u/Walikor

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2453200/Metalstorm/

Was Epig exclusive

Timmy? Is it worth having your own launcher so you don't have to give Valve 30%? LOL

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3603000/Maneater\_2/?curator\_clanid=4777282

The First was Epig exclusive

Profiles look to finally be coming, third party patch notes among other big things. Some interesting things noticed on some of the pictures, picture 2 you can see "Controller support" and mentions Xbox and PlayStation controllers. There's also a section to see "how my rig plays it?" suggesting it'll show what settings you should be able to run the game at. You can also see on that picture that it mentions how many people have reviewed Arc Raiders so it seems like reviews will be getting overhauled too

Also seems to show what games your friends are playing

Things noticed in the pictures to look forward to imo:

• Profiles and Avatars
• Written reviews
• Universal Controller support
• Spec benchmarking (using hardware and the games spec sheet?)
• Third Party Communities (forums??)
• Third Party Patch Notes
• Cross Region gifting
• Publisher Funded Coupons

It's also been confirmed there will be a Public Beta for the new launcher that will be announced through the discord server

EDIT:

The Epic employee that done the presentation is in the discord server and left a comment regarding the benchmarking for the new launcher and confirms that they're not solely testing on the insane build mentioned in the slide:

>There's a lot of noise in the subreddit on the machine I used to test the launcher build on. We have been testing it across the 16 most common machine specs and the results are largely the same. When I was putting my slides together, I didn't have the official benchmarks from our testing partner. The new launcher RIPS and it does not matter what machine you're on. I'm really excited to get it to you all. (We've already started on the public build, just in burndown and lots of QA.)

Also it has been confirmed that the launcher is no longer being built with Unreal Engine, the underlying technology isn't known but my guess is something to do with Rust as the newly announced SVC that Epic announced "Lore" is also built on Rust so might be some company wide initiative to use these kinds of tech, that's just a guess though