Mike Fricker (@mike_fricker) 's Twitter Profile
Mike Fricker

@mike_fricker

Lead Technical Director @ Epic Games

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calendar_today24-10-2009 23:58:39

396 Tweet

3,3K Followers

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Mr Elek (@mrelek) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FortniteGame destruction system got a massive upgrade. The FX team has been focused for awhile. Massive re-factor to core system, that touched every world asset in the game. It's all procedural Niagara driven. Not only better quality, but fewer assets to manage!

Tim Sweeney (@timsweeneyepic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

aidan The aim is a transactional programming model with no visible networking or multithreading: you write normal code, and the system distributes the simulation across cores, servers, and servers by running updates speculatively, then committing or aborting them.

Daniel Wright (@epicshaders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Krzysztof Narkowicz and I wrote an Unreal Engine tech blog on shipping Lumen in Fortnite Battle Royale: Chapter 4. We cover the improvements made to handle foliage, Software Ray Tracing quality, optimizations for 60fps, and art direction controls. unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blo… #lumen #ue5

Fortnite Creators (@fncreate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Explore new tools. Imagine amazing experiences. Created by you. Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) available now in Public Beta on PC. Download: store.epicgames.com/p/fortnite--ue… Read more: fortnite.com/news/unreal-ed…

Microsoft Visual Studio (@visualstudio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Visual Studio, C++, and Unreal Engine—talk about a dream team! Watch to learn how with this unbeatable trio, you can increase productivity and build games faster: msft.it/60155C2pP #VisualStudio #DevTools

Visual Studio, C++, and <a href="/UnrealEngine/">Unreal Engine</a>—talk about a dream team! 

Watch to learn how with this unbeatable trio, you can increase productivity and build games faster: msft.it/60155C2pP #VisualStudio #DevTools
Epic Games Newsroom (@epicnewsroom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Unreal Engine 5.2 is here! The new Substrate shading system, Procedural Content Generation tools, and other features continue to deliver on the promise of making #UE5 the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. More details ⬇️ unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-en…

Unreal Engine (@unrealengine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unreal Engine 5.3 is now available, with enhancements to core rendering, developer iteration and virtual production toolsets! Also included, experimental new rendering, Skeletal Editor, Chaos Cloth and SMPTE ST 2110 support 🔧 Read about it, here!: epic.gm/unreal-engine-…

Unreal Engine 5.3 is now available, with enhancements to core rendering, developer iteration and virtual production toolsets!

Also included, experimental new rendering, Skeletal Editor, Chaos Cloth and SMPTE ST 2110 support 🔧

Read about it, here!: epic.gm/unreal-engine-…
Chance Ivey (@iveytron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The #LEGOFortnite Cinematic Trailer is live! I am so stoked to play with everyone tomorrow, Dec. 7th! youtube.com/watch?v=GeKTrj…

Unreal Engine (@unrealengine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unreal Engine 5.4 is here!🔔 It’s packed with new features and improvements, including the toolsets we’ve been using internally to make ‘Fortnite Chapter 5,’ ‘Rocket Racing,’ ‘Fortnite Festival,’ and ‘LEGO Fortnite’ the successes they are. Check it out: unrealengine.com/whats-new

Ari Arnbjörnsson (@flassari) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The video of "Setting up an Unreal Engine Studio the Epic Way" is up! Two full months of research in collaboration with 12 game studios distilled down to 45 minutes of concentrated knowledge, enjoy! I had a lot of fun with this one 😄🎸🤘 #uetips youtube.com/watch?v=102O0F…

Unreal Engine (@unrealengine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are Mega excited about this in particular 🔦 MegaLights, a new experiential feature in 5.5, enables artists to use orders of magnitude more lights. They are movable and dynamic, with realistic area shadows, and can light volumetric fog. See this capture of our live, real-time

Tim Sweeney (@timsweeneyepic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The first Halo redefined console gaming in 2001, and over the generations Halo has pushed the state of the art forward with amazing gameplay, story, and music. Epic is honored that the Halo Studios team has chosen our tools to help with their future work!

Tim Sweeney (@timsweeneyepic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week. Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.

Fortnite (@fortnite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fortnite is BACK on the App Store in the U.S. on iPhones and iPads... and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the E.U! It’ll show up in Search soon! Get Fortnite on the App Store in the U.S. ➡️ fn.gg/US-AppStore

Fortnite is BACK on the App Store in the U.S. on iPhones and iPads... and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the E.U! It’ll show up in Search soon! 

Get Fortnite on the App Store in the U.S. ➡️ fn.gg/US-AppStore