Unity Addressable Asset system equivalent for Unreal

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Hello,

I am fairly new to Unreal engine and have been heavily involved in the tools programming side of things. I have a good understanding of how Unity works and have worked on it for some 4-5 years now and been almost 4 months as an Unreal tools programmer.

Recently we came across an issue where initially loading the game was taking quite a bit on PC and lower end devices like mobile devices. In Unity, the go to solution for these types of issues is the addressable system.
I was wondering if Unreal had something similar to that for faster load times? I’m in a position where I’m not entirely sure what to even look for in the first place so if someone could point me what to look for, I can continue my search from there!

Edit1: It’s specifically called the Addressable Asset system. Video on the system:

Thanks!

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When I look up ‘unity addressable system’, I get a system for large teams to manage projects. That’s probably not what you mean?

Can you be more specific?

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Hi,

I am talking about the Unity Addressable Asset system.
Perhaps this video can help clear it?

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Do you mean this?

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You can structure your PAK so that the order of items occurs in the same sequence as your game. I’ll look it up…

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Nice! thank you! I did not know where to even start looking for so this gives me a point to start looking !

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Thank you!
I’ll try combining this with the Asset Manager and see how it goes!

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Hi,

Not sure if this helps, Unreal uses Soft Referencing and Hard Referencing. Soft Referencing which is only loaded when needed. Try checking it out too.