Unity 7 

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Unity is tackling everything Unity developers were begging for and barely got a response until now. I can't really think of a better way to handle their horrible past and image. They're not keeping deprecated solutions and re architecture what's needed. Some things in Unity were bare minimum like the animation system and Terrain system. Other things just had a lot of missing or annoying things in their core like ShaderGraph or render pipelines, And they talked about all of it.

CoreCLR and DOTS under the hood are actually huge changes. The performance improvements, both in the editor and in built games, are going to be significant.

The CoreCLR change is HUGE. Finally we can use all the new .NET features and QOL improvements C# has received.

One thing that surprised me about this whole key note presentation was the fact that they weren't screaming "AI AI AI AI AI AI AI". Good on them I guess.

Hot info, I was told by a product architect at Unity that Unity 7 / Next Gen is going to have a public Alpha soon, like 2025 kind of soon, he said they're going to make a public statement about it before the end of 2024. It is the most exciting thing because thanks to CoreCLR script compile time is likely going to be done in few hundreds of milliseconds instead of the current 3s-1min.

It appears that Unity is trying to clean up the mess prior to the runtime fee disaster. Looks very promising and going in the right direction.

I’m glad to see Unity focusing on improving their core product by releasing features similar to Unreal Engine, rather than trying to squeeze their user base for more money.

Before someone says We got Unity 7 teaser before GTA 6 😭😭😭

If they call it "Unity One"... Run!

The ECS stuff is a good move, have a simple easy to understand and edit system presented to the user, and convert it to ECS in the background, the way it should have been from day one, like you have c# code which gets ultimately compiled to machine code, you'd be mad these days to use machine code directly, which is what DOTS felt like to me

I love that unity next gen will have both rendering pipeline combined into 1 it make it soo much easer to make stuff for the asses store without having to make it support 3 different rendering pipeline

These are needed updates, especially the unified rendering and more responsive editor.

This video is basically "hey temember all that stuff Unity promised in 2017-2019 was in the not too distant future? Well, in 2024 theyre promising it yet again, that its in the not too distant future" Ill believe it when I see it

It sounds like Unity should be working directly with Jason Booth to integrate Microverse and Micrsplat directly into the engine. If not I bet the terrain editing tools will end up like ProBuilder.

Do not expect most of those promises to be delivered for years to come. Furthermore, considering the continued mess in the Built-in/Legacy LWRP/URP/HDRP and now Unified RP, that mess will likely last for decades.

Unity 6 is on release? been learning and using unity for years, we had ups and downs but am happy where we are heading.

Single most important thing of note here is that they’re not mentioning AI. This is a thing that gives me some hope that they’ll perhaps focus on core stuff and not on the FOMO of the day.

While this would all be great... How long until we get this? If we do?

After the whole runtime fee mess I found a lot of optimism in open-source engines, and now seeing this gives me a lot of optimism for Unity itself :)

Unity 4 pro was the best times I remember. It all went to hell after that. Upselling new Beta feature this, new beta that, never finishing promise and sticking with it. The going with dates thing drived me crazy, now back to version numbers so glad I went with Unreal. Man this company is all over the place. Can I really trust them again?

If I wasn't so entrenched in unreal engine (been using it since it was UDK, and modded UT 2004), I would think Unity is pretty cool (after rolling back the dumb business decisions), but would probably use Godot. I know for sure any 2D application I make will be with Godot.

The new world building features looks like they are just catching up to UE4.

I know Unity needs cash. To get cash they need rev share. To get commercially viable rev share they need AAA devs. To get AAA devs they need these featues. I get that. From a business standpoint this makes a lot of sense. But to not say one word about 2D for the second Unite in a row? Yikes. Disappointed to say the least.

been a unity dev since 2009. will be entering a new production cycle in a few days. tbf it’s years too late, and despite all the good news i can’t see myself working in unity right now.

At the time Unity 7 releases, Epic have likely already released UE6 with Verse scripting support and other features that makes Unity 7 look old

I was excited for Unity 6, till they told us about Unity 7 lol. Especially the terrain tools.

The render pipeline is by far the biggest thing I would even care about. Being a heavy user of assets it was horrible to find this awesome asset but its on HDRP or URP and not on whichever renderer I am using. Will be super glad to see that change.

MicroVerse already has most of those World Building features. In current Unity versions 😁

So glad I switched to Godot a while back. Still, I am happy to see Unity (hopefully) back on track.

Man, Unity 7 looks epic! Tbh Dots should of never been a separate workflow, glad they're incorporating it for gameobjects.. Looking forward to the new animation, world building, unified rendering, CoreCLR.. etc.. Heck everything on that roadmap looked epic!

There is a new asset that will hit the asset store soon. Something that rivals nanite. Made by a German software developer called Chris kahler. Hope unity integrates that like they did bolt.

Actually excited for a Unity update for once. Looks like these changes might finally fix the declining performance of the Editor (hopefully)

Bless finally some terrain improvements

Really awesome video and great summary of the whole thing. Thank you!

"We're changing the renderer AGAIN" Dude, just fucking stop!

the great thing about unity 7 is... they're free to add a new runtime fee since they only promised to walk back the runtime fee for Unity 6

I bet they're already working on the next generation runtime fee

Beyond Unity 6 looks like "we have UE 5 at home" meme...

That effort to demonstrate fidelity after being caught cheating more than once:

As far as I understand, URP and HDRP still exist under the surface, what changes is that there is a unified authoring and depending on the renderloop-settings and platform it switches automatically between them.

Fun fact: Most 'To be' improvements of Unity 7 is already implemented on Godot 4 Conclusion : 3D for Godot 2D for Unity

Corporate showed their true colors, so still dead to me no matter what, especially that Godot has indie covered and UE5 is still the better AAA product/ecosystem

wrong ending cards in the video

finally some good news for those of us who are too deep into unity land as working professionals, and have hated having to use unreal engine at work. Probably unpopular opinion, but i'm not alone, and i hope this gives studios confidence to pivot back to freedom of choice based on the proj needs. These internal or publisher UE mandates the past year or 2 suck

I love the import stuff now we can do stuff whiile importing really cool

Looks nice, but Unity is still a publicly-traded company that has to appease its shareholders. Adobe and Autodesk forced their subscription models to their users after going public, so the Unity would likely follow suit if it can triple the number of companies that use the game engine

Now I wonder if the run time fee debacle was just a plan to manipulate the stock price.

It looks pretty good. Let's hope that nothing bad will happen in the future. Godot doesn't have such powerful tools yet.

I see people in the comment section talking about how Unity only show trailers and not game play but it looks like they aren't even watching the full video 🤡

big compatibility break sounds scary but it's really an opportunity to break away from Unity for a less abusive partner

please add chapters to your videos, so it is easier to jump back and share link to specific information

Oh nice, Unity might be good again in a year or so. I look forward to seeing that.

we are so back!

Unity 7 is Godot 4

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they pushed Unity 7 sooner than later. You have to think, Unity 6 has a lot of negativity tied to it right now due to the runtime fee fiasco. Yes, they terminated that, but it still has a sour taste in peoples mouths. The fact that they are testing 7 right now sorta tells me they are planning on a release of this within a year or so, most likely in beta. This would allow devs to get used to the new version along with letting asset creators to port their creations over with a good amount of time. Overall, I like the direction they are going. The main question I am asking myself is was all of this too late? I've personally moved on from Unity due to the long term support for projects and the upgrading nightmare along with online connectivity being forced to use the editor. In the end, what they showed was impressive, it's a bit late to the game (pun intended), but at least they are trying. Actions speak louder than words and demos, so lets see what they do in the next year or two.

That dude at the beginning looks like a character in a Unity built game

Still a subscription service with no option for a perpetual license. That's the first thing Riccitiello did to us and until it's undone, there is no reason to come back.

Man they just waited for Jason Booth make the microverse to copy him, lol, The dots news just made my interest to learn dots postponed

IDK, it would be more interesting if it would be "just behind corner" and not in the far future. To me, it felt like hyping a nothing burger because of that. Like really, if you need it, there is no point in waiting for it right now. If anything, it kinda promises that moving from 6 to 7 will be a very hard thing to do (the opposite of hype, if you are thinking about starting with Unity today).

Unity really needs to decide for once how will they call their new versions.

Since there's no perpetual license like the old engine version, these new features are genuinely worthless to someone who doesn't have the funds of a startup game dev company to use this.

The Unity speaker sounded like Ryan Reynolds 😂

waw unity 7 already?

Finally, Unity's team woke up to the reality of the indie's needs, even the asset builders will have their lives facilitated. Also, a nice set of buffs, such as CoreCLR, under-the-hood DOTS, and the rendering unification, seems to be the way to go. Although 2025 seems a little far, it will be worth the wait if they don't introduce another bizarre plot twist.

Those updates 5 years late. No, thanks.

don't say urp like that, it makes me feel weird inside.

They haven't shipped Unity 6 yet and they already started making promises for Unity 7 😕

The only thing I'm afraid of is this OpenPBR thing and the block shaders, if they go too into it they will once again create some division, yes, PBR is great, but not all games use it, the tools provided should not cater to one type of rendering and, more importantly, should not come at the expense of capabilities like being able to use the tools to do other things, these block shaders remind of the old meta shader language they had (can't remember the name)

This is hype as hell, but lets keep it real, this is years away lol

It seems they are letting go of the 2d dev niche of the market completely by now Which I guess seems logical if they don't expect any revenue from indies, but I would have guessed they'd still get good cash from the asset store

It'll be years until they regain the trust they had (and possibly never). What they're saying now sounds good but they've had unfulfilled promises for years now. Let's see the actions. And no matter what they'll still be a publicly traded company at the end of the day and you know how that goes.

I just paid my owed balance yesterday, that has kept me out of unity for about 6 months or a year lol, and have been doing good area of unreal design, need to get my assets to godot 😮

This is a good one!

Finally CoreCLR

They are 100% still in damage control, there's no way it's a coincidence that Unity would announce this right after cancelling the runtime fee. I believe they are trying to sweep it all under the rug so that everyone forgets and thinks everything is good now, that way they can pull the same or similar thing again but this time without much controversy like they'll hope. The trust is gone and also keep in mind that Unity is a public company so they care more about the investors than the developers. I'm hopeful that this comment ages well because I can already see this stuff happening again in the future

text mesh pro still does not support languages written from right to left.. this engine is so lost

this all only possible if assuming their stocks wont go kaboom in the next 2 years

i dunno. seems like most of this already exists in ue5 and when unity 7 comes out ue5 probably miles ahead. i want to use unity cos im c# dev at heart. but ue5 just does 90 percent of things better. if there simplification for multiplayer is better than unreal then that could prick my ears.

I just want a scalable interface on Mac lol

Why is the CoreCLR thing so important if most people use IL2CPP? Is CoreCLR supposed to be faster than IL2CPP thanks to JIT compilation or something?

Fool me once....

When you order UE5 off Temu

im only using unity and interested in its content because godot steam c# is terrible (unfortunitely)

but why the music is from that mask killer lol.

This is a game changer, can't wait to get my hands on this!

woah, tat a big micro update..

Still in unreal Engine 5

what? people still use unity?

as much as i like UE cause its the engine thats well suited with the games i like to build, im glad that unity is picking itself up.. cause oh boy, unreal is having their greedy period ala adobe and thats never a good thing

They really need to just split the engine into two different engines. One for mobile, and one for PCs and consoles. That is where the big split is with the rendering pipelines.

It still is the same.

No more John, no more IronSource, CoreCLR, reverting to conventional versioning schemes and cleaning up the UI and tons more. Welcome back Unity. We all make mistakes, and all is forgiven.

This is INCREDIBLE! Glad I stuck with Unity.

So some terrain updates will be at Unity 7. To make something stable we probably have to wait till 2026 at least. By the time they make these changes (that are already made in other engines) other engines like unreal will be already creating new techs like they did with nanite. With this speed and weird company management unity will be behind of other engines for some more time.

John Thena

So nobody here is going to talk about P Diddy and all what is happening around his character? personally i believe he is innocent,they wanted fame and he wanted (_._) , furthermore,am on palestine side.

Why dont they work on Scrip compiilation so it wont load on the background

I haven't finished the video yet, but boy I hope that AI tool will be available for all Unity Users even free ones.

Alternatively, you could of course use an early UE4 version. But a die-hard Unity developer doesn't care about ease of use or beautiful rendering anyway. The main thing is no language other than C#. 🤭