Fortnite’s full Unreal Engine 5 upgrade has arrived, delivering cutting-edge next-gen rendering features like Lumen global illumination and Nanite geometry at 60fps on PS5, Xbox Series X and even Series S! How big of an upgrade is it? How do the consoles compare? And what further features does PC bring to the party? John Linneman and Alex Battaglia have the answers!
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i don't play fortnite anymore for a long time, the engine looks amazing but from a competitive standpoint it's terrible
Something I noticed missing is reflections from water upwards. For instance in the underpass scene, light should be dancing across the underside of the bridge as it is reflected off the water. Amazing, yet still a ways to go for sure. Huge improvement however over the 'flat' appearance without it enabled. Great video btw. Love all the side by side comparisons.
Still runs like doo doo on a switch but better looking doo doo 🫠
Nice Unreal 1 "Easteregg" with the music and cam flight 😛 @11:09
If you actually played the game with these graphics your house would explode
My phone got hot already
Me on my way to play with cartoon shooter game with photorealistic lighting…
I remember in a video by a channel called knowledge husk (definitely check him out by the way) he said that fortnite had become a testing ground/showcase for new unreal engine features. And I could not agree more. I mean it's epic's biggest game there's no reason they shouldn't be testing the water with it. Lumen is one of many examples of them doing this and honestly it's really cool to watch and even play.
you really need a gaming pc with a new gen GPU to appreciate all this. Consoles won't be ready until next gen at least.
2:47 if these are all different platforms how did you 1 for 1 recreate everything down to a t on every platform??????????????????????? (look at the kill feed)
and THIS haven t won the best ongoing game at game awards, one of the games with most advanced graphic/tecinique in the world(it run well also on switch with actually a really cool graphic)
How do you turn it on on console?
I've always been a 120hz competitive type, but when the update happened, I couldn't even stomach how God awful it looked compared to the insane levels of detail 5.1 brought. Before the difference in high and low settings weren't all too bad, even with RT enabled, but now it just looks like a playable cut scene at all times.
I dont like fortnite myself, but will agree that is pretty much a perfect canvas for new tech.
This was a really dumb move for old gen consoles .. I get 20 to 30 fps now in game on mh xbox one and i think its not fair for the rest to have 60 to 120 fps .. They should add graphics settings to old gen consoles fr
I don't really care for lighting and water reflections. Frame rate, anti aliasing and texture quality are way more important. Take the witcher update for example, it's great on performance mode but too jarring on ray tracing
I’m so happy fortnite is getting more positive attention now, been playing for 5 years and have always enjoyed the game. I’m glad to se epic improving the game so people see how awesome this game is.
I got a Xbox x the day the new season dropped (unrelated) and I swear I was about to have my eyes pop outta my head it looked so good so I upgraded hardware and epic upgraded the software
Why does everyone want the most realistic thing ever?
to bad I literally despise the game cuz this is a massive upgrade. and I do love ray traced lighting. Such a shame that the second time we finally get some decent RTGI on console, it's a game I hate. At least I still have Metro, which looks better anyways.
everything is a Dream to me… sorry… i just still have my ps2 with 1 spider man and 1 resident evil game
Gotta hand it to epic, fortnite will never run at 60 fps on my PC again!
Epic games are the only ones actually trying to fully utilize the power of this engine. Imagine if shitass Gotham knights used nanite so it could run above 30fps on next gen 🤡
Great video. Thank you. I've been working in UE5 for a bit now, and I'm really enjoying it, and really love the recent updates. I'm actually installing Fortnite right now (after so long) to try out the new engine. Cheers!