I'm sure you've gone through this dance by now. A new game comes out after years of hype, using Unreal Engine 5, and it runs terribly on some (or even all) platforms.
A quick glance at Twitter, Reddit, and every other site where goobers get to voice their opinion inevitably shows a wall of comments saying UE5 is bad, or praying to your deity of choice to strike Unreal Engine 5 from the face of the Earth.
The anti-Unreal sentiment is fairly popular with gamers, and comes with a lot of anxiety about future titles that will be built on Epic Games' engine. CDPR fans in particular are dreading the change from Cyberpunk 2077's REDengine 4 to UE5 with The Witcher 4.
This month brought about a double whammy for Unreal Engine 5 haters, with Mafia: The Old Country and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater suffering from frame rate and stutter issues even on beefy hardware.
However, as stated by Newton's third law of motion, an action against a body invites a reaction of equal force but opposite direction. Developers working on Unreal Engine 5 are chipping in with their experience, and they insist that...