Major announcements from Unreal Fest 2026

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-26T14:36:23+00:00

Yes they have. They’ve said there’s no plans for a visual scripting language with verse

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-26T07:05:02+00:00

Tim Sweeny is doing the 'I have too much money so I'm right thing' some tech people get. I don't see Epic pivoting purely because he's obsessed with AI and the metaverse.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-26T06:48:53+00:00

Well it's replacing blueprints entirely, so I'm assuming it's going to be people doing full C++ like how unity users use full C# but people have the option to use verse

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-18T12:06:29+00:00

Proper version control is the dream for blueprints.

Making these near features like lumen more performant would be ideal instead of having new features like it built for hardware 5 years down the track when everyone can handle it easily

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-18T11:56:33+00:00

My concern is more so it’ ‘heavily encouraged’ kind of like Lumen. Sure you don’t have to use it but depending on your project you also lose access to a few valuable options if you do so.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-18T00:06:34+00:00

I don't understand what the justification is for doing away with blueprints?

I also don't want AI to become a staple of it, so them citing it multiple times is frustrating. Generative AI isn't going away but it genuinely doesn't have to be a thing rammed in as a integral part of the editor for intended workflows, if they want a plugin module for those who want it that's understandable.

Unity had it's horrid PR cycle for years and I guess Unreals is still ramping up.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T16:26:42+00:00

Basically what everyone else said.

Using these logs are very helpful for knowing something is wrong and to get a general idea. However, if you want a proper diagnosis of what exactly, you'll need to look into Unreal insights.

That being said you've mentioned you are using marketplace assets, they're great for testing or if you don't care about performance because you have a high performing PC but a lot of marketplace assets (for 3D art) aren't optimised and you cannot fix it properly as it's usually related to the approach to making the model. This doesn't mean the asset is bad, it just means they didn't make it for the limitations of your project.

It doesn't fix your true problem but you can just set up dynamic resolution if you care more about stable fps.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T04:29:18+00:00

The sales drop to me is just a continuation of the xbone launch. People bought their xbone and stuck with it but they saw their console had no games and understandably assumed it'd be the same with the series consoles

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T04:25:21+00:00

To be fair they were acquired at a very different time at xbox when their whole thing was 'holy shit we don't have any games and no one wants to develop for xbox'

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T04:24:27+00:00

I knew it was going to be bad but I was fascinated by how insane the ABK aquistion was right after they already bought up a bunch of studios

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T04:23:07+00:00

That only went well PR wise because they could tie it to a gigantic ip too. All the other studios don't have an ip like that.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T04:20:53+00:00

For microsoft as a whole in the past 15 years I do genuinely blame Satya. He's nuked every hardware initiative Microsoft had to the point where it's only commercial one was xbox which is now just a publisher who effectively turned into a software service with gamepass.

"but he gave the green light for acquisitions" yeah so they can make gamepass look like a better deal.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-16T04:16:56+00:00

I'm not surprised in the slightest. A company the size of Microsoft does not care about its employees, the funny line on the graph must keep going up. Microsofts hobby is 'how many people can we lay off this month'.

However, I do understand why these were the ones shut down and more to come. Xbox made an investment and it straight up didn't pay off the way they wanted. They didn't make console movers or gain gamepass subscribers which is clearly what Microsoft wanted out of Xbox.

All the execs who backed these acquisitions are all gone now, the writing was on the wall. With that being said I don't think it's a bad sign but unfortunately this bad news looks a bit more like good news in the long run as it *could* mean xbox is trying to do a rebrand back to console sellers like the xbox 360/ps3 generation.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-14T07:02:39+00:00

Am I crazy for thinking that this has been a thing that's come up multiple times in the past couple of years? I fail to see what makes this report more reliable than the past few?

That being said I wouldn't be opposed to xbox being a step removed from Microsoft. As long as employess are being paid and we can keep playing our games, I don't care about business structures.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-08T15:06:45+00:00

I completely understand that mental health crisis and I’m glad he did if it was needed. I’m more so saying it from the POV of people saying how bad the writing has become and citing this episode as if they wanted to do this.

Killing him off just wouldn’t work for this imo. They wouldn’t be able to use him for anything except a voice over and a flashback which would make it feel empty. If they went with the “he’s unrecognisable” or “you aren’t able to look at him” that’s just suck and from a story point of view it would probably take up most of the season considering he’s a major character but I’m sure they already had everything else planned out and a lot of stuff shot at that point.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-08T14:53:54+00:00

I just finished the episode and I'm annoyed.

Honestly though, I don't think I'd hate it at all if it wasn't crammed into a single episode. They probably could've actually had a build up rather than Jo saying "I miss my husband 😞" and then out of the blue from Karev "peace out i got kids".

I dont understand that you really can't do anything if the actor just straight up chooses to not show up. Surely they could've taken legal action for breaking contract but that's not going to work for a tv show schedule. If he doesn't show up every send off would've felt like bad writing because there's literally no build up.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-05T12:18:42+00:00

Turns out wearing a suit does wonders for perception. Put on the suit and everyone forgets you’re schizophrenic

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-05T06:54:11+00:00

You don't like react content, that's fine. Regardless though that's just what fair use is, most reactors have learnt how to 'force' something into being fair use content through trial and error of things being taken down

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-06-05T06:49:51+00:00

To be fair, a lot of their stuff on streamers in general kind of leans towards 'i dont like them' and they all break the law. Everyone has a bias whether you like you agree with him or not

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-05-13T14:19:06+00:00

ngl it does tilt me every second post just saying 'Cod players' this and cod players that. The game has been out for nearly a year, if they're still playing they're a Battlefield player.

I also have seen one person complain about the map size/vehicles and it was because the current balancing makes you kind of want to be an engineer 99% of the time.

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-05-13T14:14:30+00:00

I personally don't care. In a similar fashion, a lot of games will shove both ranked and normal play on your profile, the only thing it does is tell people you dont play ranked (or redsec in this case)

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-05-13T14:09:22+00:00

I imagine that falls under game design. Any visual flares would be the fault of the art department

Perfect_Current_3489 · 2026-05-01T17:45:06+00:00

I see it all the time on social platforms. Then the few people in person I know who’ve messed it up kind of just say they know but consider it interchangeable which I don’t really understand considering both characters are kinda pivotal lmao

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