Massive multiplayer inperson rpg

[TechLord]

@anonymous_user_90dee996mpn

Hello, I recently started a company called Fablestay with the aim of creating an mmirpg. I am planning on using ar, 3d mapping, and various other techniques to create an immersive experience.

I created this post to get some discussion on the feasibility of using ue4 for a 500+ user multiplayer game and how this might be possible and what hurdles I will be facing?

Hello @anonymous_user_f54143d0

I personally would have asked those questions and started AR prototyping with UE4 prior to starting a company. A google search on max players in UE4 would have produced a result to this statement answering both questions.

@Tim_Sweeney

There isn’t a hardcoded limit to the number of players. The player count achievable with good performance is a function of the complexity of your player meshes and animation graphs, level collision, AI, and network bandwidth available. If you keep things simple (say, at the level of Unreal Tournament 3 from the UE3 days), I could imagine 50-100 players in a multiplayer game.

Supporting 100 concurrently players is a good start. If you can support 100, then figuring out a cost effective means to scale to 500 or beyond should be much easier because you’ll have an understanding of how UE4 networking/replication works. There are Scaling solutions like theAWS GameLift AWS Server, AWS Client, plugin a managed service for deploying and scaling dedicated multiplayer game servers in the AWS Cloud.

Wish your company great financial revenues.