Svogi

[Maximum-Dev]

@BrUnO_XaVIeR

One of biggest reasons why Paragon failed was because moba players have potatoes, but Paragon required “real” graphic cards to run on.
Unfortunately the more you invest in “graphxxxx” the more production costs rise and the more your target player base shrinks.
On the other hand the less you invest in graphics the less market chance you have of “causing an impact” in terms of marketing.

Unreal 4 is right on the “sweet spot” of great graphics also capable of down-scaling to run on potatoes.
That working so well, for a game where Epic already made around $500KK in such a short period of time, that leaves almost no room to gauge interest on graphics for games made for the average gamer whilst said gamer cannot afford the hardware required to run said game;

Specially when major player base are regularly reporting crashes on Consoles due to graphics already consuming so much resources in Fortnite…
They are actually cutting corners to stop those crashes, not thinking about expanding the engine (unless you’re Disney with a demand lol).

So, from the PoV of engine manufactures that makes very little sense to invest a lot of effort on lighting when the landscape is something like that.
This leaves an open opportunity for competitors such as CryTech, Unity and Amazon to bite a few costumers here and there if they ever manage to reproduce someday the toolset we have for granted in Unreal Engine.

“Epic Mega Games” can now go ahead and rebrand again to “Epic Fortnite Corp.” xD

1. Graphics can be tweaked in the option menu and most features can be turned off to run on any potato.
2. Better graphics does not mean worse performance. Cryengine runs much faster than UE4 while having tons more graphical features than UE4 has.

Implementing graphical features isn’t just about putting in some code, call it a day and stop supporting it i.e vol fog/lighting. It’s more about continuous try to improve it, making it run better while also looking better.

It is quite realistic to expect every single high end feature to be present in this engine. At current rate, UE4 is in transformation to become “the potato game maker machine” because industry has been moving forward and Epic has been moving side ways.

But Epic has proved to not be in the business of providing production ready/optimized features i.e recent so called physically based lighting addition. So any discussion from GI to physical lights to open world tools to something as simple as spline deals for making roads is quite pointless.

summed it up pretty well.

1. Is it needed for Fortnite
2. Is Fortnite needed it
3. For Fortnite is it needed

Replace Fortnite with whatever their next game is called and you’ll have a clear understanding of how much improvements you’re gonna have to expect.