Whats Wrong with Epic? Dynamic Lighting, GI and Shadows!!

[Maximum-Dev]

@MonsOlympus;711820

I dont want to sound too cynical but as soon as I hear Open World Survival these days I do an eye roll, its like the new MMO for startups, you got to ask yourself if its worth pursuing this type of project, if youre doing it because its what you think would benefit the industry or yourself. Its a shame some people have to learn the hard way its not all about them and a boolean from Epic to make my game technically great for me button isnt happening for any of us DGI or not, Id much prefer to see them focus on issues that have the biggest impact for all instead of getting sidetracked with features which offer very little real world benefit and production speed increases

Ark and Battlegrounds are open world and are the most profitable indie projects for Epic so whether open world is the new MMO startup or not that’s no valid reason to not support them. Some of the problems these projects are suffering from are what is mentioned in the OP. Saying Epic already cared too much about open world, is just not a valid statement. They did with 4.8, introducing a set of tools that didn’t receive updates or bug fixes post 4.8 and to this date there are many open world related bugs and feature requests that remain backlogged because they’re not a priority for Epic -> open world is not a priority for Epic -> Helping the most profitable open world projects (Ark and Battlegrounds) is not a priority for Epic, which is where the weirdness begins and the more you look at things such as useless level editing in VR the more you realize a lot of Epic’s recent efforts are fruitless.