the skin and hair look very smooth before but now the skin looks like rubber and the hair looks like straw. i tried maxing out graphics but nothing changed,is this normal in the new engine 5 build or it's me?
not just you - Maya's hair is indeed like plastic in UE5.1 and it was quite detailed in UE4.x. But literally everything else about the graphics is 10 times (and in some cases infinite times) better than before. Especially in sandbox downloaded maps with poor lighting Lumen makes all the difference. But hair materials and somewhat the skin is indeed with wrong subscattering.
One bug in VR - the first-person camera is now mounted above the head. While this resolves the ugly eyeballs that popped up in front of you in UE4.x, it is a workaround because now you are about 3 meters tall when in 1st person.
Even possessing Ilijah does not help - looks like the camera height is not proportional to the body height.
For example, walking trough a door in 1st person in VR is quite challenging (your char enters, but your view bumps trough the wall above the door.
Other than that - the latest build is rock stable for me. Hours and hours in VR trying out over 50 downloaded maps - all work as before (with much MUCH improved Lumen lighting) and nothing crashes. Literally only 1 repeatable crash due to wrong keystroke, other than that works flawlessly, framerate is even better than UE4.x. Mirrors now DO reflect you (thanks to UE 5.1 not 5.0) but only as a shadow, it will take Lumen 1-2 more years to reflect sharper in realtime. But it is still an amazing graphics experience.
For the plebs compaining about switching from UE4, this is necessary as the new engine presents tons of needed stuff for the game to progress. Let's hope Steve throws some story to the complainers as I am fed up of the best game there is being slaughtered with comments about not having backstory to the amazing sex.