Unreal Engine 5 Beta

I spent the past 100,000,000 years remaking YAaB in Unreal Engine 5 and you can try it ~right now~

Beta features

Expect bugs and performance issues at this stage.

• Calibration eliminated!

• Better wing controls: roll naturally with your wrist instead of triggers

• Temporal Super Resolution - save on FPS by turning down render resolution without much visual quality loss

• Better lighting with extremely long distance shadows

• Better day/night sky graphics

• High quality volumetric clouds you can fly through and above

• Dynamic weather system with rain, thunder, lightning, fog, and cloud coverage

• Weather clears above the cloud layer

• Better flight physics

• Proper graphics options

• Little tutorial guys

• Returning to massive finite landscapes with more human touch in their design. Infinite procedural generated landscapes are being removed because they are too much of a performance burden and not reliable with some of the new landscape features like rivers, waterfalls, and mountain lakes that I'm working on.

• Better grass

• Better groundcover

• Better ambient audio

• Fast-forward time from the popup menu

• Better landscape detail

• OpenXR instead of the older SteamVR/Oculus targets

These features from the Unity version are not in the UE5 Beta yet but I'm working on it:

• Talon controls

• Hunting rabbits

• Glowy deer

How to opt into the Beta

In your Library: Right click You Are A Bird Click Properties Click Betas Choose beta from the Beta Participation dropdown Close Properties Wait for the update to complete.

If the Beta is not working on your PC yet, just set Beta Participation back to None to play the old version.

Pls let me know how it's working for you on Discord.