Unreal Engine 6 revealed with a major Rocket League upgrade - the teaser concerns me

Have you healed from the trauma yet Limabeans? Or is this rubbing the salty wounds open once more... 😬

The reason why Rocket Leagues graphics haven't really been updated in so long is that, oh I dunno, maybe... NOBODY asked for it? They were literally fine.
Now players will have worse frames, higher bar for getting input lag, and what looks to be an EXCUSE to shove crap nobody asked for. Another Epic fumble, imo.
I bought the game on steam back in the day when it was a paid game. I come back to it every now and then, but if they remove it from being able to be played on Steam, I'll be so angry. The writing looks to be on the wall though...

Metaverse? That's a buzzword I haven't heard in a hot minute. I thought it went out of favour when the NFTs became irrelevant. I thought large language models were the trendy thing at the minute.

Unreal Engine 6. The collective hairs on the Threat Interactive team must be standing up. Welcome… to The Stutterverse!

Remember the times when Rocket League was Linux native...?

Quoting: EikeRemember the times when Rocket League was Linux native...?

Ah yes, the aforementioned trauma. Such fun!

So... another form of "launcher"? Just more deeply integrated and annoying. I hope users will like it as much as they like traditional launchers 🤮 .

Looks like another try on the "walled garden" solution, this time at the publisher level rather then at the OS level.

After having played a few Unreal engine 5 games, I decided not to buy more UE5 games. Performance is crap even on high end hardware and the mostly forced use of upscalers or TSR make the games blurry or full of artifacts. Not fun at all. Recent UE5 games are barely playable on my rx 9070. I can rarely get more than 60-70 fps at 3440x1440 without resorting to editing engine.ini files to disable a bunch of useless crap, and even then I barely get to 90-100 fps. Most of those games graphics do not justify such low performance. I bet UE6 will make it even worse.

"Now with even more stuttering and depending even more on crutches just to reach 60fps!"

For UE4 we had 27 versions before UE4.28 aka UE5.0 was published. And the reason for relabeling 4.28 to 5.0 were features as Nanite and Lumen ... not even Megalights or Substrate Materials. For what reason Epic would want to push a 6.0 at this point right now? Was this an AI-slop video?

Btw UE5 games can be optimized and Alkimia Interactive (Gothic Remake) wants to do exactly this with UE5.4 and want to show that their game do not even have micro-stuttering. Let's focus on this game and if they're right it is a developer issue on all the other studios, not an UE5 problem.

Also there are many misconceptions on UE5. If devs build in Nanite everywhere where possible, they also need to change their workflow a lot. For example you need to create models for foliage. Sprites as foliage are old tech and do not scale well with Nanite. But Nanite also does not like displacement, devs have to limit the amount of grass swinging, even if grass can be displayed 100km in distance (one of the main reason for using Nanite btw, I saw whole huge distance forests this way, created by an indie developer, showing me in private).
Another misconception is, that UE5 takes a lot of resources in general. Traditional GPU has to work more as more polygons become added. With Nanite the GPU requirement is directly bound to your screen resolution, no matter how much polygons are added. You have the same requirements for an empty scene as for a super high resolution models scene. And so there is a point before it is reached the classical methods (also functional in UE5) will be more performant, but beyond that point UE4 and other engines could just not compete with UE5. And whoever is using a 4K monitor requires even better hardware for even an empty scene.

Developers need to relearn their workflows to make optimal use of UE5 and many just put frame-gen or upscale to it to avoid any kind of optimization. The "fun" fact: UE5 removes the needs of many optimizations just as no need to build LODs or to bake lightmaps (which are indeed more efficient than Lumen, but also static and not dynamic) and devs still fail to do the rest of the work needed as proper instancing of meshs.

And of course, UE5 is not without problems. Running editor on Linux in Wayland causes a lot of issues and UE5.7 screwed up the whole editor UI (something I wounder if it was vibe-coded or just a super stupid human mistake).

I'm leaning more into indie games.
Because, here I am, waiting for Mina the Hollower on 29th May.
Or Abyss X Zero.
Or Moulder.
Sure, there are some other bigger games. Like Witchbrook, Nivalis or Alkahest.
And more bigger games with debatable studios and publishers, like Crimson Desert, HoMM: Olden Era or Avowed.
But as long as the games are working fine on linux I pay the money to play them.

I'm also waiting for some EA-games leaving their status to a 1.0 version.
For example, the demos from Alabaster Dawn, Monomyth, HoMM: Olden Era and Super Alloy Crush were fun.
And yes, i did buy some games in EA state, Valheim for example.
But that was the time I had friends to play with.

UE6 have same colors as Resident Evil 6... 6 is always violet ?

Quoting: ShadowXeldronMetaverse? That's a buzzword I haven't heard in a hot minute. I thought it went out of favour when the NFTs became irrelevant. I thought large language models were the trendy thing at the minute.

I'm sure even as we speak, there are executives trying to find a way to combine those disasters. "Okay, hear me out--NFTs curated by AI!"