 by himself for a long time, at least 5-6 years since 2003, meanwhile the first UE3 game didn't launch until 2006, while UE4 didn't become publicly available until 2014.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

The goal with Unreal Engine 6 will be to unite 'Unreal Engine 5' and the 'Unreal Editor for Fortnite' in a single engine, allowing millions of players to co-exist together in a single project, like a true metaverse.

 

[Big Baller]

Dude is called sex person

 

[atyourservice]

Makes sense. It would have been weird if all their technically gifted staff were relegated to bug fixing and engine support/updated rather than moving on to a new project after UE5

 

[coolmast3r]

Unreal Stutter 6: Traversal Boogaloo 2

 

[midnightAI]

Prediction here.... They will work on UE7 after UE6

 

[cireza]

Resource Wasting Engine 6.

 

[Ironman_Bad]

Unreal Engine 6 for Playstation 6!! The marketing campaign will be "''EPIC''''

 

[GymWolf]

Well they won the engine war for this gen, if the other studios don't come up with something, they are gonna win in the nextgen aswell.

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

Make Unreal Tournament again. It's time.

I'd even settle for another Unreal Championship at this point...

 

[Herr Edgy]

100%.

Nope.

Also, UE5 will transition into UE6, just like UE4 transitioned into UE5. It's not an engine built from scratch. It's a redesign of workflow paradigms.

 

[Klik]

We still hardly even have any UE5 games. Probably dont need UE6 until PS7

 

[Dr.D00p]

Great..I'm sure it will work great on PlayStation 7

 

[SnapShot]

 

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[Loomy]

Nope.

Also, UE5 will transition into UE6, just like UE4 transitioned into UE5. It's not an engine built from scratch. It's a redesign of workflow paradigms.

You're crazy if you don't think UE6 adds AI capabilities to its workflows. Major publishers and developers are all talking about it. I would put money on Epic having a team doing research on and prototyping them right now.

 

[Herr Edgy]

You're crazy if you don't think UE6 adds AI capabilities to its workflows. Major publishers and developers are all talking about it. I would put money on Epic having a team doing research on and prototyping them right now.

I guess Epic employs crazy people then. We already have AI capabilities in UE5. Look up ML Deformer and the Neural Network plugins.
I can't tell you what will or won't happen, but what I can tell you is that UE6 will not be fundamentally built with AI in mind. That is because most of what UE6 is focusing on is, as Tim Sweeney stated, converging UEFN and the evolving UE5 into a total package called UE6.

 

[Loomy]

but what I can tell you is that UE6 will not be fundamentally built with AI in mind.

Fair enough. I wasn't agreeing with the 'fundamental' part since, like you said, it's going to be an iterative update. I still believe that there's going to be deeper AI integrations in UE6 onwards though.

I guess Epic employs crazy people then.

I sincerely hope so!

 

[Sethbacca]

Make Unreal Tournament again. It's time.

I saw the trailer for a new Unreal Tournament and was psyched thinking we were getting a new UT in UE5! Then I realized it was a Prime series and was sad.

 

[StueyDuck]

Of course they are, why wouldn't they.

Just like Microsoft is making win 12 and Sony is making a ps6.

Companies look ahead, that's how they survive

 

[GymWolf]

We still hardly even have any UE5 games. Probably dont need UE6 until PS7

There are a lot of games in ue5 and we have still like 2-3 years left in the gen...

Immortals of avenum
Remnant 2
Wukong
Hb2
Robocop
New Fortnite
Tekken 8
Everquest 2
Stalker 2
Sh2
Mgs3 remaster
Enotria
Lord of the fallen 2

And many many others, it has been the best engine for this gen by a landslide.

 

[Dorfdad]

UE6 should be about Physics.

Dirty perv