Epic Video games has detailed upcoming adjustments to its retailer and recreation launcher.
Throughout a presentation at Unreal Fest the place the corporate mentioned upcoming plans for the Epic Video games Retailer, it defined intimately what its priorities have been for the following 12 months to overtake the shop and recreation launcher.
In slideshow photos taken by X consumer LuKaOnIndeed and shared on Reddit, Epic cut up its priorities into three timeframes, with probably the most imminent adjustments together with “storefront rearchitecture” and a personal beta of an Epic Video games Launcher model 2, together with different high quality of life enhancements like in-store patch notes, cross-region gifting and “chunked set up” for Fortnite.
After these duties, Epic will transfer onto to a public launch of the Epic Video games Launcher V2, in addition to enhancing the Epic Video games Retailer’s design and UX, together with the addition of participant profiles and avatars, user-written critiques and enhancements to go looking.
Lastly, duties deliberate for additional sooner or later embody a multi-platform retailer – probably referring to the presence of an Epic Video games Retailer on Xbox‘s Venture Helix – in addition to common controller help and a storefront redesign.
The corporate then went into specifics, nevertheless it was its feedback on the Epic Video games Launcher that have been maybe probably the most essential, with a slide claiming: “Each developer on this room and each participant we’ve got has expertise challenges with the present launcher – it’s time for a change.”
It additionally claimed that the upcoming model 2 of the Epic Video games Launcher may have a chilly begin that might be 5 occasions quicker on common.
This isn’t the primary time Epic has addressed the problems gamers face with its recreation launcher. Again in February, Epic Video games Retailer vp and normal supervisor Steven Allison mentioned the launcher “sucks” and promised enhancements have been coming.
“We obtained a whole lot of stuff out the door final yr, and this yr goes to be in all probability the perfect yr for that stuff on the ‘massive rocks’,” Allison informed Eurogamer on the time. “And the large rocks are – the launcher sucks. Let’s name it what it’s.
“It’s actually sluggish. It makes calls to our back-end providers to refresh each time you click on round, and relying in your connection, you’ll have to attend a pair seconds. And that simply doesn’t really feel good, particularly when individuals are evaluating and contrasting and twin utilizing one which doesn’t do this.”
Allison mentioned that work on enhancing this began late final yr and entails “pulling the heart out [and] placing new guts in”, including: “It ought to begin to really feel good, be quicker and other people [should] be like, ‘holy shit. It doesn’t suck a lot’, and that might be a win for us.”
