Manor Lords next update will switch over to Unreal Engine 5 and, more importantly, add fishing ponds

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Manor Lords next update will switch over to Unreal Engine 5 and, more importantly, add fishing pondsGreat now all I can think about is James Pond

Great now all I can think about is James Pond

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a shiny pond in Manor Lords.

I’m calling it now. When, ina “few weeks”according to the developer, fishing ponds come tostrategybuilderManor Lords, it will take approximately 45 minutes for some enterprising medieval fintech tinkerer toutterly bork the entire economy, and it will be glorious. What will begin as brave new world of lean protein and previously unseen Omega 3 levels will soon devolve into hordes ofbeleaguered oxenhauling overburdened carts full of rotting fish carcasses, as hyperinflation looms.

Working on fishing ponds for the next update since it was requested a lotpic.twitter.com/RwgcEX9K0S— MANOR LORDS (@LordsManor)July 15, 2024To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings

Working on fishing ponds for the next update since it was requested a lotpic.twitter.com/RwgcEX9K0S— MANOR LORDS (@LordsManor)July 15, 2024

Working on fishing ponds for the next update since it was requested a lotpic.twitter.com/RwgcEX9K0S

You may have also noticed how shiny the above lake looks, too, which is likely down to the upcoming engine change slated to also arrive in the upcoming patch. The migration to Unreal Engine 5, hopes Styczeń, will sort out some lingering memory corruption issues, like flickering roads and crashes, viaGames Radar.

The initial hype around Manor Lords - that wot led it to sell 2 million copies - has understandably leveled out a bit, but it’s undeniably heartening to hear that Slavic Magic aren’t under pressure to crank out new mecha-ox or hay-based battle passes. “Dev uses early access to work on game at their own pace and player base plays a bit here and there, then and moves on to other games when they’ve had their fill” shouldn’t be an unusual state of affairs in anything but a profoundly sick industry, but them’s the no-brakes, I guess.