City builder game developers should use Unreal Engine + Nanite

[Skeletor]

UE + Nanite is optimized for this job.

[SlimNasty™]

Please build a city builder game and show the rest of us how it's done, thanks in advance...

[danko9696]

No, not really:
- Nanite is not optimized for a game meant to be played at a bird's eye view.
- With large maps you'll need low quality LoD models because, which partially defeats the purpose of Nanite.
- If you want to load tons of custom assets with very high quality meshes that will make vram requirements to skyrocket. In a case like the Matrix UE demo you can get away with it because many models are used as kind of "lego parts", but if we're talking about totally custom and completely independent very high quality meshes that would disallow large quantities of custom models both from a hardware perspective of just not being technically feasible to store that many of them, and from a custom asset creator perspective as well because the amount of work required for decent results that fit with already existing content.
- Besides custom assets UE is not mod friendly.
- UE is proprietary. Haven't we learned anything about that with the Unity fiasco?. Epic could do something similar in a few years. Probably they won't but they could, they have that same capability of doing it as Unity.


UE is not a good fit for CS, at least in my opinion.

[RAZORLIGHT]

If i check all the UE5 released games so far and their performance... NOPE they shouldn't.