@GeneralDudeOg Well donโt get me wrong, Fortnite would absolutely lock content behind a paywall, but that would go against them being a F2P game (tho they got away with it when it came to Save the World for years considering it was meant to be free in 2019)
Marcus Wassmer (Epic Games EVP) talks about what AI has done for Fortnite & UE so far, and why they're more worried about moving too slowly than about AI skepticism
He says it almost completely got rid of a type of cooking bug they've been fighting for a decade, and together with faster shader compression it should make update sizes way smaller
They also rewrote a big part of the DirectX 12 renderer in about a week, when he expected it to take one engineer 3-6 weeks. He says it came out with better CPU performance & fewer bugs
He says Fortnite now has automatic monitoring for PC crashes that finds driver & hardware problems that used to take months to track down, and it can generate fixes for them too
He also says the engine should get a lot more modular now, since AI can handle/refactor thousands of files that were way too much to do by hand
[via This Week in Videogames]
@GeneralDudeOg Free updates usually refer to content updates that a lot of other games would likely put behind paid DLC. Itโs not the same kind of update as bug fixes or basic maintenance