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It's mostly not UE5 exactly. UE5 just let's devs turn on features that are performance hogs easily. Squad, for example, just upgraded from UE4 to UE5 but they took their time and did things in a smart way (like not using Lumen), and performance increased for a lot of people, with much higher detail too.
UE5 isn't the issue. It's devs who turn on all the features they can and ignore optimization because "the engine just handles it." It's got some really impressive technology, but it'll ruin your game if you let it.
Squad has massive problems on UE5, it's got all the visual artifacts and blur (even with no AA on?) that you would expect from a game on the engine.
What? Some systems have worse performance, primarily if you don't have enough VRAM, but artifacting and blur? What do you mean? Sure, there's blur with TAA/FSR/DLSS, but that's always true and cam be toggled.
You cant toggle it, or you get loads of shimmering, you cant use it because you get loads of blur. There's ghosting even without AA. This is the exact problem, there's no good implementation if you are relying on TAA and/or DLSS as anti-aliasing. Squad suffers it, the same as any UE5 game.