13 engineers on Hacker News describe using Unreal Engine first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“Unreal absolutely does have its warts... on the whole we're pretty happy with Unreal (both the renderer and the materials system are very impressive).”
mixed · production · dbrueck · 2023-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For fairness of comparison, we've run into equally bad bugs with UE4. But at least for Unreal, I have full C++ source code so I can fix things and move on.”
mixed · production · fxtentacle · 2020-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having seriously evaluated Unreal Engine 4 for web use with its 50MB runtime, I view even Blazor's current 4MB binary size as quite practical”
regret · personal · rl3 · 2017-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Unreal Bluescript since past few months... As soon as Blueprints gets bigger... it becomes absolutely unwieldy.”
mixed · personal · sytelus · 2016-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude Max with UE5”
neutral · personal · nineteen999 · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There is a reason both Unity and Unreal use uncompressed audio or ADPCM for sound effects.”
neutral · production · nearbuy · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A clean ue5 editor build with precompiled headers, adaptive unity builds and optimisations disabled takes 20 minutes or so.”
neutral · production · maccard · 2025-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's a ue4 based game project.”
neutral · production · maccard · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it generates valid UPROPERTY and UFUNCTION blocks for unreal code.”
neutral · personal · wokwokwok · 2021-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We certainly reported it several times a couple of years ago before we switched to Unreal.”
neutral · production · martinpw · 2020-05-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Builds require things like specific versions of Unity, Unreal, or a console SDK.”
neutral · production · shinymark · 2019-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GIT LFS for the last 6 months with an Unreal Engine project”
neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · fit2rule · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“C#, Unity, Unreal, CG/GLSL/HLSL, most recently Blender.”
neutral · personal · dave7 · 2018-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?