The Problem With Unreal Engine 5

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ue games are unplayable and its a shame

These issues are in my experience, from users of other engines coming to ue and not knowing what has to be done and what is already done. Also fortnite being the only open world ue game is preposterous lol I can name 10 for anyone to slow to Google it.

Yawn. Same old whiny bullshit.

Standardization is a good thing. It stops companies from reinventing the wheel. We need iteration and innovation in the space, not every company spending millions of dollars to do shit other companies have already figured out.

These companies wouldn't switch if they didn't see the dollar value, and this is software and math, which means the only thing UE5 or any engine can't do are the things no one has tried to make it do yet.

This is bolstered by the fact that every fucking base engine with longevity, ever, is currently a frankenstein monster.

If UE5 doesn't feel like Halo, the programmers at Epic and Halo Studios need to spend time doing the programming and calcs to make it feel like Halo.

UE5's solution to global light and natie(whatever the name is) isn't good in the first place. They Are not Efficient in any way. There are already tech analysis of those(and nod, Dgitial Foundary don't count as tech analysis). And even more important, art style beats so called realism in any way. If I look for realism, earth online is both hard and realistic AF.

It's worrying that modders have made the X-Ray engine (STALKER), from 2007, look significantly better than STALKER 2 (UE5 engine). It's almost ridiculous.

unreal engine to me does not sit well with racing games.

Do you make games or work with game engines or in the industry?

The old games are so smooth. tomb raider shadow. I downloaded and replayed a bit and found the graphic is stunning, and on my RTX4060Ti, 2K it runs 140+ fps which is insane. 4:55

It's not Epic fault that game studios keep their game engines private.

Devs are just lazy and won't do it. So , the problem will continue for the next 7+ years.

One thing I know. Before UE5 I couldn't make the game I want without drop everything to learn complex languages and spending hours modelling hiper low poly models, baking meshes and probable figuring out later that would be impossible to me finishing the project without a team. Now I can and am doing It happily. That is all that matters to me. Work happily and professionally using my time as a 3D artist to also make games. Unreal is such an amazing tool man, common. Is a tool. Big thanks to Epic.

Unironically, the likes of Unity, O3DE, Stride and even Godot would be viable for plenty of games out there as well, with a competent enough team. They could even get Unreal Engine 5 to perform well if they wanted to and let the players turn down the graphics as far as they want (e.g. disable Lumen and Nanite in the options menu). But none of that is happening, because it would take more work with a noticeable effect on the "low" graphics settings (bad for marketing), it's easier to just give upscaled slop to people and instead expect them to upgrade their hardware just to play a game at 1080p 60 FPS with no upscaling.

Marvel rivals is made on ue5 and I can’t play it on pc while being able to play every non ue5 AAA title under heaven.

ironically goes to layoffs too, they shoot their studios in the foot, fire all the ppl that knew the engine then can't use it anymore and use cheap labor for contractors for unreal since they all use it or Unity as early indie/small devs, there's no understanding of unreal just basic use and no one with the experience to innovate and build on it cause they don't stick around long enough for that

0:04 i don't blame them

The graphic in UE5 games really looks terrible, none of them look like the demo.

Imo Red engine is a much superior engine. It's just the one who knows it left CDPR and CDPR didn't want to license it out

I remember dishonored 2, rainbow six vegas and the original gears. Unreal has always had mid performance at best and terrible at worst. It can be optimized, but the fact that it is often is not shows a systemic issue.

What’s the name of the game in your clips where the woman is exploring stone ruins, and flies after her arm tattoo starts glowing? I’ve been trying to find it and it’s driving me nuts! 😅

Look stalker 2 super bugs life

The answer is simple, faster development time and more people working on them, it sucks that the only engine that's "accessible" to every tier of developper is one that has broken features meaning to overwrite good old techniques from lighting to shadows, reflections, lods and so on, they want to rely less and less on the manual labour of tweaking each individual visual system on the development process, the problem is, automated solutions are just that, automated, they will always have problems and most often won't look exactly how you want, you'll still have to tweak something here and there, Indiana Jones just showcases a future where all games depend on RTX to even run, so they can cut a lot of GPUs to not optimize for them and to of course, rely on the automated solutions like Nanite, Lumen and whatever comes next, games are blurry and broken and there's no fixing it, at least not without the old methods, remember Arkham Knight and how photorealistic that game looked? yeah, was in Unreal Engine 3, albeit a custom version of it, but that game alone and NFS 2015 had the most atmospheric nights i've ever seen in a game, all that through clever development techniques and creativity, no ray tracing, no upscallers and definitelly no frame generators to get you above the 60 fps (in monster hunter wild's case, to barely hit the 60's lol), you can easily run Frosbite games and they always look stunning, say what you will about Veilguard, but that game looks gorgeous, doesn't stutter and it's so easy to run given you've the requirements, a lot of UE5 games run like crap and there's no PC in the world that can get away from stutters and bad optimization in general, i guess what i'm trying to say is, i wish games went back to the 8th gen mid 2013/2018, if we're talking about examples, we've had Battlefield 1, Shadow of Mordor, Rise Son of Rome, Forza Motorsport 7, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Mortal Kombat X, The Witcher 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Metal Gear V, Just Cause, Max Payne and the list goes on, all of these run amazingly and look much better than a lot of current gen tittles, it just doesn't make any sense, i'm playing Suicide Squad and the lighting in that game is terrible, simply bland, you can only go so far with reshades and compared to Arkham Knight, that game and Gotham Knights simply suck visualy speaking, i refused to accept that we have much more computing power nowadays and games are looking and performing worse, all in favour of automated techniques, if you plan on playing each triple A out there, well, get ready for upgrading your gpu to the highest tier, things are about to get much worse.

Rise of the indie games i guess.

I'm gaming on linux with an RTX2060. I'm probably taking a performance hit by doing so. But for the last 5 years I've been able to play anything I through at it on some graphical settings.
Up until the last year when I started to notice that every UE5 game is completely unplayable even on the lowest settings. Stalker 2 I managed to get as far as to the first town after which the FPS dropped to less than 1.