It Is Crazy to think that UEFN has been out for 2 years! 11.2 Billion Hours Have been played across 260,000 Unique UEFN Games. $722 Million USD Has been paid to creators via the engagment payouts.
New Islands
Today at Unreal Fest, Epic revealed that we will be getting 3 new IP modes soon in addition to the ones we already have (TWDU, TMNT, Fall Guys, Rocket Racing, Lego). These Are:
- Squid Game Releasing: June 27 2025, and publishing will be available shortly after.
- Star Wars
- Avatar
Epic seem really invested in IP islands. 700,000 Hours has been spent developing TMNT islands and 160 Millon hours has been played across all IP Islands.
Star Wars AI
The Vadar AI currently in Battle royale will soon make its way to UEFN via persona device. You will be able to specify via verse how the AI behaves and their ultimate goal. This is so epic! You can see an example here:
Verse Assistant AI
Powered by Epics Own Data and GPT 4.1, we now have a verse assistant AI. This can help you brainstrorm, link you documentation and write verse code!
You can access the assistant Here
Scene Graph
Scene Graph has been delayed again until....
Only Joking... Scene Graph Releases This Saturday, June 7th
Scene graph will be an essential factor for your games as it makes everything in the editor be able to be powered by verse code. Elements can be constructed in a hierarchical view and even constructed into prefabs.
This code can also dynamically update things such as props, ammo and more!
Updated Roadmap
Epic have yet again updated their creative roadmap.
New Features have been added to the roadmap!
Have a look below to see what has changed!
Data API
The Data API was partially released last week, with all data being available on June 9th. This allows you to see on any map
- Hours Played
- Mins Per Player
- Plays
- Favorites
- Recomendations
- Max CCU
- Unique Players
- Retention day 1 and day 7
Remember, FCHQ is committed to making more analytics avalible for you to improve your maps. Read Jon's Blog for more info
Lego
The highly requested lego brick editor releases on June 17th. This allows creators to build their own bricks, and have more customisation over the aesthetics to the map.
Discover
An updated discover UI was revealed, which looks a lot better! Epic also committed to:
- 100% copy maps being blocked
- Very high match data will be de-ranked.
Thats it for now! So much awesome stuff that is to come. Here's to 2025 in UEFN!
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Olilz
Hey! I am Olilz! I Have been playtesting maps for FCHQ for over 175 weeks! I enjoy creating maps myself & creating new experiences. I love to code and make yt videos!