Unreal Engine 6

iam717 · May 29 2026

Thoughts?

Link:

https://www.techspot.com/news/112513-unreal-engine-6-coming-2028-aims-streamline-live.html

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d7y1cbWIk

A comment said they are using their own coding language?

Highly sus to me, i can see problematic moves there if this is true.

Just want to hear what people whom use this think.

Mods: i didn't know if this should be in the unreal specific thread or general.

poopipe · May 29 2026

Verse looks fine as a language - i watched a talk on it a while back and it has some features I think are a really good idea for this application.
If you're doubting epic's ability to invent a language for making unreal games you should probably just stop - they've been doing it forever.

as far as UE6 goes...
I don't think i give a shit anymore.. ue5 is shit to work with, 6 will be 5 with a bigger number written on it and some new features that won't work properly until 6.10

Eric Chadwick · May 29 2026

poopipe · May 29 2026

valid

zetheros · May 30 2026

earthshattering news as always. Revolutionary. This will change EVERYTHING in gaming.

poopipe · Jun 2 2026

Technically I made it onto the front page

ZacD · Jun 9 2026

I hope there's some sort of interesting visual graphics feature by the time it releases, although it's probably just going to be DirectX DXR2 support/integration. Personally I don't mind if the number goes up with every console generation, but it's looking very incremental.

Pixelbear · Jun 11 2026

There are only so many iterations of hammer you invent until you realize that we are out of wood and the nails are bent.

poopipe · Jun 12 2026

ZacD said:

I hope there's some sort of interesting visual graphics feature by the time it releases, although it's probably just going to be DirectX DXR2 support/integration. Personally I don't mind if the number goes up with every console generation, but it's looking very incremental.

in fairness they do tend to bump version number when they do something major -
the 3-4 change was large,
the 4-5 change seemed smaller but they did make some major architectural changes
introducing verse is another large change

i lost faith cos i had to ship actual product on 5.0-5.2 and they were complete shite wrapped up in vast amounts of hype and marketing.

AdrienTriangles · Jun 18 2026

poopipe said:

ZacD said:

I hope there's some sort of interesting visual graphics feature by the time it releases, although it's probably just going to be DirectX DXR2 support/integration. Personally I don't mind if the number goes up with every console generation, but it's looking very incremental.

in fairness they do tend to bump version number when they do something major -
the 3-4 change was large,
the 4-5 change seemed smaller but they did make some major architectural changes
introducing verse is another large change

i lost faith cos i had to ship actual product on 5.0-5.2 and they were complete shite wrapped up in vast amounts of hype and marketing.

very much agreed Hype/Marketing are the words. . 4.27 im good to keep.
Now I understand, depends on projects/products you ship etc. 5 / 6 could be handy. when it comes to "hardcore" projects, I ll always pick UE4.

ZacD · Jun 18 2026

So Tim Sweeney basically said no big new rendering or graphics features. Merging UE5 and UEFN. No more Blueprints. UE6 early access late 2027, full release 12-18 months later.

But there's a new version control system called Lore.

https://www.unrealengine.com/news/the-road-to-ue-6

Really nothing interesting for game artists.

Unreal Engine 6

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