Hey everyone,
I’m looking at this Trello card under the Q3 section:
From what I understand, Shared Weak Maps would allow creators to link multiple islands while maintaining persistent player data across those islands, instead of progression being locked to a single island/session. In practice, this would enable proper cross-island progression systems, shared inventories/stats, and more structured multi-island experiences in UEFN.
What I’m trying to understand is how to realistically interpret its roadmap status:
1. Does placement in Q3 actually indicate a target release window, or is it more of a “best-case if everything aligns” category rather than a commitment?
2. The card is marked “Confidence: Low” — how should that be interpreted in practical terms?
Is that usually tied to:
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unresolved technical constraints (e.g. persistence architecture / scaling limits),
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early-stage prototyping rather than active implementation,
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or simply lower prioritisation within that quarter?
And most importantly:
3. Given “Q3 + Low Confidence”, is it reasonable to start designing game systems around Shared Weak Maps now, or should it be treated as non-reliable until it moves to a higher confidence / later stage?
I’m trying to decide whether it’s safe to build core story/progression structure around it, or whether that would be too dependent on something that could slip or change significantly.
4. Is there any additional official context from Epic devs anywhere (outside the Trello board) that explains this feature or its roadmap status?
For example:
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Epic developer talks / YouTube presentations
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Reddit comments or AMAs from Epic staff
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Discord / community server clarifications
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Documentation or Verse-related references that hint at cross-island persistence evolution
So far I’ve mainly only found the Trello card itself and general persistence documentation around weak_map in Verse, but nothing that clearly explains whether this is actively being built vs still experimental.
If anyone has seen more concrete statements or links from Epic on this, would appreciate it.
Thanks.