The event on the future of Unreal Engine 5, the State of Unreal was the backdrop to many new features, both for industry insiders and for video game enthusiasts eager to receive surprises from the software houses who flew to San Francisco to attend at GDC 2024.
The guys from Skydance New Media and Amy Hennig: the creator of the Uncharted series showed the public the Story Trailer of Marvel 1943 Rise of Hydra, the new triple-A adventure on Unreal Engine 5 which will see the light in 2025 su PC, PlayStation 5 e Xbox Series X|S.
The show prepared by Epic continued with a rich in-depth analysis of the improvements, additions and optimizations expected with Unreal Engine 5.4: the next iteration of the famous multiplatform graphics engine, in Preview from today Wednesday 20 March, boasts a whole series of technologies designed to create PNGs with hyper-realistic faces and extremely fluid animations. The new version of UE 5 therefore aims to revolutionize the development of video games, especially if set in massive open world scenarioswith the latest generation middleware designed to facilitate the creation of extremely detailed biomes and dynamically changing environments.
The improvements promised by the next Major Update of the Epic Games graphics engine are taken up by Funcom in the tech demo of Dune Awakening on Unreal Engine 5.4, with the authors of the ambitious sci-fi MMO praising Epic's work and describing in detail the many advantages guaranteed by updates to technologies such as Lumen and Nanite.
The show organized by Epic could not miss the space dedicated to the most well-known and played free-to-play in the world, with the in-depth analysis confirming the arrival of Creativa and Unreal Editor in LEGO Fortnite and Rocket Racing: the content creators they can therefore exploit to their advantage the new development tools to create personalized experiences and share them with the rest of the community.
During the State of Unreal 2024, a new window was finally opened on the ambitious multiplayer universe of Chrono Odyssey with a video showing the power of Unreal Engine 5. The next 'buy-to-play' MMORPG from Chrono Studios and Kakao Games aims to put ourselves in the shoes of a handful of knights willing to do anything to defend their kingdom from the threat represented by the hordes of monsters, dragons and creatures of the night led by capricious deities who aim to annihilate the human race.
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