DF Direct Weekly #110: PC Gaming in Crisis, Redfall Post Mortem, Man of Medan Switch at 24fps
Digital Foundry Direct Weekly
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Unreal Engine 4: A Bad Game
Unreal Engine 4, I would say from everything I've heard behind the scenes has a number of gotchas. The default project export is DX12 on PC when you hit Windows executable. It's also not giving you any warning signs or any sort of hand holding help about the fact that you're going to ship a very bad experience if you just ship this EAC with zero attention to detail for how shader compilation is done. So Unreal Engine 4 was definitely not made for purpose for the type of games that are being shipped right now on PC. That's why Unreal Engine 5 is a complete almost opposite of that in its current state. And that's a real shame.
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