Unreal 5.2 demo

To me, this feels like exactly the sort of thing that helps Ashes, particularly for updates.

I wouldn't ask for it to be developed with this, but as soon as the initial bugfixing phase is over, especially if they want to make any new areas available, or islands, I think this would be really great.

Then, maybe expand it to updating parts of the world, or even offering very slightly different non-traversable worldgen options for those with the systems that have the power to wrangle it.

So I'd say 'don't even think about it that way', use 5.1 until release, and 5.1+ 'after'.

Pretty much what Azherae said. This is an expansion tool so it should come between release and expansions. Especially considering that there's gonna be waaay more UE updates before that so Intrepid will know which one to upgrade to. If they keep constantly upgrading their engine, we'll never see the game.

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Understood, thanks.

Always glad to hear from someone knowledgeable on it directly.

Are UE5 upgrades generally easy enough that you'd estimate little slowdown, now, or is this general for whatever you work with?

I have bad luck with upgrading/next versions of anything so I don't even pay attention to this unless I have to, but that wasn't really the basis of my thoughts on this. I'd expect that the upgrade itself would be made as painless as possible by the engine devs.

What do you think of 'trying to actually utilize any features from it' though?