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Forgot to use photo mode, rookie mistake choom

Still planned for this year! We will share more info about EA soon.

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⚔️ Living, join us TODAY for the HUNGER Server Slam and help us put server stability to the test! Less than 24 hours remain in the Closed Beta. Fill the Chateau and head out on another Expedition while you can!

Vibe your way to 50K. The 2026 Epic AI MegaJam begins Nov 12: epic.gm/epic-ai-megajam-2026

A BioWare dev on reddit leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer... it's called MASS EFFECT UNIVERSE and it's fucking gorgeous. I'm crying. This is everything I wanted. They were a lot farther than we thought. FUCK EA

Thought it might be interesting to explain some of the thinking behind movement speed in Hunger, as I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion about it. Firstly, it’s undeniable that movement speed when you start playing Hunger is fairly slow. However, it’s not a fixed value, and there’s a meaningful difference between a new character and a developed one. Interestingly, we started development at the faster end of the spectrum, using games like Warzone and Apex as reference points. However, through testing, we found that faster movement created problems for several of our core systems. We wanted a detailed world with objects tucked behind chairs, on shelves, scattered across floors and hidden in rafters. At high movement speeds, interacting with small objects became frustrating. Even a small input could send you past whatever you were trying to pick up. It’s partly why faster games often use piñata-style looting, where objects explode out of large containers and then float in the air at chest height and can effectively be hoovered up as you move past them. There’s nothing wrong with that approach, but we wanted players to interact more precisely with the environment. Another major consideration was melee combat. One thing we discovered through testing is that making melee combat work beyond a single strike is largely about readability. At very high movement speeds, characters spend relatively little time within striking distance. Reading attacks, tracking movement and responding to an opponent becomes much harder. Combat starts to resemble two fast vehicles colliding rather than an exchange of blows. It’s why faster games often favour quick, single-hit melee attacks with some degree of targeting assistance. We wanted combat where blocking, positioning, timing and landing deliberate strikes mattered. That requires players to be able to read what their opponent is doing between attacks. We’re still improving melee readability, but movement speed is fundamental to making that kind of combat work. Once we’d established movement speeds that worked for melee, we tested them with ranged combat. Combined with our TTK, we found they produced a more deliberate style of gunplay that we liked. The other consideration was the Hunger themselves. AI movement speeds are tuned around the player. If players move dramatically faster than the Hunger, encounters become trivial because players can engage, disengage or bypass them almost at will. We don’t want the Hunger to be the primary threat in every encounter, but they need to apply meaningful pressure in different places. During this process, I went back and revisited Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind, particularly looking at their movement speeds. What interested me wasn’t the crazy speed increases you could eventually achieve in some of those games, but the general pace and the idea of mobility being part of character progression. We ultimately realised that Hunger needed to be closer to the movement philosophy of an open-world RPG like Skyrim than a competitive battle royale like Apex or Warzone. Your character should gradually become faster and more agile, but not to the point where movement undermines environmental interaction or combat (a major issue re “lunge tech”). In Hunger, movement speed increases through abilities, masteries, food and other systems we’re developing. There’s an upper speed cap, but the difference between a starting character and the maximum achievable speed is greater than I think many people realise. Ultimately, movement speed is a product of how we’ve balanced environmental interaction, melee, ranged combat, AI and RPG progression. Hopefully that explains some of the thinking behind where we’ve landed.