u/Luwuma

My thoughts are a bit weird and that is usually my fault as I don't get enough sleep, but I will do my best to express them.

Okay so... I always liked the idea of crossovers. Super Smash Bros might've played into that bias, but the way most characters are represented there always makes me happy, as they are often done with love. That has been true for me since Solid Snake and Sonic were revealed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Fortnite is a different story however. I've always seen it as a blackhole of capitalism, with crossover stuff being tied to money and all. It feels so insulting looking at it as, unlike in Smash Bros where most of the crossover stuff is free except for DLC, Fortnite feels like it's a business going all "how you do fellow gamers and millenials?" It comes off as pandering, especially with their recent collabs being all nostalgia key jingling. Maybe it is just me being more sensitive and a Wii kid, but it all feels pathetic compared to when a collaboration is revealed in Super Smash Bros.

I have seen other people refer to crossover things outside of Fortnite as "Fortnitification", and that makes me upset to think about it. Like did Fortnite really do that much damage to crossovers? Being a billboard that never gets killed off at all and ends up redirecting players who never heard of a specific IP to Fortnite rather than itself.

Ok but yeah, I'm just sad that it ruined crossovers/collaborations for the general public. I want to know how other people, who were also burnt out of Fortnite, feel about it so feel free to leave some thoughts about it.

I accidentally made a mistake on my $200 purchase and now I have a very unrecoverable bent pin on my Ryzen 7 5800X. I cannot get a refund or a replacement at this point, so am I just screwed at this rate???

TL;DR, Timmy is inventing NFT's again.

>Thus, for UE6, we see LLMs, generative  AI models, and tools like Claude and Codex playing a central role in helping you build content faster while maintaining the creative control you need. A big part of our effort is going into exposing a broad set of engine capabilities through the MCP protocol, so that developers can mix and match the best leading-edge models and build custom integrations of all sorts on an open Unreal Engine 6 MCP foundation. We are also improving the Epic Developer Assistant (EDA) as an optional turnkey solution, available to all by default.

>Our goal for UE6 is to greatly reduce the tedious work in authoring content to leave more time for creative exploration, and increase the amount of iterations a team can make to polish their content. UE6 will ship with tools and workflows where you can choose to bring your own favorite models, battletested against internal development and in UEFN.

>Also, internally at Epic, we’ve been doing a lot of investigation to see what works and what doesn’t for code generation. We recently opened up pretty broad usage for code generation and AI analysis across our backend, engine, and game development engineering teams.

Actual section from the article. They really decided that vibe code pipelines are more important than making their damn Engine work at all.

Surely that doesn't mean vibe code slop will come to Fortnite and any other UE games, thus inflating their system requirements even more........ right? /sarcasm

This may be irrelevant to the subreddit, but do remember that Epic Games is part of the group lobbying to make game ownership based on the whims of the publishers.

EU folks: Please yell at your representatives, because having this meeting 2 weeks before the decision feels sketchy as hell.