A look inside the changes.
, but the most important change might actually be under the hood. As part of the update, the game moved to Unreal Engine 5.1, which might not sound like a big deal, but it means that. It’s a lot of fancy words, but the gist is that this five-year-old game is now one of the best showcases for next-gen hardware.now supports Unreal tools like Nanite , Lumen , and Virtual Shadow Maps . That’s a lot of jargon, but it means that the cartoony world ofnow looks much more lifelike.
According to Nick Penwarden, VP of engineering for the Unreal Engine, work on the update started around the beginning of this year. One of the biggest issues, he says, is just how much stuff there is. “One of the challenges with doing a visual update to a game likeis there’s a lot of content already in the game,” he explains. “I think the biggest challenge is really having that entire library of existing content and trying to bring everything forward.
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