The Witcher 4 devs explain why they're using Unreal Engine 5

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red says it chose Unreal Engine 5 for the development of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 4 after se꧅eing a "shift towards open-w🅷orld support" from creator Epic Games. 

Studio CTO Paweł Zawodny discussed the move to UE5, as well as CDPR's new partnership with Epic, during today's State of Unreal launch . "It was the shift towards open-world support that brought Unreal Engine 5 to our attention," he said. 

Game director 🍒Jason Slama added that one particular UE5 demo raised eyebrows at CDPR.&nౠbsp;

"There was one demo that happened last year, that was the medieval environment demo, where at one point there's a notice board that looks strangely familiar to things we've done in the past. It even has a sign that says 'monster slayer wanted,'" Slama said. "We're like, are they trying to tell us 'come over to Unreal Engine, look how gr♓eat your games could look on there'? Was that whole demo made with that nefarious purpose? I d✱on't know, but it definitely caught my eye." 

Jakub Knapik, CDPR art director of VGX and lighting, described the new engine as "a toolbox which has a lot of 🐻features, a lot of solutions already there that allow teams to just try new stuff." 

"The fact that Unreal is used by a lot of teams already in the world, a lot of perspectives are projected into the design of the tools, and that helps a tool to be way more agile," Knapik added, echoing initial comments from CDPR regarding the versatility of the engine, which were a focus of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:announcement for The Witcher 4, which 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:isn't technically called The Witcher 4. "All in all it's a really, really cool technology to proto☂type and make environments really quickly, re💟ally beautiful, and very realistic." 

While the shift to Unreal Engine 5 will see CDPR༒ leave its proprietary REDengine behind, it will still be used for the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 expansion. 

A new Tomb Raider game in the works in Unreal Engine 5 was also announced at today's show, with Crystal Dynamics offering similar praise for the engine.

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