Sorry for the double post, I dun fucked up and can't figure out how to add a quote in editing. Anyway, I've heard that because Unreal comes with internet functionality prepackaged, and all they have to do is flip a switch to turn on matchmaking servers, literally no game devs that graduated in the last 10 years know anything about networking. Creating a Peer to Peer function would be akin to witchcraft for them.
I think blaming Geoff for the failure of Highguard is unfair. Without him, it would've had numbers it has now on launch.
Its Culture.
Oh for sure, yeah. You can do much worse than using UE's baked-in multiplayer -- that's the engine's bread & butter (Unreal [dedicated single player] and Unreal Tournament [dedicated multiplayer] were the engine's first two products) -- and it's very solid. It's the shit they insist on bolting onto it that usually turns the end product into hot garbage. Even cheats are almost always exploits of the game's "logic" rather than attacks on the actual client/server component (i.e. they're screwing around with stuff the developer added, like inventory, perks, levels/EXP, mission objectives, etc., and not the stuff UE includes out of the box like player movement, weapons fire, visibility/stealth (fog, smoke, shadow, etc.).
I've been dreaming of this day since 2014 after seeing all my favorite blockbuster franchises get destroyed by corporate greed and out of touch devs.
Oh I absolutely agree it's a good product. It works, it's simple, and it's reliable. The issue is that it is partially why we don't have peer to peer or lan functionality anymore, because so many devs never had to learn it. It's wild to me that I can play nr2003 online 24 years later, but almost none of the multiplayer games people enjoy right now will exist in the future because of this.
Doesn't UE5 still ship plain-old-LAN for multiplayer? I know games like Palworld, Satisfactory and Arc Survival Evolved and the like are all just boring "launch teh server and gib IP and port to your friends to connect to" with automatic local game detection.
Your point is still well taken. Nobody knows how to code that shit themselves anymore (or at least nobody still in the business).
Counter-Strike outlives another one. (26 years+)
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That’s entirely the fault of the devs. They stopped releasing dedicated servers in the 360 era instead choosing centralized matchmakers.
I thought the Amy Winehouse ballerina was kinda hot.
That isn't true at all. Get a job in Japan. You'll be amazed how big of a fuckup managers can be and be completely protected.
hey guess what
During Covid and peak woke aka 2019-2022 there was basically an unlimited amount of venture capital being thrown around so chud owning became the #1 priority for these companies because they barely had to worry about making a profit and all these gross hideously ugly faggot games were greenlit.
BINGO!
Geoff's endorsement didn't doom Highguard, a boring GaaS framework with features and content held back at launch is what killed Highguard.
Brother, the average American has never played either of those games.
What game?
