I will check UE4 when paypal payment is possible.
They work already on such a solution.

If my hardware can handle the engine I think I will switch.
Acknex is dead.

I'm waiting, too until I have enough spare time

, poor WED , but yeah I agree with this.

, lol that is kindy bad. For indies though, what are the chances that someone will do that to your server? Unless speaking about MMO's or maybe competive (as in tournament / ladder games), than I can understand it is problem.

I read 225$/month on the unity forums if you also want all of the mobile publishing add-ons. While Unity appears to recently be better for mobile apps that's around ten times more than for UE4...


Well it's what came up in one of the discussion threads about the multiplayer capabilities here on the forum. It was such a surprising flaw in the system I simply had to remember and which showed up for those who actually tried to do something serious with the built in multiplayer features and commands. The internal system itself seems ... well let's not say it's completely broken but it's not what you'd expect from a system that is advertised wih MMO capabilities. Although to say the truth there might have been some improvements during the time JCL developed that porn online game...

How about the programming style ?

Is UE4 a component based, Unity like, game engine ?
You attach scripts to the gameobjects
Each script comes with its Start() and Update() function
or
Is it an "old fashion" ( the one I like ) game programming style
You create your entity classes, stsrting from a list of prefabricated classes and methods

In the Game Play you have one only Main() function such as

Update() {

bob.move();
Jane.shoot();

}

Much more intuitive and user friendly, in my opinion

a mix of both, but not as easy to manage as in Unity3d but easier than it was in UDK. it does not create so many dll files to run faster by avoiding too many communication among dll-s, normally only one so called game module.
you can create a new class by the class creation wizard in the editor to be pre-created with macros and other required stuff. you can select its base that can be a couple of different things, e.g. a new character class or just a general base class called actor, or a component class:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT...zard/index.html
then add code:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Basics/ClassCreation/CodeOnly/index.html
then you can put this new actor class in the level in the editor (after compiling the new class in VS2013 and restarting the editor)
or alternatively you can create Blueprint classes, or a mix of both:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Basics/ClassCreation/index.html

Thanks sivan

Do you mean that UE4 comes with a basic Actor class which contain all variables and methods which you would expect from an Actor ?
for example if you want to find the distance between John and Mary, you can write something like

dist = John.position - Mary.position;

instead of the ugly Unity code

dist = transform.position - Mary.transform.position;

@AlbertoT:
You've written exactly the same line in a semantic way. It is just an API thing how this things are handled...

C++ codes look in general more ugly than unity's javascript, and a real mess comparing to lite-c. if you unhappy with it, for a lot of things visual programming can do a the job. it's basically not a lightweight hobby engine... probably it will be easier to use when some books come out.

Nope
It is a completely different game engine design.
It has nothing to do with API and the programming language

Unity is a "component based engine "
Although such game design has become quite popular, I dont like it , just a matter of taste