Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview

I’m glad this update has focused a lot on performance. This is specially necessary for the Switch 2 hardware! I hope this is followed for 5.7 as many devs both indie and AAA will be targeting this console.

I’ll be posting some performance comparisons between 5.5 and 5.6. I’ve been working with a custom build and I already know that Lumen performance has been improved in a non trivial manner.

Only thing that had me worry was a performance regression on the CharacterMovementComponent (that was with a DEV 5.6 build from 15 days ago), but I will re test this again to see how it looks on this snapshot of the engine.

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