Ask Epic: AMA Topics for 2024?

[game-maker]

@Flak

We’re looking at doing a Level Design AMA

Level design is a very loose open topic. You could go down a 1,000 roads and miss the most important questions. How about Level-Design best practice or do’s & don’ts in the context of:

• Large Worlds + Multiplayer + World Partition vs Level Streaming…

Example:

World Partition or Level Streaming in UE 5.3?

Hi guys I am developing together with a team a multiplayer open world with a really large map 16x16 that is 256km2 (UE 5.3). For now I only have a presistent level, because we are deciding what technology to use to optimize the level. Everyone would say World Partition however we have issues with saves, i.e. we can’t find a save method that handles cell loading and unloading properly, especially in the dedicated server. Instead I have had very good performance results with Level Streaming, howe…