The pre-announced State of Unreal event took place this afternoon, which, as the name suggests, was already dedicated to Epic’s Unreal Engine 5. In addition to various technical details that developers will especially appreciate, we also learned some very interesting news.
The most important thing was voiced by the head of Epic Games Tim Sweeney. Unreal Engine 5 full release today, and will be available to all developers. Until now, it has only been available in the preliminary approach. Epic will also release the game with the engine Lyrawhich developers can explore and try out new UE5 features.
Welcome to a new era for authors. #UnrealEngine5 is now available for free download. Get started with all the new features listed here: https://t.co/f1YaAs9mL3 # UE5
– Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine) April 5, 2022
But in addition to Epic employees, developers from various studios using the Unreal Engine also spoke. one of them is Coalitionwho are known as the technology experts from Epic. And not to mention the fact that it was after this company that they took over the reins of the Gears of War series, the fourth and fifth parts of which they have on their account. They quickly proved that they too can work wonders with the Unreal Engine.
Last year, we received an Alpha Point tech demo from them that was supposed to show the capabilities of UE5. And today they followed him with a new cinematic demem With name Cavein which the developers show us how realistic a character can look in Unreal Engine 5.
There was also a Project Red CD. The Polish studio recently announced that they are already working on a new game in the The Sorcerer series. It will ditch its own redENGINE technology for this game and use Unreal Engine 5. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen any footage.
But the biggest surprise was Epic at the end, where studio general manager Dallas Dickinson spoke. Crystal dynamics. It was he who officially declared that a new episode of the famous series Tomb Raider is being created and developers use it for that Unreal Engine 5. Dickinson teases “Quality Action Adventure”, but this, unfortunately, is all we know so far. We will probably wait a while for more details and demos.
Crystal Dynamics is incredibly excited about the future of Unreal and how it will help us take our storytelling to the next level. That’s why we are proud to announce that our next #Tomb Raider the game is created on Unreal Engine 5! pic.twitter.com/UFMiWzJAZc
– Tomb Raider (@tombraider) April 5, 2022
In conclusion, I’ll just add that as part of the event, Epic showed us which studios are already working with Unreal Engine 5. And there are slabs of them. Besides those already mentioned, there are Ninja Theory, 11 bit studios, inXile Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment, People Can Fly, The Initiative, Eidos Montreal, Gearbox, Bloober Team, Codemasters, Supermassive Games and many more.
Here are the studios currently working on @UnrealEngine 5 games. pic.twitter.com/x08rCx8e7P
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) April 5, 2022
Source :Indian TV
