Some people might be wondering, with a big update like this, has there been any changes to dedicated servers?

Or will Unreal Engine 5 break the servers?

Who knows?

What's the deal there?

So dedicated servers will remain functional.

There will be an experimental branch of the dedicated servers, and they will be running Unreal Engine 5 dedicated servers, okay?

And you thought that the dedicated servers, they've been experimental this whole time, and you thought they were experimental before.

They're gonna be really experimental now, okay?

It is likely that the dedicated servers will be less stable than they were before, and I understand that a lot of people were frustrated at the stability and lack of updates that dedicated servers were getting before, and this is gonna suck to hear because this is a downwards trajectory, right?

Like, things are getting worse for the dedicated servers.

So I can understand frustration and annoyance at that, for sure.

But I just want to reiterate, we've said this before in the past, dedicated servers will get more love.

They will get more work done to them.

We have planned to improve features for them on top of ironing out any issues as well.

So there will be updates to dedicated servers.

I'm sorry that they're not coming for this one.

And I'm sorry that things might get a little worse with dedicated servers now.

But...

mark my words we plan on fixing them okay so uh yeah you might be wondering what version of unreal engine 5 we're going to be upgrading to it's going to be unreal engine 5.1.1 i think i did mention that earlier but just putting putting it out there um you might be wondering why did we decide to do this change isn't a lot of work why did we decide to do that and the answer is because we're masochists all right we're game developers all right we hate ourselves