I hear nothing but bad things when the topic of Unreal Engine 5 is brought up. It’s also true that the games I’ve played which use this engine have suffered from poor performance to one degree or another, so it seems like the complaints are well-founded, but I don’t actually know.

Is it a bad engine, or is it just not being used correctly by either the devs when they design their games or the players when they choose their graphical settings? Or a bit of both? What’s actually wrong with it, in layman’s terms?

Cheers!

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    What’s actually wrong with it, in layman’s terms?

    2 things I find, but they are people problems not technical ones.

    1. Wrong tool for the job. UE5 is a versatile engine but it isn’t for everything.
    2. Bad developers blaming their tools for their own failures. UE5 runs C++ but you can use intermediate languages which the engine will convert to C++ but as the old joke goes C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.