PR 128 Player Server Test - Official

[HunterMed]

so with only inf there were no crashes?

[[R-DEV]AncientMan]

We're pretty well aware of all the issues that are going to come up with increased player limit and increase squad size limit, this by no means will be a simple implementation, and a lot of the mod will have to be changed to account for it.

Also, this will not be a replacement for 64 player servers, there will be a lot of servers, and players, that won't be able to play with the higher player count, so don't worry, the option for 64 player servers won't suddenly disappear.

Anyway, Tema567 is working on fixing some stuff, hopefully we should be able to get vehicles happening soon . This guy is a legend, make sure you let him know it .

[Arquin]

Originally Posted by illidur

most kills by pipebomb ever.

I laughed. So hard.

Test was fun, 128 player skirmishes are everything i could wish from PR

Performance wise, i can report that i didn't experience any drop in FPS due to increased players.

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]AncientMan

We're pretty well aware of all the issues that are going to come up with increased player limit and increase squad size limit, this by no means will be a simple implementation, and a lot of the mod will have to be changed to account for it.

Also, this will not be a replacement for 64 player servers, there will be a lot of servers, and players, that won't be able to play with the higher player count, so don't worry, the option for 64 player servers won't suddenly disappear.

Anyway, Tema567 is working on fixing some stuff, hopefully we should be able to get vehicles happening soon . This guy is a legend, make sure you let him know it .

/Heil Tema567. He sounds like a new future deity due to this.

I wonder if he can do more... Fastropez? Who knows. This is like breaking the Light Barrier.

[BloodBane611]

First off, a hearty well done to Tema!

Originally Posted by Tim270

Yeah but with much harsher solider lods it definitely has potential.

Any word on the bandwidth increase? Probably was not a huge consideration when they were writing the netcode for bf2 but I am sure it would be pretty dam hefty with 128.

Weapons are much heavier in terms of tris than the soldier models. A G36 Geo 1 lod 0 is ~5600 tris, player model Geo 1 lod 0 is ~3200 tris.


Bandwidth certainly increases a great deal, but it didn't seem like the NEW server was having much of an issue. Moar testing

[Elektro]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]AncientMan

We're pretty well aware of all the issues that are going to come up with increased player limit and increase squad size limit, this by no means will be a simple implementation, and a lot of the mod will have to be changed to account for it.

I guess its official now

When PR2 becomes game of the year this will be in the history part of the wiki page

[samthegreat4]

Originally Posted by DarkSparky123

On Kashan desert i had 50 fps with 128 players wherever i look but on the village map (germans vs russians) when i look at the center where the pew pew is my fps drops to 15... the ping is great anyways.

Same here: Ping = 20; FPS on Silent Eagle was 15-30..

[John-117]

So are you able to play a full game etc?

[X-Link]

It?s like the moment the sound barrier was broken.

A milestone for PR and the BF2 community.

[Ghost1800]

Now if they could only alter vehicles to support more then 8 people... hell, squads with more then 6 would be great too.

[AquaticPenguin]

Seems like good progress, I hope the various bugs can be ironed out. I was very excited to hear it was successful though. Well done to Tema for being awesome!

I suppose any performance issues that were there before are going to be much more pronounced with twice as many players, way to test the engine to its limits.