Yea I loved that after the release of 4.21 they have added a bunch of new cards to “Done in 4.21” which didn’t even exist before… the roadmap is entirely useless in its current state and probably will stay like for a few more years 
Well it would help if we had a centralized post/page or whatever where we could talk about the Unreal roadmap. As it stands there are so many different sources of information regarding suggestions for the engine (Answer hub, forum, , discord you name it etc etc) I’m sure it is a nightmare to keep track off all that.
So, the roadmap is officially dead now?
I’d say if there is nothing new on it well after GDC 2019, then yeah, pretty much so.
Well, the road map should be looking a bit further ahead then 1,5 months and should be updated regularly but sure, lets see. I also dont like that there is no more submit/commit-recap on those merges so you cant even read up on new stuff via
Well, it’s total transparency as [USER=“35”][/USER] talked about many times … /s
yeah 0 opacity
I’m happy to inform you that the roadmap has been updated, and we’re improving our efforts to keep it up to date. We appreciate all the feedback, and will keep you posted on our progress with shipping new features and improvements.
Thanks!!!
Wow, a lot of under-the-hood changes… I can’t wait to see full release notes 
@VictorLerp Would be cool to have an extended view in what is planned in the future. Also for example nothing of the raytracing efforts are reflected on the current roadmap. Still thanks for the bigger update 
Yeah, it’s still not a roadmap. More like a log of already implemented features.
but they are: Trello
Maybe he meant “roadmap for future”, not the summary of implemented features which can be found everywhere in internet now 
Yeah, agreed, what would actually be interesting to see is what are the plans for 2019 Q2, Q3, Q4, and maybe even better, if for once they would let the community contribute, vote for specific features / bug fixes on Trello, and at least in a minor way they’d consider what the community needs, not just Epic’s own games or AAA studios with their own tool and engine programmers.
Yeah, I know I have a wild, childish and surrealistic imagination 
is actually a common misconception. Please, don’t take personally, I see such statement quite often and I think it’s invalid.
Big chunk of AAA studios won’t use Unreal because they have enough manpower to build tech for their games (EA, Ubisoft, CD Projekt, Sony internal studios). Yes, UE3 was developed with biggest studio in mind, with license costing like half a million dollars upfront and for first person shooters. Sadly for Epic, biggest guys in industry decided to ditch Unreal Engine and develop their own engines.
Epic had to adapt and expand its reach. UE4 can be used by ambitious hobbyists who could create entire game without ever touching C++. Of course, it would be composed of messy blueprints and such hobbyist would encounter many limitations. It doesn’t mean it’s an AAA engine…
Small and medium-sized studios rarely even hire a rendering programmer.
UE4 is designed from ground up for small and medium-size studios, just think of Blueprints or any kind of tool which gives a power to designer/artist. Material editor, Niagara, Sequencer, Animation blueprint, tons of tools. None of these could described as “done for Epic games or AAA only”. UE4 gives you a lot of flexibility, you’re able to create very different games. Which available engine allows you for so much without buying plugins and even opening IDE like Visual Studio? It’s the last engine I would complain “I need programmers here”.
Obviously, you would need to hire programmer if you’d like have a new tool with new UI. It’s the same for every other engine. What else would you expect?
Although… 4.22 actually adds basic way to create editor tools in UMG. Still… people would say “stupid release, I don’t need ray tracing, Epic doesn’t care”…
“AAA game engine” are built with specific kind of games in mind i.e. open worlds, action-heavy multiplayer game, etc. Trust me, if you never worked with older Unreal generation or in-house engine like The Witcher engine. UE4 cares about small and independent studios a lot, engine is designed for needs of very different games and studios.
Public voting for features is terrible idea as it assumes that multi-billion project (development of UE4) should take seriously voting on public board where any enthusiast would vote on like 50 cards/features that actually don’t need in current project, but he thinks it’s cool . I did it myself, now I see it was pointless.
Often people don’t realize that some cool features would require re-writing huge part of engine in order to satisfy a relative small amount of games, i.e. custom gravity direction. In effect we had plenty complaints like “Custom gravity got 200 votes, why it hasn’t been implemented yet? Epic doesn’t care!”,
Yes, Epic partially prioritized Fortnite while developing engine for a long time. We all should remember that…
- I can’t think of any or system in UE4 which could be used only by Fortnite. Please point such , if you see any.
- strategy pays off, now they reinvest Fortnite income into engine’s development.
- We all benefits from Fortnite developments, we got battle-tested engine. Epic knows how to build designer-friendly, artist-friendly tools - they use it to produce their own games. Meanwhile Unity needed years to implement very basic system of “nested prefabs” and its networking system sucks, nobody wants to use it.
- Many important engine tools started as tool prototype for Epic’s games, i.e. Niagara, Gameplay Abilities.
Robo Recall has been created as VR test.
That being said… I totally agree we should have a proper roadmap. Currently browsing changelists is the best way to get updates on future releases. It sucks. Information is there, but nobody want to provide it for us.
PS Keep calm and learn to love Fortnite 
I’m not saying it’s not a great tool for indies. Otherwise we wouldn’t be here
However, I do believe that while bigger studios’ needs are probably heard, we, single developers, are not. Or not as much as some of us would prefer.
The votes could just show a basis for demand, which features would actually be used by the community. But of course I didn’t put hours of thought into it, I have no specific love for voting, I only would like the community needs to be heard. The platform is not the point.
To be clear, I’m not saying anything like “Epic doesn’t care”. What I’m saying is, as a single indie developer, I feel I have 0 power to influence the development of the engine. That’s all. Personally, I think the roadmap could have actual discussions for each improvement proposal, and Epic could decide based on their own preference and the community’s feedback what to improve.
Now, I’m not saying Epic should entirely rely on what , 13 from Kuala Lumpur tells them (“I want a custom gravity system !!!”), but I believe some collaboration might be helpful for both the engine and the community.
Yeah, I feel you
The thing is the community is so huge. Having open discussion about any big system would become a mess. Personally I wouldn’t know to grasp it.
Usually tool developer targets “proven” customers, studios that stand out and ask them for feedback.
Although… it would always possible to hire guy who talks to community and monitors discussion to recognize “trends”, what are often expressed needs. Ironically, you’d have to put experienced developer so he could understand what people actually mean.
That’s quite interesting challenge.
For comparison, I don’t think that Unity listens to community. They hired experienced guys (often AAA veterans), they came and said "Seriously, modern engine needs and ". And that how they work for last 2 years.
On the other hand, Houdini is example how it could be done. They set up their development in such way they even publish daily builds with fixes/updates to the last Houdini release.
I have no idea how to compare development of Houdini with game engine which so complex piece of software.
Ah sorry, did not see that. But it is not unusual to have not all upcoming features listed on trello board.
Anyway, the point of a “roadmap” is actually not fullfilled with board.
you need hire new programmers for new level editor
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how about roadmap?
It would be very useful to know what’s coming ahead of time however, I think the only reason they aren’t letting us know a definite roadmap far in advance is because they don’t plan it out that far, they only plan for the next release version but even then it’s not fully planned out. Based on the changes I see made on Trello I don’t see it being any different than how I’ve stated it, Epic can prove me otherwise by showing Q2 Q3 Q4 roadmaps in advance that they actually stick to. “*Note: These are estimated time frames and are subject to change.” *They said it themselves even the Q releases are just estimates.