Epic showed off Unreal Engine 5 with an impressive Witcher 4 tech demo

An ongoing contented astatine Epic’s large keynotes is simply a gorgeous tech demo that shows disconnected what its crippled motor is susceptible of. For this year’s State of Unreal, the institution turned to The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red. This caller demo a beauteous glimpse astatine its phantasy world, filled with blood, fire, and monsters — and much importantly, a caller horse.

The demo was built utilizing Unreal Engine 5.6, and shows caller protagonist Ciri exploring immoderate forested lands and a marketplace known arsenic Valdrest. Epic says the demo is designed successful portion to amusement disconnected however the latest iteration tin grip some bustling scenes and foliage successful an open-world setting. It besides shows however overmuch equine exertion has improved since The Witcher 3. Epic says that the demo is moving connected a basal exemplary PS5 astatine 60 frames per second, with raytracing enabled, and the presumption included a unrecorded demonstration, with the developers playing the crippled connected stage. You tin cheque retired the afloat keynote here, conscionable scroll backmost to the opening to ticker the Witcher 4 segment.

Here’s the cinematic intro:

And a look astatine horseback gameplay:

And a fistful of images from the demo:

We’ve known that CDPR had switched to UE5 for its adjacent Witcher crippled as acold backmost arsenic 2022, erstwhile it announced a concern with Epic, apt arsenic a effect of the method issues that plagued Cyberpunk 2077’s launch. Last twelvemonth the developer officially revealed The Witcher 4 — with Ciri replacing Geralt successful the pb — with a cinematic trailer. There’s nary connection yet connected erstwhile the crippled volition beryllium launching.

The 5.6 mentation of Unreal Engine, meanwhile, is disposable to developers starting today.