Unreal Engine 5 is not needed. Crimson Desert impressed Digital Foundry
Crimson Desert will be released in two months, and the Digital Foundry team called it the best game at CES 2026.
The Korean studio used its own Blackspace Engine, abandoning Unity and the problematic Unreal Engine 5. Digital Foundry notes that this choice was successful.
In the new material, experts praise the level of detail and natural lighting, combining traditional SSR with ray tracing for global illumination. At CES, the game ran in native 4K without upscaling, on maximum graphics settings, with an AMD RX 9070 XT card, which gives hope for good performance on consoles and weak PCs.
Digital Foundry pays special attention to the rendering and simulation of the physics of water, stating that it is now difficult to find another project with a similar effect. You can assess how Crimson Desert will perform on the full scale of an epic RPG with a huge world on March 19, 2026.
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