For example, the final encounter in the Shamway Factory originally had roughly 22 maximum zombies active at the same time (non infested). Using this new feature, that number has been reduced roughly to around 15 maximum zombies active at the same time without sacrificing the overall number of zombies for the entire battle. In addition to this performance gain, I was able to inject some stealth kill opportunities as part of the encounter for players who enjoy that play style. I look forward to seeing what you all think when you get your hands on 2.0.
For large servers of PvP your best bet is to just turn off the feature. I agree with you that it doesn’t really fit with the way your server operates. It’s literally an environmental hazard for PvE gameplay. Just switch it off and let your players continue to spawn and travel wherever they want. Players on your server aren’t as interested in surviving vs environment hazards anyway. They want to power up fast and dominate other people.
ummm not even sure why you think that at all cause its not true...
Approval rarely happens with the first attempt. It's a back and forth, where Sony and Microsoft say that it's not good enough for one reason or another, then they have to make changes and resubmit. This usually will happen multiple times until approval is given. Just because the dedicated servers work doesn't mean anything regarding the approval process. Considering they already made crossplay available separate from 2.0, there's no reason to think they're holding off dedicated server crossplay for 2.0. They might do that if 2.0 is close, but with it still a a month away for experimental and couple months away for stable, if they already had approval, they'd most likely release that part for people. They would obviously want to get more people playing the game.
Pathing systems are the same. Mine are system tweaks, not waste of time rewrites to already working systems.
Some of those anims are old legacy and I don't care for them. Someday be nice to remove or trigger better.
I have thought about is, but it is not currently a requirement.
That is intentional AI throttling based on distance for performance.
Sounds like a framerate nightmare, not to mention how overloaded the server would be. How people play in those conditions boggles my mind.
I can assure you, changing the AI to path directly to their target isn't a waste of time, its an absolute game changer! And makes rifles and bows a lot, A LOT more enjoyable to use!
will the goal is once the brainz multithread optimizer is complete is to have 10 players put on each core | our server has 16 cores and 32 dual so running 100 wont be nothing.
The Fun Pimps always said that the game supports a max of 8 players. Anything more is on you buddy. If people complain about low performance and such on your server, then look in the mirror for the person to blame... Just saying.
Thanks for the answer! (and holy crap, I am batting 1000 on getting my questions answered by Faatal).
I want to see what each of the trees look like currently, a sneak peak at the names of the new perks as well. Come on TFP, give us some teasers!
I'd be interested in seeing all the perks. They said 10 perks per tree (less for general). That's a lot more than we have now. I'm curious what all the new ones are more than I care about where they are located. Not that I don't think some perks belong in general (the armor ones mainly), but I already know the perks and it really doesn't affect me where they are located as I'll just unlock them as I have enough points anyhow. But new perks interest me.
