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How to support 254 simultaneous players in an FPS? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by deaf_fish@lemm.ee to c/gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I just found out that Battle Bit Remastered exists and it supports 254 simultaneous players per game.

I am wondering how that is even possible. Does anyone know of any details on how they achieved it? Are there any resources for making a networking engine capable of supporting that many players?

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[–] Leuthil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you mostly interested in the networking aspect? I'm not sure what Battle Bit does but many games employ a prioritization strategy when determining which characters should be updated per state snapshot for a client. Check out an old GDC talk about Halo networking, it's pretty interesting.

I think this is a written summary of the video: http://blog.wolfire.com/2011/03/GDC-Session-Summary-Halo-networking

This article is also informative: https://www.gafferongames.com/post/state_synchronization/

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Yes, I am mostly interested in the networking aspect.