“Everyone has the concept of how briskly a PS5 is and what sorts of video games it might run,” he tells The Verge. “That’s why we particularly needed to go that route of: let’s begin with the consoles, let’s present how a lot we are able to optimize this engine along with Epic and make it work on present gen, as an alternative of operating it on some high-end {hardware}.”
Now, to be clear, the UE5 demo will not be truly a slice of the ultimate recreation. Girbig describes it as “an illustration of the instruments that we’re at present constructing that may ultimately energy The Witcher 4,” and one thing that “does present the model and route that we’re going for, and the constancy that we’re aiming at with the ultimate recreation.”
According to Girbig, who didn’t work at CDPR till after the shift to Unreal, the choice was made as a result of UE5 “throughout the board, offers us what we’re in search of.” That consists of an elevated sense of scale vital for open-world video games, with the power to render a whole lot of non-playable characters with extra elaborate AI guiding their actions, and in addition a greater manufacturing pipeline for managing a number of tasks. (An upcoming remake of the primary Witcher recreation can also be being made in UE5.)
But from an inventive perspective, Girbig says, the transfer to Epic’s engine has a unique form of influence: getting out of the best way to permit for extra formidable concepts. “It permits an artist to specific themselves rather more simply when the engine isn’t a limitation anymore,” he says. “That’s what we’re aiming for right here. As an artist, for me, this unlocked myself to suppose larger, and on larger scales.”
