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did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

Good stuff! Some personal opinions: 1) IMO removing Blueprints isn't bad per se. There are great advantages to moving back to a pure text scripting language. But what sucks is that Verse is designed around crazy bullshit metaverse concepts which won't fit AAA gamedev or other customers (film, etc.)

Of course there are no advantages to getting rid of it. But I'm sure that's what people also said when UE4 killed most of UE3's scripting tech. The difference is that UE4's Blueprints were arguably better, and so it turned out OK.

I don't think most people did say that. Unrealscript was very cool imo, I think it's sort of a shame Blueprint wasn't basically a visual layer on top of Unrealscript. That's where they shoulda gone instead of Verse

I suspect it's actually quite hard to make something that works simultaneously well in text and visual form. It probably requires being designed that way from scratch, and can't be "added on top". Happy to be proven wrong with examples though.