Unreal Engine 5, [UE5 Developer Availability 2022-04-05]

[Shifty Geezer]

That's better than GT etc., but at the same time not realistic. The only part that looks real are the urban environments, which I guess it just photogrammetry in action? I guess the main improvement is foliage being 3D (Nanite) so woodland has body.

 

[Karamazov]

yeah we'd need scenery like these in big games like GT or AC or FH.

 

[Nesh]

This is how I wish GT would look like

 

[Karamazov]

EDIT: ho i thought that was the same game, but it's not ! that's why it looked less photorealistic.

 

[Nesh]

EDIT: ho i thought that was the same game, but it's not ! that's why it looked less photorealistic.

Hmm doesn't look photorealistic exactly. It's missing somewhere in the lighting

 

[Cyan]

that's Gran Turismo 4 level of realism if we add tech inflation, so even better.

I am quite impressed with the vegetation after the 2:40 minutes mark, it looks like real life vegetation from a humid, cold place.

 

[Cyan]

wishlisted it on Steam like 2? years before, but I havent heard of this game ever since.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381520/Unrecord/

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Some copycats since:

Bodycam on Steam

Bodycam is the first ultra-realistic multiplayer, first-person shooter game made using the latest technologies of the next-gen game engine Unreal Engine 5. Get ready to dive into fast-paced Bodycam actions, where every bullet counts and every choice can decide over the victory or loss of your team.

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Real Shoot（BODYCAM） on Steam

Welcome to Real Shoot, an ultra-realistic single-player first-person shooter with a bodycam perspective. As an elite operative in the Shadow Hunt unit, you'll complete various combat objectives and eliminate international crime syndicates.The game is coming soon!Add it to your wishlist now!

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FOOTAGE BODYCAM on Steam

FOOTAGE REC is a short bodycam shooter styled game which uses unreal engine 5 to get stunning graphics and amazing gameplay. FOOTAGE REC has lot of action packed moments with multiple levels with different difficulties to help make the game a longer and a more fun experience.

store.steampowered.com

They look amazing. UE5 + photogrammetry + post-processing + animation.

 

[SlmDnk]

wishlisted it on Steam like 2? years before, but I havent heard of this game ever since.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799227498032415073

 

[Dominik D]

EDIT: ho i thought that was the same game, but it's not ! that's why it looked less photorealistic.

It's bizarre that I knew two sentences into the video that the person narrating is Polish.

 

[Pjotr]

Looks like Epic is planning a stream on PSO precaching.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/game-engines-and-shader-stuttering-unreal-engines-solution-to-the-problem

 

[Rodéric]

We did use PSO gathering for Banishers, but I had to fix UE's code for it to work properly, because it's broken. (It was in 5.0, it still was in 5.4, not checked 5.5 yet EDIT: It's still broken in 5.5)

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Flappy Pannus]

We did use PSO gathering for Banishers, but I had to fix UE's code for it to work properly, because it's broken. (It was in 5.0, it still was in 5.4, not checked 5.5 yet EDIT: It's still broken in 5.5)

Alex references similar dev concerns about the PSO gathering process in the latest DF Direct:

The part of the blog that I slightly take issue with is that fact that they do say, you know, that they've got a lot of it working with Fortnite, and I've shown time and time again, that even with the latest version of Fornite that the game is still really stuttery for the first couple of gameplay sessions. Now they kind of point that out that there's global shaders that their current system still doesn't take of, so they're not living up to their end of the bargain there so there's that, maybe that's the reason, one of the reasons why, Fortnite still struggles due to global shaders not being included in the PSO caching scheme?

But also, I've heard from multiple developers being the scenes - and these are people who are really technically minded people - that the systems they've (Epic) provided to developers didn't actually necessarily function correctly from versions 5.1 to 5.4 if you tried to hook them up. You had to do specialized work to make them function. Maybe they've heard that internal feedback from people who are actually very gifted when they're working with these things. But I've also heard from multiple people behind the scenes that it actually didn't work as advertised and they had to do specific work to make it work for their games, so that is another thing.

 

[Remij]

Alex references similar dev concerns about the PSO gathering process in the latest DF Direct:

Hopefully this stuff is brought to Epic's attention immediately.

 

[Scott_Arm]

We did use PSO gathering for Banishers, but I had to fix UE's code for it to work properly, because it's broken. (It was in 5.0, it still was in 5.4, not checked 5.5 yet EDIT: It's still broken in 5.5)

Does this stuff not get fed back to Epic?