Stalker 2 has made me look back and realize that maybe it was a mistake to make Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5 become an industry standard for the next decade.
  • Viri4thus@feddit.orgEnglish
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    53 minutes ago

    It’s not UE5, it’s the nvidia partnership. Every time NVIDIA engineers touch a game, the end result runs like absolute garbage. Stalker is just the latest example! The main issue of UE5 is the shader compilation.

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    A big part of the problem hasn’t been the engine. The problem has been that games that made the fact that they were using Unreal Engine 5 a core part of their marketing did so because they had fuckall else worth saying, tying perception of the engine to a bunch of truly mid games.

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    If it’s running 5.0-5.2, you should be worried. And most all games released to date are from this range. Devs could upgrade to 5.3+, the one they finally optimized it on. it’s not all on Epic

    • boletusEnglish
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      6 minutes ago

      And 5.4 fixed a bunch of major issues from 5.3, particularly for artists.

    • lustyargonian@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I wonder if we’ll see remasters or definitive editions in coming years for games released with older versions. Nanite foliage might be a lot of work I guess.