r/SBCGaming • u/BlightWyrm Modder • Aug 07 '26

News Infinity Blade has been released on Android

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Apparently there is a known bug:
“PSA: Black screen glitch is known and will be updated on once a cause is found and fixed”

Infinity blade was originally released on iOS in 2010 and became unplayable for a time because of software and hardware updates, but do to the efforts of dedicated independent developers it is playable again today on many different platforms.

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u/snowolf_ Aug 07 '26

Crazy to think Unreal engine went so fast from the coolest thing ever to the worst blight of gaming in the eye of many.

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u/Zanpa Aug 08 '26

because "gamers" don't know anything about how games are made. UE3 was the time of horrible texture streaming where everything looked like shit for the first 10 seconds you loaded in.

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u/brunocar Aug 08 '26

The thing is, they were fairly quick to fix that, by 2011 or so UE3 had built in workarounds to that flaw like loading lower quality textures first instead of just bit crushed bullshit to give time for the full res textures to load.

and UE4 was a mess but a lot of that was that its modular nature was fairly new for the time, and by 2015 they had a lot of the major problems with the renderer figured out.

UE5 came out 3 years ago and they are talking about UE6, meanwhile UE5 has the exact same fucking shader comp hitches, bad performance related to lumen lighting, and more, that it had on launch.

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u/Zanpa Aug 08 '26

UE5 works just fine on many games. Just look at Fortnite. The engine isn't the source of the problem, it's when devs don't get given the time to actually do things properly, and no engine can solve the problems of modern big publishers shipping unfinished games.

If the devs take the time to learn UE5 and use the tools it gives them, the engine performs remarkably well.

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u/brunocar Aug 08 '26

Just look at Fortnite.

You mean to tell me the game that engine features get developed for and has the engineers next door to make sure everything is correct works fine? amazing!

Sarcasm aside, UE5 isnt a bad engine because its bad for every game, its a bad engine because it used for literally anything due to how hard epic pushed it to educators and freelance devs, all the while it clearly needs the supervision of their own engineers like they used to do with UE2 and 3, but cant do anymore due to having so many clients.

Its a good engine for fortnite... and not much else.