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Unreal Engine 5 announced, Epic Online Services are now online

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Today Epic Games released to huge bits of news for game developers, and hopefully for gamers everywhere to get a little excited about.

Starting with Epic Online Services, it was announced today that it's live now for developers across almost all platforms (yes, Linux too). It supports Unity, Godot Engine, Unreal Engine, various stores like Steam and consoles. Giving developers a cross-platform service to hook into for matchmaking, lobbies, achievements, stats and a lot more.

The other massive bit of news is Unreal Engine 5, which was also announced today in a blog post giving a preview into its capabilities as a game engine. You can see their demonstration video below highlighting some of the features - they say it's all real-time too:

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Epic said Unreal Engine 5 will get a full release in late 2021 with a preview early next year. They've also now waived any royalties when making games with Unreal Engine on the first $1 million in gross revenue.

Curiously, the announcements for both Epic Online Services and Unreal Engine 5 don't mention Linux support. Stadia support also wasn't mentioned. EOS clearly does support Linux though, it just wasn't mentioned in the post. Hopefully it's the same for UE5 especially since UE4 does build for Linux. We've reached out to Epic Games press to confirm, will update if they reply.


Update: An Epic Games staff member said very clearly "linux isnt going anywhere" in reply to questions about Linux support for Unreal Engine 5 in the 'Unreal Slackers' Discord that I've seen today. So we can expect Linux support to continue.

The same developer later mentioned "and the context for that comment is specific to Linux support is staying in the engine and still being worked on". Just so it's real clear.

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vipor29 May 13, 2020
i can only imagine what the pc side of things will look like.the console is always lower res.
Ehvis May 13, 2020
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Quoting: vipor29i can only imagine what the pc side of things will look like.the console is always lower res.

It's a 30 fps video. It also looks very artifacty to me. Honestly not impressed considering this is a demo video under completely controlled conditions.
Lomkey May 13, 2020
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It bit to soon for games to look this good with many moving parts, sad part that story, and replay valve been lacking in a lot games that look very pretty. I do like waived any royalties under the first 1 million, I do hope is not have to be on epic store to get that waiver.


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ripper May 13, 2020
Quoting: EhvisIt's a 30 fps video. It also looks very artifacty to me. Honestly not impressed considering this is a demo video under completely controlled conditions.

Look at a good source (with commentary) here:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/a-first-look-at-unreal-engine-5

Looks quite stunning on my end.


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pete910 May 13, 2020
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Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: vipor29i can only imagine what the pc side of things will look like.the console is always lower res.

It's a 30 fps video. It also looks very artifacty to me. Honestly not impressed considering this is a demo video under completely controlled conditions.

May be you had streaming issue at the time? Looked fine for me @4k

As for the news, can't say am that interested TBH as Epics linux support toward their games has been shall I say rather lacking since the UT days.
drlamb May 13, 2020
Digital Foundry have also noted this is a 1440P demo, at 30FPS as already noted.


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soulsource May 13, 2020
UE5 is built on top of the same codebase as UE4. I would be quite (negatively) surprised if they dropped Linux support.

I mean Linux support in UE4 isn't great, but just dropping it wouldn't make much sense. Not only due to Stadia, also for dedicated servers.
ElectricPrism May 13, 2020
Unreal Engine without Unreal Tournament? Doesn't feel right.
Sojiro84 May 13, 2020
Quoting: drlambDigital Foundry have also noted this is a 1440P demo, at 30FPS as already noted.

1440p is perfectly fine for me together with proper anti-aliasing, it looks perfect.

4k is nice, but I rather have a lower resolution and next-gen graphics.
Kimyrielle May 13, 2020
As much as I despise Epic as a company, but that looks pretty amazing for sure! Give credit where credit is due! But yeah, it'd better run on Linux!
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