Unreal Engine 4 Server - Player Count

[NilsonLima]

@Balgy

Same map. We are keeping our server traffic to a minimum as of yet (using the unreal network profiler to check that), so it runs alright. We are not hoping to achieve 250 players with unreal’s networking, that is why we already have a custom network engine on the works. Just asked the question in case there was something that could save us from the trouble of having to reinvent the wheel with server collision detection, movement etc.

We can, however, get away with quite a few cutbacks as our game is not really a fast paced scifi shooter but rather a more slow paced historical action game. Very simple at its core.

PS. Thank you all for your answers, I am happily suprised to see so many people having a conversation about my question.

I see. 250 real players in the same map is very ambitious, even with UE3 games like Lineage2 implemented cross-server sieges with 100 players from each server, totalling 200 players in open world not instanced. While I think the player data came from different servers and they probably managed to have a separate server just for the sake of that specific event to occur, there were a lot of troubles, mainly latency from connections from different parts of the world playing. Events like instanced world boss raids, which takes more than 100 players, they still have issues with connectivity. Even the best solutions at someone disposal to implement a good game, would in the end reach the bottom line: people trying to play with underspec hardware and connectivity.

Would love to know in the future more things about your project! Cheers!