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Epic Games Unveils Unreal Engine 5, Coming in 2021 With Mac and iOS Support
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I notice a glitch in the Matrix on serveral occasions. Neo tried to free me, but the thought of eating tasteless gruel everyday wasn't appealing. I'm a blue pill kinda guy.
Howdy! You now know 9! X-Plane 11 on Mac here! LOL
Mm... Uncharted 4 doesn’t look this good IMO. The lighting in it I would consider to be top notch for today’s standards but the textures and details in it don’t even come close to what’s shown in this “demo.”
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I don’t think it does. Maybe on a phone-sized screen it looks comparable to modern games but when they zoomed in on the rocks’ details and focused on the lighting... I haven’t seen any modern games that are that good. Not even guys on YouTube benchmarking their $1000 rtx 2080s.
those arent exactly the paragon of visuals in gaming. they're both more meant to be optimized so a s**tload of people can find them accessible.
wish apex legend's menus wouldnt be so grainy...
while the comment you're responding to is a fool for many reasons, your response is a bit of a stretch. you dual booted an OS on your mac that has much better driver support for gaming, especially if you install the latest drivers from bootcampdrivers.com that let you run AMD's latest offering instead of what apple allows you to use from a year ago.
macOS is very gameable, which is what makes the original comment really stupid, but let's not make it out that even a suped mbp 16 inch running macOS 10.15 is fantastic for gaming. in order for a game to run at its best potential it *has* to use metal unlike...other available great APIs such as DX12 or Vulkan, and the entirety of gaming pre-64bit has been wiped away from possibility in 10.15.
I really hope the Metal support allows for full utilization of multiple GPUs. I know most developers have given up on that due to most people having single powerful GPUs, but even newer Mac Pros can be built with two, and only a year ago they were still selling/pushing trashcan Mac Pros and need to support those folks long term as well (but again, even the new ones have builds with two or more)
This is already the world we live in, nobody knows the difference.
It is, indeed, both awesome and frightening at the same time!
Can Apple please invest in gaming so I can never have to use Windows again?
Looks pretty impressive. Now let’s hope they make some quality games out of it.
While games like Warzone are fun in small doses, I can in no way keep up with most of the kids playing, so I’ve come to appreciate the single-player campaigns that some games include. Unfortunately, the single player games or the play-against-bots modes are such a small subset of what’s available that I get really disappointed. Some of the Warzone/Ground war maps looks like they’d be tons of fun to play on, but I get killed in two seconds flat (figuratively), so it’s no fun.
Yes, big tangent from the new Unreal engine... just hoping for some good games for the old farts like me.
While games like Warzone are fun in small doses, I can in no way keep up with most of the kids playing, so I’ve come to appreciate the single-player campaigns that some games include. Unfortunately, the single player games or the play-against-bots modes are such a small subset of what’s available that I get really disappointed. Some of the Warzone/Ground war maps looks like they’d be tons of fun to play on, but I get killed in two seconds flat (figuratively), so it’s no fun.
Yes, big tangent from the new Unreal engine... just hoping for some good games for the old farts like me.
YouTube isn't great to judge graphic quality: videos are compressed and quality reduced
I'm sure the integrated intel graphics Apple puts in most of its Macs will handle the Unreal 5 engine just fine. :-\
So that's the PS5 hardware running it.
Here's what it runs like on the typical Mac GPU
Here's what it runs like on the typical Mac GPU
I haven't noticed an improvement in graphics since ~2005. I know the game industry wants you to think improvements are being made, but I can't see them. I think it's marketing BS.
Take for example this feature: "realistic shadows and rendering of moving light sources."
That's something being touted for Unreal Engine 5 in 2020. This feature isn't even remotely new though - 2001's Metroid Prime could also handle rendering moving lights and shadows on the GameCube - a system that was generally considered underpowered compared to its competition from Microsoft and Sony at the time.
What makes a game "better"?
Take for example this feature: "realistic shadows and rendering of moving light sources."
That's something being touted for Unreal Engine 5 in 2020. This feature isn't even remotely new though - 2001's Metroid Prime could also handle rendering moving lights and shadows on the GameCube - a system that was generally considered underpowered compared to its competition from Microsoft and Sony at the time.
What makes a game "better"?
You haven't noticed a difference in graphics since 2005? mkay... try playing a game that wasn't released in 2005.
Apple told you to subscribe Apple Arcade and you can dump a game every two weeks.