Tim Sweeney Says Unreal 6 Is a Few Years Off, and Is Aimed at Bringing the Best of Both Worlds Together

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Players and developers who want to see Unreal Engine 6 in action will have to wait a bit longer, but they could see a preview within the next couple of years.

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[MadMummy76]

Unreal engine has ruined optimization. Why do we put up with the same stuttering mess in every game?

It's exactly this "best of both worlds" approach is what is causing a lot of problems. 99% of games don't need the features made for fortnite.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Yeah, I'm mixed at best when it comes to UE for the very same reasons. Shouldn't always have to hit the nail with the biggest hammer in the shop every time to get past various performance issues, or at least reign them in enough to where they are not a major hindrance.

 

[DrezKill]

Unreal Engine 1 and 2 were f*cking sick. UE3 wasn't bad but that's when the Unreal Engine series really started becoming middleware and losing focus, while idTech went back to its roots of being only for very specific games. UE4 came and it was kinda more of the same in general, but they started diversifying more, and the engine was being used to make TV shows and movies and crap (like The Mandalorian). UE5 turned out to be some real trash, at least as far as optimization goes. Quite the opposite of the engines Tim Sweeney used to make. The dude lost his way years ago. But then again, Epic Games is NOT even remotely the same company as Epic MegaGames. Especially not after Tencent put their dirty grubby hands in the pot.

I will admit that the dev side has been getting better and better, with the tools and support and licensing agreements and whatnot. That's probably one of the reasons why the UE series of engines has proliferated so much. Although in my own experience the Unreal Engine development SDK was always a real f*cking pain in the @ss to integrate with Visual Studio.

 

[Stoly]

Unreal Engine 1 and 2 were f*cking sick. UE3 wasn't bad but that's when the Unreal Engine series really started becoming middleware and losing focus, while idTech went back to its roots of being only for very specific games. UE4 came and it was kinda more of the same in general, but they started diversifying more, and the engine was being used to make TV shows and movies and crap (like The Mandalorian). UE5 turned out to be some real trash, at least as far as optimization goes. Quite the opposite of the engines Tim Sweeney used to make. The dude lost his way years ago. But then again, Epic Games is NOT even remotely the same company as Epic MegaGames. Especially not after Tencent put their dirty grubby hands in the pot.

I will admit that the dev side has been getting better and better, with the tools and support and licensing agreements and whatnot. That's probably one of the reasons why the UE series of engines has proliferated so much. Although in my own experience the Unreal Engine development SDK was always a real f*cking pain in the @ss to integrate with Visual Studio.

thing is Unity is not much better.

AFAIK UE5 is great for real time virtual world rendering that's used in lots of tv shows/movies. Sure, you need dozens of RTX x90 level of cards, but still.