September 29th, 2023 Video Q&A: If you had known how challenging the UE5 upgrade would have been, would you still have done it?

September 29th, 2023 Video

Q&A: If you had known how challenging the UE5 upgrade would have been, would you still have done it?

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pretty much the same if you would have known how challenging upgrading to Unreal and M5 would be would you still have done it, oh boy I think you're gonna get a different answer depending on who you ask at the studio honestly, I think, there's been a lot of good gains from Unreal Engine 5 but also some downsides with it both from like what the game can do but also what we can do with the game so to speak, I think overall it's been my own personal belief is I think it's a good thing to update because up epic are so good at like maintaining the work that they do it's been good for us historically to like keep the engine updated and keep being in like sort of the latest version of the engine, just because we get so many good tools and so many good like opportunities to improve the game so I think in the long run it will be worth it but there's been a lot of friction and and like like I said I think you'll get a different answer from different people in the studio who you ask I think if you wait like a little bit more maybe more people would be more prone to say it was worth the effort but we're still knee deep in it so it's it's, you know that's sort of how it is what inspired