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What are the best beginner game engines for making an FPS game?

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Unreal Engine 4
C++, Blueprints (Visual Scripting)Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
FPS Creator Reloaded
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Unreal Engine 4

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Endi Sukaj
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Lots of resources to learn from

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Epic provides multiple official video tutorials, lots of free example projects and content, an extensive wiki and regular streams showing how to use latest features.
Endi Sukaj
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Dynamic global illumination with voxel cone tracing decreases the computational power needed

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Voxel cone tracing is a similar algorithm to ray tracing, but uses thick rays instead of pixel thin rays to be able vastly decrease the amount of computational power needed.
Endi Sukaj
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A visual scripting system for non-coders enables quick prototyping

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Blueprints are authoring tools designed for non programmers so designers and other team members can help tweak and prototype. UE4's Blueprint scripts resemble flowcharts where each box represents a function or value, with connections between them representing program flow. This provides a bett...
Endi Sukaj
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Developers have full control of the engine and source code

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UE4 gives full access to the C++ source code allowing editing and upgrading anything in the system.
Endi Sukaj
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Free development license, including source code

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The engine, including full access to source code, is licensed to developers for 5% royalty on resulting revenue if it exceeds $3000 per quarter.
Endi Sukaj
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Slow

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Compared to other engines, UE4 seems to perform various actions considerably slower. Actions like starting the engine, opening the editor, opening a project, rebuilding shaders, updating references, calculating lightmaps, saving projects, etc take long enough to get irritating and end up wasting pr...
Endi Sukaj
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No drawcall batching, performance is very bad on mobile

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There's no dynamic batching support to minimize drawcalls. There's InstancedStaticmesh concept in UE4, but it's 3d only, functionally limited and requires hardware support which rules out most mobile devices.
Endi Sukaj
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Very high build size

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A blank project will build in to a minimum of 200 MB.
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FPS Creator Reloaded

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Feature priorities are chosen by the community

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The Game Creators team frequent the forums and ask the community for feeback and suggestions both there and via an open poll on the website. They have a great history of reading suggestions, viewing screenshots, and generally working with the community.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Designed for ease of use 

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Simplicity and accessibility are the core design goals of FPS Creator Reloaded.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Continuous development and updates 

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News and improvements are released on a monthly schedule. Interaction between The Game Creators and project backers is excellent.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Active and helpful community 

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Users share ideas, help, and advice through the official forums. The community also provides a wealth of free assets, and the FPS Creator Store sees constant additions.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Easy to use your own custom assets 

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Awesome tech support 

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Currently in beta

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FPSCR is currently a beta product with features potentially important to a specific project still in the roadmap. Obviously this is expected of a beta product, and new features are constantly being added, but should be taken into consideration when choosing a game engine for a game right now. To s...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Can only do outdoor games currently

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No customizable buildings, doors, elevators, switches.. can't make holes in terrain, caves, underground structures. The outdoor is limited too: can't do rivers, caves, no atmospheric effects like wind, snow, rain, snowstorm, windstorm, sandstorm, rainstorm. only one basic water plane.
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