Why is nobody on these forums helpful anymore? I keep opening up questions and bug reports and nobody responds! Have people abandoned these forums?
Why are all the options that I have been using up until now been disabled or removed? Why are plugins compatibility locked and can no longer be installed? Why is procedural foliage disabled and not available when it was before? Why are my material previews within blueprints broken and display as black boxes?
I was excited for this update but it has been a huge disappointment and waste of time. Nothing works and my project is pretty much broken thanks to these stupid backwards changes. Is there no quality control or proper testing involved before these updates are pushed? I get that using the latest version of the editor is optional but I would have rather waited an extra month than have to deal with this garbage.
I am seriously annoyed over the time wasted and these forums are so dead.
feels like 2 steps forward 1 step backward sometimes.
my project started on 5.1. then move to 5.3 then 5.4. (tried 5.5 and 5.6. both broke many aspects i wasnt prepared to chase up on ) 5.7 looks promising first time i seen performance gains OOB without doing anything (havent upgraded project to 5.7) but still a couple of major issues.
i use landscape tool. its still a bit broken for me. but was totally unusable in 5.5/5.6 (manage/add landscape tiles scuffed as hell) enums and other da’s broke.
but yeah. 5.7 (with smaa and mover and the other new toys do look amazing) and yeah feels a bit dead here. its almost as if things are handled somewhere else (discord) perhaps. and people dont follow up here anymore. ?
I think the main issue lies with not enough staffing to go through all the posts on here. The one guy is a volunteer and he’s been around for years. Sometimes I’ll hear from other people but rarely if it’s to help troubleshoot something that’s not working out within the editor.
simple, there is no help for now, and for next few yrs. ue5.7 is what is, if we hope for performance as was in ue4 its never go to heappend, possibilitys a shrinked. also its just to mutch new stufs in engine, its just overhealmed. people needs time to explore , try and test so its very hard to get help accordingly.
I didn’t want to try it because I knew there would be a few issues. I waited until the official release to install it. I ended up figuring out most of my issues yesterday. It was mostly unnecessary anxiety that could have been avoided if they didn’t change certain things with no instruction. Or the instructions are outdated and need to be searched for.
Honestly? I kinda gave up, it’s just not worth it! I got the Devotee badge in 2023 and I was really active and willful to help people but when I needed a hand I always had to find it at the end of my arm, as you can see from my questions (And despite everything I’ve always come back to post the solution for others in future)
I’ve started using Unreal in 2021 and watched the decline of the AnswerHub (badly converted into this forum, sometimes you can find old questions where the answer is swapped with the question), the destruction of the Unreal Wiki (you can find an enormous amount of dead links to it bringing nowhere) and the pointless automatically generated documentation that tells you nothing more that hovering the function in BP or looking at the source code in C++ (Please tell what purpose serves a page like this…)
The forum has been working decently in the last year, but it hasn’t always been like this, it used to have horrible bugs (like being completely inaccessible/unusable from mobile or limiting the number of posts that you could vote), there was an option to flag posts and indicate the specific issue with the post, now it’s just limited to “report as off topic, inappropriate, spam or illegal”, I’ve cooperated several times with moderators to mark posts as solved or fix other issues but that is no longer an option! I just think they don’t care!
I don’t understand if they are too few to handle all the work (both on the forum an on the development of the engine)
They ignore basic pull requests to fix errors they introduced with the updates, typos or bad naming but they felt the urge to rename “Set master pose” to “Set leader pose” because it wasn’t politically correct, officially making all the previous tutorials outdated)
The “coup de grace” for me was the UEFN integration with the forum instead of having separated sections, my bookmark has always been this page and it was useful to find new posts with people to help, now half of the questions are about Fortnite stuff and it’s really not in my interest to dive into it..
So, yeah, I throw in the towel for now🏳️
Sorry for the wall of text but your intro triggered me!