Hi, I’m creating an open world multiplayer game in Unreal Engine 4 with a custom server written in C++ (using asio/flatbuffers libs). I have configured packet transfer between the game and the server. Chat messages and player movement are working now, but I ran into the problem of simulating player …

Short answer: No. Now, let me explain why. World of Warcraft at its peak, around 2017, had about 46 million MAU . Even now, the MAU in WoW don’t go below the 500K mark, and that’s considering its popularity has been declining over the years. It’s still a very big MMO. Another thing to put it in pe…

If you want to make your life easier, you should use the same project to build the client and the server. The server build will become a headless server, meaning that it won’t render any visual elements and it will be completely independent of the players. It’s not the most resource-efficient way o…

Those, if I have a maximum of 100± players, then I use a dedicated server from the engine, if I want a large online of 1000 and much more, then I have to suffer and write my own server in C++ right?

Thanks for your help. I liked the option with the area-splitting. If I understand correctly, the logic is the same as that of World Composition in Unreal Engine, but from the server side. I will study how to do it using an unreal server

Boost fires bitmaps and so you can move your character on the map without crossing the border of the bitmap, simulates collisions

Is it the best way to create MMORPG game using an Unreal Engine with a custom server in C++?

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pierr32 (pierr32) May 16, 2023, 11:21pm 6