• @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      578 months ago

      Developers. UE5 is chalking up to be the defacto standard for modern titles that don’t have budgets large enough to make their own engine.

      EGS, on the other hand, is still an abysmal failure beyond the lure of free (and increasingly shittier) games and a yearly 25% off discount coupon that people fall for.

      • I Cast Fist
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        348 months ago

        I really wish they’d start by not making the EGS program a fucking UE5 app. Seriously, using the whole ass engine to render html is stupid beyond belief

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              If you peruse the folder where it’s installed and compared to any UE4 or UE5 game, you’ll notice all the other similarities in .dll files, folders and whatnot. Even the CrashReporter.exe is the same you see in unreal games. Or you can check the config files at Epic Games\Launcher\Engine\Config which has stuff like BaseEngine.ini which, among other networking configurations, also has this:

              [/Script/Engine.Engine]
              ConsoleClassName=/Script/Engine.Console
              GameViewportClientClassName=/Script/Engine.GameViewportClient
              LocalPlayerClassName=/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer
              WorldSettingsClassName=/Script/Engine.WorldSettings
              NavigationSystemClassName=/Script/NavigationSystem.NavigationSystemV1
              NavigationSystemConfigClassName=/Script/NavigationSystem.NavigationSystemModuleConfig
              AvoidanceManagerClassName=/Script/Engine.AvoidanceManager
              PhysicsCollisionHandlerClassName=/Script/Engine.PhysicsCollisionHandler
              

              Meanwhile, in Epic Games\Launcher\Portal\Config, the “game” part of the launcher, you have DefaultGame.ini and DefaultEngine.ini, the latter’s first 2 lines pointing back to the Engine folder: [Configuration] BasedOn=..\Engine\Config\BaseEngine.ini

              So, yeah, it’s the actual engine. I was going to complain about disk bloat, but my Steam install is currently sitting at 1.3GB and I’m not entirely sure how much of that is from cached stuff. GOG Galaxy is taking ~980MB, but roughly 650MB are from redist installers (MSVC2005, 2007, dotnet, etc), so a “clean” install would be way lighter than Steam or EGS, the latter at 1.1GB on a clean install.

          • I Cast Fist
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            98 months ago

            Ever heard the saying “Everything looks like a nail when you have a hammer”? Basically, just because you have a tool, it doesn’t mean it’s the best tool for every job. UE5 is great for making games, cinematics and loads of other stuff. But why use it to effectively behave as a browser like Chrome or Firefox, but worse, when there are alternatives made specifically for that?

            • @steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works
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              -68 months ago

              That’s not really a valid response. Please accurately clarify why UE5 is inefficient at running a store. Benchmarks and other evidence is required.

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                I don’t think benchmarks are really needed to explain this. The whole game engine part is an unnecessary step.

                To initialize a web browser component within UE5, you first need to initialize UE5 and then the web browser within it. Or, you could initialize a web browser directly, saving the memory and time needed to start up UE5.

                They clearly have developers who know how to use CEF or whatever web view framework since they added it to Unreal Engine, so it’s not like they don’t know how to add it to a standalone application.

                • @steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works
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                  18 months ago

                  You have provided absolutely no proof that using UE5 to run EGS is a waste of resources nor that your idea of using a browser directly would be more performant. Just saying things isn’t proof and the burden sits with you.

                  • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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                    18 months ago

                    I’m not about to install EGS to prove something that can be deduced using common sense and critical thinking.

                    Abstractions are not free. The more of them you add, the more resources will be consumed by the application. Unreal Engine is an extra layer of abstraction sitting above some web view framework. Ergo, using the same web view framework without the Unreal Engine component abstraction would be cheaper.

                • @steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works
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                  18 months ago

                  Wait, wait. Do you think that “the whole engine” is loaded for every UE5 executable? I can tell you that’s not at all how this works. The point of a scalable engine is that it loads whatever relevant libraries or portions of the engine that would be needed, including swapping for custom code where appropriate. The idea that the storefront is unoptimised purely because it uses a game engine is just as ignorant as saying that you should measure all computers purely by a single metric. Maybe you could also compare EGS to other stores and measure only the executable’s size? By your reasoning there’s no need for benchmarks, so surely the store with the smallest exe wins, right?

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                    When I said “the whole game engine part”, I was referring to the usage of the engine at all. The whole engine obviously isn’t loaded, but there’s further abstractions and initialization code compared to using CEF or the Edge web view directly.

                    I’m simply saying that it’s a waste of resources to require loading or initializing any other part of Unreal Engine (including the component loading code!) when they’re only using it as web view.

                    I’m also not saying any other storefront is better. Steam is a bloated pig that half uses CEF and half uses Valve’s own proprietary GUI library, and the various other Electron-based publishers’ launchers suffer from different but equally stupid problems.

      • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        Nope. Godot, a fully free Unity-like Engine is shaping up to be the defacto standard for good games (AAA garbage is being ignored purposefully)

        • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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          78 months ago

          I know Godot exists, and it’s preferable to supporting Epic, but it isn’t up to feature parity with UE5. Particularly, when it comes to asset streaming and open world games, Unreal has better support out of the box.

          I would love for Godot to be the standard and first choice for every developer (including AAA), though.

        • @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
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          38 months ago

          “ignoring the major players in the industry”

          UE5 had turned into the standard whether you like it or not. I personally don’t like the engine, but that doesn’t mean I’ll lie about its position in the market, and neither should you. You aren’t doing Godot any favours with it

          • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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            08 months ago

            When said “major players” only pump out trash that’s not fun to play, yes, I will ignore them gladly. The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order, which I promply refunded after finishing, since it was more of a walking and climbing simulator than anything else – and that was one of the better AAA games to come out in the past decade.

            Indie devs and studios are the ones actually carrying the industry forwards.

            • @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
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              18 months ago

              Your preference doesn’t dictate what’s industry standard is my point. It would be like someone only playing exclusively Total War games claiming the Warscape Engine is industry standard, sounds pretty stupid doesn’t it.

              The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order,

              A shame you missed out on Baldurs Gate 3 then. Alan Wake also got great criticism.

    • @Rose@lemmy.world
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      18 months ago

      Steam is largely driven by Valve’s own games and freebies as well. 1.5M currently playing Dota 2 and CS 2, with the next best being F2P games: PUBG with 370K online, Apex Legends, and Naraka.

    • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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      18 months ago

      Rocket League and Fall Guys are also on there. Not sure how much paid games sell there though.