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https://x.com/EpicGames/status/1874848465890562233
The Christmas daily giveaway ends today with Hell Let Loose being the last game, this will last for 1 week, changing to the game "Turmoil" on the 9th January.
Hell Let Loose Store Page - https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hell-let-loose-03f036
Turmoil Store Page - https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/turmoil-26318a
There are also a bunch of free DLC cosmetics available for Hell Let Loose, hope everyone is having a great beginning to 2025!
Obviously this would be more relevant to Open-world games such as TES or Fallout, but otherwise yeah, what's honestly halting the mass adoption of such tech?
Try prompting ChatGPT to write dialogue for minor quest hint dialogues a player might hear from the tavern and the results are decent. Repetitive maybe, but definitely not a random word generator.
I dunno if this is already done in-house, but it seems like Devs/Writers can put their focus on the main narrative or companion quest dialogue even more and leave the minor environmental dressing to AI.
Looks to me like it's the next step since SpeedTree for populating dialogue space much more effectively. What downsides are being missed with this approach?
**EDIT: it's clear that most folks here never even tried the use of a GPT to generate something that is suggested here to exist in the background. Give it a whirl, most might be shocked at the quality of output... Take it either way as you may
TES Oblivion used SpeedTree to populate forests...they aren't handplacing each and every vegetation... would that also be dystopian use of computing?
https://x.com/UnrealEngine/status/1874470746921066890
This program is meant to cut down on Unreal Engine fees for games that launch simultaneously on Epic Games Store alongside other stores, which reduces the fee on every sale on every platform including consoles from 5% to 3.5%.
So theoretically a game that uses Unreal Engine and reaches the royalty threshold of $1 million in gross revenue could benefit from reduced fees for sales on every platform if the game launches on Epic Games Store at the same time.
In PC that could be Steam or GOG and the Epic Games Store on PC, in the case of a mobile game releases on iOS Store or Google Play and the Epic Games Store on Mobile (whenever they start offering 3rd party games), with console versions benefiting from both of these scenarios as well as there is no EGS on console.
What are your thoughts on the program? My thoughts are that this feels like an overall good thing for developers that use Unreal Engine and expect or know to break that threshold, there's obviously a personal motive for Epic to do this as it also looks to be a good way of getting developers that use Unreal Engine that maybe don't interact or have limited interaction with the Epic Store to take it a bit more seriously. It obviously won't do anything for companies that exclusively use their own engines i.e. Capcom but for companies that use a mix of engines such as Sega/Square-Enix/Bandai Namco it's another lever that Epic can play with to tempt them to release more of their titles on the store.
Game development is having such a difficult time with the astronomical rise in costs and the almost never ending feeling of higher expectations on copies sold for them to be profitable that I feel this that no matter your views on the Epic Store or Unreal Engine more money going back to the developers is a good move for the industry.