Consoles are barely able to do 24 unique 'Pawns', some of the more impressive PC games have gone up to 256. Games like this are often limited to local-play because of the sheer volume of data that has to be passed between clients in order to assure everything is all in the same place at the same values on everyone's end. What if one use same random seed on both client and server, then it should sync only player inputs, and correct objects states if it does get desynchronized. I get that it should be hard to do straightforward implementation to synchronize clients, lots of creeps, lots of bullets and so.īut does it really needs to be synchronized? I am no where near to network programming, so please excuse. Nothing is crossing my mind right now, may be some RTS like Total Annihilation and its reincarnations like Supreme Commander and opensource SpringRTS. If you know games that sync that many creatures in a real-time fast paced shooter, let us know, we're definitely interested to play them!

A bit of an challenge with say 1000 creeps on the screen to sync outside LAN. That would be awesome and naturally has crossed our minds from time to time. I would love to play Crimsonland 2 with my friend that lives far away.

Originally posted by kryksyh:> Hopefully we get to make an online shooter some day.

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