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Info on PvP. Cyrodiil to hold 2k players.
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Interesting.
That's a good number, but it's not going to be nearly enough if everyone's all on one server.
there is more than one instance of Cyrodiil.
You get assigned to what they are calling "campaigns" when you enter cyrodiil and those campaigns basically act as your home server when pvping
From what I understand the whole "Mega-server" isn't actually one server. It's instanced like many other games, but it will just auto-place you in a server with your guildmates or people on your friends list. At least that's how it sounded to me.
Yeah, I was glad to see that too.
Strange they would have to hide the fact. still 200-300 is pretty good for a battle. Not like this game is EVE with time dilation.
"Not even a cray super computer can make this game run well. Thats what happens when you code an MMO in pascal. " - miglor
That sounds a little problematic.
If the idea is to have everyone playing on 1 server, and the pvp is supposed to be persistant; how is that going to work w/ it being instanced?
Its 2k players per instance of cyrodiil 200 players on screen and they are using an in house engine not the hero
yeah but i got a feeling that blaming the hero engine for how shitty SWTOR is , is going to just show you how bad bioware and EA was with SWTOR instead. WAR had gamebyro engine which is a pretty damn terrible engine as did rift and look at all the players they could get on a screen for pvp before it lagged down completely. I honestly think the horrible devs at bioware and EA are really to blame on why that terrible game is so heavily instanced. But I could be wrong with this as I do not know of that many multiplayer games that use this engine.
You get locked to a campaign, each campaign is persistant
Still using it. They changed the renderer and client server tech. you can do that with Hero source and time. it's pretty dumb to all of a suden throw away years of work in hero prtotyping then scrap it for a new engine. read between the lines.
"Not even a cray super computer can make this game run well. Thats what happens when you code an MMO in pascal. " - miglor
Did you read it?
"so while we were prototyping the game on HeroEngine, we were simultaneously developing our own client, server, and messaging layer that were specifically designed with ESO in mind"
and
"There are no compromises with the technology that we’re using – everything in the game’s engine was written for this game, with no extraneous code, features, or tools."
it's instanced. each instance is persistant.
Correct, its still basic servers but the technology allows them to be all networked together.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
Its zoned and each zone is persistant. Big difference between instances and Zones. Instances are like WoW Battlegroudns and Dungeons. Zones are like GW2's Queendsdale or WoW's Northrend.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
Hopefully the setup of the game will require players to constantly spread themselves out so that all players moving about in giant zergs will be detrimental to the war effort.
One thing I fear is that they may choose to have the climax of the RvR campaign to be a massive assault on Cyrodil. Every player converging in the same spot would be disastrious since either the server will crash every time or under so much stress the battle won't be enjoyable for anyone.
Planetside 2 handles 2000 players per continent.
Playing: FFXIV, DnL, and World of Warships
Waiting on: Ashes of Creation
It's a "custom engine" in the same way skyrim is a "custom engine"
E.g. a heavily modified version of gamebryo.
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Apparently you can transfer Campaigns with pvp points you accumulate.
Playing: FFXIV, DnL, and World of Warships
Waiting on: Ashes of Creation
Yeah, I was glad to see that too.
Same here! Much better then just pvp armor or pvp just for fun...wich is not all that fun without char porgression.
First it will probably be a good idea to coordinate to get into a campaign that has space for you and your friends both. But if you do somehow end up in the wrong campaigns anyway, you can transfer to another. But they don't want people bouncing back and forth through campaigns so there'll be a cost... possibly accumulated PvP points in the campaign, or a portion of it.
So campaign = large instance. 2k is an impressive number but I'm doubtful about performance.
More importantly, how long do they expect to keep pvpers attention in the same zone? I'm having a really hard time seeing any longevity in this game if people are limited to one zone for pvp and can't leave faction zones for pve. After 2-3 months this will grow tiresome.