PC Port? Unreal 5 Engine?

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

I don't understand why some people would say it's not a port. Also, why the console version runs better than PC? Lastly, why can't the developers utilize Unreal 5 Engine from scratch?

[a4lawyers]

It doesn't run better on console. It actually runs much worse. Console gamers are more casual and don't care as much about performance.

[ChibaGamingJPYT]

its not ue5 its ue4

[APN34Z]

Because its not 'port' and its not unreal 5 lol

[Dagtag]

Originally posted by iDTecKt:

Because its not 'port' and its not unreal 5 lol

it literally is a port

[Colourful Owl]

Saying a game developed using unreal engine is a console port says a lot about your knowledge of game development.

As for why is it on UE4 instead of UE5. This game has been in development for years. UE5 released in April 2022. It's also not as simple as people think it is to update your game development kit from UE4 to UE5. There is a lot of incompatibilities that would need to be addressed. Also as a new version, large studios aren't going to risk being "beta testers" when a new software is released for multi-million $ projects.

I would suspect that the next Jedi game will be on UE5 as it's a more established tool, more of the dev team will have had training on it etc. And it likely started early development about 12 months ago after UE5 released.

[[-iD-]]

UE5 would require them to go to school and learn all new stuff. which would have caused development time past 3 years. and they are proud of how fast they shoveled this out so take that as you will.

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

Originally posted by Chiba:

its not ue5 its ue4

I know that but I don't understand why the developers have chosen to go with Unreal 4 instead of Unreal 5 Engine.

[Dagtag]

Originally posted by Colourful Owl:

Saying a game developed using unreal engine is a console port says a lot about your knowledge of game development.

uuuuuhm yeah, no... this statement right here does though.

yes, an unreal engine game can be a console port if console was their main targeted platform, which it was. the game only got ported to pc afterwards.

[Dagtag]

Originally posted by -iD-:

UE5 would require them to go to school and learn all new stuff. which would have caused development time past 3 years. and they are proud of how fast they shoveled this out so take that as you will.

honestly, UE5 really isn't that different from UE4

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

Originally posted by iDTecKt:

Because its not 'port' and its not unreal 5 lol

What?

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by Dagtag:

Originally posted by -iD-:

UE5 would require them to go to school and learn all new stuff. which would have caused development time past 3 years. and they are proud of how fast they shoveled this out so take that as you will.

honestly, UE5 really isn't that different from UE4

then as said its the tools used they'd have to redevelop and development time is something they didn't want to add to.

[CoolBreeze44]

When will people learn the Unreal Engine 4 is nothing but junk. You get what you pay for.

[Dagtag]

Originally posted by CoolBreeze44:

When will people learn the Unreal Engine 4 is nothing but junk. You get what you pay for.
:cozybethesda:

when will people learn that this statement is not at all correct...

let me ask you, how did you come to that conclusion? have you ever actually worked with unreal engine? or are you just parroting what others say?

[m0zone]

actually they didnt want to pay for engine ue5 or fees ue4 to ue5 has been done by many games black desert online etc https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/unreal-engine-5-migration-guide/

[potato]

Originally posted by m0zone:

actually they didnt want to pay for engine ue5 or fees ue4 to ue5 has been done by many games black desert online etc https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/unreal-engine-5-migration-guide/

there are like 2 games using ue5 right now

"many games"

rest are unreleased