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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

My issue with Unreal Engine 5 is pretty much exclusively Lumen.

Developers turn it on and call it a day. No baked lighting. No reflection probes. Just blurry reflections and blurry shadows with FSR on top for extra blurriness.

It runs and looks like absolute ass and I simply stopped buying UE5 games that use it.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I haven’t played any game that uses Lumen. At least that I know of. Can you give me an example?

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty much every UE5 game I have played so far has it, with very few providing fallbacks to old school lighting.

To list some of the worst offenders I can remember right now:

  • Lords of the Fallen (2023)
  • Remnant II
  • Talos Principle 2 and Talos Principle Reawakened
  • Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
  • Supraworld
[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I looooove Talos Principle but my hardware is getting long in the tooth and 2 runs so blurry (and not well enough to compensate) that I gave up on buying the 1 Remaster, even though I really wanted to play the new bonus chapter....

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

ah. Dodged all of those 😅