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lol, anything but actual broadcast music

Ballistic had 10x the players btw

You never really know what someone is dealing with behind the scenes. That has been one of the harder lessons for me to learn. Sometimes people are late. Quiet. Short. Distracted. Not themselves. And the easy thing is to take it personally. But life is heavy for a lot of people in ways they never talk about. It took me years to learn this, but giving people a little more grace and leniency goes a long way. You never know what someone is carrying.

We'll keep that Yule Burner lit.

“Horror stripped to its essentials: a hallway, a door, knowing that you will go through it.” From director Kane Parsons, BACKROOMS opens in theaters everywhere May 29.

🚨 Epic just updated the “How Discover Works” documentation. The biggest creator takeaways: • New islands can be tested for up to 2 weeks • Engagement drives distribution • Bounce rate and social play metrics are coming to analytics • Thumbnail best practices matter more starting June 2026 • Copycat titles and thumbnails can reduce visibility • Reusing Verse code and devices is allowed • Genre selection determines row eligibility • Search uses both keyword and semantic matching

Beyond Assets 4.0 is HERE! 🎨 ✨What’s new: - Customize the color of ANY asset - Easily copy any asset into your clipboard - Share individual asset links with others - Improved sidebar navigation - Added our brand new subscription service that includes exclusive original assets!

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@MaestroShark Congrats 🫡

I’ve officially graduated summa cum laude (highest honors) from UNT with my Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science! 4 years that shaped me into the man I am today. Looking forward to the next chapter of life; pursuing innovation, excellence, and service to my community.

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@ImmatureGamer Holy. I need a hike like that.

Birthday hike at the Hieroglyphic Trail in the Superstition Mountains. Needed this. Arizona never disappoints.

Updated the material and lighting. #UEFN #Backrooms

Poor wording on my end. In a sense it still feels like a fee or a mandatory step for most listings, as you need to follow the creator to download anything that requires it. With 24 hours down to 3 hours, you still need to wait, because of that you might as well follow everyone on the site to avoid potential wait times. Let's say you want an asset from someone, you have to sign-up/in (if it even works), follow their account, wait a few hours, then download it, and you have to do that multiple times if there are new accounts or you didnt follow everyone already. I get a wait time can be done to discourage an immediate unfollow (unless theres a different specific reason to have it?), but with the nature of the site involving ripped content, its redundant. If an account continues to list assets, why would you unfollow them? You'd think it may result with that restriction again, so just dont unfollow? And I do occasionally check in on the site. With those that require a follow already followed, and so little new uploads (with half of the original ones gone), I never noticed the time cut from 24hrs to 3hrs. I think the site has a good idea for developers sharing resources and whatnot, but most (if not all) of the resources shared are ripped assets from the game, and is enabling for that. An example of what would be a good resource site would be Beyond Fortnite Assets. All of the Epic-made content there is free, requires no account, no following nor wait times, and anything paid is their Spark membership that offers original content, with funds all going towards commissioning artist in the Fortnite community.

@NebulaFN Are we viewing the same website? In what world has there ever been a follower fee? And have you viewed the website once in the last 4 months to know there isn't a 24 hour time limit anymore? It's been a 3 hour time limit since January.

Regardless, having a space to enable those who can distribute these ripped assets for UEFN projects is a problem. Sure a lot of devs can benefit greatly from them, and I think a lot of us do use them for our projects. Its just something about this "black market" aspect that I dont like about it. Having to join a discord server so you can engage long enough to level up in order to get access to the channels is already terrible, and could encourage issues involving adjacent parties. And having a dedicated (possibly vibe coded) website that now has usage limits, a follower fee, permissions, and 24hr wait time, that can all be waived with a tiered subscription service that funds the continuation of this enabling, is arguably worse. The asset ripping community gives off this, "hey I spent an hour of using Fmodel, JsonAsAsset, and UE5 to obtain these game assets, please give me credit as if I own the product." energy, that makes it feel like they're a group of childish people, wanting attention, and would gatekeep things they don't legally own for their own benifit. Also, when someone does use ripped assets for their project, they hardly do anything with it and just call it a day, like using Zero Points, rifts, Cubes, etc. For Fortnite based lore or Battle Royales that use Fortnite's own storyline as a backbone, and we know the Fortnite Storyline community can be an unpleasant space. But I digress. I'm not sure what all of this could lead to. I do believe Epic is totally aware of this, and I do think Epic should allow us more access to their IP for Fortnite Branded UEFN projects. The Ecosystem is heavily based on the world of Fortnite and Battle Royale. Having a consistent continuity of the Fortnite metaverse is good for player experience, and better preforming if we could save on download sizes. Why would you redownload the same texture or material dozens of times on different Islands, when you can jist use the same globally provided texture by Epic? We've seen this work for Genisis Studios with their live events and Squid Game Island. We have Imposter recreations that use old game assets. Theres Chapter 1 Island recreations which Epic gave permission for us to do, but without monetary gain (which isn't enforced at all by moderation, AFAIK). What leads to ripping of these assets is because everything in UEFN that is provided to us is ready-only, and we have no way of manipulating the asset to our liking without running into validation issue, or it simply just not existing for anyone to use. I do think this also may derive from the illegal props grid islands, back when that was a thing in Creative Mode and was more exclusive and tedious to obtain for Islands. Anyways, these are some of my thoughts on the matter. It's an interesting topic that needs to be looked into and addressed eventually

Still cant believe that I was able to attend this live event on my laptop at Galaxy's Edge, right next to the millennium Falcon, during my Unreal Fest trip. Man, time flies

The Epic Games TOS applies to the whole ecosystem legal.epicgames.com/epicgames/tos legal.epicgames.com/epicgames/fan-… Sure they may not do anything about it, and may even allow it to persist in the ecosystem, but it's still being violated in some way. The terms are there for legal reasons, so if Epic wanted to take action, they will.

@kattylotl That's all related to usage withing UEFN not third-party platforms and epic do not care they probably won't ever care unless we caused them to loose revenue+ the way they are going adding missing stuff to UEFN the platform might not be required much longer.

fortforge has started charging for downloads, this is so laughably pathetic dude the asset ripping community is genuinely such a shit stain on uefn

@kattylotl @0RedFN @TravisV_YT

@0RedFN @TravisV_YT As epic have said, their work is their intellectual property, meaning all of these assets. You are just wrong. legal.epicgames.com/fortnite/devel…

While we wait for it to go live Here's some group gameplay of Star Wars: Impostor ⏰Releasing Today in Fortnite! Featuring @Z3bush @BuildsOstrich @NebulaFN @Lunalotl @TactFNC #UEFN #Fortnite #StarWars

There's no shard on the Moon, Voyager. #UEFN

Dang, this POI has a nice backdrop