Epic Games showcased a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5.6 featuring a first look at the open world of Kovir in The Witcher IV.

Co-founder of Warhorse Studios, Daniel Vávra, says using Unreal Engine for open-world games is a bad idea.

“I talked with guys who are making The Witcher or from studios that are just trying to make some open-world games on Unreal because there aren’t really any open-world games on Unreal.

It rides on a bespoke layer of Unreal Engine 5.4, where game engineers have spent months fine-tuning tyre grip, suspension travel, and weight transfer so the dramatic camera swing feels tied to ...