Watch State of Unreal tomorrow, Witcher fans

CDPR transitioned from RED engine to Unreal after Cyberpunk 2077.
Yeah, it's been announced 3 years ago.

Not new news. Been announced for couple of years now
I didn't remember, sorry.

But this is bad news, no? UE can create amazing looking stuff but isn't it plagued with some stuff like stutter, nanite issues etc?
 
She looks horrible
No GIF
 
Some folks just can't see an animated woman and think "looks cool"... They immediately go to "girlboss" without knowing anything about the character and auto-disliking it.

Because reasons
The "reasons" for it have been many in the last years. So right now if you're going to vegas to bet your life savings .. you bet on "nice looking female model with feminine features and a well developed feminine-like character" or "a little fugly almost male-like model with very little female features and a girlboss attitude with no character development"

I know were my money would go...
 
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Day 2 of Unreal livestreams started already



Skip back near the beginning to hear the Witcher stuff

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But this is bad news, no? UE can create amazing looking stuff but isn't it plagued with some stuff like stutter, nanite issues etc?
Unreal 5 broke a lot of work pipelines from 4, so the transition is still not entirely done. I think they are getting there, but unless you were a big team you could produce very fast a nice screenshot game that just ran always bad. Kinda like Unity is too. Easy to make something, but still takes some or a lot of your own work to work around stuff that the engine can't do out of the box. Or maybe can do, and you just don't use the right settings for your specific situation. whatever...
They addressed some stuff in this tech demo and insisted on 60 fps so it is clear they are well aware of a lot of stuff, but I guess 5 is just a bigger increment from previous stuff than 4 and 3 were. So it takes a lot longer and Unreal 5 should maybe have been cooked longer only in Fortnite before giving it to every dev, but a couple more upgrades and it might reach the potential the earlier tech demos promised.

I am not exactly sure why CD Project chose to switch engines right when Cyberpunk was THE "RT on" game and probably mastered their own tech. Epic might have offered very close cooperation and a ton of specific support to sweeten a deal.
Cryengine seems to be nowhere, idtech might be possible to license but no one does, Unity is also not used much or never in bigger games, so Epic removed a competitor in this way. No idea if anyone could license Red Engine but when their creators jump ship it won't survive. Valve seems to like their Source Engine and Ubisoft has a couple of homegrown engines but it is more and more a monopoly.
 
The "reasons" for it have been many in the last years. So right now if you're going to vegas to bet your life savings .. you bet on "nice looking female model with feminine features and a well developed feminine-like character" or "a little fugly almost male-like model with very little female features and a girlboss attitude with no character development"

I know were my money would go...

Nowhere and at no time in my history of gaming have I thought "I want to bang that videogame chick" mostly BECAUSE I like real life women with real life faces and bodies.

And story is more important to me, as a life long book and comics reader, than if the female character in my game looks like Angela Bassett or Jaz Sinclair.
 
Nowhere and at no time in my history of gaming have I thought "I want to bang that videogame chick" mostly BECAUSE I like real life women with real life faces and bodies.

And story is more important to me, as a life long book and comics reader, than if the female character in my game looks like Angela Bassett or Jaz Sinclair.
And thats got fuck all to the character being a insufferable girl boss or not.. so nice strawmaning
 
The problem with Unreal is that most Games look the same , the roads, trees, Sky, buildings, rivers, etc; only few manage to look unique.

it's like developers are playing with legos , they can create anything but the base blocks are the same.
 
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