[Tadpole9181]

> We don't need advanced lighting systems in a top down city builder.

You don't need a lot of things. The developers wanted the game to look better than the first, so went with HDRP because it claims to be a production ready pipeline that helps them achieve that.

But it was not and the developers did not have the time, or perhaps skill, to work around it's issues.

> we should probably reach for Unreal and flip on TAA like everyone else is doing.

First of all: "Just ask the entire studio to throw out all existing work and retrain staff to change their engine."

Second of all: Do you mean DLSS? TAA is an AA technique, it does not improve performance.

Third of all: Unreal? The engine notoriously ragged on as dragging down the performance of countless games in the last 2 years because it too has features that are easy to turn on and look good, but require skill and knowledge to fine-tune to be reasonably performant? That Unreal?