Ask Unreal Anything: World Building | August 23, 2022 at 12PM EDT

[ColonelDube (Jean-Francois Dube)]

@MaximeDupart

Bonus Question: Why does most open-world game nowadays still feel incredibly static: why can’t we break buildings everywhere, dig holes in terrain when our cars explode or our grenades explodes (i am thinking Ubisoft games open-worlds here). Is it purely a design decision?

Breaking everything requires persistence, so when you unload parts of the world and relaod them, you’d want to keep broken stuff.