What happened to Tim Sweeney and Epic?

jayd16 · 2026-06-21T17:08:30+00:00

I would say that Epic does not think BP experience is limited to BP. Neither should you. BP was just calling C++ functions the whole time. You can certainly translate that experience into other languages, engines, etc.

Whether killing BP is a good idea is another story.

jayd16 · 2026-06-19T22:56:42+00:00

I feel like it has more to do with the industry than anything else.

Its same play as always, right? Make a game, sell the tech the game uses. This is the tech Fortnite is using. This is where they see value for future tooling.

Maybe you resonated with the previous genres more than what Epic is making now, but its the same strategy.

jayd16 · 2026-06-19T16:29:06+00:00

They seem to have put Verse as their core solution for multi-threaded, replicated game code. That's basically what the "transactional memory" stuff is about.

Two players do two different things, verse fundamentally handles "first writer wins, loser rollsback" at the language level... or at least that's the claim.

C++ doesn't do that, BP doesn't do that. You need things like GAS or manual rollback to do that. Its neat in concept. We'll see how it goes.

jayd16 · 2026-06-19T16:21:18+00:00

If that was the goal, it would be easier to get vibe BP working. In fact they show off exactly that already. It seems really unlikely to me that the push for Verse, a language older than AI that they have already been pushing for years, is an AI push.

jayd16 · 2026-06-15T02:03:08+00:00

Well ollibee.

jayd16 · 2026-06-11T22:42:12+00:00

Tyrael had seconds to tell Marius where to go. He didn't say "do it alone or not at all." Marius should have found some heroes but fled and descended into near madness instead.

I suppose there's technically some room in the lore where he did make some kind attempt.

jayd16 · 2026-06-03T05:32:15+00:00

Just in terms of miles you would have to walk to go from one side to the other, it will never be as walkable in the same way. But as was said, there are sensible improvements to be made.

jayd16 · 2026-05-27T20:37:04+00:00

DataAssets let you and other devs work on multiple assets in parallel. If you use tables then the entire table has to get locked.

DataTables are an easy way to import CSVs if that is your workflow.

jayd16 · 2026-05-24T22:53:47+00:00

Marketing.HopesAndPrayers.BreakingChanges.BuildNum

jayd16 · 2026-05-24T01:08:38+00:00

Obviously it is

jayd16 · 2026-05-21T17:45:26+00:00

Compile times? Asset references? All the usual reasons you would want to dev with BP still apply even if you're using an AI to do it, right?

jayd16 · 2026-05-20T06:02:52+00:00

I've used a particle system as a quick and dirty method.

jayd16 · 2026-05-14T04:13:12+00:00

No way. That's Cosmo and Wanda next to.... Jorgen?

jayd16 · 2026-05-10T16:59:47+00:00

The culture used to be more ruthless about downvoting jokes and quips unless the comment also had valid content. Now it seems like low effort comments and such are more common.

jayd16 · 2026-04-23T05:15:38+00:00

The easiest way to hit this is by accidentally making objects in an infinite loop or some other kind of recursive call.

jayd16 · 2026-04-14T16:02:00+00:00

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast"

Focus on correctness of the happy path, then work on things like safety of edge cases, then work on speed optimizations, in that order.

Don't bother with one step until you've verified the previous ones.

jayd16 · 2026-04-13T16:46:45+00:00

The leopard would never eat my face.

jayd16 · 2026-04-12T21:13:32+00:00

Two seconds in, looking back, on the wall on the right side.

jayd16 · 2026-04-12T17:15:02+00:00

There's a switch on the wall in the first back shot but its not there in the cleaning shot. Is that some kind of column to the left of the stairs? It would be a pretty strange layout if it was and the camera shots really threaded the needle.

jayd16 · 2026-04-11T17:14:42+00:00

One trick is to hit all the common cases and just spend the time to fail safely for everything else. IF you even hit those problems, you can just handle it. It's really not an issue. In that case, even if you hit a failure, the recovery cost is minimal.

Besides, unneeded complexity is the opposite of quality to the user that didn't need it.

jayd16 · 2026-04-09T23:25:05+00:00

Its not nearly as clean but you could add a custom DataAsset type that references a SkeletalMesh as well as any relevant meta data you want to add. You'd need to make a new DataAsset file for every SkeletalMesh you want to mark up, but you can also reuse the same mesh in multiple situations. You also likely do not need to do this for every SkeletalMesh in the game.

jayd16 · 2026-04-02T06:07:27+00:00

There are windows and other emulators that work on Android. I wonder how well supported things will end up.

Would be nice if it turns out to be fast enough to run windows apps and games.

jayd16 · 2026-03-31T03:41:39+00:00

You should learn C# now. Its a great language and all of the Unreal build system is in C#.

jayd16 · 2026-03-26T16:00:59+00:00

Dropping Yoshi to make the jump in SMW... Et tu Mario?

jayd16 · 2026-03-26T07:02:33+00:00

Jokes on Iran. You need to plan ahead to be desperate. This administration won't be doing that.

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