Mass Effect: the next licensed game under Unreal Engine 5? Rumors are picking up speed

Game news Mass Effect: the next licensed game under Unreal Engine 5? Rumors are picking up speed

Published on 12/21/2021 9:12 AM

Formalized in 2020 and then teased again in 2021, the next game Mass Effect talks about him again. Today the rumors are in question, which surround the graphics engine of the new title, since it would be the Unreal Engine 5.

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Anything new at Mass Effect?
Back to the basics for Mass Effect?

Anything new at Mass Effect?

It must be admitted that over the past few weeks, Mass Effect has filled the news more with its potential series from Amazon and the testimony of Henry Cavill than with information communicated around the next title in the saga. That being said, the next title is in Space opera

At the end of last week there was talk of de Bioware again. It’s Brenon Holmes, producer at Bioware working on the upcoming Mass Effect who shares a job posting on Twitter:

Bioware is recruiting talented programmers with experience in the Unreal Engine 4/5! Come on, become part of our team and work with us on the next Mass Effect game!

Back to the basics for Mass Effect?

But be careful: Brenon Holmes does not confirm here that Mass Effect will run under Unreal Engine 5. However, it remains important to emphasize that if Bioware opts for the Unreal Engine as its graphics engine, it would therefore be a return of the license. In fact, if the trilogy runs under the engine of Epic Game, it is not the case of Mass Effect Andromeda, which does the Frostbite engine.

And just to confirm it, I’ve now heard from a handful of sources that it is. Obviously. And that was a decision made by the team that made the game, and that’s how it should work.

– Jeff Grubb (@JeffGrubb) December 18, 2021

A return to basics that Jeff Grubb, journalist at., Has been endorsed by several people VentureBeat

. The latter even suggests that this decision to return to the trilogy’s engine would have been made by the team at the next Mass Effect. Got it, it’s not Electronic Arts’ choice, it’s Bioware. Also, it’s always Jeff Grubb who tells him that the game is below the latest version of the Unreal Enginenamely UE 5. A graphics engine whose performance was recently seen through the Matrix Awakens application: a demo version downloadable on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.

However, it will take some time to get to the bottom of it, as Bioware is also working on the sequel to the Dragon Age saga. To be patient, it is always possible to do the Mass Effect trilogy: it was recently reissued in an updated version that was released last May.

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