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Unreal Engine 5.5 Tech Demo Offers Glimpse Into a Futuristic Cyberpunk Metropolis

by Owen Mar 20,2025

An innovative Unreal Engine 5.5.3 tech demo showcases a breathtaking futuristic cyberpunk city. Created by artist Sciontidesign, this immersive walkthrough draws inspiration from the Samaritan UE3 demo, Blade Runner, and the visual style of Cyberpunk 2077. Showcased on high-end hardware—an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, and 32GB of 6000MHz DDR5 RAM—the demo relies entirely on dynamic lighting.

This technical marvel demonstrates the power of Nanite with Distance Field Meshes and Ambient Occlusion, enhanced by Screen Space Reflections. Significantly, it omits advanced features like Lumen, Path Tracing, RTX, DLSS, and baked lighting, underscoring UE5's capabilities even without its most sophisticated tools.

While the rain effect feels somewhat artificial, the detailed rendering of wet surfaces significantly enhances the urban environment's realism. However, the presence of frequent invisible walls unfortunately detracts from the overall immersive experience. Although Unreal Engine 5 tech demos consistently impress with their visual fidelity, the transition to fully realized games often presents performance challenges in real-world applications.

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