Discussion
The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer
bjord: I highly respect the implicit decision to forgo repeat purchases by merging into the original game, considering how much work was clearly involved. I haven't played it, but I hope for sustainability's sake, there are sufficient (purely cosmetic) microtransactions to cover their development costs.
Sweepi: "1.Serialize the entire scene, compress the data, and pass it to the joining client. We already do full scene serialization for quicksave and quickload, so this is possible, but the files are large: 30-50 MB is common, often more, so transfer would take a while.[...]3. Record the deterministic command stream, pass it to the joining client, and have that client apply all changes to the loaded scene before joining the game. The amount of data is much smaller than in option 2 since we’re not sending any voxel data, but applying the changes can take a while since it involves a lot computation.Once we started investigating option 3 we realized it was actually less data than we anticipated, but we still limit the buffer size and disable join-in-progress when it fills up. This allows late joins up to a certain amount of scene changes, beyond which applying the commands would simply take an unreasonably long time. "So [1] is not an option for players who want to do it that way?
prox: He is already talking about the new engine at the end, so maybe that means a new game/version.Anyway I recently bought it because of multiplayer. Can’t wait to try it out.
florbo: fme, it's only kind of inconvenient. By the time the scene gets to the point where join-in-progress is disabled it's complete chaos anyway. Might as well restart the scene.That said I haven't played any of the more intricate mods out there, but I can how it would become more of an issue.
esperent: [delayed]
tietjens: In my opinion one of the most impressive independent games published on Steam in the last years.
xecaz: Looking forward to play the MP version with my son who also loves the game. I worry that the game will get heavier and maybe no longer work of the steamdeck, will it?
