SSGI is deprecated from ue5.8. Its quite important for my own project as it has to run on medium-spec hardware.
Lumen isnt an option, neither is baked lighting. So I am left with SSGI as the next best thing.
I would ask other people to chime in if they feel SSGI needs to be kept. Perhaps epic might take note and keep ssgi in.
Have you tried the new Lumen ‘Lite’? In 5.8 Lumen on medium scalability basically gives you what you used to get on high, at half the cost. But, high is now twice as expensive.
I find Lumen reflections in 5.8 a bit too much ( have to tweak some materials ), and was still using SSGI…
I have not, my project is a bit unusual in that it is procedurally generated on the fly, so procumputed distance fields and mesh cards (which lumen needs) are not readily available to me.