At last at last unreal6

Unreal Engine 6.

6 times more unoptomised!

I swear it wasn't that long ago that 5 was released? But then I have no idea how frequent these things release anyway.

Unreal 6?!?! So EVEN BETTER graphics? No. People of the internet, we don't need this

This goes on my personal top 3 things of "who asked". Feels like a threat more than an announcement.

Was the crowd rendered in Unreal6 too? How does Rocket League pack a stadium in 2026?

Dear God, gaming is about to get 10 times worse... again.

Unreally low FPS confirmed.

@thenikdavies You can keep track of them going by Playstation consoles. As generation numbers and release years broadly line up, usually off by a year or 2.

Was this game ever updated from UE3? That just looks like they placed a de-saturated filter over the game.
I guess the reflections and grass look a bit better, but the solutions they use still look great and you won't notice any difference when you're zooming down the field. You will constantly notice the new de-saturated look though, it's a whole 180 from the current very saturated look the game uses.

The game looked better in the previous artstyle imo

Bruh UE5 games weren’t even well optimized. But we’re jumping straight to UE6???

Tbh imo, Unreal Engine peaked at UE4

@TheLX Lego games will be playable at 10 fps now

@jfp That was the new DLSS that Nvidia was showing

Unreal Engine 6 games will now take 8-12 years to make, I assume :V

Gears of War E DAY

So they announce an engine update that no one wanted? For a game that already runs perfectly fine on the an older one? I really don’t see the point.

UE6? On Switch 1? At 60fps? If it degrades the performance I don't think the jump is worth it

I have a feeling this will upset more people than hype them.

@anoyonmus honestly a Lego game at a locked 12 would be completely fine. Lego movie was animated on 12s so I mean it would work.

Yeah baby. 5x increased development time again. Cant wait.

Oh wait. I will wait. 5x longer. Luckily we have Nintendo.

@StarCollector I'm pretty sure that we're already not getting 60fps on Switch 1 in UE3. Or perhaps it's the crusty networking, one way or another we're definitely playing at a disadvantage. I suspect that when this update gets closer to going live it will come alongside an announcement that the Switch 1 is no longer supported.

Let me guess the requirements for this engine.
2x5090 in SLI and 256GB RAM to barely play Pong in 4K/60FPS upscaled from 240p/15FPS.

Last I played Rocket League on Switch 1, there was a 30fps mode and a 60fps mode. If they can't get the game to run at 60, I don't think it's worth playing it on Switch. Normally I'm ok with 30 but for competitive games it's a different story.

At the very least if they discontinue the Switch version you'll be able to play offline, but I hope they keep it supported

didn't we just get unreal engine 5 or has time flew by that fast?

No offense to Rocket League, but that's a pretty crazy way to announce UE6. Hopefully we get a big feature breakdown from Epic soon, and hopefully they've built it with scalability in mind given the growing variety of lower end hardware and the price increases on hardware in general.

Ugh why.

Do we really need realistic grass or whatever? Its a fun silly sports ball soccer game.

I'll just pretend that 6 will actually be an improvement until then.

I still love rocket league and play it on switch 2<3 So much depth. Such a great game.

What was everybody so excited about?

Everyone understandably is doom and gloom but it should be mentioned this isn't adding a new feature set it's keeping all the stuff in ue5 and focusing on multithreading for the cpu and increasing performance since those r ue5s major problems

What a crap way to advertise a new engine, using a 10+ year old game that still doesn't look that impressive.

Yay?

Seems too soon for UE6 anyway. Developers are still struggling to get the best out of UE5, and that's being nice.

They call it Unreal Engine 6 because every game made with it will run at 6 FPS

@WoomyNNYes these are the comments I like. People excited about the games they love.

@VinzClortho1981

I can play SNES Star Fox at 17fps no problem.

I still want my games running at 60fps because it is undoubtedly a better playing experience. It is also a viewpoint Nintendo itself believes in clearly for a large number of its titles.

I've never owned a gaming PC in my life.

Stop being a gatekeeping fool.

You don't get to dictate what a "gamer" is.

@Toshiro_Baloney They are sheep.

They could of shown internet cat videos and that audience would have barked and clapped like trained seals at Sea World.

If companies use this engine to make fun games I'm all for it. If this is used for polishing turds then whatever.

Unless new Yoshi used UE5 I've never played any game made it that engine. Couldn't care less about UE6.

I'll bet Unreal 6 came so quick because UE5 has massive optimization issues

So a more powerful engine...

• Will it work on Switch 2?
• Will it make games look good in a more efficient way? Or will it be more powerful and therefore take more processing power and cause more "chug"? If so then no thank you.

@thenikdavies ue5 released in 2022 just 4 years ago, ue4 launched in 2014, 8 years between it and ue5, and ue3 effectively launched in 06, again, 8 years. This is really soon compared to past cycles.

@electrolite77 hard disagree, but people have different options. Calling em like I see them after nearly 40 years of gaming, and 15 as a professional reviewer.

@VinzClortho1981 I’ve been gaming since the Atari 2600 in the early ’80s and have only owned Nintendo consoles since the 64.

The flickering screen edges and sprites in NES games bothered me as a child in the ’80s. Crappy framerates and slowdown bothered me in the ’90s and bother me even more in 2026. The lack of anti-aliasing in many Nintendo games has bothered me since the GameCube era, and certain Switch games looking like the screen has been smeared with Vaseline bothers me today.

I’m not a graphics snob. If I were, I’d play elsewhere. But I expect good performance, and the nicer a game looks, the better. A good game with a stable 60fps and high resolution is objectively better than a good game with an unstable framerate and low resolution.

With all due respect, your opinion isn’t really based in reality.

Not impressed...

@MoldyPasta couldn’t have worded your reply better 🫡

@VinzClortho1981

"professional reviewer"

Where can I find these reviews? I'd be curious to see if they mention visuals and game performance in them because if they don't then frankly you are an awful professional.

Still doesn't qualify you to determine what a real gamer is. Get over yourself.

@SBandy1 I don’t think I’ll be doxxing myself today, but it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. Lots of contract work for IGN, more than 2,000 reviews published. I’m not trying to fight with you here. But if framerate and resolution make that big of a difference to you, I simply don’t see those people as real gamers. No need to fight about it - just my opinion.

@SBandy1 I’m sorry you feel that way. Have a nice day.

@VinzClortho1981

Sorry I don't want to gatekeep people?

Have an average day.

@thenikdavies Normally its years between UE releases. Often coinciding with Console generation releases.

But with the sudden AI boom.... UE 6 release seems to be accelerated to jump on the AI bandwagon. /puke

@WoomyNNYes you and me both, friend! I still play a few matches almost every day. This month my total time playing RL surpassed my previous most played game ACNH, 670+ hours. I’ve been playing since 2017 and hope to keep playing years to come.

Nice shot!
GG

@beltmenot You're right. Early 2022 it was released, but I wonder if UE6 is meant to fix the UE5 stutter that always happens when loading new areas, and the other multitude of issues (which, I'll be honest, I know exist but am kinda blanking on rn). I kinda figured UE5 would be the WiiU of the game engine world.

I stopped playing Rocket League when it went free to play. At the time I was one of the top 15 goal scorers on Nintendo Switch. That doesn't mean I was good at it, just got it day 1 on the switch and played it an unhealthy amount of time. It just got to the point with free to play that it wasn't fun any more. I don't remember what it was I hated now, but I remember thinking, "They've ruined it". I gave it up and haven't played since.

I do think if it launched again on the new engine and for the new version you had to pay $40 or whatever, I would buy it again.

@SBandy1 Literally 10% of their comments on this site mention they were a reviewer previously (although over 10% have been removed for various reasons). Getting over that is unlikely to happen I think. Whoever paid that person for a letter they submitted one day to a website done a bad thing lol.

On Topic though, Rocket League does look and run lovely on the Switch 2 right now, shaking things up and trying to change it over to a new version of the Unreal engine is only likely to bring in performance issues for minimal gains IMO. I'd be curious to re-download it again and see any major updates but the game is probably in the best state it's ever been right now on the platform, will be sad to see that change.

@SoIDecidedTo If you do have a Switch 2 I would recommend giving it a look even just for a game or two as the way it runs now is very nice to see, before you picked between it looking nice or framerate but on Switch 2 it's basically the best of both of those settings combined + texture streaming is massively improved so car decals and such near instantly snap to their highest resolution versions instead of staying muddy for a while when up close.

Nice one having been in the top of the league for Goals on Switch, I've platinumed the game on PS4 and played a few hundred hours of Switch but definitely was never in the top of any leaderboards.

Worst decision I guess, making a dying game switch to an engine that no computers will be able to run properly sounds like a nightmarish idea.. How to thin your playerbase into an anorexic state

I read it as Psygnosis and felt a little sad...

@Arkabed Rocket League isn't a dying game, far from it. There are still hundreds of thousands playing it concurrently, and it hit a peak of over a million concurrent players earlier this year, for the first time since 2020.

@OorWullie Oh, it was a dying game a few years ago, I must admit my info was aging. Sponsors were leaving, esport teams crumbling, playerbase shrinking. If today it rose from the deadyard and managed to reach a new playerbase, that's good for them, it's a good game. Still not sure about the UE6 move but we will see, it'll not be before a few years and maybe the engine will solve most of the UE5 issues with excellent optimization settings.