So I did the mech in Maya I tried to add it but the knee was rotating the wrong way. I later tried to set it up in UE but it happened again and I didn't want to waste any more time on it. I was glad I at least was able to get the animation better the second time when I had to animate the alien where i go the IK, i guess that's some kind of progress.
Yeah the last game jam I didn't include any graphics settings and the lumen I suspect is what made it crash for every one. I agree with the lights as I did want to make the scene darker. I was going to add something like that but for some reason the UE5 skymap has no texture at night so It would've added another task to the list.
If I ever decide to do more work on it I think I will set it at night maybe make the aliens eyes more emissive I think that would look awesome