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Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 - Meshing Forward (youtu.be)
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Guests:

  • Ivan Corbett, Producer II
  • Benoit Beausjour, Chief Technology Officer
  • Jordan Wood, Network Programmer III

TL;DW:

  • Server meshing is tested with players because they break stuff.
  • High player limits (500+) help figure out bottlenecks.
  • Replication Message Queue is one of the results of those high capacity tests.
  • RMQ fixed initial problems but revealed a bunch of new ones with high latency and packet losses.
  • Lack of paralliziation was another problem not found until RMQ made it in.
  • Entity synchronization (binding) also had to be optimized (example provided talks about 3 million entities per shard after a week of running a server).
  • Current hope is to improve the network performance 10x or more and find the next set of bottlenecks.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have been playing the 4.0 tests, incredibly smooth experience. Surely not super far away now. Problems only arising under heavy load which is pretty typical even in 3.x

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's good to hear. Lets hope the rest of cut 4.0 features won't take too long once this one's out.