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Unreal Engine 4.8 Released With Nearly 200 Changes

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 10 June 2015 at 02:06 PM EDT. 10 Comments

Epic Games just announced the release of Unreal Engine 4.8 with "189 great changes" for game developers leveraging this AAA game engine.

Unreal Engine 4.8 features optimizations to its "grass systems" for large open worlds, post-processing enhancements and tools, multi-platform VR support, network replay support, an asset size mapper, and much more.

Learn about the Unreal Engine 4.8 changes via this blog post and the full release notes.

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