April 14th, 2026 - Q&A: When will the Explorer get the love it deserves?

April 14th, 2026

Q&A: When will the Explorer get the love it deserves?

Q&A: When will the Explorer get the love it deserves? (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbban4gy0gUt=0

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  1. Mikael

    The Explorer is improved, but still a shadow of itself from Update 7.

    When will it get the love it deserves?

    So what happened between Update 7 and now?

    Or Update 7 and 8 is the proper question.

    Engine upgrade.

    So I'm not even sure if it's as feasible to go back to the...

    I mean, the engine upgrade changed...

    The engine upgrade from U7 to U8, from Unreal 4 to 5, changed everything.

    In the backend, all interactions.

    Funny story, we can maybe talk about that sometime when we have Uzo or Guru on stream, but...

    The first internal playtests of Update 8, the first internal playtests of Unreal Engine 5, being the backbone, were... Catastrophical, to say the least.

    The game was unplayable.

    It was unplayable.

    You could not hand mine.

    In fact, I'm pretty sure the E button just didn't work.

    Interacting didn't work.

    Solid start.

    and from there all kinds of shenanigans and untangling everything that came with the engine upgrade meant literally like revisiting everything in the game because everything had changed or broken to some degree and vehicles are part of that so you would think actually the vehicles may have may have

    been visited even more for 1.2 because 1.2 essentially is the vehicle update but also the Explorer is working kind of fine maybe minus the new audio that we just heard about in chat five minutes ago but I don't know about the old one so to me they work gigafine what is the issue anyway

    Please, I hope the Explorer engine returns or closes.

    So it is audio then.

    Is it only audio?

    Because if it's audio, then it's probably by choice.

    And if it is, then I could explore why, but that's also going to be very low prio.

Q&A: When will the Explorer get the love it deserves? (Part 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbban4gy0gU&t=123

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  1. Mikael

    I asked what is wrong with the explorer in the current game if you hit the handbrake engine power is cut drastically in update 7 you could power you could power through a slide ah so it's just the breaking of the hammock being way more severe I mean that does sound

    More boring, I agree.

    Not sure if it's intentional or just something that happened with the engine update and devs were like, yeah, I mean, that's fine, whatever.

    Let me archive this and explore if it was intentional or it's revertable.