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Surefoot

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Ian Skippy said:
A new mode in Scavengers allows up to 9000 (!) players in one fps instance. Times are changing.
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Do you have a link ? I'm very curious (never heard of that one)...

Ian Skippy said:
As I said earlier, eventually all Big Dreams of cig will be default functions of UE or some such. And CIG will have contributed to none of it.
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Yeah it has to be said UE always have been far ahead the Crytek Engine in terms of code quality (to be fair the bar set by CE was really low), performance, and even tooling. Whatever we may think of Epic Games and their insufferable CEO, they are a really strong developer team. What the latest UE can do is mind boggling, and yeah I will just mention The Mandalorian...
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Surefoot said:
Do you have a link ? I'm very curious (never heard of that one)...


Yeah it has to be said UE always have been far ahead the Crytek Engine in terms of code quality (to be fair the bar set by CE was really low), performance, and even tooling. Whatever we may think of Epic Games and their insufferable CEO, they are a really strong developer team. What the latest UE can do is mind boggling, and yeah I will just mention The Mandalorian...
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www.pcgamer.com

9,000-player games are right around the corner, and here's what one looks like

Scavengers' experimental ScavLab mode can support over 9,000 players in the same space. We've seen it in action.
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Vetinari

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Ian Skippy said:
A new mode in Scavengers allows up to 9000 (!) players in one fps instance. Times are changing.

As I said earlier, eventually all Big Dreams of cig will be default functions of UE or some such. And CIG will have contributed to none of it.
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Remember when mobile phones only made phone calls? Then they added Snake & a calculator and we were all like 'WOW! what they can do nowadays is amazing'...meanwhile all the camera companies thought they had the market sewn up and could just keep increasing prices...then SatNavs were all the rage....goodbye CIG, register as a religion before its too late :)
 

sovapid

sovapid
Ian Skippy said:
A new mode in Scavengers allows up to 9000 (!) players in one fps instance. Times are changing.

As I said earlier, eventually all Big Dreams of cig will be default functions of UE or some such. And CIG will have contributed to none of it.
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I've heard somewhere recently that such a thing is not technically possible.
 

ECity

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What Chris describes isn't possible. He's not trying to create Scavengers.

And that Scavengers game mode isn't in production. We'll have to see how it goes.
 

cigwatch

cigwatch
sovapid said:
I've heard somewhere recently that such a thing is not technically possible.
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1200 players is already confirmed with Planetside 2. 30k player avatars are confirmed with Dual Universe. 7k player-battle with Eve Online. There is always "however", however. None of those offers the physical simulation on the level CIG are promising, modular ships divided into components, additional thousands of NPCs with AI etc.
  • Planetside 2 has relatively simple physics, issues with lag compensation and failing collision detection. It does not detract from the fun, though.
  • The Dual Universe demo has no interaction between avatars whatsoever, which reduces the complexity immensely. The only state to share is position of each avatar and no interactions means that lag does not matter.
  • Eve Online is an action queue MMO like every early MMO. No physics to speak of, added time dilation etc., so it is not even a linear-time game. And of course it lags like crazy - performance tanks to "frames per minute".
 
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cigwatch

cigwatch
Agony_Aunt said:
... by CIG.
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This is a HUGE additional caveat because when it comes to CIG, in the second decade of development those hundreds of people are still struggling with implementing stable gameplay and persistence of player state for a space arena game (MMO it is not) with max 50-player battles. So before we even drive ourselves into a convoluted flame war about what is technically possible nowadays, let's maybe appreciate the fact that the current status of Star Citizen is not even at the level of BF 1942, a game from 2002.
 
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sovapid

sovapid
Xink said:
Not that it's all fake or anything, but a publication that admitted to receiving rewards in exchange for favourable scores for games that publishers sent them to "review" should not be taken seriously. The same publication that insisted that Microtech is coming in December.
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MTBFritz

MTBFritz
Navigare Necesse Est said:
Frankly I was surprised you quoted a contemporary message. I thought you dug in past incarnations of this thread until I saw Skiz comment and realised it's just another sock puppet. You never know if it's just a troll or real deluded user - my bet goes on troll, because I don't believe the mission goes as far as going out there and proselytise other forums. Nah, I think it's probably just another forum user who's envious we get this long-running thread and loathes us for it.
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Thread-envy and spite-posting are a thing I m telling ya :)
 
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