Unreal Engine announced during Unreal Fest for Unreal 6 blueprints and actors will be deprecated once. But more interesting is UEFN and Unreal Editor will combine for this version.
On X / Twitter Eplic clarified that blueprints will still ship in UE6 in the arly parts but eventuall it will be deprecated for Verse.
As a Solo Developer I feel the loss of Unreal Blueprints but I am not ready to go full dive into C# or C++ I do like C# more but verse Probably will have to stay on Unreal 5 for a while and quickly ship before I try the new Unreal Engine 6.
Unreal is pushing AI to make the game code I think this is their bet as it will write most code, when blueprint gets replaced. It can help newer developers or designers used to blueprints to pivot to making codes. But I am still hoping there will be a Verse Node/Blueprint like system made.
Post from the Announcement from The EVP about the changes to Unreal Engine 6.
Executive Vice President Marcus Wassmer shared these and other details in a blog post on the Unreal Engine Website. In it, he says the approach to UE6 is “shaping up quite differently” from how the company developed UE4 and UE5. “UE4 opened the engine up to everyone,” he wrote. “UE5 reinvented how we build worlds. UE6 is about evolving how we ship and operate them.”
Developers like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33developer Sandfall Interactive who rely on Unreal Engine 5’s Blueprints system should brace for major change. Epic says that Blueprints and the “Actors” system will eventually be deprecated once Unreal Engine 6’s framework is “sufficiently mature.” It promises that developers will have conversion tools to move projects from one framework to the next.
Other announcements
Lore a Github version control for projects,
Unreal Engine 5.8 Release:
- Performance: Significant CPU and GPU optimizations, along with improved shader compilation and PSO (Pipeline State Object) pre-caching to reduce hitches
- Mega Lights: A major feature allowing thousands of dynamic shadow-casting lights in a scene at a fixed cost.
- Lumen Light: A new, lightweight mode for Lumen global illumination, designed for better performance on platforms like the Switch 2 .
- Mesh-a-rin: A new, high-performance landscape system with a smaller memory footprint.
- MetaHuman Animator: New markerless motion capture capabilities now available as a plugin.
AI and Workflow Tools:
- MCP Server (Model Context Protocol): A new plugin that allows AI models to directly interact with the Unreal Editor for tasks like scene building, lighting, and material logic.
Unreal Engine 6 & Ecosystem:
- UE6 Foundation: Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite) will eventually merge into one editor.
- Verse Programming Language: A next-generation language built for massive, persistent worlds, now becoming the core framework for UE6 (1:56:05-1:57:05).
- Lore (Version Control): Announced as an open-source, permissively licensed version control and data storage system.
- MetaHuman Devkit: The MetaHuman rig logic and DNA toolsets are now open-source under an MIT license, allowing use in any engine .
https://80.lv/articles/upd-unreal-engine-6-will-combine-uefn-and-ue-into-a-unified-engine
Key Links
The Road to Unreal Engine 6
Lore Version Control for Games
Lore Github
Open Rig Logic (MetaHumans) on GitHub
Unreal Engine 6 Branch on GitHub
Final Thoughts:
I feel that the future might be more interesting Tim and Epic is going to try and build the metaverse. But we will have to see the only thing is I dislike platforms that Fortnite is becoming, not everyone wants to publish a mod on top of Fortnite. Their FAB store is still dwarfed by Steam and not sure if they failed to train users to buy from them when they kept giving out feee games.
Links and Media
https://www.unrealengine.com/news/state-of-unreal-2026-top-news-from-the-show
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