Space Engineers 2 in Unreal Engine 5

[Kratum]

Just wanted to throw this out into the universe. Can we make this Patreon happen? After the AI grids update of course. Implement what has been improved by the modding community from the ground up.

[Mojo]

Not likely to happen. Keen is well keen on using their own engine. :)

And SE 2 is just hype right now, there has never been an official statement saying they plan on making SE 2.

[RadioMars]

I don't like the idea of se2 to be honest. So much hard work will be left behind

[Kaii-Killer]

Keen have stated they have decided on the engine already for SE2 and it is not Unreal Engine, it's their own engine, again.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Unreal 5 is inappropriate for this game. its good for first person shooters running on an eSports rig, not for mass use in a builder game that needs to run acceptably on average hardware.

The reality in the gaming world today is that there is a huge divide between the typical gaming rig, and the bleeding edge. Much more so than in the past. Blame the economy or whatever other thing you want, but the facts are the facts. More gamers run on 5 year old systems these days than developers like. But that is the market that exists, not the market they wish existed.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Bethesda's Creation Engine. Best. Ever.

[Supreme Emperor Lord As Asriel]

Unreal 5 is technically designed for building games based on 500 million blocks instead of the 1 million blocks thats the only reason why they would use unreal 5.

If they want to make a building game based on 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 blocks than UE5 is appropriate engine to use.

Using their engine to produce that many blocks require at least 20 years/

[Supreme Emperor Lord As Asriel]

in 2050 you will be expected to produce 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 blocks

With the way people are crashing you wont be getting that many until 2066

[Waldherz]

Unrel has none of the features that SEs engine has.
Except rendering pixels and some physics.

But it doesnt do voxels, it doesnt allow for anything close to a grid system that SE uses.

[valrawk]

Originally posted by Supreme Emperor Lord As Asriel:

With the way people are crashing you wont be getting that many until 2066

if Society, let alone the gaming industry still exist in 2066, I will be both impressed and dissapointed. XD

[Tom]

I don't think the unreal engine was built with games like SE in mind. Now would it be cool to see a builder game like SE with combat, movement, looks etc that you'd get from a UE5 FPS game? Yeah, that would be cool. But it would need its own engine purpose built to do that, and that would likely be a very expensive engine to produce.

[Kaii-Killer]

Originally posted by Spaceman Spiff:

Bethesda's Creation Engine. Best. Ever.

Gamebryo Zombie.

[Stravinsky]

no thanks for UE5. They have probably spend thousands of dollars dev their own engine not to buy a super expensive licence that is not meant for any type of simulation nor physics.

[yellow51]

Originally posted by Kratum:

Just wanted to throw this out into the universe. Can we make this Patreon happen? After the AI grids update of course. Implement what has been improved by the modding community from the ground up.

I am working on a Space game of sorts, in UE5. And I will say, it is limited in functionality compared to something like SE, and without heavily modifying UE5: you will never get to the point SE is at, with a game made for UE5.

[arturkandla]

The idea is good, but the execution...

[rock]

The extent most AAA dev teams push their games is the furthest you'll see UE go. It's just not made for something of this scale or detail. Pretty lights only do so much for a game.