Played a couple games this morning with new season and noticed it looked different. Also they added TSR now 
Fortnite - first title to use UE 5.1
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I only ever played Fortnite once but tempted to download it just to see what it looks like
Bad news for our PC brethren, latest UE5 continues the stutter struggle….
All you'd be out is the time it takes, and those screenshots definitely suggest it looks pretty impressive now.
Yes, bring on Lumen and Nanite. Let Nvidia's RT be less of a reason to justify $1500 - 2000 Gpu's.
Let’s be real here, nothing justifies those prices.
Is this running at 4k 60fps on current gen consoles? Because if it is, it's a clear example that Lumen and Nanite are not that heavy that the consoles can't run them properly
But current gen consoles do feature them, hence my question
The Next Generation of Fortnite Battle Royale is Powered by Unreal Engine 5.1
Fortnite Battle Royale is now on Unreal Engine 5.1. Nanite, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps, and Temporal Super Resolution are available in-game. Read more!
www.epicgames.com
The idea of UE5 is to make it scalable to the point it can be included in PS4/XBO/Switch/lower end PCs in the way that some techniques can be disabled or toned down and other ones have 'UE4 old generation like' alternatives.But current gen consoles do feature them, hence my question
The Next Generation of Fortnite Battle Royale is Powered by Unreal Engine 5.1
Fortnite Battle Royale is now on Unreal Engine 5.1. Nanite, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps, and Temporal Super Resolution are available in-game. Read more!
But current gen consoles do feature them, hence my question
The Next Generation of Fortnite Battle Royale is Powered by Unreal Engine 5.1
Fortnite Battle Royale is now on Unreal Engine 5.1. Nanite, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps, and Temporal Super Resolution are available in-game. Read more!
Right I get that they say they’re featuring all this new tech but to what degree. Would have to watch some kind of analysis I guess?
I’m still under the impression that proper ray tracing use on console will be subtle to say the least.
You wouldn’t tank Fortnite’s frame rate on console. It would make it run in worse state. There’s no way they’d do that.
I found it. It's 4k60 and seems to include everything
Let's not forget that Epic stated the Unreal 5 demo could run at 60fps 1440p on a PS5 with more optimization, so it seems like these features are a "generational leap" on how much they cost. Even a gtx1060 is able to run this at 1080p30 ~ in High settings. That GPU is a toaster for today's standards
Eh, TBF this is Fortnite. Not that much a step above Minecraft in terms of visual complexity. I do hope 60 FPS with Lumen on consoles is a thing though, and we can start seeing it with non open-world games first.
Tekken 8's rumored to be at the TGAs and is being made on UE5, could be a first demonstration in a major game that isn't cross-gen.
hopefully this is a sign of things to come, we can get raytracing like lighting without... yknow, the raytracing performance LOL
It’s using Nanite now for geometry, but with the old geometry models. Expecting those to be upgraded over time for marked increase in complexity.