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Is Unreal Engine 5 really as bad as people seem to think it is? If so, why? (self.pcgaming)

submitted 2 weeks ago by 58008 to c/pcgaming

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I hear nothing but bad things when the topic of Unreal Engine 5 is brought up. It's also true that the games I've played which use this engine have suffered from poor performance to one degree or another, so it seems like the complaints are well-founded, but I don't actually know.

Is it a bad engine, or is it just not being used correctly by either the devs when they design their games or the players when they choose their graphical settings? Or a bit of both? What's actually wrong with it, in layman's terms?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've also heard a few people saying it sucks, but I have no idea why. Nothing I've played built on the engine has been any different than games on previous Unreal engines in terms of performance for the most part. The most egregiously bad game I've played on it was Stalker 2; but I don't think the issues in that game had anything to do with the engine. Technically speaking it was flawless; all the bugs I experienced were with quests constantly breaking, but that's also how the previous 3 stalker games were at release.

However, looking at the list of all games on UE5, a lot of them are just shit games in general.